SHIPPING.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3869, 11 December 1883, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OF NAPIER.

ARRIVALS.

December.

10—Awaroa, topsail schooner, from Poverty Bay. 10—Lucy James, ketch, from Poverty Bay.

DEPARTURES.

December

H— Maori, s.s., for Wairoa. PassengersMessrs M. R. Miller, H. Baker, Arthur Kennedy, two ladies, and a native. 11—Sir Donald, s.s., for Arapawanui.

The topsail schooner Awaroa, Captain Holmes, arrived here at noon yesterday _in ballast from Gisborno, and was berthed inside at the breastwork ut about 1 p.m. by Pilot Murray. The Awaroa comes for a load of coal and fencing posts for Mr JN. E. Johnston, of Gisbonie. The steamer Maori, Captain Anderson, got away for Wairoa at 0.30 a.m. this day, taking a number of passengers and a good cargo. The ketch Lucy James, Captain Miller, arrived in the bay at 10 o'clock last night, after a smart run from Gisborno, and was berthed inside by the pilot this morning. She comes here in ballast, and is to return •with a cargo of fencing posts. The s.s. Sir Donald, Captain Quinlan, steamed for Arapawanui at noon to-day to get Mr John McKinnon's clip of wool. The Union Company's steamer Southern Cross, Capt. Ross, is telegraphed as having left Wellington at 5.50 p.m. yesterday, and should arrive bore some time this evening. She will be brought inside to_ discharge her cargo to-morrow, and at 5 p.m. is announced to steam from the wharf for Gisborne and Auckland. ( The three-masted schooner Frank Guy, Capt. Balle, is ballasting, and is expected to get away for Newcastle, N.S.W., this afternoon. The arrival at Plymouth on 13th October of the British King, steamship, in less than 41 days from Port Lyttclton, N Z. (says tho European Mail), marks a distinct stage in tho progress of ocean navigation. Never previously lias the voyage been so rapidly accomplished, and when it is remembered that only a few years ngo three months was considered a quick run between England and New Zealand, tho accomplishment of this voyage half round the world in less than half that time—less, indeed, than six •weeks —is a marvellous advance.