Shipping.

Evening Star, Issue 2922, 1 July 1872, Page 2

Shipping.

HIGH WATER. TO-MORROW. Heads I Port Chalmers j Dunbdin 0.45 p.m. | 1.15 p.m. 1 2.0 pm CUSTOM HOUSE, DUNEDIN. THIS DAY, INWARDS. Lloyd’s Herald, 48 tons, Henry, from Gatlins River. , _ , Eliza M’Phea, 30 tons, Peterson, from Gatlin’s River. _ Nevada, 2,143 tons, Blcthcn, from Lyttelton. Phcebe, 416 tons Worsp, from Northern Ports OUTWARDS. Anne, 29 tons, Haswell, for Moeraki TCTiEn. McPhee, 39 tons, Peterson, for Gatlin’s River . „ Beautiful Star, 126 tons. Hart, for Timaru PASSENGER LIST. Per Nevada from Northern Ports—Mr Barker, Mr Snook, and six in the steerage. Per Phoebe from Northern Ports—Mr A it,ken and 4in the steerage.

The brigantime Emulous arrived to day from the Bluff and was this afternoon towed to Dunedin, No ship in sight or signalled at heads at 4 this afternoon. The steamer Dacotah has been thoroughly overhauled and fitted with new engines, &c., and is now nearly ready for sea. She will Sroceed to San Francisco direct early m une. —News of the World. The new steamship Adriatic, the fifth ot the White Star 'line of Liverpool and New York steamers, arrived at New York on her maiden trip, after a passage of eight and ahalf days. The dimensions of the Adriatic are—length over all, 450 feet; breadth of beam, 41 feet; depth of hold, 32 feet ; tonnage, 2950 tons register. The engines are on the compound principle ; and were constructed by Messrs Maudslay, Son, and Field, London. In the preceding vessels it was thought that the builders had done everything possible in the way of elaborate detail and finish to make “a life on the ocean wave” one of luxury; hut in the Adriatic they have managed to further enhance their reputation. As in the other vessels the main saloon is amidships, with commodious state-rooms forward and aft of it, the latter being very capacious. There are many improvements noticeable—-as, for instance, the vessel is furnished with gas, manufactured on board, and supplied to the saloon, state-rooms, smoking-rooms and corridors, about three bundled lights being used for the purpose. The effect of the saloon, when brilliantly illuminated in this Way, is something to he remembered; and it is certainly a stride in ocean navigation when the Atlantic can be crossed with gas to make every corner of the saloon and adjoining passages brilliant with light, and electric communication to summon aid in every emergency to which the sea traveller is liable. The Adriatic has accommodation for 150 saloon and 1000 steerage passengers, and the methods of securing ventilation in every portion of the vessel are very complete and successful. Her propeller is of steel, her masts of iron, and she is fitted with six water-tight bulkheads. The speed of the new steamer has been proved, in this her first trip across the Atlantic. She left the Mersey at two o’clock p.m. on Thuiaday, l lth insfc,, arrived at Queenstown the following morning, and steamed for America in the afternoon, at half-past one o’clock. During the first three days, in spite of head winds, she made 1 000 miles, and on the fourth day logged 393 knots, or 459 miles, showing the extraordinary average speed of IG.*> knots or 19 1-lGth miles throughout the day. The fifth day, in the face of a severe gale, she made 344 knots ; and during the sixth and seventh, with very heavy weather, steamed 486 miles. On the eighth day she made 374,1 miles, and arrived off Sandy Hook early on the eighth day out. Throughout the rough weather the Adriatic proved a splendid seaboat, and the idic.ations of speed which she gave point to greater results in this respect. She brought from Liverpool sixty-five saloon passengers and about seven hundred in the steerage. An illustration of the vessel appears in the London News of April 27.