SHIPPING.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4419, 19 May 1875, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OF WELLINGTON. High Water. 3.46 a.m.; 4.4 r.M. ARRIVED. . May IV.—Elibank Castle, schooner, 70 tons, Linklater, from Lyttelton. Turnbull and Co„ agents. Dido, cutter, 36 tons, Shilling, from Blenheim. Turnbull and Co., agents. IMPORTS. , „ Elibank Castle, from Lyttelton : 530 sacks flour, 120 bags flour, 100 bags bran, 100 bags sharps 2o cases cheese, 1 case shovels, 24 sacks grass seed, 80 sacks bran, 30 sacks sharps, Tmrnbull and Co. Dido, cutter, from Blenheim: 4SI bags barley, Barratt, from Napier: 00 tons limestone. Order.

EXPECTED ARRIVALS. London.—Hannibal (via Nelson), Halcione, Hlndostan (sailed February fl), Dalran, Kingdom of Italy, AVUliam Fruing, and Collingwood. Northern Ports.—Taranaki, s.s., 20th inst. Newcastle. —AustraUnd and A. J. Spence, shortly. „ _ Melbourne, and Southern Ports.—omeo, s.s,, about, the 20th inst. Southern Ports. —Phoebe, s.s., 20th mst. Melbourne via.Hokitika. —Alhambra, s.s., 20tn U “ Umt ' PROJECTED DEPARTURES. . Newcastle.— Sunbeam, this day : Anne Meuuuali, shortly ; Robin Hood, 22nd inst. Southern Ports.-Taranaki, s.s., 21st inst. Melbourne via Tue BLUKF.-Alhambra, 21st Forts. —Plimbe, s.s.,_2lst inst. Wanoakui.—Manawatu, P-s., this day. Foxton. —-Napier, s.s., this day; Lgmont, s.s., —Lyttelton, p.s., this day; Dido, cutter, this day. . BY TELEGRAPH. AUCKLAND, Tuesday. Arrived : Ship Dunedin, 06 days from London, with about 250 immigrants, all well. Three cases of typhoid fever occurred during the voyage. One immigrant named Stevenson and .two infants died. LYTTELTON, Tuesday. Arrived ; Phoebe. She saUs North to-morrow. Sarah Pile, from Bluff. ... A ship is signalled from the South, supposed to be the Cicero, from London, with immigrants. No communication yet. , , , , , The Beautiful Star sailed for Oamaru, and took a valuable consignment of birds from the Acclimatisation Society. THE BLUFF, Tuesday. The Queen of the Seas, barque, called at the Heads and landed passengers. She is loaded for Lyttelton, and left Hobarton on the 9th inst. • PORT CHALMERS, Tuesday. Arrived ; Ship Leucadia, from London. Reports speaking the ship Hindostan, from London to Wellington, in lat. 35'52 N.. long. 17'32 W, Was in company with the ship Cicero, from London to Lyt'telton, in lat. 4'50 S., long. 105-57 E. . AVennington, ship, from London, with 200 immigrants, all well. Reports passing an Iceberg on the 14th April, in lat. 47'20 S., long. 36'55 E., one mile square and 800 feet high. . Frederick Basil, from London via Melbourne ; Harriet Armitage, barque, from Sydney.

The cutter Dido arrived from Blenheim shortly after midnight on Monday. She crossed the Wairau bar at 5.30 pm. on the 17th, and made a splendid but stormy passage of six hours and a half, the vessel running almost under bare poles. She brought a cargo of grain for transhipment to Auckland. There were only three vessels discharging at the Queen’s Wharf yesterday, viz., the colliers Anne Melhuish, Heversham, and Robin Hood. The schooner Marmion has discharged her cargo of timber, and will finish ballasting to'day. The schooners Jessie Henderson, Hannah Barratt, and Reward are discharging alongside the breastwork. . ’ The fore-and-aft schooner Colleen Hawn is on Coffey and Dixon’s slip, undergoing slight repairs. The barque Kingdom of Italy should soon put in an appearance, she being over 120 days out from London. By telegram it has already been announced that the barque Shooting Star has arrived at Auckland from London, after a most protracted passage of 145 days, so that no unnecessary alarm should be felt at the non-arrival of the Kingdom of Italy. 3lessrs. Turnbull and Co.’s smart topsail schooner, the Elibank Castle, arrived at 5 a.m. yesterday from Lyttelton, after a splendid passage of a little over eighteen hours from the Heads. Captain Linklater reports clearing the Heads at 7 p.m., with a light breeze from the westward- ■At 10.30 a.m. got the wind from the S.W., which increased to a gale; ran Hie vessel under topsails; passed Cape Campbell light at midnight, when the wind veered round to the S.E.; passed Pencarrow Head at 4 a.m., and anchored off the Queen’s Wharf at 5 a.m. yesterday morning. The Elibank Castle commenced discharging her cargo of produce at Turnbull’s wharf. When-she next visits this port the steamer Ladybird is to be docked to receive a new steel propeller shaft, an order for which was sent to England some time ago, executed there, and the shaft was duly delivered at Wellington a week or two since. It was decided to construct the shaft of steel to obtain strength without an increase of size, so that the shaft might fit the stern-pipe. The latter was built in of a size to receive an iron shaft capable of carrying a three-bladed propeller, Bft. Cin. diameter. But the Ladybird now carries a four-bladed propeller of 10ft. diameter, and the original sized iron shaft is found to be Incapable, excepting risk of breaking is incurred, to sustain the strain of full speed. Hence the adoption of a steel shaft, which will doubtless fully answer the purpose in view, and so prove a great acquisition to the old boat. Some of onr readers may perhaps be not aware that the Ladybird was built in 1851, and her model, exhibited at the Great Exhibition of that year, took first prize for steamers. She is as staunch now as then, but not nearly so sightly, her once lovely proportions having been disfigured by the raising process.— Otago Daily Times, May 12. Captain Baker, of the cutter Nautilus, reports that when the vessel was hove-to olf Oamaru on Monday - .night, heading in shore, Oamaru light being W.N.W., distant about three miles, a large ship, apparently of about 1000 tons, was sighted standing off shore, heading about E.S.B. under three lower topsails and foresail. She was apparently hound to this port, and was evidently dodging about to wait until the weather cleared and moderated. The stranger will in all probability prove to be the Andrew Reid, . fully due from London. The Nautilus lost sight of the stranger at dusk, and did not see her afterwards* The ship was about four miles off shore when first sighted. Captain Baker further informs us that the sea was fearfully heavy on the coast during the late gale, as heavy or heavier than ho ever experienced during his thirteen years’ career on the coast. —Otago Daily Times, May 12. Kaipara River.—The new pilot station, situated on the North head of the entrance to the Kaipara river on Pouto Point, has been completed. A neat six-roomed house has been erected for the pilot, and two three-roomed cottages for the boatmen. A signal-station is about to be erected on the North Sand Head, about 400 feet above sea level, and distant from the bar only 4i miles. The site has been approved of by the General Government, and work will be begun at once. Between .the pilotstation and the signal-station will be stretched a line of telegraph, so that the signalman can at once inform the pilot when his services are required. Mr. Allright has surveyed the .country over which the line will be stretched, and sees no serious difficulties in the way of carrying out the proposed plan.— Southern Cross , May 10. The Rakaia. —The New Zealand Shipping Company’s ship Rakaia, 1022 tons. Captain McXnnis, (the third wool ship of the season), took her departure from the Bluff for London at 2 p.m. on the sth Inst. The Rakaia arrived here from Lyttelton, was berthed at the wharf about the 9th of March, and commenced to discharge her ballast, which consisted of ninety 400 gallon tanks filled with water, and 350 tons of stone. The outward cargo consists of 4050 bales of pressed, and 303 bales of impressed wool, and 19 casks skins. Loading was completed late on Saturday, the Ist May.— Southland Times, May 7. The Yacht Kleetwino.—The Lyttelton Yachting Club some time ago determined to purchase an Auckland yacht, and a vessel named the Fleetwing, celebrated both for her speed and sea-going qualities at the Waltemata, was chosen. Mr. P. Cunningham materially assisted the club in purchasing the yacht, and on May Ist she left the Auckland harbor, and proceeded down the East Coast. Crossing the Bay of Plenty, a S.W. gale and heavy sea were experienced, and the vessel anchored in the Kawa Kawa Roads on the 3rd, the wind shifting to south shortly afterwards. During the 4th the wind still continued southerly, but on the sth a light northerly air sprang up, and she tripped her anchor, and got away as far as Portland Island, when the wind freshened to a gale, with a tremendous sea running* The wind suddenly fell, and for four hours there was a calm ; bUt the yacht was in a heavy sea, and this was four miles east of. Castle Point. From thence to Cape Pallsser had heavy sea and light northerly wind; but when off that headland was becalmed for twenty-four hours. Thence to Port Lyttelton had E.N.E, winds, with high sea and dark gloomy foggy weather. Only two men came down with the yacht, Mr. A. G. Armstrong being In command. Ho speaks most highly of the vessel. To quote his own words, he says j—"l cannot speak too highly of the sea-going capacity of the yacht.” He must, thinking of the weather wo have lately experienced, have had ample opportunites of judging of the vessel, which he says can do her ten knots, and she certainly seems a tight, fast, weathcrly little craft. Her measurement is about ten tons, and wo hope she will reward her enterprising purchasers by winning many a race in these waters. The men must have had rather hard times of it, as they have been wet for many days, and no doubt were glad to greet the friendly shelter of the breakwater yesterday morning.— Canterbury Press, May 12.