Shipping Intelligence.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 2976, 8 January 1881, Page 2

Shipping Intelligence.

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8 >;•■!'rii-:, s.M.. trout Southern porta. Pfssengevs—Mrs Chavltoii, two sisters of Mercy, Misses Riuli (2), White, and .fvi iw.ief, Messrs Hi eh, Davidson, Strode, ll anion, Iliggs, Poolo, Becker, Eunny, Bonch, Marchant, Thompson, Carey, Masters Roach and Buller, Dr. Bailor, and 4t in the steerage.

The Union Steam £hip Company's s.s. rotorua, Captain J. To/.er, arrived in the roadstead from Southern ports at 11 o'clock this morning. The following is the report of her passage, for which wo thank Mr C. Keble, Wγ purser, and also for latest files ;—Left lyttelton (where she transhipped the s.s. To Anau's passengers, mails, and cargo) at 5 p.m. on the 6th ; arrived at Wellington at 9 a.m. on the 7th, and sailed again the same clay at 4 o'clock, arriving , as above. Experienced light head winds throughout. Besides general cargo, she brings 50 valuable sheep, forMrShrirnpton, and two deer for the Acclimatisation Society. The launch Boojum leaves the wharf with the outward passengers at 5 o'clock. The Union Company's s.s., Arawata, Capt. Sinclair, is due here at an early hour tomorrow morning, and will sail again for the South and Melbourne at 10 o'clock. The Geographical Society of Berlin has resolved to discover the starting-point of the gales and hurricanes which spring up sometimes quite suddenly, and sweep across the ocean. With this object, it _ intends to establish scientific observatories in the Arctic regions, to study theair-currents,and to deduce from the information there gained the fundamental laws of meteorology. It is calculated that in the course of six years, no fewer than 1005 ships (with a register of 225,500 tons) and 2204 sailors have perished; and it is believed that shipping disasters would bo to a great extent lessened by a knowledge of the laws whioh regulate the winds.