SHIPPING.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4401, 28 April 1875, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OF WELLINGTON. High Water. 9.25 a.m.; 9.50 p.m. ARRIVED. April 27.—Falcon, ketch, 37 tons, Fisk, from Blenheim. Passengers—Cabin: Mr. Horne, Mr. Rice, Mys. Symonds and three children. IMPORTS. Falcon, from Blenheim: 375 sacks barley, Bishop ; 1 ton tow. Order, EXPECTED ARRIVALS.. London.—Hindostan, Hudson, Dalran, Kingdom of Italy. Auckland and East Coast Ports.—Luna, p.s., daily. . Southern Ports. —Phcebe, s.s., Slst inst.. Wanganui.—Napier, s.s., 29th inst. Auckland, New Plymouth, and Nelson.—Taranaki, 5.8., with San Francisco mail, 29th inst. Melbourne, via Southern Ports. —Otago, s.s. 2nd May ; Albion, s.s., Cth May. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. London—Carnatic, this day. Newcastle. Camille, barque, early. Southern Ports. —Taranaki, s.s., 29th Inst. Melbourne, and West Coast Ports. Otago, s., 3rd May; Albion, s.s., 7th May.

BP TELEGRAPH, AUCKLAND, Tuesday. Arrived : Star of the South, from Napier and the South. NEW PLYMOUTH, Tuesday. Arrived : Wellington, s.s., from the South. Sailed : Taranaki, for Southern ports; Wellington, 8.8,, for Manukau. TIMARU, Tuesday. . Vessels in Roadstead.—Barqua Cyphrene, brig Princess Alice, brigantines Maggie Paterson ana Kate Brain, schooners Wild Ware, Dunedin, and Wanganui. PORT CHALMERS, Tuesday. Sailed: Barque Woodville. for Newcastle. The Alhambra, s.s., for The Bluff and Melbourne. The Dallam Tower, having finished ballasting, hauled off from the wharf yesterday, and will sail for Newcastle in a few days. The ketch Falcon, which arrived in harbor yesterday morning from Blenheim, had light variable winds across the Strait. The Mercury has unloaded her small cargo, the greater portion of which consists of oil. Messrs. Levin and Co., the agents, have 500 cases stowed on hoard the lighter Ann and Jane. The Carnatic and the Australian Sovereign are still wind-bound; but we can hardly expect the present fine weather to last much longer. Yesterday was a very hot day, and the harbor looked like a mill-pond. The Light of the Age has commenced discharging her cargo of Yankee notions. It is stated that yesterday a case of American axes was lost overboard. The Hindostan, from London, ought to put in an appearance shortly. She brings a number of immigrants. The schooner May will clear at the Customs to-day for Hong-Kong direct. Her cargo consists of 150 tons of Newcastle coal, 120 bales native fungus (equal to 24 tons weight), 100 casks old iron, 1 ton pawa shells, and 2 tons old copper. This is, we believe, the first vessel that has sailed for China direct from this port with cargo. The May may be expected back here with a cargo of tea and Chinese notions in about five months hence. The Falcon made a capital run over from Wellington on Wednesday. She left that port at 10 o’clock In the morning, reached the bar at 4 o’clock in the afternoon, and Harding’s at 5. Waited an hour and a half for the steamer, and was then towed up the river, reaching her destination at 8 o’clock the same night. —Marlborough Times, April 23. THE STORMBIRD. This favorite Wanganui trader is at present on Coffey and Dixon’s slip, Clyde-quay, receiving a thorough overhaul. The owners, Messrs. Turnbull and Co., are evidently determined to spare no expense in making the Stormbird the fastest and most comfortable steamer that trades to Wanganui. Mr. Meech is the contractor for the necessary shipwright and carpenters’ work. He is giving her new ' stanchions, main and topgallant rails, bulwarks, iron main hatch, fore-and-aft chain plates, and a splendid kauri deck, inches in thickness. Mr. Meech is also effecting other smaller repairs, painting her, &c. As soon as Mr. Meech has completed his part of the contract, the Stormbird will be brought alongside Mr. Mills’s Foundry, to have the most important part of her repairs effected. Her machinery is receiving an entire renovation, and she will have a new boiler, which will enable the Stormbird to steam about ten knots an hour. It is anticipated that she will be ready for sea in about a fortnight hence.