Shipping Intelligence.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3069, 28 April 1881, Page 2

Shipping Intelligence.

PORT AHURIRL DEPARTURES April. 27 —Fairy, s.s., for Te Apiti. 27 —Bella, s.s., for Waikari. Passenger—• Mr John Miller. 28—Maori, s.s., for Wairoa. Passengers — Rev. Father Reignicr, Captain Russell, Messrs F. Sutton, Hill, K. Nairn, Hampshaw, Westenra, and Large.

The s.s. 'Fairy, Uapt. Campbell, steamed for Te Apiti with, a full load, principally fencing posts, at about 11 o'clock last night. The s.s. Bella, Capt. Green, left for Waiiari at about 11 p.m. yesterday with a good cargo of stores and one passenger. The s.s. Maori, Cent. H. Anderson, left for Wairoa at 830 a.m. this day, taking a number of passengers and a good cargo. The s.s. Kiwi, Capt. Campbell, left Castle Point at 11.30 a.m. this day, and should arrive here to-night. She is advertised to steam for Poverty Bay at 6 o'clock tomorrow night. The s.s. Go-Ahead, Captain F. M. Dicker, did not get discharged in time to get away on last evening's tide, and her departure has been postponed until 4.30. this afternoon for Wellington and Lyttelton. The steamer Hesult, Captain Baxter, is to leave for Wairoa at 10 o'clock to-night. The three-masted schooner Mary Wadley, Captain Balle, finished discharging her cargo this morning, and expects to get ballasted and sail for Westport (Buller) to-morrow. THE UNION S.S. COMPANY. Through the courtesy of Mr James Mills general manager of the Union Steam Shipping Company, we have been shown the plans of another splendid steamer to be added to the already fine fleet of steamers this company possess. The Manipori, for such will be her name, taken from a lake in the interior of the Middle Island, will be a magnificent boat of dose on 2000 tons burthen, of the following dimensions : —Length. 285 ft., beam, 36ft. ; depth of hold, 35ft. The principal feature of this steamer is the reversal of the usual positions of passengers and crew ; indeed the position of the saloon accommodation in the Manipori is singular to herself. In no other steamer in the colonies that we know of is tho saloon accommodation to be found —so to speak, "chock in the eyes of her.". And yet it will be so in the Manipori. The saloon accommodation is abaft the fore-hatchway. Abafi the latter i< the saloon —a grand apartment —occupying the whole beam of the "essel, and forwards of it on eaoh side are sleeping compartments', rooms, and other offices. In connection with the saloon accommodation are a smoking room and a social hall on deck, the latter abaft the former. In the saloon there are berths for 150 passengers. Then there will be private sitting rooms and state rooms, and an elabo-rately-fitted-up ladies' cabin. There are two bath rooms for gentlemen and one for ladies. The steerage accommodation is abaft the engine department, and just forward of the quarters for the crew, which are right aft. It will be far superior to anything of the kind on any colonial steamer afloat. There will be an open poop aft for the use of steerage passengers. Every care has been taken in the draughting to make this part of the ship as comfortable as possible. The steerage will have berthing room £01* 240 persons. Besides the ordinary main cabin, compartments for the use of families are to be built, and also two large and well-ventilated ladies cabins. The Manipori is guaranteed by contract to steam 14 knots on her trial trip. She will have two large double boilers lined with steel; compound engine, witli all the latest improvements, the high pressure cylinder being 40 inches in diameter, and the low pvpaonrc one 70 inches, with a4B inch stroke. She'is being built by Messrs Denny and Co., of the Clyde, upon line 3 very similar to those of that queen of steamers, the Rotomahana. Tho two vessels will be, in fact, much of a the Mainpori having the advantage of about a couple of hundred tons and about a foot in beam. She will be a straight stem boat, and iip;s eu a » v brigantino. We cannot too highly commend the enterprise of the Union d.S. Company in providing such magnificent steamers for the colonial trade.

With the view of pushing trade on the Weßt Coast of the Middle Island, the company is having a steamer to be named the Kanieri. built also by Messrs Denny and Co. She will be 116 feet long, 14 feet beam, and is to carry 300 tons of coal on a draught of 9 feet. To ensure extra buoyancy, the material of her construction will be steel. The Kanieri will be a ten-knot boat, and will be provided with high class accommodation for some 40 passengers in the saloon and as many in the steerage. She promises to be just the kind of steamer for the West Coast trade.

The company is also having a third steamer, but of much smaller size, built to run in the trade between Tauranga and Opotiki.—is ew Zealand Times.

[by cable] Albany, April 27. Arrived, P. and O. Company's steamship Khedive, wit h the inward duez mail, dated London, March 25. MEIiBOTJENB, April 27. Sailed Union Company's steamship Rotomahana for the Bluff.