DEPARTURES.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3113, 20 June 1881, Page 2

DEPARTURES.

June

18—Rotorua, s.s., for Northern ports. Passengers-Mesdames Raumer, Gately, and Gallagher; Misses Weber and Smith ; Mr and Mrs Slice and 2 children. Mr and Mrs Hohepa Ngapu, Mr and Mrs Keats, Or. Jackson, Messrs Banner, H. **'mith, W. L. Newman, Fulton, Laurie, Stevenson, T. W, Carr, Sweetapple, Burke, B. Newman, H. Davis, M'Kay, Dewes, Burton, Cooper, Fyarell, Harronga, Rundell, Pearson, Carden, Wylie, Bellis, Raynor, Menzies, Eraser, St. Hill, A. Price and Cameron ; and about 60 original. 13—Arawata, s.s., for Southern ports, Hobart, and Melbourno. Passengers— Misses Potts, Dobson, and Nairn, Mr and Mrs Hunt and child, Mrs Russell, child and servant, Messrs J. Little and Bromner.

The Union Steamship Company's s.s. Rotorua, Captain J. Tozer, arrived here from Melbourne via Southern ports, on Saturday afternoon at 3.80 o'clock. We have to thank her purser, Mr G. D. Macfarlane, for the following report of passage: —Left Sandridge pier at 3.15 p.m., on the Bth instant, experienced fresh E. and S. winds with heavy head sea, and arrived at the Bluff, at 8 a.m. on the 14th ; left again that evening, and arrived at Port Chalmers at daybreak the next morning; left again at 4.30 p.m. on the 15th, called at Lyttelton on the 16th and Wellington on the 17th, leaving the latter port at 7 p.m. and arriving here as above ; having experienced fine weather along the coast as far as Wellington, thence a fresh N. wind and sea. Her cargo, consisting of some 46 tons of general merchandise, was lightered by the ketch Maid of the Mill, and discharged at the breastwork this morning. The steamer left for Northern ports about 8 o'clock, taking a quantity of grass seed.

The schooner Columbia, Capt G-. Conway, arrived here after an eight-day passage from Auckland, during which she principally experienced strong north-westerly winds to East Cape, and from thence south winds. She brought a full load of drain pipes consigned to Mr H. R. Gunn, which she is discharging at the breastwork to-day.

The steamer Fairy, Capt. Jas. Campbell, returned from the coast yesterday, bringing six bales of skins, and one passenger. The steamer Maori, Capt. H. Anderson, returned from Wairoa and Mohaka yesterday afternoon, with a large number of passengers and a quantity of wool and pigs. She was placed on the hard opposite the pilot shed this morning to have her bottom cleaned. She will be ready for sea again to-morrow.

! The Union Company's s.s. Arawata, Capt. Sinclair, arrived in the roadstead at daylight yesterday morning. The following is the report of her passage, for which we thank Mr D. Dalgliesh, her purser :—Left Sydney on the 10th at 2 p.m., and arrived at Russell on the 15th at 2 a.m.; left again at 2 p.m., and arrived at Auckland on the 16th at 2 a.m.; left on the 17th at 10.30 p.m., and arrived at Poverty Bay on the 18th at 11.30 a.m.; left again at 5 p.m., and arrived here as above. Experienced strong variable winds to Russell, and fine weather on the coast. Her cargo, some 40 tons, was brought ashore by the ketch Three Brothers, and was landed on the breastwork this morning. The s.s. Arawata resumed her voyage for Southern ports, Hobart, and Melbourne, at one o'clock, taking 57 casks of tallow and 100 hides shipped by the New Zealand Shipping Company.

The TJnion Steam Ship Company's s.s. Taiaroa, Capt. Jas. Anderson, arrived from Dunedin via Oamaru at about eight o'clock this morning. We thank Mr W. H Stodart, her purser, for the following report:—Left Dunedin at midnight on the 16th, and arrived at Oamaru at 8 a.m. on the 17th ; sailed again at 5.30 p.m., and arrived at 7 this morning. Strong N.N.E. winds with confused sea was experienced. She brought some 61 tons of cargo for here, which was discharged into the ketch Admiral during the morning, and will be partly discharged this afternoon. The s.s. Boojum was to leave the wharf with the outward passengers for this boat at 4 o'clock this afternoon.

The schooner Kate MacGregor, Charles Couche master, arrived from Mercury Bay yesterday afternoon, and was soon afterwards brought inside by the pilot and moored at the breastwork, where she commenced to discharge her cargo, some 55,000 feet of sawn timber consigned to Mr Robert Holt, this morning. She reports having left Mercury Bay last Thursday week, and having experienced fresh northly winds almost throughout the passage.

Tho steamer Result, Captain W. 0. Baxter, leaves for Wairoa at 12 o'clock tonight, taking passengers and a large cargo.

The ketch Emerald, Capt. John Moore, cleared at the Custom House this morning in ballast for Foxton, and will probably get away on this evening's tide.

A square-rigged vessel was signalled from the South as our report left the Spit, which will probably prove to be the three-masted schooner Mary Wadley coal-laden from Newcastle, N.B.W.

The s.s. Bella will leave to-night or tomorrow morning for Clive for another load of tallow.