SHIPPING.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4151, 10 July 1874, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OF WELLINGTON - . High Water. 1.14 a.m. ; 1.50 r.M. ARRIVED. July o. Paterson, p.s., 200 tons, George Mumlle, from Lyttelton. Passenger—Cabin: Air. Parker. T. Webster, agent. Robin Hood, brig, 207 tons, W. G. Williams, from Newcastle. SAILED. July o.—Omeo, s.s., 000 tons, G. Calder, for Melbourne, via the West Coast. Passengers—lor Coast; Messrs. Levy, Ruff, and Coles. W. Bishop, agent. Wallace, p.s., 57 tons. F. McArthur, for Blenheim. No passengers. It. S. Ledger, agent. IMPORTS. Paterson, from Lyttelton—2o cases, 4 trunks, 1 jim crow, 400 iron rails. Robin Hood, from Newcastle—s2o tons coal. EXPORTS. ' Omeo, to Melbourne—l pci, 6 kegs butter; to Greymouth : 10 kegs butter. Wallace, to Wairau—l trunk, 1 truss, 1 mangle, 10 tins paint, G drums oil, 3 kegs nails, 3 coils rope, 5 casks, 10 cases, 8 colonial ovens, 1 roll zinc, 2 axle arms. 3 pels, 1 tip Uray, 2 boxes, 1 bdl wire, 1 tiro guard. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. , Melbourne, via Southern Pouts.— Claud Hamilton, ICth inst. . „ „ 1T . Melbourne. —Ashburton,via GeographeLay.W.A.; sailed 12th May. Auckland.— H.M.S. Blanche; brigantine Rhyno ; schooner Merlin. , , Napier.— Fairy, s.s. ; Stormbird, s.s., this day. London. —Weymouth, ship, sailed 7th April (from Deal); Waikato, ship ; sailed 18th March—and 24th March from Plymouth, with immigrants; Reichstag, Strathnavar, St. Leonards, Panthea, Euterpe, sailed 28tli April; Contlict, sailed oth May. Liverpool. — J. A. Thompson, ship. East Coast. —Aspasia, schooner. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Pxcton and Northern Ports,—Wellington, s.s., ll:h inst. New Plymouth,— Paterson, 11th inst. Southern Ports. —Ladybird, 11th inst. Melbourne, via the West Coast.— Claud Hamilton, s.s., IGth inst. Sydney. —La Hogue, ship, early. London, via Lyttelton. —• Wennington, ship, doily. Melbourne, via Lyttelton and Otago. —Claud Hamilton, IGth inst. Wanganui.—Manawatu, this day ; Stormbird, s.s., 11th inst. B Y TELEGRAPH. AUCKLAND. July 9.—Arrived : Helena, from Lyttelton. Sailed ; City of Adelaide, for Kandavau ; Southern Cross, for Napier. NEW PLYMOUTH. July 9. Arrived : Ladybird, from Manukau ; Phcebe, from Nelson. A strong westerly gale is blowing. LYTTELTON. July 9.—Arrived, 9.15 a.m. : Taranaki, from Wellington. , , . Sailed: Taranaki, for the South and Wellington, for the North, at 5 p.m. ; the Garibaldi, with water mains for Hokitika. WANGANUI. July 9.—Sailed, 4.30 p.m. : Manawatu, for Welington. The Stormbird is due from Napier to-day. She sails again for Wanganui on Saturday. The Edwin Bassett has at last*succeeded in getting a berth at the wharf, having taken the one vacated by the La Hogue yesterday morning, where she is now discharging the remainder of her cargo, consisting of maize. The Paterson, which arrived here yesterday afternoon, left Lyttelton at 0 p.m. on the Bth. She experienced tine weather on the run up. The ship La Hogue left the wharf yesterday morning, and after beating down the bay she fetched to at the outer anchorage in readiness to sailThe brig Robin Hood arrived in harbor about noon yesterday. This fine craft, as mentioned in these columns some days ago, has been purchased by Captain W, G. Williams, of this port, to trade between Wellington and Newcastle, and he is to be congratulated on his selection in this fine addition to his fleet. The Robin Hood is a fast sailer, having made the run from port to port in twelve days. She is comparatively a new vessel, having been built at Shoreham in ISG7, and classed A 1 at Lloyd's for nine years. Her registered tonnage is 297 tons, and on this trip she carries 520 tons of coal. The brig requires little ballast in shifting ports. Captain Williams brought her down from Newcastle.

The Hawaiian schooner Dauntless, Captain Berell, will leave for Norfolk Island and New Caledonia tomorrow with a full general cargo and a number of passengers. It is Captain BereU's intention to return from New Caledonia to Auckland, and if sufficient Offers, to keep his vessel permanently in the trade between Noumea and this port. —Southern Cross, July 3. The barque Moneyrick, which ’changed hands on her arrival here a short time ago from Newcastle, N.S.W., cleared out at the Customs yesterday, under her new commander. Captain Moreton, and will leave for Hokianga this morning. She has been measured according to the British scale by the Customs authorities since her transference from the United States flag. : Her registered tonnage is now 359, or ten less than what she registered before. —Southern Cross, July 3. , Seamanship axd Sentiment. —The steward of the Prairie Bird committed suicide on the voyage from Havre to New Orleans. The extract from the captain’s log, which the newspapers publish, is a mixture of the nautical and the literal—“ The steward went into the cabin with the dish-basket. Heard report. The carpenter sung out, ‘My God, he has shot himself.* Laid him on the main hatch, and found a bullet hole in his right temple. Then laid him out on a plank in starboard gangway ; hauled down fore and aft sails; laid yard aback; read funeral ceremony, and launched him into the deep.” The French Steamer L’Amerique.— ln the Court of Admiralty, on May 12, this case came on in reference to the consolidation of the suits for salvage services. The vessel was found abandoned and taken to Plymouth. The value of the vessel and cargo was taken at £190,000. The three suits were for £155,000, and the steamer had been released on bail to £55,000. Coax at Newcastle. —At the first blush of the thing, the fact of a large mail steamer like the Jason coming to our port to take her supply of coals direct, seems very satisfactory and promising, as the commencement of a class of trade calculated to benefit our port in many ways; but, as usual, our absurd regulations with regard to steamers taking coal bar the way. The Jason left Sydney for this port to take in coal on Saturday, arriving here on Sunday morning. But a steamer collier—the Saxonia, one of a fleet of three regular traders between this and Sydney—also left with a like intention ; her master being informed of the Jason's destination, leaving in advance of the larger steamer, and with a quantity of coal still on board, so as to arrive first, and thereby secure first turn at the steamers’ crane. The result was that the collier did arrive first, but only a few minutes before the mail steamer. On arrival each steamer was moored alongside the wharf near No. 8 crane, and yesterday morning it was intimated to the agents of the Jason that she would be required to move out again into the stream, so that the collier might go under the crane. The removal of the Jason, of course, necessitated fresh pilotage and towage, besides detention, and all to allow a steam collier to get a first supply of coal, and possibly to return to Sydney and load another mail steamer that might be there waiting, before the Jason had a single ton on board ! Any more suicidal policy than allowing this sort of thing to go on, can hardly be imagined. No wonder the Sydney agents advertise to supply coal cargoes “ with despatch,” and thus oppose our direct trade ; they can do it, for we have placed a weap'n against ourselves in their hands. It is, of course, quite proper to afford passenger steamers an advantage over cargo-carrying sailing vessels ; the time of the latter is by no means so valuable os the first; but for us to be keeping ships weeks, nay months, waiting their turn while cargo upon cargo is being supplied from Sydney through the medium of the steam colliers to whom we give precedence is a gross injustice to our customers. Here is another matter for our citizens to bestir themselves about. No vessels except those belonging to lI,M. Navy, or carrying passengers, have any business to be allowed a special turn at the cranes; and both in pocket and in credit will Newcastle suffer if an alteration is not made forthwith.— Nevjcasile Pilot, June' 10

THE SAN FRANCISCO SERVICE. A letter containing some complaints as to this line was lately published by Mr. Samuel Bealey in the Canterbury Press. Referring to the letter, Messrs. Wilson, Sawtell, and Co., the Christchurch agents for the A.ustralasian and American Mail Steamship Company, make the following reply:— " We have this day perused in your columns a letter from Mr. Samuel Bealey, dated San Francisco, 22nd May, giving an account of his voyage per s.s. Mongol, from Lyttelton to Kandavau. Every information was given to that gentleman that it was possible for us to afford, but when first Mr. Bealey applied for particulars as to the line, it was not permitted us to foresee the grounding of the Macgrcgor, which for some little time subsequently altered all the proposed arrangements for the steamers. In consequence of this accident the trip was an exceptional one, as the Mongol had to bo placed on the lino for Kandavau at almost a day's notice, having been previously destined for China, without, owing to the necessity of the case, any time being allowed for fitting up the vessel with the usual decorations and fittings in the first-class style adapted for passengers by the line It is also quite possible that the best accommodation was reserved for ladies and families, and not given to gentlemen travelling by themselves. While giving Mr. Bealey credit for the best intentions in writing his letter, wc could have wished that he had stated, in fairness to the company, that every allowance should be made for them in this instance, one of their vessels having been temporarily rendered useless at Kandavau, and thus necessitating chartering another to replace it at almost a moment’s notice. "if we had been asked as to the climate of Kandavau, wo would have given the Information that it was a tropical one, and thus subject to the usual conditions. "Since the particular trip of the Mongol to which allusion has been made, every care has been taken to prevent more than a fixed number of passengers being allowed to book through, bv which means overcrowding has been done away with at the junction of the two lines. " Mr, Bealey allows that the Mongol was a capital sea boat, and steamed well, and she has since gone on to China, her original destination. "From later passengers wo have received intelligence that the passage to Kandavau was a very comfortable one. It U known to your rentiers tbat new steamers with all the most recent improvements ami with every requisite, are being especially built tor the lino and will soon bo running," '