SHIPPING.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4336, 11 February 1875, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OF WELLINGTON Hutu AVatjsr. 7.42 a.m,; 8.1 r.M. ARRIVED. February 10. —Dunedin, schooner, 66 tons, Stewart, from Hokitika. . w • Stormbird. s.s., 07 tons, Dmic from V.aiiganu . Passengers—Saloon : Messrs. I- looil, Abbott, Holonb. Price Levy, Munroe, and four m tire steerago. Turnbull unci Co., agents. SAILED. . , ■Funr.UAKV 10.-F.asby, s.s., SC7 tons Kennedy, for 'Lyttelton and Port Chalmers. Turnbull and Co., “Aurora, schooner. 64 tons, Eomerill, for Castle Point. Edward Pearce, agent Kangatira, s.s.. ISG tons, Griffiths for papier and Poverty Bay, Passengers—Saloon : Mrs. Li Jiicholls, Messrs. Black, Garrard, WeatherbJ. Neville, and fifteen in the steerage. B. b. Ledger, agent. IMPORTS. Easby, from Newcastle and Sydney : P-tons coke, 150 cases schnapps, ISO pockets sugar, 54 gunnies do. « buggies, 0 drays, 1 case, 00 pieces hardwood, - cases plants, 1 bag bone dust. 3 pkgs. 2 cases 2 qr-casks, 10 cases onions, 10 bags potatoes, 1 pci, 1 } case dings, 2 cases acids, 4 qr-cases fruit, 3 cases, 1 pci, 2 spring carts, 1 case ad%ertismg material, 9 cases, 2 bales, 2 pels, 3 pkgs, .and a quantity of cargo for Lyttelton and Port Chalmers. 6 Dunedin, from Hokitika: 45,000 ft. sawn timber. Prince Victor, from Western Australia: 49 logs, 3650 sleepers, 810 pieces timber, 5G piles. Stormbird, from Wanganui; S bales wool, 1 case. EXPORTS. , , Easby, for Lyttelton and Port Chalmers : Original cargo from Newcastle and Sydney. Aurora, for Castle Point: 5 pkgs groceries, 1 case brandy, 21 bdls wire, 1 half-chest tea, 2 gunnies meal, 2 qr-casks ale. 13 pkgs station stores. 1 ]ar, 1 pcL 38 bags grass-seed, 20 pieces scantling, 37 pkgs station stores, 9 pkgs groceries, 1 pci, 10 bags coal, 5 bars iron, 3 pkgs. 1 case. „ , _ Kangatira, for Napier and Poverty Bay: 1 pci, 1 • fir-tierce, 1 pkg cigars. 15 half chests tea, 30 boxes do, 1 bag malt, 1 pair wheels. 1 case, G 4 cases fruit, 30 pkgo sundries, 71 sheep, 3 cases drapery, 429 sacks cats, 1 pkg, 8 trunks, 10 cases, 1 trunk, 1 truss, 1 keg, 1 box, 150 sacks flour, 4 cases, 1 pkg. 17 hides, 2 bdls sacks, 1 sheep. 1 trunk. 2 cases. 3 kegs butter. 00 mats sugar, 20 bags flour, 4 cases, 1 cask, 5 boxes soap, - J cases spirits, 3 cases and 5 boxes soap, 1 qr-cask, 10 boxes tea. 1 cask, 1 pair bellows, 4 cases, 1 pkg, 1 bdle buckets, 1 case, 1 keg. 1 safe, 1 box, 1 coil spunyarn. 1 do rope, 1 bdl oakum, 1 bell mashes l ease hardware, 1 cask horse-shoes, 1 cask, 1 bdl hay knives. 7 cases, 1 case washboards, 1 case ploughs, 1 case, 4 kegs, 2 axle arms, 1 water-pot, 9 cases, 1 box. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. London.—Uindostau, Ardentiuny, Hudson, Dalran,. -and Elvin. , , , , Mauritius.—May, three-masted schooner, early. Hongkong.—Medora, barque, early. Melbourne, via the West Coast.—'Tararua, s.s.. this day. Melbourne and Southern Ports.—Albion, s.s., 15th inst. Port Chalmers. —Osseo, American brigantine -auid Chaudiere, barque, early. . Northern Pouts. —Wellington, s.s., 15th inst. Wanganui.—Manawatu, p.s., this day. Blenheim.—Lyttelton, p.s., this day. Poverty Bay and Nafier. —Kangatira, s.s., 14th instant. , . , * Southern Ports. —Ladybird, s.s., this day. PItOJ EOT IS D D Fl* A RTU RKS. London—Howrah, 13th instant; Soukar, about 10th February. Melbourne, via tub South.—Tararua. s.s., 14th inst. Melbourne, via the West Coast. — Albion, s.s., 15th inst. , Napier and Poverty Bay.—Kangatira, s.s., 15th instant. Wanganui.—Stormbird, s.s., and Manawatu, p.s., this day. Foxton.—Napier, s.s., this day. Blenheim.—Lyttelton, p.s., this day. Northern Ports.—Ladybird s.s., to-morrow. Southern Ports. —Wellington, s.s., 15th instant.

BY TELEGRAPH. TORT CHALMERS, Wednesday. Arrived. —The Taranaki from the North. Sailed.— The Beautiful Star for Timaru ami Lyttelton LYTTELTON, Wednesday. Sailed. —The • Ladybird for Wellington, at 6.15 ■p.m. AUCKLAND, Wednesday. Sailed. — The Wonga Wonga and the Hero, for Sydney. NELSON, Wednesday. Arrived. —The Tararua and Phcebe. The Tararua ynilq at midnight for Wellington. The steamer Easby, Captain Kennedy, discharged 150 tons of cargo yesterday, and sailed for Lyttelton and Port Chalmers last evening. She had fifteen passengers for the former port. The steamer Stormbird, Captain Doile, arrived from Wanganui shortly after noon yesterday,having crossed the bar at midnight on Tuesday. Light N. W. winds were experienced till Terawiti was reached, where the full force of the strong wind which prevailed yesterday in Port Nicholson was felt. The schooner Dunedin, from Hokitika, with a cargo of timber for Messrs. Greenfield and Stewart, arrived early yesterday morning. The steamer llangatira. Captain Griffiths, came round from the Patent Slip yesterday morning, where she had received a coat of paint, a slight overhaul to her machinery, and a new’ propeller. She shipped a large cargo for Napier during the day, and sailed last evening. The steamer Manawatu crossed the Wanganui bar yesterday shortly after midday. She may therefore be expected to put in an appearance at daylight this , morning. The gale which prevailed yesterday, prevented the Harbor-master removing the ship Howrah from her berth. If the weather moderates, she will be taken into the fairway this morning. The steamer Lyttelton, from Blenheim, with a cargo of wool, is due this morning. She will leave again at 8 p.m. for the same port. The shipmasters of Melbourne are at the present time endeavoring to form themselves into a branch of the Mercantile Marine Service Association of Liverpool. The objects of the parent association are to bring together shipmasters, officers, and engineers engaged in the Australian merchant service ; to protect their interests; to obtain for them appointments to vessels when out of employment; to provide reading and newsrooms for its members, to which they may resort when in portand to carry out other objects which may conduce to their welfare and to the improvement of the position of the Australian mercantile marine service generally. It is also proposed, by means of the association, to provide means of redress for shipmasters and officers in case of the suspension of their certificates on insufficient grounds, and to endeavor to secure that the persons adjudicating in courts of inquiry should possess the necessary naotical and engineering experience. The negotiations of the Melbourne shipmasters with the Liverpool Association have now reached that stage, that they are only awaiting a final settlement of the terms upon which they are to be incorporated with the parent society. It is intended by some of the members of the New South Wales Shipmasters’ Association, to take steps in the same direction as their Victorian brethren, in the hope that their amalgamation with the old-established and powerful Association of Liverpool, will add to the efficiency of their already Useful society.— Sydney Morning Herald. Tirz Forest Queen.— The following is the report of the schooner Forest Queen She left Wellington -at five p.m, the 4th of January, clearing the Heads at seven p.m. the same night, with a light breeze from the N.W, The following day, the wind increasing,, he made for Pelorus Sound, anchoring in Ketu Bay at three p.m., where he remained till the 13th instant. Soon after leaving the wind shifted and blew hard, with heavy squalls, from N.W., so he again bore up for the Sound, anchoring there till the following morning. He got under way on the 14th, anchoring again for the night In Rangitoto Roads. On the 16th, the wind being from N.E., he made sail, arriving off Port Hardy. The wind shifting to N.W., at three p;m., he stood in and anchored. The barometer fell fast during the night, and blew a terrific N.W. gale. -On the 18th, the weather moderating, he again got under way, and made his course with a light W.N.W. breeze. On the 20th he tacked twenty miles south of Cape Egmont, the sea making considerably. The vessel laboring heavily, he bore up again for shelter in Port Hardy, where, at three p.m., the wind blowing hard from the N.W., with heavy squalls, carried away the mizzen sail. He left again for good on the 31st, with a light S S.E. air, which lasted till the vessel arrived off Waltara, on the 2nd. He was however unable to enter till the 4tb, when taken in tow by the Waltara tug, and the Forest Queen now lies alongside the bank, discharging her cargo.— New Plymouth Budget. February 6, The CL and N.E.S.N. Co/b New Twin Screw Steamer The Clarence. —The following are the particulars of a twin-screw steamship, to be named the Clarence, now being constructed by Messrs Thomas Wingate and Co., of Whiteinch, Glasgow, for th? Clarence and New England Steam Navigation CoiLength between the perpendiculars, 222 ft. Sin.; beam moulded, 30ft.; depth moulded at hold, about 18ft.; depth moulded at saloon, 17ft. She is fitted with two pairs of direct-acting compound surface con-densing-engines, to indicate when working at full power from 900 to 1000 horse-power; high-pressure cylinders, 201 n. internal diameter; low-pres-sure cylinders, 52in. internal diameter; length of stroke, 20iti. ; the cylinders and their cases to he thoroughly steam • jacketed, and the whole of the machinery to be of the very best description. The boiler will be of the round tubular description, having a diameter of 14ft., and length of shell of 171 t., with six 3ft. 3in. furnaces; three at each end with separate combustion chambers—tubes 4in. In diameter and Oft. 6in. long—the grate‘surface will have an area of nob less than 130 ft., and the heating surface 4000 square feet, giving sufficient steam for the engines at a working pressure of from 60 to 701 b». to the square inch. The vessel will be fitted with five water-tight bulkheads, and ample provision is being made for passenger accommodation, as well as large cargo carrying capacity. The saloon will be amidships, 50ft. 9in. long, fitted with state-room accommodation for thirty passengers, and provision by which the number may be increased to fifty. The fittings In this department, os also in the ladies’ cabin, will be of a very chaste and rich descriptionparticular attention being paid to ventilation, commensurate with the needs of our climate. The ladles’ cabin commodious and well ventilated will be fitted with permanent accommodation for eight ladies, besides which there will be double state rooms available as family cabins. The steerage will be forward, giving accommodation for forty passengers, with women’s cabin for twelve—in all fifty-two. The forecastle will be roomy and well ventilated, so as to afford every possible comfort for the seamen. There will bo a poop aft, fitted up for the officers of the ship—the captain's cabin being on the saloon deck. Every provision is to be made for the comfort of the passengers including plunge and

shower baths, Ac. The arrangements for the economising labor in the shape of steam winches, &c., will be of the most perfect kind—indeed nothing is to be spared to make The Claronco one of the finest vessels in the colonial coasting trade. The draught of water will not exceed 10 feet, and the speed is to be 13 knots. In recording this proposed addition to our colonial murine, we cannot but congratulate the Clarence and New England people upon the success of their local company, the progress of which has been unsurpassed apparently in these colonies. The company was formed in May, ISGS, since which its progress has certainly done credit to the people of these important northern districts with which it is connected. Clarence Examiner. _ T Tragedy on Board an American Ship. —The Anglo-Brazilian Times, of the 21st of November, says:—“On the 2Sth of October, a tragedy occurred on board the American ship King Phillip, from Baltimore for California, undergoing repairs. The master, on going aboard, found the steward, Alfred M. Jackson, an Englishman, dead, three seamen severely wounded, and two mates fighting desperately on tho quarter-deck. He tried to separate them, but his efforts seemed only to exasperate them more, and at last ho went to tho U.S. frigate Lancaster, whence a force was sent that secured the two mates, who were afterwards handed over to the Brazilian authorities. According to the evidence taken, the first mate, W. P, Byrne, got drunk and quarrelled with the steward, whom he killed with shots and blows. He then attacked the only four men on board, three of whom he prostrated with shots, and was engaged in a life and death struggle with the third mate when the captain arrived. The cook happened to go on hoard ; during the fight, but escaped by a cable to the neighboring island. .