SHIPPING.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5733, 14 August 1879, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OK WELLINGTON ARRIVED. August 13. — Elizabeth Curle a »jsobooncr, 7G tons, Jolm*t/»n, from Timitru. Master, agent. Wellington, as., 279 tons, Anderson,' from Picton and Nelson. Passengers—Saloon : Messrs. Greenwood. Glddes, and Hooper (2), Gall, Johns (2), Jones, and Morlcy. D. Mills, agent.lllncmoa. Government s.s., 282 tons,' Fairchild, from the Manukau. , ■ , SAILED. ; August 13—Tui, ‘ a s.. f>4*‘ lona/’Holmes, .for Wanganui. Passengers—Cabin: Messrs.' Milton and Chovannes. Pidiop, agent. Kiwi, as., 133 tons, Campbell, for Napier and East (‘oast ports. Passengers—Cabin : Airs. McDonald, Messrs. Francis and McDonald ; 1 in the steerage. Levin arid agents.' Patea, s.«, f 50 tons. Gibbons, for Patca. Passengers- Cabin ; 10, Armed Constabulary. • Turnbuiluml Co,, agents. . ■ ' » ; ’ • ••.•= - CLEARED OCT. Neptune, brig,..2*J3. tons, -Holm, for Newcastle.-* Passengers: Messrs. Smith and Parker. Williams, agent. . Sarah and Mary, ketch, 40 tons, Forman, for Waltara. Ellaby, agent. IMPORTS. Elizabeth Curio : 1000 sacks oats. E. Pearce. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. :* London —lialcione. Rakaia. Zealandia, WaimeA, St. Leonards, and I liames. early. Melbourne via. 11115 South —Tararna,_ 15th; Arawata, 21st. Sydney via East Coast —Rotorua, this day. Sydney direct —Wakatipu, 21st. JfouAiiT>N via the South—Fengain. 21st. Auckland via the East Coast —Ladybird, IGth; Wanaka, 220 d. , , ' : • •/ Manukau. New Plymouth, and Wanganui— Oreti, this day. , Souioi'oin Pouts—Hawca/17th. Kaikouka andLyttelton— Huia. 15Ul Wanganui —Manawatu, this day; Tui, 15th. Taranaki and Manukau.— Taiaroa, ICth. Nelson and West Coast- -Wallace, this day. Foxton—Stormbird, this day. Picton and Nelson —Wellington, 17th. Blenheim —Lyttelton, 15th. BY IELEGRAPH. AVESTPORT, Wednesday. Sailed: Wanganui, for Wellington, at 7 a.iii. , > , ■ PICTON, Wednesday. Sailed: Wellington, for Wellington, at 11.30 a.m. LYTTELTON, Wednesday. Sailed ; Hula, foe Kaikoara ; Laurel, for Wellington. The New Zealand Shipping Company have advices of the arrival at London from Lyttelton of the ships, Plako, Marcoil, City of Quebec, and another. All well. ' The Owako, 30 days from Manukau to Dunedin, * put in' for repairs to her rudder, and also for provisions, to enable her to proceed bn her voyage.,

The following vessels were in port last niaht: — 11.M.5. Emerald.- Steamers—Raugatira, Stella, Jane Douglas, Wellington, and Grafton., Ships—Pleione and Pareora. Uarques-Chaudiere, Beemah, Loch Cree, Anstrallnd, and Western Belle. Brig—Neptune. The Union Company’s steamer Wellington left Nelson at 10.30. a.m. yesterday ; sailed again at noon, and arrived here at 0 o'clock'last night. . Experienced ; southerly wind/ with heavy sea, across the Strait. She returns to the same ports at 4 p,m. to-morrow; " j Tlio Government steamer.Hin.emoa left the Manukau at 1.20 p.m. on Tuesday, and arrived in harbor at 10 o'clock last night; The schooner.-Elizabeth Curie, with a cargo- of colonial produce, arrived in harbor yesterday morning at 8 o’clock, after a passage of 30 hours from T 1 maru. The steamer Jane Douglas will not leave forEoxton till 2 p m. to-d,ay. The steamer Stonnblrd will arrive hero at an early hour this morning from Eoxton. , She sails for Wanganui at 2 o'clock this afternoon. The steamer Tui got away for Wanganui at IQ o’clock last night., ' ’

The steamer Kiwi sailed for Castlopointand Napier at 4.30 yesterday evening’. . .

ThestPimer Patea, with-a detachment of Armed Constabulary, left for Patea at 10 a m yesterday. The brig Neptune cl eared’at the Customs yesterday, and will sail for Newcastle to-day. The Union Company’s steamer Rotorua will arrive hero this morning from .Sydney via the East Coast. The following from The. -Marine Engineering News will bo of interest to nautical readers :—“ Two recently invented instruments for taking soundings at sea, while exhibiting groat skill and ingenuity in their Inventors, will materially add to the safety both of ships and seamen/: One of' them 1< Dr.-’ Siemen's bathometer. It is constructed with reforencei.to the. fact that the total gravitation of the earth diminishes In passing over the surface of the ocean in the exact proportion of the depth of the sea to the radius of the earth. By its means the captain sitting in his cabin can tell to a nearness the average depth of the waters over which he is sailing ns easily as he can tell the pressure of the atmosphere by his barometer ; and by h reference to his'charts ho may also learn his position when no direct observation can bo made! Thoother instruments are founded ou chemical science-,, and by it Sir William Thompson enables the navigator to obtain accurate soundings from a ship running, at full speed in water of a-depth not Ofathoms. When the sinker reache* the ground, no matter what length of line may have been paid out, the alteration of color in a tube lined with chromate of silver shows how far the pressure of the superincumbent water has forced up the water in the tube. With these two instruments, either in the open ocean or oft the more dangerous shore, the seaman may no*7 - proceed on his voyage with the utmost confidence *

TEN YEARS’ SHIPPING DIS ASTER ; m TTIR AUSTRALIAN TRAD^ A retrospective search taken thro' a „ h ' a ser !e3 ot ten years, from ISM to 1378 Inoluslv e discloses the.fact that a vast fleet of merchant; trading between the United Kingdom and „ co i on ies, has in various ways been destroyed, r the S. M. Herald ot a recent date. But by the comparison of a,faithfully ♦k m ?ninnin^° o f l ll> se' losses en route to and from l , V l lp ’ i'V south Australia. Queensland, ■ ■' Zealand, this colony will he found to conic out most t Jr iiii an tly. • Compared with Victof.inV .n.lttf... a a happy immunity from heavy ship- • During the ton years mentioned, 13GS amps sauea f rom t | le United .King lom for Melbourne: nna or in jse twenty were lost in various ways ; but them—namely, the Victoria Tower, Sussex, in-iiiar i Geltwood, and Loch Ajrd, found their last \ e sting-place in Bass Strait, thin testifying to the K rr .at danger English ships run in approaching Hobson’s Bay as compared with their approach to Port Jackson. It may bo argued that the Sydney-bound fleet run the same danger, inasmuch as they largely use the Straits route. So they do.-but when thewind is foul •or weather dirty, Sydyey-bound clippers invariably keep away to the southward of Tasmania, which by' the percentage of losses is found to be a * much safer course than the one we have drawn attention to. During the period mentioned 105 U ships left England for Sydney, and only eight of them were lost, two in Baas’ Straits and ” two on onr own coast.’ It thus appears that notwithstanding the increased distance to be traversed this is more than counterbalanced by our geographical , advantage in possessing one of the best, seaboards im j the world and a fine bold entrance to oiir harbor: When wo consider that very soon our coast, botlh northward and southward, will be lit like a street)-, j with lamps, the now low average of losses is likely ;to j be still further minimised. The homeward-bound list comprises the'departure of 785. ships from Mel. bourne for London : out of these Victoria lost on)* three of thorn. But this colony is again more fort- d*. nato, for out of 461 sailing for Europe only oqe • ' _ lost—the Strathriaver,-supposed to have founder* on the coast, her headboard having, been picke'j un at Jervis Bay. The maximum rate.of losses- r.-e- 3 ts with Queensland ships on the homeward ro r 4 te— oVit of 148 ship three were loiit, bFat the rati*. 0 f two . per cent .Sydney comes out with the lowes* average V.f *'99W centum. .-averu*, ,viz., zzper

The summary of {rom the Unite d Kingdom un o -517° vp ( .'!.n ?S ' p rud vice versa. brir ‘ga thejtotal of which 33 have be en wrecked,' on P. or six burnt at sea. five sunk in cblUnr tile VaOh™ ,ssing—racking a total of .00 .vessels. 1 1 plow wo ar ' -fully compiled record of losses given terv tn”u a 0 indebted to Mr. A. IV. Cleveland, secreThfi t- 10 Shipping and Underwriters’Association, 00-o’ 1 .ikon together with a previously issued list in Jt, , shows that during the last II yoars.the losses of ' ssels outward bound from the United Kingdom to ports in these colonies have been 52 out of C 225 sailings. or -85 per cent, for that period; and that the homeward voyages,'during the same number ot years, give 23 losses out of 37M sailings, or ”76 per cent. Comparing individual years with' respect to voyages both outward and homeward, wo find that in 1809 and 1371 the losses amounted tol'GO and 1-2'of the sailings : there has been a decrease in the annual number (with one slight exception in 1575) since 1871. The casualties last year amounted to only 'sl of the vessels afloat on the voyages under consideration', ' Should the present low average of Sydney losses be malr,: tained. the question of a reduction of insurance ra [e3 in favor ot Sydney may reasonably be looked f(' jr no distant date. : . ' ; .; :