SHIPPING.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 4848, 5 October 1876, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OP WELLINGTON. \ High Water..—4.4o a.m.; 6.2 p.m. ARRIVED. i ) ( October 4. —Waimea. ship, 871 tons, London, Passengers—2oo immigrants. N.A.b. s.s., 69 tons, Doilo. fro “ MMa«ew»<Mitar: - .Mesare." coney, McDonnell, Jenkins, Davis; and three steerage. Turnbull and Co., agents. . ; _ p . lnr .,i Kahuna, schooner.' 39 tons, Maule, from Pelorus Bound; Master, agent. ' .. „ Ladybird, s.s., 2SC tons, Andrew, fcoii.thc.South. Passengers—Saloon: Mias ■£!£”*' Tavlor Merrick. Bull. Shenrock, Roberts, Weston, Cole, Dieley, and Horell; and two steerage. Levin * KeMiedy 6 PMsengere-^Cabin: Mrs. WlUcox; and six steerage. PH i“l”o e 37 tons, Fisk, from Blenheim. T Otal^/J!f<M , tSraW«. from Sydney via the West Coast. Passengers—Saloon; From Sydney. Mr. and Mrs. Pugsley and son Jliaa and Kev. Mr' Oreebrv. From Coast: Messrs., Nicholson, ««■, Broadbent; Norman, Foldie. and Caverhill; and five in the steerage.. Bishop, agent.'

1 -'sailed; : „ . OcroBKU 4. —Kiwi,, as.. 133 tons, Campbell, for Napier,- Passengers—Cabin: Mrs. Le Contour, Mr. and Mrs. Tilley and famllv. Messrs. Maaoy. Lockle. Chrystall. Mclntyre, McLean. Cameron, and Oldroyd. Levin and Co;,'agents. ■ • Napier, s.s., 44 tons. Holmes, for Foiton Passen pcra—Cabin: Misses Blaker, Gunerscn, auclEobertsen, Mrs Wakefield and child, Messrs. Browning, Roe, Lucas, and Smith. Turnbull and Co., agente. • ■ Mahawatu. p.s,, 103 tons, Harvey, for Wanganui. Passengers—Cabin : Miss Bell. Mesdamca Cr „°® s n * nd Hogg,’ Messrs. Nolan and Zelman. PUmmer, agent.

• IMPORTS. Ladybird, from Dunedin: 1 pci, Price ’> 1 c! f' s ’ Letham; 45 boxes. Thomas; 1,pci. Mountain; 1 do. Anderson: 1 do. Shaw, 12 plates, 1 ncl Mills" 1 do. Cook; 1 do. Curno: 1 do, Jackson. - wt’ei 1 trunk. Bishop: 4 do. Hannah; 6 boxes. HaWffia&Porl: I bdl, Hay: 4 cases, Jame on 6 do, Grey; 2 sacks, Chisholm; 1 esse, 1 P c r 1 I) l c s’. 2 -pels Kose: 36 cheeses, Jameson Bros., 13 pags, Tnmbnll and Co.: 84 bolts. Storekeeper. EXPORTS. Manawatn, for Wanganui: 1 pci, Stanton; I|™, 7 ca&s ;1 Pci. 1 cask. Shannon and Co.* 3 pkgs. Allen, 1 case. Krull and Co.: 3 cases. Griffiths; 1 pci.Sudden; 20 pkgs, Stuart; 1 hoi. Frost; 1 ' case. Joseph and Co Ido I bags, Palmer; 6- cases, Krnll and Co.: 1 box. Dntlon; 8 cases. Margetta; 1 pci. Woodward; 18 pkgs, Stuart. kxpECTGD ARRIVALS • London—Sh Leonards, ship' (H.D.Q.6.), early: Howrah, ship, early; Ocean Mail, ship, early. •Lisbon; —Stella/-B.s-» daily, ‘ Fob Ghoty.—May, three-masted schooner, early.: Lyttelton.—Star Queen, barque, early. ~n \ . > brig-, early l Austrahn^, barque, early; Neptune, brig, early : Robin Hood, ‘“ooTHRRNPoRTS.-Taiipe, s.s„ Sthinst.; Wakatipn, S ‘Napibr.—Kangatira. s.s., this day. Melbourne via the South.—Albion, s.s., btu Sydney.—Eaiby. s.s., flth Inst. ' , Lyttelton and Kaxkouba. —Tul, s.s., this day. Wakoanoi.—Manawatu. p.s., 6th mst. Northern Ports.—Wellington, s.s., 6th mst., Hawea, s.s., 10th inst. PROJECTED, DEPARTURES. _ Melbourne via the South, Alhambra, s.s., 13 Melbocrnh and Hobarton via the South.— °SouTHERN tll Ports.— Wellington, s.s., 6th inst.; H Nd e fiTBKRS Ot PoRiu. Ladybird, s.s, this day: Coast. —Albion, s.a,, 9th inst. Wanganui —Manawatu,. p.s., 6th mst. Napier:- Eangatlra. s.s., 10th mst., Frank Guy, three-masted schooner, this day. _ FoxioN.-Stonnbird, s.s., this day; Tin, s.s., 6th via Hokitika.— Wakatipn,- s.s., 6th inst Nelson, Westport, and Greymouth. Kennedy, West Coast.—Alb* 011 ’ 8 ->-» ctl ‘ Instant. BY TELEGRAPH. AUCKLAND. Wednesday. Arrived : Hawea, from the South; Cissy, from Lyttelton. DUNEDIN, Wednesday. Australian Shipping.—Arrived at Newcastle on September 21. the City of Dunedin, from Lyttelton ; England’s Glory, from Auckland ; Eobin Hood, from WelHngt"n. September 23—Sailed: Adelia, for Auckland. Arrived: 25th, Island City, from Lyttelton; Nejitnne, -from Wellington, Sailed: 25th, Australind, for Wellington. POET CHALMERS, Wednesday. Arrived : The New Zealand Co.’s ship Mataura, from’London. She brings 42 passengers and 1500 tona ' of cargo. She left London on the 27th of June; crossed the equator on August 6 ; encountered a fearful cyclone after rounding the Cape of Good Hope; passed the Snares on the 30th of September, and arrived off the Headslbla morning. „ Sailed : The Wakatipn. Passengers for Wellington t Messrs. Harrison and McConnochie. WEATHER AT 5 r.si. YESTERDAY. .‘; Barometer corrected for height only. Auckland. —30 28 -Calm; fine. 30J30—N.E., light;,, cloudy.,.Bar much, BW Castlepoint.—3o’34—S.E., light ;■ gloomy. Heavy Wellington.- 30 32—5., light; fine. Hokitika.—3o 32-B.W:, light ; fine. Bar good. Westport.—3o-28- S.W., light; fine. Bar good. Timaru.—3o-18—N.N.E., light; fine. Sea smooth. Bluer.—3o 42—Calm ; gloomy; The s.s. Stormbinl, Captain Doile, left Wanganui at 10 o'clock on Tuesday night; crossed the bar at 10.45. Had light head winds all the way, and arrived here at 11.30 a.m. yesterday; She will sail for Foxton to-day, taking;a'number of , Immigrants per Waimea. At Foxtori she will tranship her passengers for Wanganui inter the s.s. Napier, which steamer will take them th qje three-masted schooner Ads Wiswell left here on Tuesday night, but came to an anchor off the Pilot’Station'till yesterday morning, when she got underway and cleared the Heads in the forenoon. The Union' Company’s- steamer'Ladybird, from Southern porta, arrived here yesterday afternoon 1 at 3 o’clock. She left Dunedin at 2 p.m. on the 2nd inst.; reached Lyttelton afll a.m. next day; discharged 80 tona'cargo; took bn;board 60 tons, and left again same day at 6 p.m., arriving here as above. ■ Experienced fine weather up the coast. She will sail for Northern porta to-day at 2 p.m. The Nelson owned steamer Kennedy, one of the Anchor.Llhe, In chargeof Captain Conway, put in an appearance here yesterday from Greymouth. She is a handy little twin-screw steamer of 131 tons, has excellent, saloon and steerage accommodation, and is fitted wish two compound engines. She left Greymouth on the 3rd at 11 Am., and had fine weather with light S.E. wind till arrival here at 5.30 p.m. yesterday. She is advertised to sail again for the West Coast this afternoon. ■ . . Messrs.- MoMcckan; Blackwood, and Co.’s s.s, Otago, Captain Calder, left Sydney on the 27th at 6 p.m.; experienced fine weather the whole of the passage, and arrived at Hokitika on the 2nd at 1 p.m.; sailed same day, and arrived at the Grey,oh 3rd; left agsinat9a.m, same day/and arrived at Nelson at 6 am. on the 4th; sailed again at 045 same' morning, and arrived here at 9 o’clock last night;,-’experi-enced fine weather along,the coast. She will sail for Melbourne and Hobarton, via the South, on Friday. The ketch'Falcon, Captain Fisk, from Blenheim, reached this port yesterday afternoon at 2.30. She was bar-bonnd there on Monday, and got away on Tuesday. Had fine weather across She s.s. Napier left ’here for Foxton yesterday at 5.30 p.m. The topsail schooner Kaiuma arrived here yesterday afternoon from the Pelorus Sound. The s.s. Kangatira left Napier yesterday forenoon. She fiky'tt looked for-here -this afternoon. Her return to the East Coast has been postponed till next week, as she goes on the Patent Slip.

ARRIVAL OF THE SHIP WAIMEA, WITH IMMIGRANTS. Early yesterday morning the ship Waimea was signalled as being Off the Heads, but as the wind was only a gentle air from the south. It was doubtful whether she would be able to reach port before nightfall. However, as the flood tide commenced making the wind began to puff up. In the afternoon about! o’clock she showed round Halzwell J. olnt, and stood up the harbor almost under all plain sail in . splendid style, with a freshening breeze from the southward, and dropped anchor, in the,stream about 1.45 p:m;. The health officers proceeded on board at 2 o’clock, and shortly afterwards she was declared a clean ship, not a single case of serious sickness being onboard.. The Waimea is one of the New Zealand Shipping Company’s clipper ships,' built expressly for the carriage of immigrants and the trade to New Zealand.. She comes here under the command of Captain Dewitt, an'experienced, well and favorably known : skipper in New Zealand, lie first came to this colony in command of the ship William Myles, and has since visited Lyttelton and Otago in the rnagnlfl- • cent ship he at present commands. He has on this trip as he has always done, established himself a great favorite amongst the passengers, and they in their‘ turn speak in glowing terms of his seamanship onaiitie* and-gentlemanly: conduct. The surgeonsuperintendent, Dr. Dunkloy, like the captain, is an old hand in the management of Immigrants, he haying been to this colony several times, and lately to Lyttelton, where he arrived last’ year as surgeon of the ship Tlntern Abbey, which vessel brought out over 300 souls to Lyttelton. Although his duty on board ■hipwas not at all limes a very agreeable one, he seems to have gained the respect of the Immigrants/and judging by the manner in which he has brought them Into port, he is a gentleman well suited to fill, the position which ho holds., , , The Waimea brings 200 immigrants, equal to 240 statute adults. Of these. are nominated and 57 f selected by the Immlgrante and Colonist Aid Corporation, and Intended for the Felldlng settlement.. The male immigrants are classified as follows i—7o farm laborers, 4 shepherds; I'ooscbman, 9 carpenters, 100 of-miscellaneous 'occupations. Among the list of single women are 25 general servants, Tho,immigrants’ different nationalities 81- Scotch, 27; Welsh, 8; Channel Isles, 8. They appear to be a healthy’ and-IwcU-contented ilot of people, and seem to be well pleased with the arrangements provided for their comfort pn board, On the rovage there were three deaths spd one birth. Extra special care seems td'have been given to the alloctUon of the Immigrants between decks -/ The single girls’ appartmentds; af Is .usual on allimmi--3 ships, placed , aft: .. The arrangements Of the jranks are somewhat' similar to those provided on Ather Bhhtf but extra space between the side of the tWpluuMenallowed, which gives the place an air of

litrht and comfort rarely found on board ship I L it B has theeffect and' rubbish between the berths frequently proved so detrimental to, health. Ip thls d e pn.rj,ment there areseVenty single glrla.iunder the charge of an Speriencll'iniatton.V Miss ’ I Williams, who has mn fh'e confidence qf the, ghls.xJhey.aU speak well of thematron for her untiring exertions in pWrliJipgfor their comfort, and particularly during the first nart of the voyage when most of them were laid down with the usual complaint—.seasiokness““^'^'mark; of* their esteem they have presented her with a testimonial The monotony of-sea-Ufa ,was, broken by,concerts which were frequently held, and readings from different Authors; and most Interesting lectures' ori New Zealand, etc., etc., were given by the worthy surgeon-superintendent, who also exhibited numerous and beautiful dissolving views of Egypt Venice, and other lands. School was also held on hoard The married people’s compartment is undoubtedly the worst in the ship, which was not the fault of either the captain, surgeon, or immigrants, but of those who had the planning and fitting of it. There appears to be and it is also noticeable in ail immigrant ships. Insufficient. space allowed for each person, ana consequently there is a great deal ol cramming and packing to stow things away, which cannot be otherwise than detrimental to the health of the immigrants. The single mens’ quarters forward are bv far the most roomy and spacious of any oi tne others are, and like the rest of the ship, clean ***“ orderly. The galley on deck was equal to ail the demands made on it, and the condenser worked admirably throughout, condensing 500 gallons water per her trip out. we find that the made an average passage from land to land of 65 days, and from port to port of 93 days. She left Gravesend an the 2nd July, and had westerly winds and foggy weather down channel; landed the pilot on at Berry Head, and cleared the channel on the Bth. Had moderate winds till the 10th, when fresh N.E, gales were met with. Passed the barque Lneayces on the 16th July. Found the first of the N.E. trades in 30 deg. north same day—they were moderate—and tan through them with fine weather till they were lost on tho 25th July in 12 deg. north. Thence had light variable airs, with - occasional squalls and rain. Crossed the equator on the 6th of August, and had moderate breezes and fine weather till the S.E. trades were picked up in latitude 3 deg.■ They were, like the N.E., moderate and fine, and died away in 27 deg. S, On the 14th Angust spoke the ship Agnes Rose, of Aberdeen, bound from London to Sydney, in latitude 22 deg. N.. longitude 33 deg., with the captain’s wife sick on board. The su ri: e O“ of the Waimea went off to her, and found the woman to be suffering from dysentery; stood in company with the vessel, and on the 19th the doctor again visited her. On his return the two vessels parted company, leaving the sick lady progressing favorabiy. AUer losing the S.E. tr.idcs, had a continuance of southerly Wind? and frequent squalls, a^ m P?? t ie^ u w snow. Rounded the Cape on the 31st August. Bowled merrily across the Southern Ocean before the usual amount ; of strong westerly winds, which on two occasions increased to a gate from the S.W. After crossing the meridian of Capo Leuwin the wind commenced to get steady, and moderate. Sighted Cape Farewell on the 30th ult.. and beat through the Strait against a very light southerly wind, arriving as above stated. On July SOtßspoke the New Zealand Shipping Company's ship Mataura, bound from London to Fort Chalmers/ in lat. 9 deg. N The Mataura, it will; be seen by our telegrams, has arrived at Port Chalmers. The immigrants by the "Waimea will be landed to*day. _