SHIPPING.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4129, 16 October 1884, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OF NAPIER ARRIVALS. October. 15 —Defiance, brigantine. from Timaru. Tho brigantine Defiance, four clays out from Timura, anchored in. the Bay at about 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon. She brings a part cargo of colonial produce for here, the balance beincr for Tauranga. She will be brought inside to discharge her cargo at slack water this afternoon. The Union Company's s.s Omapere, with Chiarini's circus troupe on board, is expected to be in the roadstead by daylight to-morrow morning. The s.s. Kiwi is to take her departure for Wellington direct at about 4 o'clock this afternoon. The Union Company's s.s. Southern Cross was to have left Auckland last night for Poverty Bay, Napier, and Wellington, being due here by Sahirday morning early. The p.s. Manaia is loading up again with timber and sundries for Waihua. The Wairoa bar is telegraphed by the pilot as being in bad order to-day. The s.s. Sir Donald and ketch Admiral are engaged in lightering coal out of the brig Neptune to-day, which vessel is expected to be ready to come inside to-morrow afternoon.

The Union Company's s.s. Manapouriwas to have left Auckland at noon to-day, being due here on Saturday morning. Messrs Kinross and Co. have cable advice of the s.s. Coptic, belonging to the ShawSavill and Albion Co.'s line, having sailed from Plymouth on the 11th insfc., carrying 299 passengers. She brings 301 tons of cargo for Napier. She £>roceeds to and trades from New Zealand ports in tho following order : — Port Chalmers, Napier, Wellington, and Lyttelton. With the Coptic commences the first service of the passenger lino of steamers, and she will be followed at regular monthly intervals by her sister ships the well-known White Star liners lonic and Doric, and the two new steel built steamships Altira and Tainui, built specially for this trade by Messrs William Denny and Bros., of Dumbarton.

By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. (belter's telegrams.) (Received October 15, 3.10 p.m.) Adelaide, Wednesday. Arrived, steamship Garonne from Plymouth, and steamship Melbourne from Marseilles.