SHIPPING.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4180, 13 August 1874, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OF WELLINGTON High Water, 6.21a.m.; 5.3 S r.a. ARRIVED. August 12.—Manawatu, p.s., 103 tons, J. Griffiths, from Wanganui. Passengers—Miss Stctt, Rev. Mr. Lewis, and Mr. Miller. Turnbull and Co., agents. Walpara, p.s., 70 tons, Bascand, from Greymouth. Passengers—Mr. and Mrs. Pritchard and four children ; Messrs. Caseby and Lyon. Johnston and Co., agents. Napier, s.s., 41 tons, Butt, from Foxton. Passengers—Mr, and Mrs. Owen, Mrs. Lilly; Messrs. Bisljop and Rash. Turnbull and Co., agents. Malay, barque, 323 tons, Davi«s, from Newcastle. Passengers—Mrs. Messeen, Miss Beck, Messrs. Beck and Webb. Beck and Tonks, agents. SAILED. August 12.— Merlin, schooner, 41 tons, Black, for Havelock. Turnbull and Co., agents. Stormbird, s.s., 67 tons. P. Dolle, for Wanganui. Passengers—Mr. and Mrs. Mulan and family; Messrs. Walker and Clouston. Turnbull and Co., agents. CLEARED OUT August 12. —Fairy, s.s., 33 tons, Campbell, for Napier. Levin and Co., agents. IMPORTS. . Manawatu, from Wanganui: 24 sacks, 40 bundles, 1 pkg., 1 keg, 1 case. 1 horse, 1 box. Waipara, from Greymouth; 60 tons coal, G do. coke. Napier, from Koxton : 75S sleepers, 9 boxes, 1 case, 1 bale. . Malay, from Newcastle: 470 tons coal, 195 bags maize, 100 empty hhds., 200 dressed felloes, 3 pkgs., 1 case. • EXPORTS. Fairy, to Napier: 14 kegs, 40 bdls. wire, 20 tons coal, 66 boxes, IS cases, 10 half-chests tea, 5 qr-caaks brandy, 1 roll lead. IS gunnies sugar, 51 casks. 1 bale, 6 bags, 22 pkgs, 1 nest tubs. 1 crate, 5 sacks, 176 cases, 8 casks, 27 pkgs., 10 mats rico, 2 kegs, 1 bale, 1 truss, 1 buggy, C tanks. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. London. —Strathaaver, St. Leonards, Panthca, Euterpe, sailed 2Sth April; Douglas, to sail June 18; Langstone, Juno 20; Hindostan. July 16; Wanganui, July 25 ; Cartvale, Star of India, and Hourah. New York. —Oneco : sailed 2nd of June; Marion, schooner. Liverpool. —J. A. Thompson, ship. Southern Ports.—Phcebe, 14th inst. Melbourne, via tub South —Omeo. 17th inst. Newcastle. —Result, ship ; Edwin Basset, Australind, and Anno Melhuish, barques. Northern Ports.—Taranaki, 14th inst. •Lyttelton. —Florence, schooner. Kaipara.—Marmion. schooner* Auckland via Napier.— Star of the South, this <Jay ' PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Melbourne, via the West Coast and Newcastle—Omeo, s.s., 17th inst. East Coast Ports (North Island), —Rangatira, s.s., 17th inst. Northern Ports.—Phcebe, 15th inst. Southern Ports. —Star of the South, this day ; Taranaki, 14th inst. Wanganui.— Manawatu, this day. Castle Point. —Aurora, schooner, tins day. Auckland. —Waikato, ship, this day. Newcastle. —Frowning Beauty, early. Greymouth.— Florence and Fiery Cross,early._ Foxton. —Napier, this day ; Mary Ellen, 17th inst.; Hunter, early. Bluff. —Conflict, ship, early. Hobart Town.— Free Trader, 17th inst. Napier.—Fairy, s.s, this day. BY TELEGRAPH. LYTTELTON. August 12.—Noon. Arrived : Alhambra, s.s., from Wellington. She leaves for the South at 6.30 p.m. NAPIER. August 12. —Arrived : Rangatira, from Wellington, early. She leaves to-night for Poverty Bay. BLUFF. August 12.—Eastby, s.s., is passing, bound to Dunedin from Sydney. The barque Malay arrived in harbor yesterday morning. She sailed from Newcastle on the 31st of July, with a N.W. wind blowing, whifh at night increased, to a heavy gale. At 8 p.m. she was hove-to and remained so for thirtysix hours, dm mg which it was blowing a terrific gale, with a heavy sea. At S a. in. on the 2nd inst., she bore-up; and from then until reaching Cape Farewell Spit, experienced pleasant southerly winds. Passed the Cape on Sunday the 9th. when the wind shifted into the south-east. Reached up Blind Bay next morning, and passed Stephen's Island at 8 p.m. Fetched Port Underwood at 8 p.m. on the 11th, and arrived in port about noon. The barque had to beat up from the Spit. She brings 470 tons of coal, and about 200 bags of maize. The barque Australind, which sailed from Newcastle on the same day and at the same hour as the Malay, evidently has not made such good headway in the late rough weather. The captain of the Malay reports speaking the Australind 400 miles off Cape Farewell, where the latter was hove-to for twelve hours. the former had been previously in a similar situation for thirty-six hours, she gained considerably on her in the passage. The Australind may be looked for at any moment. The people of Foxton are reported by the n anga~ nui Chronicle to be now discussing the advisableness of establishing a Steam Navigation Company, with its head quarters there. . • , The p.s. Manawatu arrived from Wanganui at halfpast 10 yesterday morning, having left at 9 p.m. the previous day. She had a fine trip up. The s.s. Waipara arrived yesterday from Greymouth, which place she left at 7.45 p.m. on the 10th instant, experiencing a fine run up. As soon as her cargo is discharged, she will go on the slip for a thorough overhaul, and as soon as that is effected, will leave again for Hokitika. By Australian news to hand by the s.s. Omeo, it will bo seen that the-barque Anne Melhuish, which sailed from this port on the 17th of July, arrived at Newcastle on the 2nd inst. The brig Robin Hood reached the same port on the following day. The s.s. Fairy, which has been for some time past on Meech’s slip, cleared yesterday for Napier, whence she sails to-day with a general cargo. A considerable sura has been spent on the overhaul of this little craft, and she now looks particularly neat, and in excellent condition. Besides having a new propeller, her decks have been sheathed, and other smaller improvements have been effected. The barque Retriever, which arrived at Melbourne some time ago, is to be placed in the intercolonial trade, and Captain Leßrun, well-known in the coasting, and New, Zealand trade, is to have charge of The Torres Strait mail service, says the Melbourne Argv* t has since its inauguration, been carried on effectively and satisfactorily, notwithstanding that one or two of the steamers chartered to carry out the contract have met with mishaps. Of the four new steamers ordered expressly for the company, one—the Somerset—left London on the Ist inst. for Singapore, and was expected to leave there for the Colonies in time to return with the September mails from Brisbane. The other steamers—the Brisbane, Singapore, and Sydnev—were to follow the Somerset. The chief harbor-master of Melbourne has received a letter from Mr. J. W. Norton Smith, a gentleman residing near Circular Head, the contents of which are of some' interest, as showing the force and direction of the currents on our Southern Coast. Mr. Smith states that on the 19th of June, a bottle was picked up on the beach, near Mount Cameron, on the West Coast of Tasmania, where it had been left, apparently, by the previous tide. The bottle contained a paper, on which the following was written “Sunday, March 15/1874. H.M.S. Challenger. All’s well, 200 miles off Cape Otway, Australia, after various perils amongst icebergs, down South. Scientific staff all safe, (Signed) Joseph Tubbs.” The Steamship Durham.— Regarding the new steamship Durham, we find the following in The Time* of May 18“ On Saturday, a large screw steamer was launched from Blackwall yard, designed for the trade between London and Melbourne, via Plymouth and the Cope. The Durham is the name of this ship, built by the firm of Money Wigram, of Blackwall, whose fleet of screw steamers can now give a monthly service between ‘London and the Australian Colonies. The Durham can hardly be called the sister ship to the Northumberland, which she most resembles, for she is 100 tons heavier than that fine vessel. She Is 305 feet In length, 39 feet 1 inch In breadth, and 2038 tons burden. She will carry, besides a general cargo, 300 passengers, findingsaloon accommodation for about 80 of that number, the rest being second-class cabin and other passenger accommodation. The engines, by Humphry and Tennant, are of 1500 effective horsepower, and will be fitted- with compound cylinders, giving super-heating apparatus, and have the means of condensing the water consumed. The passage by this line is reduced to fifty-two or fifty-threc days, and the first commander is Captain Anderson.” The s.B. Great Britain. —Next to the rapid run on the voyage when she ran a neck and neck race with the s.s. Northumberland, the last Is the best passage ever accomplished by the-Great Britain. She has done the voyage on this occasion, from land to land, in less than fifty-three days and a half. Her passenger list is an extremely full one, and comprises sixtythree in the saloon, and 622 in the second and intermediate cabins and steerage, forty of those being warrant passengers. She left Liverpool with nearly 700 souls on board, a number seldom exceeded in the large Atlantic liners; and that they should all have arrived in excellent health, and the ship be scrupulously clean throughout at the termination of the voyage, is highly creditable to Captain Chapman and his officers. The'total period during which the ship was under steam was about 35 days; the entire distance traversed under sail and steam being close on 13,000 miles. The best running was made after rounding the Cape, and on July IX and three following days the Great Britain logged 300, 338, 330, and 293 miles respectively. On July 21 she made 316 miles, and on July 27, 320 miles. There were no deaths or serious accidents on the passage. The cargo of the Great Britain consists chiefly of soft goods, and in addition to her Melbourne .freight, she has on board geven packages for Adelaide, four for Brisbane, 116 for Byuney, and 143 for Otago and Auckland.