SHIPPING.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4327, 1 February 1875, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT DP WELLINGTON High Water. a.m.: 0.21 p.m, arrived. January 30. —Aspasia, schooner, 45 tons, Thompson, from tbe East Coast. Edward Pearce, agent. Florence. schooner, 47 tons, from Lyttelton. Rangatira. a,s.. ISG tons, Lloyd, from Poverty Bay and Napier. Passengers—Saloon: Master Pilcher, Mrs, Cohen, Miss Rowe, Miss Davis, Miss Hawkins, Judge "Weston, Mrs. Weston, four children and servant, Mejisrs. Evans and Langmuir, and the Baker Uibernlcon Troupe. It. S. Ledger, agent. January 31.—Egmont. s.s., 54 tons, Irvine, from Wanganui. Passengers: Messrs, Drake and Smith. Manawatu, p.s., 103 tons, Evans, from Wanganui. Passengers —Saloon: Dr. Duller, Messrs. Eyes, Moduli, Hales, Vcnnell, Copping, Whitcford, and Jackson. 11. S. Ledger, agent. Storrabird, s.s,, 8U tons, Doile, from Wangamu. Turnbull and Co., agents. SAILED. January 30.—Pelican, schooner, 54 tons, Hanning, for Havelock, in ballast. J. M. Taylor, agent. Napier, s.s., 44 tons, Butt, for Foxton. Turnbull and Co., agents. Lyttelton, p.s., 8G tons, Scott, for Blenheim. R. S. Ledger, agent, . Southern Cross, s.s. 139 tons, Holmes, for Napier, Poverty Bay, and Auckland, Passengers— Saloon; Mr. and Mrs. Salisbury, Rev, D. Irvine, and three children, Messrs. Gray. Neilson, Hatch, Fanshaw, and Smith Combination Troupe (G). William Bishop, Agent. CLEARED OUT. January 30.—Tasso, barque, 204 tons, Moulton, for Newcastle. IMPORTS Manawatu, from Wanganui: 125 bales wool, X case. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. London.— Hiudostan, City of Vienna, Ardentinny, Hudson. Naw York.— Chaudiero, barque. Mauritius, —May, three-masted schooner, early. H«n«kono.— Medora, barque, early. Melbourne, via tub West Coast. —Tararua, a.s., 14th inst. Southern Ports. —Wellington, s.s,, 4th inst. Melbourne and Southern Ports.—Otago, s.s,, 6th inst. Port Chalmers.— Osseo, American brigantine, early. Northern Forts. —Ladybird, s.s., 2nd inst. Foxton.—Napier, s.s., to-day.

PROJECTED DEPARTURES. London— Howrah, in February: Jessie Headman, sth February; Soukar, about 7th February. Melbourne, via the South,— Tararua, s.s., 14th inst. Northern Ports,—Wellington, s.s,, 6th insfc. Napier and Poverty Bay, —Raogatira, s.s., this day, Lyttelton. —Langatono, ship, this day. Southern Pouts.—Ladybird, s.s., 2nd inst. Melbourne, via the West Coast.— Otago, s.s., sth inst. Wanganui.— Stormbird, s.s.; Egmont, s.s.; and Manawatu, p.s., this day. BY TELEUIIAPII. AUCKLAND, Saturday. Arrived: Invorene, from London, in ninety days from Falmouth. Sunday. Arrived: Mikado, from Honolulu, with San Francisco mail, at midnight on Saturday. ONEHUNGA, Sunday. Sailed: 3.15 p.m., Ladybird, for the South, with the San Francisco mail. The three-masted schooner Melaine sailed round to the patent slip on Saturday, where she will receive a thorough overhaul to her hull and gear. The ship Berar hoisted anchors and sailed over to the wharf on Saturday last. The barque Tasso has discharged her cargo of bark, and lies in the stream waiting a fair wind to proceed on her voyage to Newcastle. The steamer Napier sailed for Foxton on Saturday night last. TheA.S.P. Company’s steamer Southern Cross left the harbor at two o’clock on Saturday last for Napier, Poverty Bay, and Auckland. The schooner Aspasia, from the East Coast, with a cargo of wool, arrived on Saturday morning last. The little screw steamer Egmont, built at Dunedin for Messrs. Butina and Co., of Wanganui, arrived in harbor from Wanganui yesterday morning. She crossed the bar in company with the steamers Manawatu and Stormbird at 3.30 on Saturday afternoon last, and arrived a couple of hours later than the larger boats yesterday morning. She is a handy little steamer of 64 tons, built of iron, with compound engines, and apparently well fitted for trading to the shallow bar harbors of the west coast of this island. With seventy bales of wool on board she draws a trifle under three feet. She is not remarkably well finished. The steamers Manawatu and Stormbird arrived shortly after five yesterday morning from Wanganui, having crossed the bar at 3.30 the previous afternoon. Light westerly winds were experienced. The steamer Rangatira, Captain Lloyd, from Poverty Bay and Napier, arrived in harbor at 8.30 on Saturday evening, after a fair passage. Captain Lloyd reports variable weather. She leaves again for Napier to-day.

Clyde Shipbuilders.— The secretary of the Clyde Shipbuilders’ and Engineers’ Association has issued a circular to the members of the association, which bears that the association are of opinion that the period has now arrived when an effort should be made to retrieve the position lost in IS7I, and secure either an increase in the, hours of labor, a decrease in the rate of wages, or both; thus removing the disadvantages experienced by the trade on the Clyde as compared with similar trades in the south. Various queries are put in order to elicit the opinion of the builders prior to taking action, and with a view to securing the co-operation of the whole of the employers on the Clyde, in any steps that may be taken. The operative shipbuilders and engineers beld a meeting on Saturday evening relative to the contemplated action of the' employers to reduce the rate of wages and increase the hours of labor. Motions were passed declaring that the proposal was a breach of faith, and that they would never submit to any retrograde movement with respect to the hours without strenuous exertion; that the proposed reduction of wages was not warranted in the present state of the trade; and that they would support any shop that might be called to defend these resolutions. French Sailor Drowned in Hobson's Bay.— A boat belonging to the French barque Madura was capsized in the bay on 'Wednesday evening, and FranSois Xavier, cook of the vessel, was drowned, three other men narrowly escaping a similar fate. The four men left- Wllliamstown at about sundown in a small boat, the quartette being all more or less under the influence of liquor. They reached the Madura in safety, and Xavier caught hold of the man ropes to go up the ladder to the vessel’s deck. Ho had only just begun the ascent, when he lost his hold, and fell backwards. He dropped on the gunwale of the boat, which immediately capsized, precipitating the four men into the water. A boy on board the barque threw a rope, which one of the men secured, and he was pulled on board. The deceased disappeared almost immediately, and did not rise again. The remaining two held fast to the boat, but every time they attempted to get into her, she turned over with them. There was a stiff breeze blowing, and a tolerably heavy sea on, but the men managed to keep above water till they had drifted fully 200 yards from their vessel, when they were picked up in an exhausted state by a boat from the barque Mariner. The police were yesterday dragging for Xavier’s body, but without success.—Melbourne Argus, January 15. The Fires on Kent’s Group.— The origin of the fires recently seen burning on one of the islands belonging to Kent's Group has at length been discovered. Late last night information was received that the Oberlin, of Adelaide, had been totally wrecked on the north-eastern end of Hogan’s Island. The captain and a portion of the crew first made for the lighthouse on Kent’s Group, but eventually they were all rescued and taken to Port Albert. —Melbourne Argus, January 20. Pilot-boat for Port Phillips Heads. —By the arrival of the schooner-yacht Mavis in port on Saturday, the members of No. 1 Pilot Company have secured a fitting vessel for cruising outside, and of' this they have bad sore need since the loss of the cutter Corsair. The Mavis was purchased for the company by Captain James Deane during his visit to the old country, and it was not without considerable search and some difficulty that a vessel suitable in all requirements for the service was found, and having been found a long price had to be given for her. She Is a Cowes-built vessel, and up to the time of the purchase was one of the vessels of the Eoyal Northern Yacht Club fleet. Although twenty years old she is in splendid order and preservation, and being very strongly put together, she ought to live in almost any weather. No expense has been spared in her construction, and she is handsomely, and in many respects, ingeniously fitted up. For sailing, the Mavis has an excellent name, and she is said to be very comfortable at sea, and Captain Elliott, who haa brought her out, mentions that, when running on a wind or lying to, she never shipped a bucket of water during the voyage. The acquisition of so valuable and desirable a craft has not been compassed without heavy disbursement, and it has been computed that, before all expenses connected with the loss of the Coraair and with the purchase and fitting out of the Mavis, as well as with the voyage and other incidental matters hav been paid, that a very large hole will have been made in the £SOOO. No time will be lost in getting the schooner ready for active service.—The Daily Telegraph. Crdx.se after Gdano.— Captain Stracban, under the auspices of tbeAnglo-Australian Guano Company, has been cruising in the main archipelago in pursuit of guano deposits, and wo (Coohlown Courier) are given to understand that his researches have been highly successful, ho having discovered deposits amounting in the aggregate to 100,000 tons, contain ing the excellent average of 78 per cent, of phosphate of lime. Captain Stracban has also informed us, that during his researches, he has dropped upon some good bits of beche-de-rncr, a sandalwood scrub; and, more than all, a gold-bearing reef, running from the mainland to an island. Of course it is only reasonable that the localities of these finds arc not at present disclosed. Notwithstanding, however, the success which has ultimately attended the voyage, it will be seen that much danger had to be encountered before the end could bo obtained; but all ordinary risk being over, shipping a recruit or two, and taking In some much needed provisions, will start the gallant eaptaln en voyage to Tasmania, where wo trust his report will not only give satisfaction, but ultimate . valuable consideration to bis owners. Captain Stracban gives a very interesting account of the friendliness of the natives on Huggeratonc Island, who assisted him In every way to clean the ship, and allowed him to depart with many expressions of good will. At the visit to Koine Island, the beacon, sixty feet high, built by the crews of H.M.S. Fly and Bramble, was Inspected, and altogether a most Interesting and useful trip haa been so far successfully carried out. —Melbourne Daily Telegraph, Jan. 20.