SHIPPING.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5263, 5 February 1878, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OF WELLINGTON. ARRIVED. February 4.— Ta'n’O, s.s., 461 tons. Carry, from - Auckland via tbo East Coast. Passengors-feaU on . Dr. and Mrs. Gibbs, Mesdumos Bnsscndon and (> children, Papi, and Robinson, Hisses Parsons and Wither, Messrs. Martin, Crawfcrd Diincan, ■RnrVp Ackers. Rnchd, Jones, Williams, Salmon. ■Tittle* Nation Griffiths. Pirie, Vercal, Simpson (a), Callirher Adams Young. Mason, Fauldena. Francis, Donafd. Robinson'. Brown, Luxford, Scott. Cameron, Austin, Leonard. Evans. Hall, anil Wadsworth; 7 steerage ; 42 for South. Levin and CO Tore e ”ste»m yacht, Redwood, from Blenheim. . SAILED. , February 4.—Tararan, a.s . 663 tons, Sinclair, for Melbourne via Nelson and the M eat ComL gers—Saloon: For Coast : Mrs. Edwin and thr.. children. Mrs. Budgen and child and servant M Jacobson. For Melbourne ; Miss Allison, Messrs. Morris, Alexander, Wood, and Lord. Bishop agent. Jane Douglas, s.s, 75 tons. Fraser for Foxton and Rangitikei. Passengers—Cabin: Messrs. Roe and Farmer. ' Plimmer, agent. ~, , Kiwi, s.s., 133 tons, Campbell, for East Coast. Levin and ro«, agents. ' ' i m.,,.,, Napier, s.s., 48 tons, l‘isk, for Blenheim. Turnbull and Co, agents. .. r Manawatu. p.s., 103 tons. Harvey, for Mangnm . Passengers—Cnbia : Mrs. Macalmder, Miss MilUieU, Messrs. O'Brien and Pain. Plimmer, agent. ■ !: CLEARED OUT. ' _ February 4:—Herald, s hooner, 35tons, McDonald, Tor Manaroa. Thomas, agent.

IMPORTS Taupo, from Auckland : 12 : sacts potatoes, Logan . 3 cases. 18 pkgs, Order: 2 boxes. Railway Department: 1 case. Patterson ; 2 cases, Felton Gnmwade, and Co.; 1 do, Pirie and Co.; 1 do, Marshall. Marion, from Lyttelton; 355 sacks oats, 110 do malt. Order. , , •Rangatira, from Napier: 2 pels, Gordon and Catch. 1 box Lemon*: 4 cases, Lvon and Blair; oO sacks maize, Drausfield and Co.; 9 empty tanks Axup. Napier, from Blenheim: S bales wool, N.Z.L. Co.; 60 bags p-ass seed, Taylor. , ' Jane Douglas, from Foxton ; 10<4ffc. sawn timoer, Greenfield and Stewart; 11 hlids staples; 1 do. Pascoe ; 8 do. Mace and Arkoll; 1 bale wool. Murray, Common, and Co. ■ , , , n Kennedy, from Kelson: 14 packages, 1 pel 4. bales wool, 51 bales flax. Deacon ; 4 kegs beet. Barber . 2 bales wool, Turnbull and Co.; 11 cases fruit, Marshall ; 20 do do. Beauchamp, Campbell, and Co. : -- do do, Dunning ; 20 sacks lime. Scott. Lyttelton, from Blenheim : 150 bales wool, 4 eases tallow, 1 cask do. 17 bales flax, D *acon. Marmion, from Kaipara; 60,600 ft. sawn kauri iimber, Pearce. , . Kiwi, from Napier; 167 bales wool. Order. Manawatu, from Wanganui: 11 bales wool. Order, Tararan. from Melbourne: 2 bales, Turnbull and Co.; 1. do,Nathan and Co.; 2 do. Thompson Shannon and Co.; 3 cases. Stuart and Co.; 2 do, Kirckaldxe and Staius: 4 do. Thompson, Shannon, and Co.: - cases, 1 bale, 1 pci, Whfttem. Nicholson, and Co ; 20 pkgs tea, Jamieson and Co.; 11 cases oil. Mills . - cases iron. 4 pieces stone.T pkg marb.e, Helyer; 1 three-quarter boxes lea, 10 cases . schnapps, Zohnb. .Knocker.’ and Co,; 2. cases tobacco. 1 do cigars. W. Jamieson and Co.; 2 cases cigars, Dransfield : i qrtierces tobacco, 1' pkg cigars T. and W Y oung ; L case cigars, Davis and Co.; Tdo do, Bannatyne and Co.; 4 do, Dransfleld; 6 pkgs tobacco, Zobrab, Knocker, and Co.; 22 pkgs sugar. Nathan and Co.: 40 cases acid. 40 bags rice. Turnbull and Co ; S- cases fruit. Marshall, 1 case, Pirie ; 3 do, Union Bank of Australia: 5 qr-tierces tobacco. 5 cases cigars, h-ruil and Co.: 24 pkgs machinery, 2 cases iron pans. - pels, Kitchen and Sons; 13 lengths spouting, 2 bundles. Mills; 25 cases, Turnbull and Co.; 1 pci, Jackson ; 1 do. Secretary of Customs; 1 do, 'Wood; 1 do. Frefchey; 3. box, Pearce; 1 pkg. Bend; 1 do. Palmer: 1 do. Bannatyne and Co.; 1 do. Christie; 1 case. Booker: 13 do. Mills ; 1 do. New Zealand Times to : 1 do,'Elb°cK. 1 bag. Dank's and Son ; 1 bdl oars. Hayes; 1 parcel. if'airarnpa Standard', 2 pkgs. Poi 'trig Bay Herald ; 1 do. Levin and Co. From H’-barton: 1 pci. '*'•ilson . 1 box, Davis. From South : 5 hhda beer, Eddie and Jack ; 3 boxes. Ton Wee: 3 packages, Turnbull and Co.; 1 case. Mason ; 1 do, Dempsey? 1 do, Healey and Sons ; 2 pkgs, ETarbW. EXPORTS. Kiwi, for Napier: z* cases. 3 trunks, 4 bales. Levin and Co.; 5 pkgs, Heaton; 50 mats sugar, Thomas; 80 bags. 4 bales..2 cases. Murray, Common, and Co.;- 20 cases, Griffiths. For toast: 274 pkgs, shippers’names not mentioned in manifest, Jane Douglas, for Foxton : 30 pkgs, Kitchen and Sons; 22 do. Krull and Co ; C do, Taylor! 50 do, Dawson: 1 do. Thompson. Shannon, ami C0.;.-l case, Johnston; 22 pkgs. Dawson; 1 keg. Young; 24 , pkgs, Nathan.' For Rangitikei: 50 pkgs. Levin and Co. Napier, for Blenheim: 1 roll lead. Mills; 10 casks ale, 2 cases pickles. Levin and Co.; 1 case biscuits, 10tons coal, Griffith?. . - - „ - Manawatu, for Wanganui; 11 coils rope, I,case galvanised iron, 10 three-qr-tierces tobacco. 3 cases, 1 j)d. Bishop; 17 cases, Levin and Co,; 10 do, Pilcher; •6 pkgs, Jacob Joseph and Cf>:;-9tanks, Plimmer; 2 cases, Bannatyne; 20 pkgs, Bethnne; and Hunter; 1 do, Easby; 2 do, Dawson; 32 do, Krull and Co.; 9 do, Thompson, Shannon, and Co.; 96 .do,.Turnbull and Co.; 6 cases, "Johnston■ and Co.; 9 boxes, 11-pkgs. Levin and Co.: 35 do, Dawson; 1 pci. Lyon and Blair; *SO pkgs, Zohrab; 2 do, A. P. Stuart; 2.d0, Thompson, Shannon, and Co, EXPECTED ARRIVALS. London. —Renfrewshire, Gainsborough, Benvenuo, and Margaret Galbraith, early. Melbourne. —Malay, early. * ’ „ Nrw York via Lyttelton*. —Lorinda Borstoll and Carlotta’A. Littlefield, early New York, via R. Stanhope, sarly\ S”. CbARENOis RivEß. —Mary Grant and Darcy Pratt, ariy, Glasgow.—-River Leven, early. Southern Ports - Taranaki, *7th. Northern Ports. —Taiaroa v ßth. _ Melbourne via the South.— Arawata, <tn. PROJF.CTED DEPARTURES. London.—St. * Leonards 6th February; Hurunui In and West Coast Ports.- Kennedy, this Poverty Bay, Tauranoa, and Auckland. —Hawea, 7 th. . . Napier and Poverty Bay.— Rangatira, this day. Foxton.— Jane Douglas, Bth. Blenheim*. —Napier. 6th. F Melbourne; via the South.— Arawata, loth. N.»KriiK.»iN Iv»RT9.- Taranaki. Bth. Picton and Nelson. —Wellington, this day. Southern Ports.—Taupo, this day. Nelson.—Arawata, 7th,

BT TELEGRAPH. AUCKLAND, Monclvy, Sailed : Hawea. Passengers for Wellington—Airs, Fitzherbert and child. Misses Ada Ward and Welsh; Per. Mr. Welsh, Messrs. Mendelsohn, Shrimski, and Pitzherbert. NELSON. Monday. Sailed ; Wellington, for Picton and Wellington ab 11 fi.m. Passengers—TUlss Cohnor. Mrs. Burt and •child Messrs. Hunter. Brown. Laine, Lipseoinbo, lusty, Fulton. Blrkett. Black. Allan. MymOnd, Warren, Gayhill, JlcGee. Naylor, Crewaden. ENGLISH SHIPPING. The Underwriters’ Association report from Melbourne under date Singapore, January 21, that the Brisbane arrived from Sydney on January I.—The Eastern Chief sailed for Western Australia on the 7th, and Brisbane for Sydney on the 10th.—Tile Albyn’s Isle and Zebra, : for Melbourne, sailed from Manilla on the 12th December. The Wellington, from Picton and Nelson, will arrive here this, morning. She will return to the same ports this afternoon. . . „ , The St. Leonards is now a full ship, all the wool for her being alongside, and the fine ship Kialto has already commenced to take in, no less than between 300 and 400 bales having been-signed for at her agents (Mews. Levin and Co.’s) office yesterday. Captain McDonald, late of the barque Carlota, has purchased a half-share in the schooner Herald, and. will lake charge of her. She cleared out for Manama yesterday, and expected to get away early this morning, _ , , , The steam-yacht Torca came over from Blenheim yesterday morning in charge of her owner. Mr. P.edwood, to receive an overhaul to her machinery, and also to have he! deck raised. Messrs, Scager and Co., the owners of the s.s. Till, intend shortly to call for tenders for the construction of a new steamer for the coastal trade. She Is to bo about lif teen feet longer than the Tul, of greater power amlsoecd, and of stronger and heavier build. Tim following steamers sailed yesterday;—Tararua, •for Melbourne, via the West Coast, at 5 p.m. ; Manawatn for Wanganui, and Kiwi for East Coast, at C p.m ;’.lane Douglas, for Foxton and llangitikel at 7.30 p.m.; and Napier, for Blenheim, at midnight. They ail took cargo and passengers. _ The departure of the Kangatire for Napier and Poverty Bay lias been postponed till this afternoon at 4 o'clock. , The s 8. Taupo, from Auckland, via the East coast, arrived in harbor at 8.15 a m. yesterday. She left Auckland on the 31st ultimo., touched at Tauranga and Gisborne, and reached Napier on the 3rd at 5.30 a in ■ sailed at 11.30 a.m. same day, and arrived hero ns above stated. The Taupo will sail for South tins afternoon. . , , The Sydney Mornirvj Heratd says:—We are informed by Messrs. Gilchrist, Watt,and Co. thatarrangements havo been made, by which a regular monthly servico will bo established between England and Australia, the Orient Line of steamers, Messrs. Anderson, Anderson, and t'd., of London, having joined with the Messrs. Green in instituting this new service. Th« Victorian Government, it will be some short time ago authorised their AgentGeneral to advertise for tenders for a steam service by way of the Capo of Good . Hope, and tho new arrangements now referred to are tho result. The Orient Line boats, .bettor known hero ns the Pacilic A N. Company’s steamers, have already made a name for themselves fn connection with tho Australian trade, represented as they have been by the Lusitania, Chimborazo, and. Cuzco. . The .firstnamed vessel accomplished a great feat In. the way of ocean steam navigation by making the ran between Plymouth and Melbourne in 40 days and (I hours, including detention. The Cuzco did the trip in almost as short a tirno. Tho remarkable regularity with, which steamships now perform the passage between tlie two countries ha* been watched with interest, and, it may bo added, satisfaction, by all classes. There are to be five steamers employed on the new monthly service via the Cape, namely,, the. Lusitania, 3825 tons; tho Chimborazo, 3347 tons; the Cuzco, 3845 tons ■ tho Garonne, 3871 tons; and the Aconcagua, 4UiO tons, Tho length, beam, and depth of these Steamers are pretty much .the same. In .each; the. length ranging from (Lusitania) 380 feet to (Aeon; r f .(>t tho beam being a little over 41 feet in e■teh instance Four of the boats were bui t in j(j7l" the other (Aconcagua) in 1872. - They are, therefore’ not only large but comparatively new vessels, aml’tlioir regular visits to the Australian ports, ami ||<-11 nil voyages they will doubtless make, cannot but ,'ive "eoeral satisfaction to the colonies. The I dates of sailing will, wo understand, be shortly announced.

The following is an extract from the diary of Captain Owens, of tbe Lady Penrbyn, widcli will less prove interesting. Sbc arrived in Sydney from Liverpool on tbeOtb ult.;—“Sunday, 13tbNovember: 1877—We have bad some dirty weather since the 13th, with strong northerly, winds, which prevented any observations being taken. -. This morning at daylight we were close 5o Tristan tl’Acunba Island, where a boat camo off to us, the weather being fine, and tbo wind from the, westward. We procured from the islanders some potatoes,- milk, eggs, a couple of sheep, geeso, and fowls. The sheep were “small, weighing only 33ibs. when killed and dressed. the geeso and fowls were in pretty tolerable condition. The islanders wove v«ry friendly and accommodating, but had an eye to the main chance in the way of trading, and said they were much in want of small stores, such as t a codec, sugar, &c., especially! flour, of which they paid there was not a pound on the island. The whole population consists of lo families, numbering altogether 97 individuals: There is, it appears, no settled government amongst them ; mu a kind of deference seems to -be paid to the oldest inhabitant, Mr. Peter Green, a man of about seventy years phi. who was in the boat to-day. they always come out to any ship that passe* here within a reasonable d stance (say four or live miles) if tmMVo Uiiei is line, and are always glad to exchange their sheep, fowls, potatoes. Ac., for slop clothes and anv small stores that can be spared on board, of which they seem always in want.”

NAUTICAL ITEMS. (Fiom the Otago Daily Tunes.) Now Channel Signal Station.—lt has been proposed by Lloyds, with t e concurrence of the Admiralty, Trinity House, and Board of Trade, to. cstabl.su a signal station at the Eddystone Lighthouse. , General Average.—Meetings of steamship owners and insurance companies have been hold in London, Liverpool, and Hull, on the subject of the law of General Avenge, .and it is intended to convene a public meeting as soon as Lloyds are ready with their Lloyd’s Register of British and Foreign Shipping. The comm'ttee of the above society have p-.ssed resolutions in regard to the classing of snips built of steel, among which are the following;—ln all cases where it is proposed to build ships of steel for classification in the registry book, a sketch of midship section, with longitudinal plans showing the details of the scantlings and arrangements, must In the first place be submitted for the approval of the committee, and the vessel so approved must be built under special survey.. Ine steeLto be used in ships building for classification in the register book, will be required to stand the following tests r—Strips cut lengthwise or crosswise of the plate, and also angle and bulb steel, to have an ultimate tensile strength ®f not less than 2G,and not exceeding 30 tons per square inch of section, with an elongation of 20 per cent, before fracture. Strips cut from the plate, angle or bulb steel to be heated to a low chcrry-red, and cooled in water of S2 degrees Fahrenheit, must stand bending round a curve oi which tiie diameter is not more than three times the thickness of the plates tested. No reduction will be allowed in the size of rivets from those which would be required by-lho rules for the vessels if built of iron. In other respects the rules for the construction of iron ships will apply equally to ships built of steel. A Paris telegram says’.—German shipowners are pressing their Government to obtain the repeal of sections 23 and 24 of the British Merchant Shipping Act and an authoritative explanation by the Board of Trade of its construction of the word ** passage. Seal Fishing.—The fourteen Dundee vessels engaged at the seal fishing this season have captured upwards of 80,000 seals, the value of which is estimated at .256,-150, or £28,540 more than last season. The following international code signals have been allotted by the Registrar-General of Shipping ana Seamen to the schooner Atlantic of Auckland (one of the vessels recently added to Messrs. Guthrie and Larnach’s fleet):—SßFT. The many friends of Captain Malcolm, late of Messrs. P. Henderson and Co.’s ship Wild Deer, will be glad to learn that he has recently been appointed to the command of a fine new barque called the Len’ox. intended’for the Bombay trade. She was launched at tbe yards of Messrs, poble and Co., of Govan Glasgow, on the 10th of November, and tneasur s about 1200 tons. She was built to the order of Messrs J. and R, Young and Co- to the highest class in Lloyds’ Register. Wo wish our old friend. Captain Malcolm, a prosperous career in the Lennox.