SHIPPING.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5138, 11 September 1877, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OF WELLINGTON. Eton Water. —6.4s a.m.; 9.3A.M. ARRIVED. September 10. —Ruby, schooner, 24 tons, Dalton, from Kalkoura. Bethnne and Hunter, agents. Aurora, schooner, 56 tons, Romeril, from East Coast. Pearce, agent. , Catlin, ketch, 46 tons, Hannah, from the Bluff. Master, agent. ... „ , Kaiuma, schooner, 39 tons, Maule, from Pelorus Sound. Mclntyre and Co., agents. September 11. —Wanaka, s.s., 29t> tons, McGiUiTray, from Northern ports. Passengers—Saloon : Mr. and Mrs. Parker, Mr., Mrs., and Miss Jamieson, Misses Dodson, Anson, Halse (2), and Dive, Dr. Carr, Messrs. Sharp, Graham, Killer, Pigeon, John Ruskln, Jamieson, Cameron, Jobson, Rundle, Dive, and Thatcher. Levin and Co., agents. SAILED. SeptembeblO. —Wakatipu,s.s., 1158 tons, Cameron, for Sydney. -Passengers—Saloon: Mr. and Mrs. Barry, Mr. and Mrs. Corlott, Messrs. Talbot, Petre, .McGuinness, and Lorimor. Levin and Co., agents. Tararua; s.s.', 563'tons, Sinclair, for Melbourne, via the West Coast. Passengers—Saloon: For Melbourne: Mrs. Ticimis and 2 children, Mrs. Reynolds and 2 childcon, Messrs. Atkins, Spry, and Natone. For Coast; Mr. Calcott. Bishop, agent. CLEARED OUT.' September 10. —Exonta, brigantine, 190 tons. Chandler, for Kaipara. Scott, agent. Hannah Barratt, schooner, 57 tons, Renner, for Pelorus Sound. Master, agent. IMPORTS. Ruby, from Kaikouta: 237 sacks potatoes, 27 hams, 25 sides bacon, 2 hides. Stormhird, from Napier: 301 bags salt, 3 boxes. 5 cases, 2 pels, 1 sack. Manawatu, from Wanganui: 0 hhds ales, 120 sheep, 13 hdls skins, 8 sacks. Kiwi, from Flaxbourne: 300 casks tallow, 220 bales wool. Julius Vogel, from Lyttelton and Nayidie Bay: ICO sacks oats, 1 case bacon, 88,000 ft timber. Tararua, from Hobarton: 50 cases fruit, 200 do jam. From Melbourne: 2 horses. From South: 240 bags oats, 21 pcs timber, 2 hhds do, 1 case, 5 do bacon. Tui. from Lyttelton: 100 sacks flour, 8 cases, 6 sacks onions. From Kalkoura; 60 sacks potatoes, 9 bales wool, 3 do skins. EXPORTS. Wakatipu, for Sydney: 16 bales flax, 23 do fungus, 60 kegs butter, 4 casks, 1 pci, 13 casks oil. * Tararua, for Melbourne: 1 bale rabbitskins, 2 cases do do, 20 bdls skins, 7 pkgs do, 2 cases, 4 sacks. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. London. —Orari(P.O.B.D.), Zealandia, St.Leonards, and Wairoa, early. , , New Fork.— Silas Fish, Herbert Black, early. Southern Ports.— Taupo, 12th. Northern Ports.—Hawea, 18th. Melbourne, via West Coast.— Albion, 14th, Honokono.— May, early. Melbourne.— Jane, early. ' Sxdnev, via Napier and Auckland.— Rotorua, 15th. Melbourne, via South.— Arawata, 20th. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Northern Ports.— Taranaki, 14th. Napier, Poverty Bay. Tauuanoa, and Auckland.—Taupo, 14th; Hawea, 26th. Nelson, Westport, Gbeymouth.and Hokitika. —Murray, 12th. Southern Ports.— Wanaka, this day; Rotorua, 15th. „ Melbourne and Hobarton, via the South.— Albion, 14th. Melbourne via the South.— Arawata, 23rd. Foxton.— Tui, this day: Jane Douglas, this day. Auckland.— Elsinore, this day. Wanganui.— Manawatu, this day, Castlepoint and Napier.— Kiwi, this day. * BY TELEGRAPH. • h LYTTELTON, Monday. Sailed : Hopeful for Newcastle.—Spray for Wellington. _ Shaw, Savill, and Cos ship Langstone, from London, is signalled. She passed Deal on the 17th June. The inclement state of the weather yesterday prevented intended shipments by several of the steamers which were to have left yesterday, consequently the departure of the Manawatu for Wanganui, Tui for Foxton, Kiwi for Napier and Castlepoint, and Stormbird for Napier, had to be postponed till to-day. The s.s. Wakatipu sailed for Sydney direct yesterday. She had about 800 tons cargo on board, shipped at this port, Lyttelton, and Port Chalmers. The s.s. Taranaki went round to the Patent Slip yesterday to be cleaned and painted. She will not leave for Picton, Nelson, New Plymouth, and Manakau till Friday next. , „ The ketch Catlin, laden with timber from the Bluff, arrived in port yesterday. She left there on the 3rd Instant. The schooner Kaiuma. with a full cargo of timber from Pelorus Sound, arrived here yesterday morning. The schooner Ruby came up from Kalkoura yesterday. laden with potatoes, hams, &o. The 8.8. Jane Douglas is expected to sail for Foxton to-day. The New Zealand Shipping Company announce that the first wool : ship of the season to be loaded at this port by them will be the Orari She is expected to be despatched in November next. It is announced by the agents that the Zealandia will be the first of Messrs. Shaw, Savill, and Co’s vessels to load here this season. * She will sail in November. , The 8.3. Tararua sailed for Melbourne, via the West Coast, at 5 o’clock yesterday evening. Theschooner Aurora, from her trip on the East Coast, arrived here yesterday. The s.s. Wanaka, with the inward San Francisco mail on board, made the harbor at 1 o'clock this morning. She left the Mannkau at 8 a.m. on the Bth, Taranaki at 7 a.m. on the 9th, Nelson at 10 a.m. on the 10th, Picton same day at 1.30 p.m., and arrived here as above stated. She will go Sonth to-day. An apparently simple and inexpensive solution to the vexed question of how to deal with magnetic attraction on board iron vessels with regard to compasses is mentioned in the South Australian Advertiser of the 21st ultimo, which states:—“ Before the Birmah left England Captain Wilt read ihapaperasuggestion to nullify the local attraction on board iron vessels by means of an earth compass, the simplicity of which is Its chief recommendation. It was affirmed that a complete envelope of earth would so far perfect the attraction of the compass by the abolition or absorption of local magnetism that deviation tables would be unnecessary. The Birmah was fitted with binnacle and standard compasses as usual, both of which varied from to-3 points, according to the position of the ship’s hCad, but before leaving the master furnished himself with sufficient earth to form a circuit round about an ordinary ship compass. To form this half a cask was provided, and being divested of iron hoops the compass was buried deeply in the soil, so that the direction of the needle might be accurately observed. During the voyage the most careful attention has been paid to the compass, and the result has proved the complete efficacy of the plan adopted, and that a compass so fitted is quite as much to be depended on in an iron vessel as though it were in a wooden ship. The experiment was deemed of sufficient importance to attract the attention of Captain Blanche, the adjuster of compasses, who devoted some part of Monday to making experiments, which almost verified the captain’s statements. While alongside the wharf, the standard compass was one and a half points wrong, and the binnacle compass two points out; that on the earth-box was true as the needle to the pole. It is proposed to ask Mr. Todd to devote some little time to an Investigation of the matter,’’