SHIPPING.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5329, 26 April 1878, Page 4

SHIPPING.

irUlvl Ur WJfiLiLilPiuxuri. AUKIYJSD. April 25. —Tnrfinaki. a.s., 327 tons, Malcolm, from Mauukau, New Plymouth, and Nelson. Passengers— Saloon ; Misses Carrington, Brown, Cottingliam, Mcsrlames Nathan servant and child, Whitcombe servant and family, Messrs. Firth, Wittkowski, Mills, Whitcombe. Boyce, Cox, Paul, Nathan, Knowles, and Knight; 8 steerage ; 9 for South. Levin and Co., agents. Lyttelton, p.s., SO tons, Scott, from Blenheim. Passengers—Cabin: Messrs. Ilatwood, Wanslely, Knocks ; 2 steerage. Deacon, agent. SAILED. April 25.—Manawatu, p.s., 103 tons. Harvey, for Wanganui. Passengers—Cabin: Miss Duffy, Messrs, McLeod, Fox, Sommers, Orosholz, Legg. Plimmer, agent, Wanaka, s.h., 278 tons, McGlllivray, for Auckland ■via East Coast ports. Passengers— Saloon : Misses Downes and Harris. Mesdamcs Henderson, Baker, and Healey, Messrs. Williams, Henderson, Jay, Wild, and liaise. Levin and Co, agents. Taranaki, s.s., 327 tuns. McGillivray, for Lyttelton and Port Chalmers, Passengers—Saloon : Mrs. Dent and family, Messrs. Deuniston, Levy, and Bishop. Levin and Co., agents. K r onia, brigantine, 192 tons. Chandler, for Guam, blaster, agent. iiobin Hood, brig, 297 tons, Paton, for Newcastle. Williams, agent. IMPORTS. Taranaki, from Mannkau; 11 pkgs, 2 cases. Order; 1 case. Young ; 2 sacks oysters. Curtis. From Nelson; 10 casks lime. Hirst and Co; I t cases fruit, Gandy. EXPORTS. Manawatu, for Wanganui: 1 keg soft soap, 1 do nails, 100 bars iron, II bills do, Turnbull and Co; 94 gunnies, 1 pkg, Levin and Co; 1 case. Plimmer; 50 sacks malt, R. J. Duncan; 1 truss, T. Smith; 2 casks tar, Gas Company: 1 plfg, Gardiner; 0 cases,'l pkg, Thompson. .Shannon, and Co; 25 do, 10 gunnies, Krull and Co: 3 cases, Bethune ami Co; 7 cases. Pilcher; •i pkgs, Lindsay, 2 do, Eddie and Jack; 3 do. 12 tubes, E. AV. Mills; 4 pkgs, Dransfield; 1 box, Caddy, 7 do, Felton, Grirmvade, and Co; lease, Telegraph Department, 1 box, Bennett. , . Wanaka, for Napier: 1 gunny, 5 cases, 10 pkgs. Levin and Co; 17 hills iron, Murray, Common, and Co; 1 case, 1 pkg, Thompson, Shannon, and Co. For Gisborne: 1 truss, A. P. Stuart: 1 keg, 1 case, Dawson. For Auckland : 3 pkgs, Levin and Co: 1 case, Kohn; 40 do. Gear; 1 box, Bishop;’:l;lcase, Railway Department. Taranaki, for Lyttelton : 2trunks, Lindsay; 2 boxes, Nicholson; 35 poles, Telegraph Departments trasses. Hirst; 1 horse, Wheeler; 2 cases, Thompson, Shannon, and Co. For Dunedin ; 2 bales, 1 truss. Hirst; 4 kegs, 2 casks. N.Z.S. Co; 1 case, Heaton; 1 do. Railway Department. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. London,— Leucadia, Canmore, Craigie Lea, Craigimilleu, Pleionc, and Frith of Forth, early. New York, via Dunedin. —Sophia R. Luhr, early; G. M. Tucker, early. New York.—Star, early. Clarence River.— Darcy Pratt, early. Singapore.—May, early. Southern Ports. —Taiaroa, this day. Melrouune. via the West Coast.— Albion, this day. Auckland via East Coast.—Taupo, 20th, Melbourne and Houarton, via the South.— Tamms, 27tb. Auckland.-Chasca, early, PROJECTED DEPARTURES. London.— Rialto and Carnatic, early. Waiter and Poverty Bay.—Rangatira, 30th. Pxcton AND Nelson.— Wellington, 20th. Southern Pohth —Taupo, 20th. Auckland, via the East Coast.—Hawea, Ist. Melbourne, via theAVesiCoast.—Tararua, 27th Nelson and West Coast Ports, -Charles Edward. ovrly. Wanoanui.—Stormbird, 27th. Northern Ports. —Taiaroa, this day. Buxton, —Jane Douglas, 20th, Blenheim.— Napier, this day. Castlepoint and Napier. —Kiwi, 20th. Sydney and Newcastle.—liasby, Ist. Melbourne and Hodarton, via the South.— Albion, tills day. Westport, and Grby.mouth.—lnina, 27th. J3F TELEGRAPH. PORT CHALMERS, Thursday. S ailed : Tararna and Rotorua, Passengers per Rotorua for Wellington—Misses Bnshlen and HopIdnson, Messrs. Williams. Wilson. Nichols, Nead, Acbeso'n, Grey, Rider, Clair.

AUCKLAND, Thursday. Arrived: Restless, brig, and Stag, barque, from Newcastle ; Bengal from Adelaide. Sailed; Taupe at 4 p.m. Passengers for Wellington—Mr. and Mrs. Gibson, Captain and Mrs. Maling, Air and alias McNeil, Hon. Dr. Pollen, Judge Munro, Miss Mallard, Messrs. J. Healey, Stewart, Wilson, and Braithwalto.

KAIPARA, Thursday. .Arrived: Andell from Sydney with 300 tons Sat led: Derwent, brig, and Sarah File for Lyttelton ; Syren for Sydney; Marmion and Vogel, schooners, for Wellington ; Clematis and Lady Don for Wanganui.

LYTTELTON, Thursday. £sSatlki> : Natal Oncen for Sydney; Taiaroa for North at 3.35 n.m. Passengers for Wellington—Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Bond. Mr. and Mrs. Chapel, Mr. and Mrs. Levin. Messrs, Cole, Bradley, Lnxford, Stevenson, and Kemp.—St. Kildafor Wellington. Cleared : Ellora for London, with a cargo of wheat, wool, tallow, and moats, value .€28,000; and 12 passengers.

The time-ball may be used to-day for rating ebronomeleis. A chronometer true on Greenwich time would show 12h. 30min. wlien the ball drops. Any difference will be error, plus or minus, of the chronometer.

The s.s. Taiaroa, from Lyttelton, is expected up hero this morning. She is announced to sail for Nelson, New Plymouth, and the Manukau at 8 o’clock this evening. The s.s. Wanalca sailed for Auckland via the East Toast, taking cargo and passengers, at noon yesterThe Union Company's s.a. Taranaki, Captain Malcolm, arrived here from the Mannkau and intermediate ports at 10.45 a.m. yesterday, with cargo and passengers. .She left Onchnnga wharf at 12.30 p.m. on the 23rd. and arrived off Now Plymouth the following morning at 7 o’clock, strong north-west wind with thich weather having been experienced so far. Left Now Plymouth at 0.30 a.m. same day, and reached Nelson at 11.30 p.m.; got out again on the same tide at 2.30 a.m. yesterday, and arrived here as above stated. Experienced tine weather down from Nelson. The Taranaki sailed for Southern ports at 3.30 p.m. yesterday. The brig Robin Hood sailed for Newcastle yesterday morning in ballast. The n.s. Manawatu sailed for "Wanganui at 10.30 a.m. yesterday, taking a number of passengers and a large general cargo. The brigantine F. W. Tucker came off the Patent Slip on Wednesday, and would have proceeded to sea for Clarence River yesterday, bub one of the hands absented himself from the vessel, and she is therefore delayed till a substitute for him can be found. The brigantine Exonia got under way yesterday afternoon at 3 o’clock, and cleared the havbor bound for Guam. The a.s. Kiwi came round from the Patent »lip yesterday morning, having been launched off it the previous day. She is announced to sail for C'astlepoint and Napier on Monday next. The p.s. Lyttelton arrived here from Blenheim at 8 o’clock last evening. She left Blenheim at 10 a.m. yesterday, crossed the bar at noon, and arrived here as above stated. The Lyttelton will sail again for Blenheim this evening. A NEW STEAMER. Messrs. Webb and Co., the spirited owners of an extondvo sawmill at Pelorus Sound, have determined to procure a steamer for the purpose of towing logs to thoT mill, and also for the purpose of conveyi g passengers, provisions, &c., about the Sound to the manv different stations situated on its banks. The steamer is to be constructed in Wellington, of timber, bv the well-known shipwrights Messrs. Coffey ansi Dixon. She will bo Oft long, 10ft wide, and Gft deep, Her timbers will be composed of hardwood procured from the Sounds, while the planking, decking. Ac., will be of kauri. The engines are to be on the confound principle, and to possess sufficient power to propel tiio vessel at a hist rate of speed. Mr. Edward Seagar, of the Victoria Foundry, has the work of constructing them, and he will no doubt turn them out in a first-class manner. SHIPPING SUMMARY. Since the publication of our last summary for Home very little to chronicle in shipping matters ha* taken place, the present season of the year being gem-rally a slack one, corning as it does at the end of the wool season, and when the arrivals from foreign ports are very few. However, although the arrivals during the past month from Home must bo set down as nil, our trade with the other coastal ports and neighboring colonies has exhibited an unusual activity, and so great has been the influx of arrivals that the wharf lias on many occasions been largely overcrowded. However, the want of proper accommodation for the shipping here will very shortly be remedied, as the contractors for extending the wharf arc pushing on the work most energetically, and in a few months the whole of it will be completed. IMMIOII ATT OS AND KMKJ RATION. Tho approximate arrivals and departures of passengers by sea at tho port of Wellington during the present month are as follows Arrivals: Males, PSU ; females, 241 : children, 57—total, 1200. Departures : Males, 187 ; females, GJ ; children, 18total, 2JB.

The departures for foreign ports dnring the present month have comprised two vessels, viz., the River Leven on the sth April, and Lanarkshire on the 22nd, both in ballast, for San Francisco. They discharged full cargoes hero from Horae in good condition, as Mho have the Benvcnue and Lord of the Isles. The slfp “• iainsborougli i< still in port, having been delayed for n considerable time while a new iron bowsprit was being constructed for her. It is now finished, Jand will be shipped into her without delay. She will go hence to .San Francisco, and is anticipated to leave here on the 30th instant. The other Home ships now in port arc the Margaret Galbraith, Carnatic, and Itialto. The two latter are loading with wool, &0., for London, but as it is now the fag end of t Jig season they are but slowly filling up, The Carnatic will be ready to sail in the first week in May, and the Rialto not many days after her. The Margaret Galbraith v/ill follow the Rialto, but it will bo some considerable time before she will leave here. Of the vessels now duo in port , from London the Lcucadin ought to be first, being now 102 days out: and the Canraorc should not bo many days behind her. The barque Sophia R. Luhrs arrived at Dunedin from New York ou the oth in- 1., and is expected here 'shortly, Shelias 000 tons Yankee notions on board for this port. She is to be followed by the brig Star, which loft New York for here during February. INTERCOLONIAL. The Union Company's lirsfc-class fleet of steamers continue to perform the coastal service excellently both to the satisfaction of merchants and the travelling public. The Taupo, Hawea, and Wanaka are confined to the East Coast trade, while the Taranaki and Taiaroa, when they come to Wellington, go up the West Coast, making the Manukau their terminus. The steamers which go up the East Coast call at, the Bay of Islands, where they ship a large quantity of coal at a very cheap rate, and which is nearly sufficient to last them the whole trip round. The Wakatipu up communication regularly onco a month Sydney in conjunction with the Rotorua, the latter boat calling in at Auckland and Napier prior to arriving here. Messrs. McMockan, Blackwood, and Co’s, excellent lino of steamers, running between Melbourne, ilobnvton, and New Zealand, perform the service rapidly and elliclehtly. The large steamer Easby plies regularly between Sydney, Newcastle, this, and the Southern porta of the colony, and commands large cargoes aad a fair number of passengers. STATiaTIO.9. During the present month 74 steamers and 30 sailing vessels from the various coastal ports entered at the Customs, representing a combined tonnage of

17,042 tons: and 71 steamers and 29 sailing vessels cleared out during the same period, of a combined carrying capacity of 18,374 tons. There were 24 vessels and 1 steamer entered at the Customs during the present month from Australia, representing a combined tonnage of 2840 tons, and 10 sailing vessels entered out, of 4245 tons.