SHIPPING.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5007, 11 April 1877, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OF WELLINGTON. Hion Water.— 2.sß a.m. ; 3.19 P M ARRIVED. April 10.—Manawatu, p.5.,-103 tons, Harvey, from Wanganui, Passengers Cabin : Drs. Duller and Fitzgerald, Messrs. Jones, Wisdom, Rivers, Farthing, Dean, Parkes, and McLean ; 5 steerage. Plimmer, agent. __.Tmipo, s.s., 181 tons. Carey, from the North. PasSengerj—Saloon: Misses Wilson, iflioraas, Dixon, Mrs, Short, Mr. and Mrs. Turnbull, Mr. and Mrs. Johnson, Messrs. Bell, Hooper, Strike, French, Marshall, Walts, Smith, Thomas, and Biggs. Levin and Co., agents. Hawea, s.s., 4G2 tons, Wheeler, from the South. Passengers—Saloon : Misses Igglesden, Iluskisson, Smith, Short, Mrs. Park. Mrs. and Master Marchant, Chief Justice Prenciergast, Messrs. Hall, Simpson, Coleman, Lowes, Davies, Short, McLean, Schobert, Stoneman, Martin, Lambert. Blundell, Amber, Horewood, and Hill; 11 steerage. Levin and Co., agents. Wanaka, s.s., 278 tons, Malcolm, from Auckland, Tauranga, Poverty Bay, and Napier. Passengers— Saloon: Mr. and Mrs. Fountain and family, Mrs, Salmon, Miss Davis, Messrs. Salmon, Nesbitt, Moorhouse. Higgins, Hugh, Cattell (2), Veilch. Captain Braddick; 6 steerage, and 18 for South. Levin and Co., agents. Wakatipu, s.s., 1198 tons, Cameron, from Sydney. Passengers—Saloon: Miss Donnelly, Captain and Mrs. Dreux, Messrs. J. Joseph, Ascher, Horsfall, Lieutenant Bouveric, R,N. ; Cadets R.N., Dawson, Barton, and Gardner; 7 steerage, and 5 for South. Levin and Co, agents. SAILED. April 10. —Stormbird, s.s., C 9 tons, Doile, for Wanganui. Passengers Cabin : Misses Atkinson and Halifonty, Mrs. Tory, Mr. Donne. Turnbull and Co., agents. Manawatu, p.s., 103 tons, Harvey, for Wanganui. Passengers—Cabin; Miss Kenny, Messrs. Wheeler, Morecroft, and Taylor; 3 steerage. Plimmer, agent. Taupo, s.s., 461 tons, Carey, for the South. Passengers—Saloon : Mr. and Mrs. Scott-Siddons and servant, Mr. Mrs. and Miss Parkes, Mr. and Mrs. Miller, Messrs. Curtain, Steele. Blackadder, and Smith. Levin and Co., agents. Hincmoa, Government s.s., 282 tons, Bendall, for the Manukau. Charles Edward, p.s., 126 tons. Whitwell, for Nelson, Westport, Greymouth, and Hokitika. l’issengers—Cabin; Rev. Mr. Harper. Messrs. Woolcock, Campbell,'and Swanbock. Deacon, agent. CLEARED OUT. April 10.—Australian Sovereign, barque, 353 tons, Berry, for Newcastle. Williams, agent. Malay, barque, 284 tons, Millman, for Lyttelton. Beck and Tonks, agents. Hermann, barque, 453 tons. Pens, for Lyttelton. Turnbull and Co., agents. IMPORTS. [A special charge is made for consignees' names inserted in this column.) Manawatu, from Wanganui: 80 casks tallow, SO bales wool. 50 sacks grass seed, 2 bales fungus. Taupo, from the Mannkau : 9 pkgs, X hhd, 1 qrcask. 36 cases, 20 sacks nuts. From Nelson: 10 cases pears, 2 boxes luggage. Hawea, from Dunedin : 58 cases, 10 casks, 80 pkgs, S rolls, 9 bales, 200 casks cement, 170 boxes soap, 2 plates iron, 10 trunks. From Lyttelton: 218 cases, 8 sacks seed, 53 sacks grain. EXPORTS. Manawatu, for Wanganui: 184 pkgs, 1 ease brandy, 1 qr-cask rum, 11 cases, 1 box. Taupo, for South: 1 case tobacco, 2 bales, 9 pkgs. 13 parcels, 17 cases, 2 boxes. Stormbird, for Wanganui: 100 cases jam, 10 do fruit, 1 case tobacco. 20 cases brandy, 1 qr-cask do, 1 pkg bags, 5 bdis wire, 1 bag staples, 2 iron tanks, 30 bags seed, 8 c ises ale, 1 do champagne. 20 bdls wire, 20 cases brandy, 130 cases groceries, 198 pkgs do, 10 boxes tobacco, 50 do candles, 18 gunnies sug -r, 9 cases confectionery, 1 do stout, 1 cask biscuits, 1 case ink, 1 do starch, 1 box pipes, 10 pkgs tea, 14 gunnies sugar, 3 pkgs tubs, 6 casks soda, 4 pkgs cornsaoks, 10 do drapery, 8 do pipes, 10 boxes pegs, 1 cask blacking, 10 cases kerosene, 20 boxes candles, 8 do pipes, 1 cask whiting, 2 do seed, 5 cases cordials, 17 hf chests tea, 84 cases sundries, 10 casks do, 29 pkgs do, 7 bdls, 24 trusses. Charles Edward, for Nelson: 1 box clothespegs, 2 pkgs machines, 8 barrels chimnies, 5 cases oil. 1 do brooms, 5 do turpentine, 2 do painkiller, 1 do sluiceforks, 1 box hammers, 15 do cornflour, 1 case tobacco, 3 do oil, 7 oars, 3 cases shovels, 3 do chairs, 33 kegs nails, 1 cask pumps, 9 cases milk, 1 do show-cards, 1 do sarsaparilla, 7 do axes and tools, 1 do saws, 3 cases nails, 1 do forks, 3 sacks chains, 1 case handles, 2 do hardware, 10 qr-tierces tobacco, 5 hf-chests tea, 2 coses drapery, 48 sacks flour, 50 cases drapery. For Hokitika: 1 bale blankets. 3 qr-casks vinegar, 7 cases, 1 truss, 10 do wine, 10 do geneva, 5 do gin, 2 do tobacco. For Westport: 4 cases, 1 do picks, 1 do lamps, 3 cases, 1 truss, 1 roll, 30 pkgs merchandise, 4 keSS ' EXPECTED ARRIVALS. London.— Northampton, early; Andrew Reid, early; Benledi, early. Southern Fours.—Taranaki, 13th inst. ; Taupo, 18th inst. Northern Forts. —Wellington, 14th Inst.; Hawea, 19th inst. Melbourne, via the South.—Ringarooma, tills day. Sydney.—Wakatipu, this day. Melbourne, via Nelson and this West Coast—- . 24th inst. Melbourne and Hubarton, via the South.— Tararua, 22nd inst. East Coast.—Kiwi, s.s., 12th inst. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. London,- Adamant, this month; Eakaia, this month. Northern Forts.—Taranaki, 13th inst.; Taupo, 13th inst. Southern Forts.—Wellington, 14th inst.; Hawes, 19th inst. Melbourne via the (South.— Ringarooma, 13th instant. Foxton.—Tui, this day; Napier, 12th inst. Wanganui.—Manawatu, 13th inst. : Stormbird, 13tU inst. Napier, Poverty Bay, Taurancia, and Auckland.—Wanaka, 18th inst. Lyttelton and Port Chalmers. —Wakatipu, this day. Nelson, Westport, Grevmouth, and Hokitika, Murray, early. Melbourne and Hobarton, via the South.— Albion, 25th inst. Melbourne, via Nelson and the West Coast—- . 23rd inst. Blenheim.—Lyttelton, early. Nelson.— Ringarooma, this day. Napier. —Rangatira, this day. BY TELEGRAPH. AUCKLAND, Tuesday. Arrived : Caberfeidh, from Adelaide ; Rotorua, from South. Sailed: Wave of Life, for Lyttelton; Rotorua, for Sydney. The Wellington leaves Onehunga for the South to-morrow morning at 8 o’clock. LYTTELTON. Tuesday. Sailed : Ringarooma, for the North, at 4 30 p.m. Passenger—l’or.Wellington: Mrs. Trimble.—Onward, for Timaru, PORT CHALMERS, Tuesday. Sailed : Arawata, for the Bluff, with the Suez mail. The Northampton, from Nelson, was seen by the p.s. Manawatu off The Brothers yesterday. She will probably, if there is any wind, arrive here to-day. The Union Co.’s Tanpo, from the North, arrived in harbor at 7 a.m. yesterday. She left the Manukau on Friday afternoon last, met with the iieavy S.W. gale, arrived off Taranaki next morning, but found the sea too heavy to communicate with the shore; got into Nelson next morning, and sailed at 3.30 p.m.; arrived at Picton at midnight, sailed at 1 a.m., and arrived here as above. She proceeded South at 3.30 p.m. The Union Co.’s s.s, Hawea, Captain Wheeler, arrived in port from the South yesterday afternoon at 1.30 p.m. She left Port Chalmers at 1 p.m. on Sunday last, and reached Lyttelton at 7 a.m. next day. Owing to her sticking in the mud at Lyttelton she was unable to leave there till 11.15 last night; and as she was behind time she was slightly pushed, and succeeded in making the run in 14J hours. The Union Co.’s s.s. Wakatipu, Captain Cameron, arrived in harbor last night at 10 o’clock. She left Sydney at 1 p.m. on the sth inst., and cleared the Heads an hour later witli a strong southerly breeze, which gradually increased to a hard blow from S.S.W., with a heavy beam sea, which continued till making Stephen Island at 1 p.m. yesterday; thence to arrival light B.E. breeze, with hazy weather, was experienced. We have to thank the purser for files of late Sydney papers, from which extracts are given elsewhere. The Wakatipu is expected to sail South to-day. The Wanaka came, into port from Auckland and the East Coast ports yesterday afternoon at 5 o'clock, after an exceedingly long and tempestuous passage from Napier. She left Auckland, with the East Coast portion of the Suez mail, on the ,4th inst. at 5 p.m. ; arrived at Tauranga at 9 a.m. next day; left at 12,45 p.m., and got in to Poverty Bay at 9 a.m. on the 6th ; landed cargo and mails; and sailed at 11.35 a.m., making Napier at 7.30 same evening.- Had fresh E, wind to Gisborne, witli head sea: thence to" Napier freshN.W. She got away from Napierat 1 p.rn, on Sunday last, witli the barometer standing as low as 29deg., and the wind blowing strong from the north. When the Kidnappers were rounded at 2,30 p.m., the barometer had fallen lower, and the wind settled in to the N. W. and the weather had every appearance of being tempestuous. At 11 p.m. the wind veered round to the S.S.W., ami commenced to blow in hard squalls, with extremely thick weather. The vessel was then abreast of Castlepoint, and soon a gale was raging, with a heavy sea, and Capt. Malcolm had to put his steamer under easy steam—just keeping her moving through the water. At 4 a.m. on Sunday, a high topping sea had got up; but the Wanaka was behaving admirably, and showing herself to be a first-rate seaboat, taking comparatively speaking scarcely any water on board. At 6 a.m. the first sea broke’oh board. It was a heavy one, and came over her arUldships, shifting both the quarter-boats out of the chocks, tearing the taurpaulin off the fore and main hatches, and doing some other trifling damage. Monday morning the gale was blowing as fierce as ever, with a high confused sea, and at 10 a.m. another heavy sea found its way on board, smashing in one of the cabin doors, damaging the skylight, and doing sundry other damage on board. At 11 a.m. Cape Palliser bore W.9.W., eight miles off, where the wind was blowing terrific, with a tremendous high sea, and it was impossible to round the cape. Therefore the steamer was put under closereefed mainsail and rnainsUysail, and commenced to head-reach south of east. It this way she drifted twenty - six miles, till at midnight the wind had abated, and she was again put on her course. She rounded Cape Palliser at 1.30 p.m. yesterday, and arrived here as above. During the trip an accident happened to Mr, McGillivray, the chief officer. It appears that on Sunday afternoon when he was attempting to shut the sliding iron alleyway door the vessel gave a heavy lurch, and the door shot across with great force, jamming his side, and bruising it severely. 'The Wanaka will sail South at 1 o’clock this afternoon. The p.s. Charles Edward left for Nelson last night, with a full cargo.

The p.s. Manawatu did not get into harbor from Wanganui till 9 o'clock yesterday morning, after a very rough passage of two and a half days. She left there at 5 p.m. on Saturday last, and crossed the bar at 5.30 p.m. At 7 p.m. a gale set in from the west, and gradually hauled round to the N.W., increasing in violence till it blew a regular sneezer, coming down in very heavy squalls. At 9 p.m. the foretrysail was split to pieces, aud then the steamer was put about and a run made for Kapiti, where She auC-ilCrCll ™ Sunday morning, when the passengers were landed and some excellent .shooting Indulged In. At 3.30 p.m. 6h Tilonday the gale seemed to lull, and the steamer was once more headed against the wind and sea. She made favorable progress till Terawiti was reached, when she had to make another backward movement, as the sea running round the cape was simply tremendous. Ohau Bay was her place of shelter this time, and there she remained for the night. Got under way at 5.30 a.m. yesterday, when the wind and sea had gone down. She arrived here as above. She left again at 4 p.m. for Wanganui. The following is the list of officers of H.M.S. Wol-verene;-A. H. Hoskins, commodore ; F. A. Carter, secretary: W. B. Bridge*, commander ; Edward S. Dugdale. Charles W. G. Spring, W. M. Maturin, Geo. E. Richards, lieutenants ; W. J. Symonds, navigating lieutenant: Walter Reid, staff-surgeon ; Alexander Allen, paymaster; William McDowall, chief engineer ; H. E. Marsh, surgeon; Rev. F. L. Warleigh, chaplain; C. W. R. Kitching. lieutenant E.M.L.J., Albert F. Arthur, F. E. E. Brock, sub-lieutenants; Jas. Duff Gordon, assistant paymaster; John Happs, engineer ; John P. Eolleston, Lionel H. St. C. Coion, Ralph J. Euck-Keeue, E. J. Carus-Wilson. Charles MoCrea, Hon. F. C. B. Addington, Selby S. H. B. Ash, F. A. Winter, midshipmen ; George E, Parsons, assistant engineer; Charles E. C. Webb, Harcourt W. B. Delafour, assistant clerks; Alexander Barfoot, gunner; Henry Lee. boatswain; Henry Cribb, carpenter. There is nothing of any particular interest to he seen on board the Wolverine more than was described in our columns on Saturday last. She Is one of the old class of vessels, and sails remarkably well, having on her trip out from England with the westerly winds made some excellent running, doing 14 knots per hour. Her rate of travelling with steam is U knots, and her engines are on the compound principle, of 1549 h.p. There Is nothing of any novel character in her armament, if we ex; cept a Gatling gun, whicli is situated on the poop. This piece of mechanism is indeed well worthy of inspection. It consists of ten rifled barrels fastened together in a circular shape, and capable of being made to revolve round similar to the chambers of a revolver. A drum containing some hundreds of cartridges is placed over the ends of these barrels, and according as they revolve round one of the cartridges drops into the uppermost barrel, and this continues till the whole of the cartridges in the drum are exhausted. In this manner about 250 sliots can be fired in a minute without the least heating of the gun, and the shifting of the drum which contains the cartridges is so arranged that no cessation in the firing need occur. This piece of ordinance is said to be very effective even at' 1760 yards, and it can be easily handled by one man. By an Ingenious arrangement it is so swerved about that the shot can be scattered in all directions. Owing to the extreme lightness of the gun it can be placed in the boat, and in case of action it can be hoisted to the maintop, a position in which it is said to be invaluable. The Wolverene has two small guns for the boats, a ninepounder and a seven-pounder. She has also a fieldpiece on board. Her broadsides consist of seventeen sixty-four pounder rifled muzzle-loading guns; and of small arms she has a large supply of Martini-Henry rifles and revolvers, &c. A torpedo-room and all the necessary appliances is also another feature in the Wolverene. The total number of men on board her is 340 all told. The marines number 54, the sailors 260, and the remainder consist of officers, etc. It is expected that the Wolverene will go hence to Auckland.

Owing to the late hour In the day the Hawea arrived here, and having a large cargo to put out, her departure tor the North has been postponed till 1 o’clock this afternoon. The Government steamer Hinemoa left for the Manukau yesterday at 5.30 p.m., in charge of Captain Bendall. S eto-k a supplementary English mail. _ As tire Rangatira "id not come off the Slip till yesterday afternoon, she was unable to leave here at her advertised time. She will sail at 1 o’clock this afternoon for Napier. Owing to there not being a sufficient rise in the tide yesterday, the Tui was unable to come off Messrs. Coffey and Dixon's slip. She will probably get off to-day, and leave for Foxton. We (Otago Daily Times) have been favored by Captain Johnson, of the Colonial Government steamer Stella, witli a few Interestings jottings relative to her movements to the Southward. It will he remembered that the Stella went South to convey from the Bluff a quantity-of material for the erection of lighthouses at Centre Island and Puysegur Point. As can he seen by the annexed report, she has almost completed her mission. Captain Johnson’s letter is dated Bluff, April 4th. He says :—“ I have made two trips to Centre Island and two to Puysegur Point, and landed at each place about 60,000 ft. of timber, 12 men. cart horses, food, cement, corrugated iron, bolts, rails, &c., and am now taking in my last load for both places; will leave here to-morrow morning, and'hope to return on Monday or Tuesday, and then hope to leave for Port Chalmers the same day. The cargo Xam now shipping will comprise 25,000 ft, of timber, 9000 bricks, house blocks, cement, lead, &c. The contractors for the erection of the two lighthouses are Messrs. Royal and Birss, of Invercargill, and they expect to complete them by October, and, in that case, the lights will be exhibited soon afterwards. I may state that we incurred no slight risk and trouble in landing the material at Centre Island. The timber had to be formed into rafts alongside a boat fast to an anchor, laid well out. Then the boat was eased away to the edge of the surf, and the rafts hauled one after the other through the surf to the beach, The anchorage off the landing-place is not safe for strangers. I discovered a small sunken rock with only three feel- upon it at low water springs. There were six fathoms water on its outer side, and between it and the land is a four fathom channel. I have surveyed these anchorages. The material for Puysegur Point was landed at Otago’s Retreat, a snug anchorage in fine weather for moderate-sized vessels, but a doubtful security during south-west gales, which blow direct in. The landing place is skirted by rooks, uncovered at low water, and through them a channel is now being constructed by blasting. The channel will greatly lesson the risk to boats landing.’’ This is the substance of Captain Johnson’s communication, and we may add that the Stella left the Bluff on her last trip to Centre Island and Puysegur Point on Thursday, the sth instant.