BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.
ARRIVBO. Oaraaru—Nov. 23rd, 9.40 a.m., Keera, from Dunedin.
The barque Glenhuntly, from Liverpool, arrived at the Heads this morning, made the signals “All’s well,” and for a steam tug, and was towed t the Port at 1 p. m. to-day. The s.s Phuebe, having received the usual cleaning, painting, and overhaul, was to-day taken out of the new Graving Dock, and sails to-morrow, conveying passengers and mails for Northern Ports, as also passengers and the American, English, and European mails for transhipment to the ocean steam mail ship Nebraska, at Auckland. The p.s, Wallace steamed from Dunedin to the Port to-day, for the purpose of testing the engines and receiving cargo from the ship Peter Denny, previous to sailing tomorrow for Oatnaru. The Wallace since she was laid up has received a new boiler, bad her engines refitted, and other substantial repairs; and from her general appearance looks to be, and evidently is, in first-class order for the coastal service. On this occasion the engines were found to work well, the passage from Dunedin having been made in fifty minutes. The 8.8. Keera sailed for No them Ports at an early hour this morning. The brigantine Emulous, which sailed recently for the Bluff, put back yesterday morning to the anchorage at the Heads. Last evening the ship’s boat, in charge of Captain Paterson, arrived at Port Chalmers rotß *Le. Head- body of one of the crew, whose name appeared on the ship’s articles as “James Dover, A.8.. 27 years of age, a native of Dumfries,” who had joined the vessel at Melbourne on the 20th of October, Captain Paterson stated that he was on the passage to the Bluff, but put back from the Nuggets, and arrived at the Heads yesterday forenoon ; and having ascertained that Dover was ill, he was put in the boat to be brought to Port Chalmers for medical advice. On reaching the cross-channel, finding that the boat could not make headway against the strong south-west wind, the boat was taken alongside the schooner Cora until the wind moderate !, and the sick man was taken on board that vessel, where he died at half-past three o’clock in the afternoon. Captain Paterson was unable to state what disease was the cause of death, but he had been informed that Dover had stated to one of the crew that he was subject to a recurrence of what he described to his shipmate as Java fever. A post-mortem examination took place this morning, and an inquest was to have been held this afternoon.
A home paper saya :—We understand that Messrs Caird and Co., Greenock, have been instructed by Messrs Inman to build for their Liverpool and American line a screwsteamer of about 480 feet over all, and about 430 feet keel and fore rake, 44 feet breadth of beam, 36 feet depth of hold, while the gross tonnage of the ship will be about 4800 tons. The vessel is to be sup plied with the builders compound engines of 750 horse-power. She will bo a full-rigged and it is expected she will attain a speed of 16 knots an hour. The steamer will be the largest merchant vessel afloat, excepting the Great Eastern, the latter being about 130 feet longer than the proposed new steamer. Messrs Caird, wc understand, have been exclusively selected by the Inman Company to build this vessel, and as a carte blanche has been given to the builders to produce one of the best ships possible, it is anticipated that the steamer will command considerable attention.
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Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2736, 23 November 1871, Page 2
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595BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2736, 23 November 1871, Page 2
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