SHIPPING.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5734, 15 August 1879, Page 4

SHIPPING.

’ POUT OK WELLINGTON ARRIVED.

August 14- —Stormbirfl, 8.5., CD tons, Doilc, from ■\Vanj?;mui. Passengers—Cabin : Mrs, .Symons ami daughter, and .Mr. Turnbull; 0 in the steerage. Martin, agent. Rotorua, s.s,, 57C tons, Tozer, from Sydney via Auckland and East Coast ports. Passengers— Saloon: Mrs. Plckersgill, Messrs. I>e Lias, Birch, Armstrong, Watson, Mailman, Cobham, Janagher, Burns, jock, Pickcrsglll, and detective and prisoner. I>. Mills, agent, Wanganui, n.s., 170 tons, Bayldon. from Westport. Turnbull and Co., agents. Jfnia, b.s., 00 tons. Wills, from Kaikoura and Lyttelton. Passengers Cabin : Misses Glover and Close, Messrs. Close, Moeller. Spicer, Hebitson. Hanson, Stowe, Clarke, Campbell, McCallsb, and Maxtou; 6 in the steerage. Bishop, agent. Oreti. 117 tons, McArthur, for Manukau and intermediate ports. Turnbull and Co., agents. SAILED. Auoi’ST 14.—Neptune, brig, 200 tons. Holm, for Newcastle. Passengers: Messrs. Smith and Parker. Williams, agent. _ . Sarah and Mary, ketch, 40 tons, Forman, for Waltara. Ellaby. agent. IMPORTS. Glimpse, from Timaru ; 335 sacks oats, 20 do flour, 27 bags chaff, Johnston and Co. •Storrablrd, from Foxton : 20 pigs. Barber; 4 pkgs, W. W. Taylor ; C casks tallow, NZL and M A Co ; 4000 feet timber. Nicholson ; 13 empty hhds. Pascoe ; S pigs. Woods and Crosbie ; 1 pkg. Bonthorne. Wellington, from Picton and Nelson: 5 cases herrings Willis ; 5 do. Order ; 2 cases arm«. Government Storekeeper ; 1 pci. Order; 1 case, 11. Master : 3 do, Grilliths ; 12 cases eggs, 3do butter, Gandy; 25 bags malt, Pilcher; 6 axleanns. Mills; 50 sacks malt, McCarthy. Rotorua. from Sydney: 1 case boots. Hickman ; 1 case, E. W. Mills; 2 qr-casks colonial wine, McNamara ; 2 cases, Meares : G cases books ; 2 do. Watt; 1 do, 1 ’pci, Green; 1 bdl, Mantell; 157 cases fruit, Lnery and Campbell ; 1 pci, Holliday ; 1 case fruit. Young ; 01 gunnies, 230 mats sugar, Bannatyne ; 810 mats sugar, Levin ; 4 trunks boots, Stowe ; 1 case plants, Travers : 1 case. Sommers ; 1 case, 9 qr-chests, 4 bdls, 8 boxes tea, D. Mills. From Auckland ; 1 pci, McKellar; 7 bales paper. Curie and Anderson ; 1 pci. Bank o' Australasia: 1 case. 1 bag. New Zealand Drug Co * 8 coils rope. E. W. Mills ; 22 cases oranges, Barlow? 1 pci. Dr Hector ; 1 case. Survey Department; 40 cases oranges, Cato. From Napier; 1 box. Dr Lemon. EXPECTED ARRIVALS, x.os- DOS —Halciono, Rakaia, Zeaiandia, Waimea, St. Leonards, and Thames, early. Mki.uoornjs via the South—Tararua, this day; Arawata, 21st. Sydney direct—Wakatipu, 21st. Hduarton VIA the SouiH—Penguin. 21st. Auckland via the East Coast—Ladybird, 16th. SouriiwuH Ports—Hawea, 17th. Kaikoura and Lyttelton—Huia, this day. Wanoan or—Manawatu, this day ; Tui, this day. Taranaki and Manukau.—Taiaroa, 10th. Nelson and West Co.st- -Wallace, this day. Picton and Nelson —Wellington, 17th. Blenheim—Lyttelton, 15lh ; Napier, this day. Pa tea— Patea. this day, BY TELEGRAPH. WANGANUI, Thursday. Sailed : Oreti, at 0 a.m„ for Wellington. CASTLEPOINT, Thursday. Arrived : Kiwi, at 9 a.m., from Wo'lingtou. Sailed : Kiwi, at 10.30 a.m , for Napier. KAIKOURA, Thursday. Sailed : Hula, at 12.30 p.m., for Wellington. LYTTELTON, Thursday. Sailed : Tararua, for Wellington. Passengers— Misses Thomas, Morrah, and Lee. Messrs. Henderson, Sharp, Brown, Twentyman, Gillies, and Cassells, The time-ball may bo used to-day for rating chronometers. A chronometer true on Greenwich time would show 12h. 30min. when the ball drops. Any difference is error, plus or minus, of the chrononieter. . . , . The following vessels were m port last nigut: — HIIS Emerald. Steamers—Kangatira, Stella, Jane Douglas, Wellington, Hinemoa, Rotorua, and Grafton. Ships—Pleione and Pareora Barques— Chaudiero, Becmab, Loch Creo, Australian, ana Western Belle. , The steamer Huia left Lyttelton at 0.30 on Woilnesday, arrived at Kaikoura at. daylight on Thursday, left again at 1 p.m-. and arrived hers at 11 o’clock last’night. She experienced fine weather along the C °Th*o steamer Oreti, from the Manukau and intermediate ports, arrived in harbor at 10 o’clock last night. Stic sails for the same places again at 3 o’clock this afternoon. . Tho steamer Stormbirrt left Foxton on Wednesday evening, and arrived in harbor at half-past 8 yesterday morning. She sails for Wanganui at 2 o’clock this afternoon. The ketch Glimpse, from Timaru with a cargo of colonial produce, arrived hero late on Wednesday night. Tho steamer Manawatn, from Wanganui, should arrive hero this forenoon. She returns to the same port at 2 p.m. to-morrow. The Union Co.’s steamer Tararua is due hero early this morning from Melbourne and Hobarton via •Southern ports. She sails again at 2 p.m. for Sydney via East Coast porta and Auckland. Tho steamer Hangatira did not get away for Wanganui. Taranaki, and Manukau yesterday evening as advertised >he will sail at 12 o’clock to-night. Tho sailing of tho steamer Jane Douglas has been postponed till 2 p.m. to-day. Luring the month of July, 112 vessels, representing an aggregate of 18,939 tons, entered and cleared coastwise at the Customs. The Union Company’s steamer Eotorua left Sydney at 2,15 pm. on tho 2nd instant; arrived at Bay of Islands at 6 a.m. on the 7th ; sailed at 2 p.m. same day, and reached Auckland at 2 a.m. on the Bth; got away again at 4 30 p.m. on the 10th, but on account of a douse fog, brought up under Rangitoto Island until 2 a.m. on tho Hth ; was off Taurauga at 1 p.m., but owing to tho heavy sea. could not communicate with tho shore, and went on to Gisborne, where she arrived at 11 a.m. on the 12th ; left at 4 p.m., and reached Napier at 4 a-m. next day, but was again detained for seven hours by fog; sailed at 2.30 p.m., and arrived in harbor at 3 p.m. yesterday. She experienced fine weather from Sydney to Auckland, thence to Napier moderate weather, and from Napier to arrival strong head wind with heavy sea. The Rotorua leaves at 2 p.m. to-day for Lyttelton and Port Chalmers, The barque G. M. Tucker left Newcastle yesterday, and the Robin Hood will sail to-morrow, for this port. The brigNoptune, which left for Newcastle yesterday morning, was at anchor inside the pinnacle rock when the steamer Wanganui passed last night. The barque Australind will leave for the same port tomorrow, and a good race between the two vessels may be expected. The steamer Wanganui left Westport at 6 a.m. on Wednesday, and arrived here at 8 o’clock last night. Experienced strong south-west wind with very heavy sea through the Strait, tehe was stuck at Westport for three days, in company with tho Murray, unable to get over tho bar on account of the heavy breaking sea. Reports two vessels at anchor off Guard's Bank, one of them suppose I to be the schooner Herald. The Charles Edward crossed the Westport bar same lide as the Wanganui came out. The Wanganui leaves for Southern ports at 5 p m. to-day. The Westport Times of the Bth inst. gives an account of a race between the p.s. Charles Edward and the s.s. Wanganui from Nelson to Westport, in which the latter proved the victor, beating the paddle-boat by aver an hour. The Times says Through having to land the pilot at Nelson, the Wanganui lost some time, an<l the start was gained and kept by the Charles Edward until sundown, when the Wanganui took the lead, and arrived off Westport an hour in advance of her opponent.” NEW STEAMERS FOR THE NEW ZEALAND TRADE. The enterprise of the Union Steamship Company, in keeping pace with and even in advance of the requirements of the coastal and intercolonial trade, has been warmly commended by the Press throughout Australasia. The prompt manner in which the company have supplied the places of tho wrecked steamersTaranakland Taupo, and the building of the magnificent steamships To Anau and Rotomahana —of which descriptions have reached the colony by the Home journals—are examples of their determination to maintain the high position they have attained. Though possessing almost a monopoly, the company show themselves to be aware th it the best way to preserve their privilege* is not to abuse it. The Rotoraahana, of which we publish a description in another column, is on her way out. and may be expected to arrive in this colony about tho end of September, She is to be employed in the Sydney trade during the Exhibition, and will make her first trip early in October. f i he Te Anau will arrive hero about Christmas, and will also bo employed in tho Sydney trade. The Penguin, which the company recently purchased to replace the Taupo, will arrive at Port Chalmers from Hobarton in a few clays, and will at once take up her running on the East Coast in conjunction with the Hawea and Wanaka.. SHIPPING SUMMARY. Since th© publication of our last summary, there lias been very little to chronicle in shipping matters, the past month having been very dull, coming as it does before the wool season sets in, Tho principal trade of the port has been almo t confined to the coastal trade, with tho exception of the Union Company’s vessels, which run regularly to the other colonies A number of sailing craft have had to lie up or go elsewhere for freight, on account of the mills at the Sound having ceased operations. It is generally expected. however, that the duty on timber will shortly bo reimposed, and then tho trade will resume its former activity. The contractors for the Railway whaif arc rapidly pushing on tho work, and when it is finished there will be no lack of accommodation for our shipping. intercolonial. The Union Company's fine fleet of steamers continue to give every satisfa lion is their performance of the coastal service. The Hawea, "Wanaka, and Ladybird are. confined to the East Coast, running from Auckland and intermediate ports to Port Chalmers ; while the Wellington and Taiaroa run alternately between Picton a«»d Nelson and Taranaki and Manukau. There are also a number of smaller steamers, belonging to tho New Zealand Steam Shipping Company and other local owners, engaged in trading to Kaikoura, Lyttelton, Foxton, Wanganui, Manukau, Patea, and E\t Coast. The trade between New Zealand and Melbourne, Sydney, and Hobarton is also carried on by the Union Company.-with a lino of steamers that cannot be ?urpasscd in the Australasian colonics—the Ilingarooma, Arawata. Albion, and Tararua running to Melbourne, tho two latter boats calling at Hobarton ; and the Sydney service by the Wakatipu and Rotorua. FOREIGN. Our arrivals during the past month have comprised two vessels, namely—Shaw, Savill, and Co.’s chartered barque Becmah, which arrived on the 2nd inst., and tho New Zealand Shipping Company’s barque Loch Cree, which arrived on the 9th inst. Both vessels, on discharging their inward cargo, will sail for Portland, Oregon, to load grain for the old country, and may bo ex- cctcd to get away early next month. The Homo vessels now in port arc the ships Pareora and Pleione, which Ijavo both discharged large general .cargoes in good condition. The former is now on the berth for Lendon, and the latter has gone on the Slip for cleaning and painting preparatory to sailing for Newcastle, to load coal for Lyttelton, where she will be laid on as the first wool ship of the season for London. The barque Chaudiere, which came here from Nelson, has about half her cargo on board, and should bo a. full ship ea ly next month, if the wool, Ac., comes briskly to hand.

The ship City of Madras sailed for Portland. Oregon, on the 20th of July, and the barque Western Bello is now in the stream, awaiting a favorable opportunity to sail for tiio same port. The following ships have sailed from do i for this port, namely—The New Zealand Shipu eg Ompany’s Waimca on the 11th of May, Eakaia on to ■ hist of May, lona on the 28th of June, Wairoa on the 23rd of July, and Waipawa loading : Messrs. Shaw, Savill, and Co.'s Halcione on the ISth of May. St, Leonards on the 9th of June, and Zealandia loading. The Ned White, Amelia Boss, and Hawkshope, from New York, and Atlanta, from Boston, with notions, havo sailed for tills port. The schooner May, fromSingaporo, is now overdue; and the barque Alexa, from the same port, may bo expected at the end of next month.