SHIPPING.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5680, 13 June 1879, Page 2

SHIPPING.

FORT OF WELLINGTON ARRIVED. Ji;.vij 12.—Thames, ketch, 23 tons, Hamilton, from returns Hoaml. Master, agent. Afqiaria. schooner, 45 tons, Moore, from West Wanganui. Master, agent. Spray, topsail schooner, 50 tons, Buxton, from Greymouth. Master, agent. , , Colleen Lawn. uchooner, 28 tons, Lillybranu, from Otaki. Master, agent. Nanfer, 43 tons, Fisk, from Blenheim, Turn'mll and Co., agents. , _ . Iluhv, s.s., 00 tons, Wills, from Kalkoura and Lyttelton. —Cabin; Miss Little, Messrs, Casio Ch .’tty anil Knowles; 1 steerage. Bishop, agent. SAILED. Jij.vr 12.—Stormbird. « 00 tons, Doile, for Wanganui. Bas’ongors—Cabin ; Captain ft'ul Mrs. Flummery and 4 children, Mr. Sheardon. Martin, agent. Gloria, barque. 705 tons, Lawson, for Oamaru. Turnbull and Co., agents. Pori, ship. 307 tons, Hurst, for San Francisco. Levin and Co, agents. Napier, s 48 tons, Fisk, for Blenheim. Passenger —Cabin : Mr. Gordon Allan. W. and G, Turnbull, agents. IMPORTS. Aspasla. from West Wanganui; 45 tons coal, "West "Wanganui Coal Company. Spray, from Greymouth: 80 tons coal, Waterhouse. Thames, from Belarus Sound; 15,000 feet timber, Compton. Starmbird, from Foxton ; 5 bales wool. Order. BY TJSLUOUAPU. NAPIER, Thursday. AitniVED : Ladybird, from Gisborne, at 7.15 a.m. Sailed : Ladybird, for Wellington, at noon. NEW PLYMOUTH, Thursday. The steamer Wellington arrived this morning at daylight, and left again at 0 o’clock for Nelson and Wellington. Passengers for Wellington—Mr. and Mrs. Crawford, Messrs- Kevoll, McLeod, Mason, Gowheeler, Pardi, and Parkes. LYTTELTON. Thursday. Sailed: Albion, for Wellington, at 4 p.m. Passengers—Mr. and Mrs. Smith and family, Mr. and Mrs. Wallis, Misses Williams and Nichols, Messrs. Williams, Doako, Little, Doughey, Smith, Northcroft (2), Stack, and Skao. PORT CHALMERS, Thursday. Sailed : Poneke, for Wellington. The following vessels were in port last night:— Steamers—Hlncmoa, Stella, Taiaroa, Go-Ahead, Tui, Huia, and Sampson. Barques—Loch Ken, Glendovoy. and Isaac Hall. Brigs—Clematis and Jane. Brigantine—Mary Beverley. The Queen’s wharf is beginning to assume quite a deserted appearance, and for many months the harbor has not boon so bare of shipping as at the present lime. Three home vessels have got away this week, and others will shortly be leaving. On the other hand, however, one or two may bo expected to turn up at almost anytime now, which will make up for the departures. The Merchant Shipping and Underwriters Association reports under dato London, June 10, that the ship Timaru had arrived from Port Chalmers. The steamer Tul does not leave for Wanganui until noon to-day. Tho steamer Albion Is duo hero tins morning from Melbourne via tho South. Tho ship Peri got away with a fair wind out of harbor yesterday morning. She goes to San Francisco. The schooner Aspasia, with a cargo of coal from West Wanganui, arrived in harbor at 7 o'clock yesterday morning. She left there on tho 4th instant, and experienced head winds on tho way up. Tho topiail schooner Spray, from Greymouth, arrived in harbor early yesterday morning. She loft on tho 28th May, and had verysevere weather throughout tho passage. She was at anchor in Guard Bay for several days, and there met tho schooner Swallow, 22 days out from Newcastle to Lyttelton, all well. The schooner Thames, with a cargo of timber from Pelorus Sound, arrived here yesterday morning. The barquo Gloria left for Oamaru yesterday. She loads there for London. The steamer Napier arrived In port at C p.m. last evening, and left again shortly afterwards. She is expected here again this forenoon. Up to midnight there was no appearance of the -lane Douglas, from Kalkoura and Lyttelton. Tho Huia arrived in port shortly after midnight last night. She left Lyttelton at half-past six on Wednesday evening, and experienced lino weather on the trip up. At inquiry was held at TCaikoura last week before Messrs Inglis and Smith, J.P.'s, and Captain Dalton, nautical assessor, relating to the stranding of the schooner Shepherdess. Tho result of the evidence was to the effect that Captain Bllby, her master, was \ in no way to blame for the accident. To the breaking M iho old moorings was attributed the stranding of b'l* vessel. The schooner Shepherdess was sold last week as sire lies stranded at Kalkoura for £l6. Mr. Whittle was -he purchaser, and Captain Dalton superintends tho launching of her. Captains of vessels trading to Kalkoura will no doubt bo pleased to hear that tho moorings in use there ■ nave been condemned at the inquiry hold into the stranding of the schooner Shepherdess. Tho brigantine Enterprise cleared at the Customs yesterday for Hokiunga. The schooner Colleen Bawn arrived in harbor early yesterday morning from Otaki. Since leaving hero ■no hnj been ashore on the bar atOiaki, but fortunately received little or no damage. Tho steamer Ladybird is due hero this morning rom Auckland via tho East Coast, iho ’-rig Jane, which has been laid up for so long a imy. whs making preparations for sea again yesterday, Ve understand that she proceeds to Sydney under i -nnmand of Captain Neilman. On arrival at Sydney ! ; lie will bo offered for sale. A cutter was signalled from Mount Victoria flag‘Lafr at dm* She will probably bo the Lena from 1 1 S Unfl « rwoo< l with another supply of fish. I Iho “ Reports made to the Admiralty on the i Vnchorage, Ac., of tho Island of Cyprus,’’ have just been published. Admiral Hornby states:—“Tho opinion I have been led to form is that a harbormlght ■ bo Ip Died at FamagosU at a small expense-, which ! •vonld shelter more Ironclads than the grand harbor S «t Malta, and where they might coal with went acuity. Captain Harry U. Rawson, of tho Minotaur proposes to make a breakwater for about a mila along •ho shoals. If this wore done 14 ironclads might moor under its shelter outside the live. fathom lino, ■vith a good bottom, and at a distance of one cable •part The grand harbor at Malta affords similar moorings for only nine ironclads, but they are only : • 'ireo-quartors of a cable apart. If the inner harbor l ! • t lamagosta were dredged out, which it appears ifc uiy be, to a depth of 24 foot, a basin of 80 acres would. ■3 Obtained for mercantile purposes." Speaking: c*C he position of tamagoata, Admiral Hornby remark*: I ."a m US J 8^ Hio oyo *of ewry seaman. Situate/1 : .0 miles from the entrance of the Suez Cana®, tV IO 1 • 'aritime powcrwhlch holds it must always conma'nd I iat important highway, while at less than half Ihe 1 . ‘.stance from tho opr jn roadsteads of the Syria* and ! ■•arnmnnlan coasts—Acre, Bcyront. Tripofi, L«tta- - Mbli, Aloxandrcttr*. Ac.,—it would se-m that tho '* ~. o ,° tr *do of those coasts must be drawn to the , only port which can offer this perfect shelter, and i\ w cilities for rapid loading and discharge which moriiant snips require ”