SHIPPING.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 11700, 8 March 1902, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OF TTMABU. The flagstaff at Timaru is situated in East longitude 171 <kg., 17min 20aeo; South latitude 44 deg., 20min. ARRIYED. March 7—Upolu, s. •,., irom Wellington and Lyrteiton. March 7—Jane: Xicui., s.s., from Oaniaru and Dunedki. March 7—Aotea. s.s.. from Picton. SAILED. March 7—Upolu, s.s., for Oamaru and Dunedin. March 7—Janet Xicoll, s.s., for Lyttelten. Wellington. Westport and Greyniouth. IMPORTS. In the Upolu, National Mortgage and Agency Co.. agents: lOC tons of general carsro. Consignees—N.Z. Express Com-. ■panv. C.F.C.A., Tooth. G. H. Lindstrom and" Co.. U.S.S. Co., R. E. Tavlor. N.M. and A. Co.. F. Cnllmsan. A. Gabites. Post and Telegraph, J Whittaker, J. Boothroyd, Morrison Bros.. W. G. Hay ward, Jr»hn Mee, Penrose Bros., J. Bates, W. Yardley, L. A. Raymond, A. Hardy. Gunn and Co.. S.C. Woollen Mills, Dalgetv and Co., T. Wagstaff, J. Craigie. In the Janet Xicoll, National Mortgage and Agency Co., agents : 60 tons of general cargo. Consignees—J. Levein.Christchurch Meat Company. W. McMillan, N.Z. Express Company, N.Z. Carrying Company. N.M. and A. Co., U.S.S. Co., Shearman Bros., A. Budd. Fox, M. Logan, M. O'Meeghan. D. J. Caldwell. C.F.C.A., Priest- and Holdgate, J. Meehan. J. Craigie, J. Cooper, T. C. A. E. Smith. Kernohan and McCahon. Grandi and Co., O'Toole and Nolan. J. and P. Burns, P. O'Meeghan. R. R. Tavlor. T. Bnrne. Tyrrell. King and Co.. J. C. Oddie. R. Webster. Fenmson and Co.. C. Br j% G. Brown, D. 'Young. A. Mills. J. iving. A. McLaren. T. Sherratt. Woollen Company, J. Shepherd. Guinness and 1 £ r '-en. Railway Department. T. Gnnnion, Ashburton Club, G. Coxhead. J. Riddle, W. A. Sherratt. J. Binney, W. Kennedy, FeKrusnn and Co.. Priest and Holdgate. J. William. W. O'Brien. J. Wilson, J. Jackson. W. Hitch, T. Simpson. Dutson and MeClymont, J. Murdoch, Ballantyne and Co.

EXPORTS. In the Upoln, National Mortgage and Agency Co.. agents : 10 tons of produce. Shippers—W. Yardlev. New Zealand Loan Co., G. Watts. Lindstrom and Co., Christchurch Meat Companv. EXPECTED AKKTVALS. Corinna, s.s., from West Coast, on Monday. Upoln. s.s., from Oamaru and Dnnedin, on Tuesday. Wakanui, s.s., from Lvttelton, about lath inst. Hawea, s.s., from Auckland, about 14th' inst. Dori- Brodersen, from South Africa, via Kins: George's Sound, about 10th inst. Karamea, s.s.. about March 20th. IN HARBOUR. Steamer —Aotea. Ship—Oamaru. Barque—Devonport.

Owing to the wicd being against her yesterday the ship Oamaru did not sail. T-he schooner Zior finished discharging lier timber yesterday morning. She will commence loading produce for Hokitifca this morning. The s.s. Aotea arrived in the roadstead early yesterday morning and came into the harbour at:about noon. She is from Picton, and loads wool/mutton and tallow. She ■will probably finish loading by this afternoon and will then sail for Lvttelton.

The s.s. Upolu arrived from Wellington and Lvttelton at about 10 o'clock yesterday morning. She brought 100 tons of general merchandise including transhipments ex Wakanui, Gothic, ship Canterbury, and Mimiro. She shipped here 100 sacks of wheat for Dunedin, and sailed for Oamaru at about 4.30 o'clock yesterday aftemoor.

The '?.s. -Janet Nicoll arrived from Oamaru and Bunedin yesterday morning with 60 tons of general cargo, including transhipments ex s.s. Pakeha. She had on board four shorthorn bulls, shipped at Oamaru for Wellirgton. She also shipped here 50 Southdown rams for Wellington and loaded 250 tons of produce for Lvttelton, Wellington, and Greymouth, and left for the ports named last evening.

F?r Press Association. AUCKLAND. March 7. Arrived—T.rn.-.ar.a. at Motuibi Island, from Sydney, at 11.30 a.m A XE\T CURRENT. A remarkable action of the South Pacific waters was noticed oz the last trip of the Moaca from Sydney to Vancouver. The officers of the vessel are at a loss to explain the phenomenon, and say that it is. something which will have to be cleared up by scientific men. It is nothing less than ac entirely new current in the Southern waters —a current which ias until now been unknown to navigators in that part of the hemisphere. The earrent was a westerly to south-westerly one, and was experienced fully six or seven degrees further to the southward than has even been kiown before. The equatorial current- extend from lCdeg. X. to 2deg. S. latitude. Whe:> the Moana was about 9deg. S. latitude it was noticed that she - did not keep her course. It was many miles too so::n for the equatorial currents, and for a while the officers were at a loss ,to determine tho cause, a.-: there had not feeen cry wind to exert any unusual influence on the vessel. Observations of the •water were made, with the that a -well-defined westerly to current was discovered. The current was running at the rate of about a knot an Jiour. Wnat caused the new current to orsake its appearance, is a mystery to the ofccers of the vessel. All they can. testifyto is the presence of the current. There was no diminution of the correnS at the nsual degree where it makes its appearance, and the currents seemed to be about as usual in northern latitudes.