BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2628, 20 July 1871, Page 2

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Lyttelton--July 20, 1 p.m., Ahuriri from Port Chalmers. The latest curiosity in ship-building is the new steamship Oceanic, which arrived from Liverpool at New York on March 28. Since the Great Eastern was launched nothing has been seen to rival the Oceanic in size. Her length is 432 feet, breadth of beam 41 feet, depth of hold 33 feet, entire harden 6000 tons, engines 3000-horse power, and she draws, at the load line, 25 feet of Water. Her four masts tower above all the shipping on the Jersey side. The decks are entirely of iron, cased above and below with wood, and she is furnished with that “ great Yankee improvement” - a straight stem. The saloon is elegantly finished and upholstered. Four large tables run the satire length, with seats cushioned in magenta colored silk velvet, and the whole saloon is resplendent with silver plating and mirrors. Two coal grates with marble mantels surmounted by delicately-fashioned bronzes, are in the aft and near the entrance doors. Between these stand the library and secretary. The ladies’ cabin, 10 by 18 feet, situated on the starboard side, directly aft of the saloon, is upholstered in green velvet. The smoking-room—finished in buff -on the spar deck, affords from the window a complete view of the decks. The state l ooms have perfect ventilation, wh'ch those lying in the upper births have it in their power to control. Each state room is furnished with eight life-preservers. An electric bell, leading to the Stewart’s room, is fitted to every sleepiag berth. These vessels are nnd nbtedly the largest, handsomest, and best furnished of any now plying in the trans-At-lantic service.