SHIPPING.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4130, 16 June 1874, Page 2

SHIPPING.

POUT OF WELLINGTON* High Water.—s.so a.m. : 0.10 p.m. ARRIVED, Jl'nk 14.—Cleopatra, schooner, 92 tons. P. O’Brien, from Lyttelton. No passengers. Plimrner, Reeves, and Co., agents. Florence, schooner, 55 tons, G. Brown, from >v anganui. No passengers. In ballast. Master, agent. Colleen Bawn, ketch, 20 tons, J. Games, from Havelock. No passengers. Master, agent. Rose of Eden, ketch, 30 tons, Edward Lake, from Foxton. No passengers. Duncan, agent. Thames, ketch, 22 tons, C. H. Smith, from Pelorus Sound. No passengers. T. W. Pilcher, agent. June 15.—Rangatira, s.s., ISS tons, Charles Lloyd, from the East Coast. Passengers—Saloon : Mrs (loving and two children, Mr. Nicholas, Mr. Hayzen, Mesdames Flynn and Jamich, Mr. Carlyle, Mr. Levy, Mr. Veimell/ Steerage : 7. K. S. Ledger, agent. SAILED. June 15.—Stormbird, s.s., 07 tons. V. Doilo, for Wanganui. Passengers—Misses Booth and Taylor, Messrs. Percy and Biddle. Manawatu, p.s., 103 tons. J. Griffiths, for Wanganui. Passengers—Silicon: Mr. and Mrs, Olive, Miss Robins, Messrs. McTavish ami Marchaut. Steerage: 1. 11. S. Ledger, agent. . Rangatira, s.s., 185 tons, Chas. Lloyd, tor the Last Coast. Passengers —Saloon: Messrs. Winter, Hart, Nash, Mr. and Mrs. O’Brien. It. S. Ledger, agent. Fiery Cross, schooner, 72 tons, John Grundy, for Napier. No passengers. Bencleugh, schooner, GO tons, for Hokitika. Plimmer, Iteeves, and Co., agents. CLEARED OUT. June 15. —Australind, barque, Williams, for Newcastle. Pluubo, s.s., 4IG tons, Worsp. for the Northern ports. Passengers—Saloon: Messrs, HcbbletUwaite, Murray, Coleridge, Picket. Steerage: 3. It. S. Ledger, agent. IMPORTS. Cleopatra, from Lvttolton: 20 bales chaff, 5 tons flour, 29 cheeses, IS sacks oats,: G cases, transhipped ex Auriga, from London. Kangatira, s.s., from Napier: 1 set harrows, 1 scarifier, 2 cases, 2 pels., 3 bales wool, 23 pkgs. luggage, 1 pkg. trees, 1 box, 1 octave wine, 1 portmanteau. Colleen Bawn, from Havelock: 13,000 feet sawn timber. Rose of Eden, from Foxton : 573 railway sleepers, 20 bullock hides. Thames, from Pelorus Sound: 18,000 feet sawn timber, 1 hide, 40 sheepskins. EXPORTS. Stormbird, to Wanganui: 2! cases, 2 pels., IS pkgs. 43 pkgs. groceries, 43 cases do, 1 hf-chest tea, 9 cases sundries, 8 cases wine, 1 keg treacle, 2 doz. buckets, S sacks oatmeal, 1 qr-chest vinegar, 10 cases ale and stout, 4 cases chairs, 3 casks ale, 4 cases iron, 1 do millr "0 kegs lead, 22 mats sugar, 1 truss, 2 do drapery, and a quantity of cargo, ex La Hogue, Golden Sea, Albion, and Tararua. Manawatu, to AVanganui: 40 pkgs., 50 sacks oats, 3 boxes tin plates, 53 mats sugar, 1 case groats, 1 do cocoa, 2 do blue, 5 cases, 4 axle arras, 1 stove, 1 case utensils, 1 cask hardware,/! bars iron, 3 bdls. do, 1 bdl. oakum, 1 barrel pitch, 15 cases beer, 1 pel. ,1 box. 10 bags salt, and a quantity of transhipped goods, ex AVennington. Phcebe, to Picton: 1 case, 3 pkgs. 1 pci. To Nelson: 2 cases. 1 truss, 1 roll, 12 bars iron, 20 kegs butter, 2 boxes, 1 pkg. To New Plymouth: 0 trunks, 5 cases, 1 pkg. To Onehunga : 2 boxes, 5 bales hops, and a quantity of goods, ex AVennington and Albion. Rangatira, to Napier: 20 bdls. wire, 1334 pkgs. sundries. 1 qr-cask brandy, 3 cases drapery, 1 keg nails, 8 cases, I truss, 10 cases iron, 1 box books, 5 boxes, 1 pci., S pkgs. To Poverty Bay: 199 pkgs. sundries, 1 UluL, 1 case pickles, 2 casks currants, 10 do sulphur. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. K AND A VAT, VIA AUCKLAND AND NAPIER. —A’ and A.R.M.S. City of Adelaide, with Californian mails of May, 23rd inst. Melbourne, via the AVust Coast. —Claud Hamilton, s.s., 17th inst. Melbourne. —Ashburton,via Geographe Bay,AV.A.; sailed 12th May. Sydney. —H.M.S. Challenger. Auckland. —H.M.S. Blanche. Adelaide. —Kangaroo ; sailed 20th May. London. —AVeymouth, ship, sailed 20th March; Waikato, ship ; sailed 18th March. New York. —Eureka, barque, via Port Chalmers. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Melbourne, via Southern Ports. —Claud Hamilton, s.s., 17th inst. Sydney. — La Hogue, ship. 21st June. Newcastle. —Australind, barque, daily. London. —AVennington. ship. AVanuanut. — Stormbird, this day. BY TELEGRAPH. ONEHUNGA, June 15. —Arrived : Ladybird, from South. NELSON. June 15.—Arrived, this morning: The Blanche, with His Excellency the Governor. NEW PLYMOUTH. June 14,--Arrived: Paterson, Ladybird, and GoAhead. LYTTELTON. June 15.—Sailed: Tien Tain and Albyn’s Isle, for Sydney. HOKITIKA. June 15.—Sailed, 1.20 p.m. : Albion, for Melbourne. The severe weather which has been prevailing on the coast lately seems now to have blown itself out, and though a gloomy sky and overcast or rainy weather is recorded from the stations generally, there seems to be little or no wind. In Wellington, the mill-pond calm, which prevailed in the early morning, was disturbed by a slight southerly breeze, and on the AVesfc Coast there was a considerable swell, as also at Napier and Castlepoint. The s.s- Kangatira arrived in the bay before daylight yesterday, and came alongside the wharf at 7 a.m., having had one of the most trying trips on the coast which Captain Lloyd and his officers ever remember to have experienced, the steamer having been unable to land her cargo at the ports for which it was shipped, and having experienced tremendous seas off the coast. Her report states that she left Wellington wharf at C p.m. on Monday, the Bth inst.. and arrived at Castlepoint at 7.30 the next morning. Discharged mails and passengers and proceeded on to Napier, arriving there at 10 the same night, N.AV. breezes and moderate weather having prevailed so far. At 11 p.m. the pilot came off, but at once informed Captain Lloyd that the Rangatira could not go inside the Iron Pot as the Auckland Steam Packet Company's steamer Star of the South was alongside the wharf. It was then very rough outside, and there being no prospect of landing anything, the Captain decided to go on. The pilot took the mails and some of the passengers ashore in his boat, but some valuable sheep, which were shipped for Napier, were unable to be landed. At f> o’clock on AVednesday morning a gale of wind came up from the N.'E., bringing with it thick weather and a heavy sea, which came rolling in so strongly that, at 0 a.m., the steamer got under way, and put out to sea. Tremendous seas were running, the waves dashing clean over the vessel, and endangering the sheep so much that they were moved on to the poop for safety; the wind and sea increasing, the Rangatira ran for shelter under Long Point, laboring heavily, as she had a full cargo on board, not having been able to jmt any out at Napier; the main deck was more than once filled with the sea water. The friendly shelter of the point was reached at 4 p.m., and the steamer remained there for nine hours, when sue got under way for Poverty Bay, arriving there at 8 a.m. Discharged mails and passengers, and left shortly after midday. At 0 p.m, it came on to blow another heavy gale, this time from the S.E., with very high sea, causing her to ship large quantities of water. Napier was reached at 0 a.m., when a heavy sea was found rolling into the bay, rendering communication with the shore impossible until 4 p.m., when the pilot carnc on board and took her inside Die Iron Pot. Left on Sunday morning at G a.m., and passed Castlepoint, without calling there, at C p.m. Thence to AVeJlington fine weather and comparatively smooth sea prevailed, bringing her to the Heads before daylight. She brought up a short time in the bay, and came to the wharf at 7 a.m. She brings a general cargo and several passengers. The Rangatira cleared again at the Customs In the evening, and left the wharf on her return trip to the East Coast after dark. Though still taking a large cargo, the Rangatira was obliged to leave some 100 tons behind, the dismally wet weather preventing its being shipped undamaged. The s.s. Napier, which returned from Foxtpn on .Saturday morning, will now be laid up for sometime, and Messrs. Turnbull’s other steamer will have to take her turn of double duty to Foxton and AVanganui, which the Napier performed when the Stormbird was getting her last refit at the slip. The Napier is sadly in want of an overhaul. The intricacies of the Manawatu harbor, and Dio constant wear and tear of her continuous use have tried her timbers considerably, and the rivets have been too much tested by sundry bumps on the Manawatu and other bars, so much so that occasionally the pumps have had a good deal of work. The Napier will be as thoroughly overhauled as the Stormbird was, will be recoppered, repainted, and generally refitted. Probably a month will elapse before she la completely ready for sea again, but it is expected the Stormbird will be fully able to do her work as well as her own. The Napier does not go round to the Patent Slip, where the expenses are somewhat heavy; but she will bo taken up on Air. Meech's slip at the end. of Clyde Quay, and will be nearer at hand for supplies, Ac. The steamer Stormbird left the wharf for AVanganui in the afternoon of yesterday, and was followed by the Manawatu, both taking largo cargoes of general goods. The lull of the gale and generally calm weather prevailing caused unusualactivity amongst the sailing craft on Sunday and yesterday. On the former day, the brigantine Cleopatra arrived from Lyttelton, with a cargo of produce, and entered at the Customs yesterday. The schooner Florence, from AVanganui, was also reported. This Florence is the same vessel whoso name has been lately figuring before Marine Boards on suspicion of barratry. The ketches Colleen Bawn, Rose of Eden, and Thames, from Havelock, Foxton, and Pelorus Sound; the two former with sawn timber, and the latter with railway sleepers, also entered yesterday, The Fiery Cross and Bencleugh, schooners, got under way in the morning, and left for Napier ami Hokitika. ft will bo remarked, in connection with the dismasting of Die two ships John Kerr and Loch Ard, as a curious coincidence, that not only did they start together and arrive together, but they were dismasted on the same day and at no great distance from each other. The Loch Ard's report says ; “On the 2nd of April, in longitude 01° K. latitude 4P 30' S., in a very severe storm from 9. K." It was in this storm that her masts went. The John Kerr's report says: “On the

2nd of April, when she was in 45° h. and . 1 L., a gale set in from the S.E.” The masts were lost during the gale. Thus in the same gale, on the same day, and almost in the same place, the two vessels were dismasted. Now they lie at the AVilUamstown Pier, Melbourne, next to one another. Surely there wno such strange series of coincidences as in the narratn e of tlio voyages of those two ships, nor any ocean story more interesting in its details. Upon the last return trip of the Basilisk from New Guinea, some eight months ago (writes the bycincy Empire), it was announced that her commander. Captain Moresby, in addition to taking possession of the island in the name of the Queen, had discovered a new strait affording a safe channel from Torres Strait to the China seas. Upon her present voyage the Basilisk took down a steam launch and surveyors to sound and draw up a chart of the channel, which, however, upon investigation turned out to be a c id dc sac, showing that the old belief in a China strait at the south-east end of New Guinea is not founded upon factj as no such strait * Some time since a vessel belonging to Captain Pcacocke was stopped by Natives, who refused to let her proceed up the Piako River. They insisted upon £SO payment to land her cargo, and olfered to take it by laud to the owner’s farm at £5 a canoe load, which would amount to about €IOO. There are many other settlers iu the district who were liable to similar impediments to their operations. Captain Peacockc communicated with the Governments, and an arrangement has been made by which the vessel and the goods of other settlers may be taken up the Piako upon condition that the cel weirs he not destroyed, or compensation paid for damaging them. The General Government have set afoot negotiations for tlie purchase of these weirs, so as to free the navigation of the Piako River.— X. Z. Herald. ... The Steamship Atrato.— The shipping reporter of the Otaqo Daily Times writes as follows respecting this ship:—The single women’s compartment was occupied by eighty-two women, under Mrs Crowe. The compartment was situated on the main dock, and appeared to be tolerably clean and fairly lit and ventilated. The married people were berthed m two sections, the smaller being in the ’tween decks, where the ventilation and lighting were decidedly indifferent. The compartment was clean and tidy. Iho larger section found quarters on the main deck, which, being pierced for side scuttles at short distances apart, was admirably ventilated, and had plenty of light. The place, however, was very warm, being in juxtaposition to the engine-room. It was as clean as could be expected, but the berthing was, as usual, villainously promiscuous. The poor creatures wore huddled together cheek bv jowl, married couple alongside married couple, wlth but a thin plank, ami open at that, between them. The single men's compartment was less clean than it might have been. The immigrants looked healthy on the whole, but were evidently of verv mixed character, and. it was clear, had been taken as they presented themselves, without any questions being asked by_ their selectors, or rather acceptors, the snb-emigvatiou agents. Several of the immigrants had expressed a desire to forego the privilege of proceeding to Canterbury, preferring to take Otago for it. On being appealed to for an opinion as to whether such a course of proceeding would bo strictly legal, Air. Colin Allan said that the Otago Government would have no objection to receive the immigrants; but at Die same lime would not undertake to guarantee the ship from loss of passagemoney. The ship might land the immigrants; but it would be at the ship’s risk, and breaking the charter party, wlilch specified for the conveyance of the immigrants to Canterbury. “ But what,” responded Captain Husband, “am I to do if the people desert?” That the immigrants have arrived here as healthy as they are, redounds to the credit of Dr. Ellis. AS e heard no complaints on board, the immigrants expressed satisfaction at the manner in which they had been treated, and praised the captain and doctor. The ship was well found with hospitals, bath-rooms, and other offices, and an admirable cooking range. The Atrato looks her size on deck, and is a larger vessel than the Mikado, her dimensions bcin f ' length over all 300 feet, on Die keel 330 feet, beam 43 feet, depth of hold 30 feet. She is but lightly rigged as a barque, and hence her go lies in her engine —a magnificent compound of 350 horse-power, nominal, built by Boulton and Watt, of Birmingham. The diameters of the cylinders are 90 inches the low pressure, and 57 inches the high. The size of the screwshaft is 124 inches, and the diameter of the propeller 13 feet. "Decidedly, the principal feature of the Atrato is her saloon accommodation. In its arrangement. it closely resembles that of the steamer Mikado, the saloon itself occupying tlio whole width of the vessel forwards of the sleeping cabins, with which it has no connection. The cabins are built in double tiers on each side a wide passage amidships, and are reached bv the usual lateral passages. The outside tier of cabins is the best, their size being much above the average. All the cabins are well furnished, whilst the saloon is elaborately- so, and has a very good piano. The captain and his officers are berthed in the deck house. She carries a double wheel aft, and another with preventer steering gear on the bridge amidships, She has a very roomy upper deck. Her crew number S2 all told, Captain Husband being commander, and Messrs. Anderson and Long first and second officers. There are also third and fourth officers, boatswain, and carpenter. Air. Lawson is at the head of the engineer’s department. and has under him four engineers and twenty firemen. The engines derive steam from three boilers, of four furnaces each, and the daily consumption of coal for an average speed of knots is about 22 tons. This is under steam only ; aided by her canvas the Atrato can do 12 and 13 knots easily, She is built in four decks, viz., the upper or spar deck, main deck, tween deck, and the lower or orlop deck. She is also built with sLx water-tight compartments.