“SHIPPING.

Southland Times, Issue 18020, 16 December 1902, Page 2

“SHIPPING.

TIDES ; 16th DECEMBER. - High water—Bluff, 2.0 a.ra ; 2.28 p.m. Invercargill, 2.40 a.m; 3.8 p.m. River* ton, 1.0 a.m ; 1.28 p.m. BLUFF HARBOUR' ARRIVED. Dec. 14—Victoria, s.s, 2964 tons, Waller, from Melbourne, via Hobart. J. G. Ward and Co, agents. Passengers—Mieses Manorambar, Lochhead, Abrams, Mrs Lambert, Rev. Fay, Messrs McQueen, Cross, Smith, Maloney, Hay, Munro—ll steerage. Doc. 15—Monowai, s.s., 3432 tons, Neville, from Dunedin. U.S.S. Co, agents. Passengers—Mesdamos Dusantoy, Little, Roche, Ayling and children, Mies Kilburn, Messrs Dusantoy, Campbell, Scott, Little, Gilby,—s steerage. SAILED. Dec. 15—Monowai, s.s, 3432 tons, Neville, for Melbourne via Hobart. U.S.S. Co., agents. Passengers—Mr and Mrs Lucas and children, Mrs McLachlan, Messrs Hewlett, McLachlan, Harbourn, Darah, v Wirth’s Circus—l 6 steerage. Victoria, s.s, 2964 tons, Waller, for Dunedin. J. G. Ward and Co, agents. TO ARRIVE. From Hobart —Aristides, with 38,003 feet of hardwood. Broad, Small and Co, agents. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. From Melbourne—Mokoia. From Northern Ports—Warrimoo IN FORT. Ship—Westland IMPORTERS. Per Monowai—N.Z.S Co, J MucGibbon and Sons, Nichol Bros, U.S.S Co, Captain Gillespie, H Z Chapman, P O Anderson, J Metzger, C Sutherland, Ma heson and Co, D Roche, W N Stirling, Keith and Royd, A Sutherland, W Martin, E Barlow. N.M and A Co, District Engineer Railways, P. and T. Department, J McDonald, Lands and Survey Department, Mackerras and Hazlett, A E Willett, FThorn & Son, N. Z Express Co, Bible and Tract Society, Broad, Smalland Co, T Collinson, Thomson, Bridger and Co, McKenzie aud Roach, Father Walsh, Minister of Railways, Southland County Council, C Rodgers, Brown and Son, J S Baxter, Murray and Co, Order, J Thomson, Union Brewery Co, C Kingsland. Per Victoria-Carswell and Co, N Z Loan Co, McKay Bros, Herbert, Haynes and Co, J G Price, D W McKay, U.S.S Co, Lennie and Son, E McNatty, H Z Chapman, P and O Co, Co, 0 Boulay, Order. The new Huddart-Parker liner Victoria, of which a description has already appeared in this column, arrived at the Bluff at 7 p.m on Sunday. She left Melbourne on the 9th inst. at 11 p.m, and arrived at Hobart at 10 a.m ou the 11th; loft there again at 8 p.m : and had light southerly- winds with smooth sea. Thereafter thick weather, with lieavr banks of fog prevailing, necessitating reduc- / tion to half speed for six hours. Tho run from Hobart to Bluff occupied 67 hours 20 minutes, including stoppages. The Victoria is a very fine ship, and does not belie the descriptive report already- published. She will be a great acquisition to the intercolonial trade, because, besides being beautifully fitted, she is also very fast, and her owners are to bo complimented upon thilacest addition to their fleet. Capt. Win. Waller, lately in command of the Westralia, is transfeired to the Victoria, and we con gratulate him upon his new command. Tfie Victoria sailed for Dunedin at 7 p.m. A huge oil fleet will soon bo engaged in transporting oil between New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Texas, consisting of 25 oil steamers, having a carrying capacity of 6000 barrels. Besides this fleet there an also a large number of barges having almos: the same carrying capacity. How easily the oil can be handled is shown by a stril: ing example. The steamship Roma recently took on board a cargo in half a day : at her destination she discharged it in 13 hours. The oil was taken aboard without the aid of stevedores, and was pumped for a distance of a mile from the vessel at her destination. A new record in coaling has been put up by the Empress of China, which took on board 1210 tons of bunker coal in the remarkably quick time of 3J hours-the quickest on record for the world. The Ivernia sailed for England from Boston on 20th October, with one of the largest cargoes ever shipped at that port It included 28,030 barrels of apples, a record shipment of this fruit. The steamer Monowai arrived from Dunedin at 4.30 a.m yesterday, and sailed for Melbourne at 7 p.m. She landed 197 tons inward, and with general cargo also took on board Wirth’s circus for Hobart. A MODERN CRUISER. Few, if any, of the British men-o’-war, have passed through a more successful series of steaming trials than the big new armoured cruiser Drake, which recently recorded a speed for several hours in sucei ssion of 25 knots, and is therefore, with tho possible exception of the Russian third-class cruiser Novite, the fastest cruiser afluit. 1 his splendid rate of going is said to be due to the experimental propeller blades with which she is fitted, and which arenearly circular in shape—something like bent pennies as they have been described. It is to bo hoped that her magnificent sisters the Good Hope, Leviathan and King Alfred, will equal her performances, when they will form a formidable quartette. In addition to speed they will have great coal endurance, fine armour protection, and efficient armament.

The Drake's battery consists two 9 2in., sixteen 6in. quick-firing cannon, fourteen 12-pounders, and eleven lighter weapons, in addition to which she is equipped with a couple of under-water torpedo tubes. Her cuirass is extensive, and consists of a Gin. belt amidships, the same thickness of armour on her barbettes, Bin. fore and aft bulkheads, oin. plating on the 6in. gun casemates, and a 4in. protective deck. Bho is usually provided with 1250 tons coal, but can, it required, stow no less than 2500 tons in her bunkers.

MACQUARIE HARBOUR, TASMANIA

Macquarie Harbour, the port for the district round about Zeehan and Mount Lyell, one of the richest mineral districts known in these colonies, has recently been greatly improved. It has a bar at the entrance, and two miles of shoal water just inside the bar. In 1897 the Tasmanian Government employed Mr C. Napier Bell, M. Inst. C.E., to make plansand estimates for works designed to increase the depth on the bar to 25 feet at low water. The Marino Board of Strahan was constituted to carry out these works, which consisted of two breakwaters, from either shore, converging on the bar, the western one 3800 and the eastern 7000 feet long. The Marine Board commenced by constructing the western breakwater, and the work was completed on the 30th September, 1902. The immediate effect was that the bar was deepened from 8 feet 6 inches to 16 feet 6 inches, and as the Government considers that this is sufficient water for the traffic of the port, the eastern breakwater will not be undertaken at present. The breakwater is built of loose blocks of quartz rock up to 24 tons weight, and the structure has stood the heaviest gale ever known on this coast. The total cost, including all plant, is £l6 10s a foot. The shoal water inside is dealt, with by the construction of a training wall a mile and three-quarters long, which, cutting off the south channel, compels both flood and ebb tides to flow through the north channel. The effect is that the scour of the currents has increased the depth from 8 feet to 12 feet, and before long it will be 15 feet. The completion of the design for these works is at present delayed on financial considerations, but when completed, and the full depth of water attained, Macquarie Harbour will be one of the finest in the colonies, as inside the shoals at the entrance it is 27 miles long, from 5 to 7 miles wide, and from 60 to 100 feet deep all over it. It has many wooded islands, secure landlocked bays with deep water, and scenery of striking beauty and grandeur. SHIPPING MOVEMENTS. ARRIVALS YESTERDAY. Lyttelton, 6.20 a.m—Gothic, from Wellington. ° Timaru, 2 a m—lnvercargill,from Stewart Island. Wellington, 6 30 p.m — Mercedes, from Westport. Bluff, sa. m—Monowai, from Port Chalmers. DEPARTURES YESTERDAY. Bluff, 6.45 p.m—Victoria, for Dunedin ; 8 a.m—Monowa’, for Hobart. • [Peb United Press Association.] Lyttelton, Dec. 15. Bailed—Tarawera, for Wellington. Passer,gers—Misses McMillan, Earle, Bristow, iNunnely, Heaven, Sielandera, lumpier,

Hall, Bentley, Fisher; Mesdamea McMillan, Tabuteau, s> tar It, MoKenley, Stevenson, Illingworth and 2 children, Clucas, White, Berry, Black, Cullen, Bird and family, Sayers, Batten; Dr Anderson, Rev. MeV >nald, Captain Popham, Messrs Darcy, (lucas, Boehine, Monliue,Powell, McKinley,Daly, Crawford, Dawkins, Morton, Banen, Teschemaker, Nancarrow, Michie, Smith, Bird, Black, Illingworth, Clarkson, Powell, Hadrell. Ward, McLean, Masters, Stephenson, and Johansen. Auckland, Dec 15. Sailed—Mararoa, for Sydney ; Omapere, for East Coast ports; Mulatua, for Welling- - ton. Wellington, Deo. 15. Arrived — Mercedes, Admiralty collier from Westport. By Cable. Sydney, Dec. 15. The Miowera’s passengers for New Zealand are:—Mrs Doig, Messrs Doig, Waterhouse, Graham, Brown, McDonald, Hodgkinson,and Buchanan. The cargo for Auckland is: 50 cases salmon, 6 of paper, 33 of drugs, 3 of boots, 3 bicycles, 1 box tyros, 16 bales of cotton goods; for Wellington: 30 boxes cheese, 235'cases salmon, 8 cases boots, 25 of drugs, 16 cases of bicycle parts, 6 bicycles, 1 box tyres, 12 cases castings, 13 of iron piping and fittings, 2 of paper ; for Dunedin: 10 bicycles, 11 cases of bicycles parts, 120 cases of salmon, 9 of paper, 99 of drugs, box shrubs, 18 bales cotton goods; for Lyttelton: 5 bicycles, box tyres, 7 cases drugs, 11 pipes; for Wanganui: 22 bicycles, 1 box tyres; for Napier: 110 cases salmon.