SHIPPING.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5117, 17 August 1877, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OF WELLINGTON. High Watbr.—lo.33 a.m. : 11.11 p.m ARRIVED. # August 16.—Taupo, s.s.. 4GI tons, Evans, from the South. Passengers—Saloon :. M'ss Kirton, Coster, Clarige, Burt, and McCarthy. Levin and Co., agents. _ Manawatu. p.s., 103 tons, Harvey, from Foxton. Passenger—Cabin: Mr. Phillips. Pliiumer, agent. Shepherdess, schooner, 30 tons, Andrews, from Pelorus Sound. Master, agent. • Neptune, brig, 209 tons, Chadwick, from Newcastle. ■Williams, agent. , t . , , Cynthia, schooner, 50 tons, Welsh, from Picton. Greenftold and Stewart, agents. ■ Lyttelton, p.s,, 80 tons, Scott, from Blenheim. Deacon, agent. SAILED. August 10.—Napier, s.a., 48 tons, Fisk, for Blenheim. Passengers—Cabin : Miss Robinson,' Jur. Robinson, Master Johnson. Turnbull and to., agents. CLEARED OUT. August 16.—Herald, schooner, 56 tons, McKay, for Oamaru. Thomas, agent. „ Euby, schooner, 24 tons. Dalton, tor Kaikoura. Bethune ami Hunter, agents. _ . • Kaiiuoa. schooner, 39 tons, Maule, for Pelorus Sound. Mclntyre, agent. IMPORTS. IA special chnnje is matte for consignees' »'»>■<« inserted in this column.} ■ , , „ Napier, from Blenheim: 1 pkg. 22 casks tallow, 17 cases do, 21 halos wool. 200 sacks bran. Shepherdess, from Pelorus Sound ; -1,000:1. sann * Manawatu, from Foxton: 33,2jSft. sawn timber. Lyttelton, from Blenheim : 1 trunk, 4 eases tallow. 4 casks do, 38 bales wool, 8 pkgs bacon, CO sacks potatoes, 86 do oats, 1 keg butter, 2 casks tallow, lo bales Sk Young Dick, from Hobarton: 50 qr-casks vinegar, 650 cases kerosene oil. 095 boxes candles, 850 sacks flour 400 do maize, 200 bags rice, 42S pkgs sugar, 275 bags salt. 237 boxes tea. 40 sacks bark, 35 hf-chests tea, 8 casks whiting. EXPORTS. Herald, for Oamaru; 200 coils wire, 20 tons staples, 140 casks currants, 25 tons coal, -1 sack handles, 20 kegs powder, 78 bars steel, 8 do iron, 10 kegs nails, 11 bdls, 1 pci, 2 cases, 2 pkgs, 1 drill. . Ruby, for Kaikoura: 8 pkgs groceries, 1 case drapery, 1 do stationery, 1 do hardware, 2 trunks boots, 1 hhd ale, 1 case stout. - ~ Napier, for Blenheim; 10 tons coal. 14 gunnies sugar) 10 pkgs, 20 coils wire, 20 pkgs sundries, 12 tons white lead, 2 bars iron, 4 kegs, 1 bale, 8 cases, 2 tranks. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. . London.—OrarifP.G.B.D.j,Zealandia,St.Leonards, and Wairoa. early. _ , „ , , Singapore.—East Lothian (V.K.J.Q.), earlj. New York.—Silas Fish, Herbert Black, early. . South bun Pouts.—Hawea, 22nd. North bun Pout-s.—Taranaki. 20th. Svdsky, via Napier and Auckland. —Botorua, ibis day. „ ..... Melbourne, via West Coast.—Albion, IStb. Dunedin.—Estelle, early „ New York via Fort Chalmers.—Elsinore, early. Melbourne via the South.—Arawata, 21st. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. London.- Primera, this month. Northern Ports.—Hawea, 22nd. Westrort and Grevmouth. —Luna, IStb. Napier. Poverty Bay. Tauranga, and Auckland.—Tanpo, this day. Nelson, Westport, Greymoutd.and Hokitika. —Murray, 18th. ■ Hobarton and Melbox-rne, via the South.— Albion, IStb. „ . , Soutiikrn Pours,-Rotorua, this day. Sydney, via Auckland and East Coast.— Rotorua, 25th. . , ' , , Kaikoura and Lyttelton.—Tui, 21st, Wanganui.—Manawatu, this day. Foxton.—Tui, this day. Blenheim.—Lyttelton, this day. Castlepoint and Napier.—Kiwi, 21st. BY TELEGRAPH. . AUCKLAND, Thursday. Arrived : Mary Ann Annison, Eilerton, and Acadia, from Lyttelton; Adonis, from Brisbane. Sailed ; Mazeppa. for Levuka. •-. LYTTELTON, Thursday. Sailed : Emperor, for Newcastle. : The time ball may he used to-day for rating chronometers. A chronometer true on Greenwich time would show 12h. SOmin. when the ball drops. Any difference is error, plus or minus, of the chronometer. The brig Neptune, from Newcastle, arrived in harbor last evening. She left there on the 4th inst. The schooner Cynthia left Picton on Wednesday last, and had fresh northerly wind with heavy rain across, arriving in port last evening. - She brings a full cargo of timber. . Owing to the large quantity of cargo offering to the p.s. Manawatu, her departure for Wanganui has been postponed till this afternoon. The Union Co.’s s.s. Taupo, from the South, arrived in harbor at 10.30 a.m. yesterday. She left Port Chalmers at 1.30 p.m. on the 14th, and arrived at Lyttelton at 7 a.m. on the 15th; sailed again same day at 5.30 p.m., arriving here as stated above. The Taupo will sail for Auckland, via the East Coast, to-day. . , The schooner Shepherdess, timber-laden, arrived yesterday from Pelorus Sound. The 3.3. Napier sailed for Blenheim at an early honi this morning. The p.s. Lyttelton left Blenheim at C p.m. on Wednesday, crossed the bar at 11 p.m., and arrived here at 10 a.m. yesterday. She will sail again for Blenheim this evening. . ‘ The s.s. Rotorua, from Sydney via Auckland and Napier, will arrive in port this morning. She is announced to sail for the South at 2 o’clock this afternoon. The Agent-General has telegraphed to the Government stating that the ship Mataura had sailed for Napier with 184 immigrants, and the Eangitikel for Canterbury with 277. The p.s. Manawatu arrived in harbor from Foxton at 3.30 a.m. yesterday. She left Foxton at 3.30 p.m. the previous day, and made the Heads at midnight; but in consequence of the very thick weather was detained there several hours. .... Masters of vessels bound to Nelson are warned that the Harbor-master there states that Captain Dillon, of the steamer Wallace, reports the buoy at French Pass, now on the eastern qhore, will be replaced in its proper position as soon as the Stella returns from Cape Maria Van Diemen, where she is now delivering building material for a lighthouse. The trial of a f rpedo vessel, the Lightning, was made in Stokes Bay on May 24, and the mean speed of her six runs was lei knots per honr. She is 84ft. long by 10ft. loin, beam, and is to be armed with the Whitehead torpedo, which will be discharged from her forecastle. This torpedo travels at the rate of 20 knots at any depth from Ift. to 30ft., and cm he set to explode either en striking an object or at any particular distance within 1000 yards. The following formal judgment of the Court appointed to inquire into the loss of the ketch Quiver, was given by W. Donald, Esq., R.M., at the Resident Magistrate’s Court, Lyttelton.—” It appears from the evidence produced before the Court, that if the - Quiver carried any lights, of which there is a great : doubt, they were evidently, from the direction in which the two vessels were heading, shut out from the Taranaki; and although the captain of the Quiver says that he considered himself in danger when the steamer was four miles off, still he took no steps to avoid a collision, either by going about or standing In-shore (there being nothing to prevent his doing so), or by showing a light to Indicate his whereabouts to the Taranaki, until so close that it was impo sible to avoid a collision. Therefore, X, consider that the Quiver was alone to blame for the colli-ion. The allegation of the master and seamen of the Quiver, that the look-ont of the Taranaki was off duty, was unsustained, and on oath contradicted."