Shipping.

Evening Star, Issue 2996, 25 September 1872, Page 2

Shipping.

HIGH WATER. TO-MOBBOW. Heads 1 Port Chalmers j Dunedin 10.42 p.m. I 11.12 p.m. 1 1157 p.m. PORT CHALMERS. SAILED. faranaki, for Lyttelton. Maori, for Lyttelton. Hnon Belle, for Invercargill. Spec, for Kakanui. Hope, for Catlin’s River, Lloyd’s Herald, for Gatlin’s River. CUSTOM HOUSE, DUNEDIN. THIS DAY. ' INWARDS. Phcebe, 416 tons, Worep, from Lyttelton. Wallabi, 101 tons, Best, from Oamaru. Flying Squirrel, 19 tons, Weir, from Shag foint. , . Advance, 13 tons, Latimer, from Waikouaiti. Anne, 29 tons, Haswell, from Moeraki. OUTWARDS. Rangitoto, 449, Mackie, for Lyttelton. Napier, 1,177 tons, Hatfield, for Lyttelton. Thomas and Henry, 215 tons, Francis, for Bluff. Advance, 13 tons, Latimer, for Waikouaiti. PASSENGER LIST. Per Phcebe, from Northern Ports.—Mrs and Master Myers, Dr and Mrs Paley, Miss Miller, Mrs Murphy and child, Mrs Nicol, Messrs M'Dowall, Cross, Stock, Miller, Breumcr, Nicol, and 3 in the steerage. Per Rangitoto, for Lyttelton.—Mrs Kirkland and family (6), and servant, and 63 in the steerage. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. •Albion, for Northern Ports, Oct. 9 Awania, fdr Bluff, Sept. 27 Annie, for Kakanui, Sept. 27 Beautiful Star, for Oamaru, Sept. 27 Claud Hamilton, for Melbourne, Oct. 5 Dunedin, for Westport, early Florence, for Napier, early Helena, for Melbourne, Sept. 28. , J ; N. Fleming for London, oatly. Mercury, for Wellington, Sept. 20. Nebraska, for Auckland, Sept. 20. Otago for London, early. Pretty Jane, fol* Molyneux, Sept. 2(3. Phoebe, for Northern Ports, Sept. 28 Storm Bird, for Bluff, Sept, 20 William Davie for London, Sept. 27 Wallabi, for Bluff, Sept. 20 The ketch Lloyd’s Herald sailed for Catlin’s River at 2 p.m. to day. The s.s. Taranaki sailed for Northern ports, and the s.s. Maori for Lyttelton via intermediate ports, at 4.30 p.m. yeste’day. The ketch Huon Belle sailed last evening for Invercargill. The schooner Spec, for Kakanui, and the cotter Hope, for Catlin’s River, sailed today, the former at 9 a.m,, the latter at noon. The Harbor Co.’s p.s. Peninsula, resumed running yesterday.

THE DAKOTA.

The steamship Dakota, we learn, sailed from New York for San Francisco, Honolulu, and Auckland on August 15. Inferring to this vessel, We clip the following from the Sdn Francisco Chronicle .‘—“As heretofore stated, the Australian line will soon be equipped with two first-class steamships—the Santiago de Cuba and the Dakota. The latter is an entirely new vessel, having made a trial trip in the Bay of New York on the 10th instant. As the new ship is soon to become so intimately associated with our commercial interests, the -following brief description will be read with interest:—Her capacity is 2,400 tons. She has a condensing beam engine, cylinder Slin. diameter, and stroke of piston 12ft,, fitted with Sickles’s cut-off. The steam and exhaust valves are what is known as double-pocket or balance. The air pumps are 48in. in diameter and sft. stroke. There is an ordinary jet condenser, and also a surface condenser. The waterwheels are 32ft. diameter over buckets. There are four plain cylindrical boilers, 13ft. 4in. diameter, 12ft. 3in. long for the afttr boilers, and 10ft. for the forward boilers. There are three furnaces on each boiler, making in all 12 furnaces in the four boilers. There are 250 tubes in each boiler. The engine made 12 revolutions per minute, with 221b. of steam, 22in. vacuum cutting off at one-third of stroke; draft 184 ft, The engine made eight revolutions with 281b. of steam, 28in. vacuum cutting off at l-10th of stroke. The alterations and additions to the machinery department of the Dakota consist chiefly of entirely new boilers. Other ebauges, but of less importance have been made to make the machinery conform full in all particulars with well-known practice, having in view the extended service this steamer is intended to perform. Modern improvements of detail, well tried and understood, have also been introduced. The boilers of the Dakota are cylindrical, made of exra thickness of the very best Pennsylvania boiler iron, the heaviest ever before adopted in this country, and are intended to carry high steam with short eut-off, and thus economise coal, which is a very important item in the Pacific service, where coal is always costly. The boilers have been tested officially, at a hydrostatic pressure of 601b., which is much higher than usual. The machinery of tho Dakota is intended to be operated upon the compound principle, as far as can be, with a single cylinder, and full hopes 'are entertained that groat speed will bo obtained on a small consumption of fuel. The hull has been much improved for Pacific Ocean service iu warm latitudes by the addition of narrow guards abaft the wheel and tho extension of light decks over the side windows, thus enabling passengers to sleep in all weathers with the windows and doors of their rooms open. Additional bath-rooms, large and ample, have been added, barber’s-room, and increased ventilation in all parts of the snip.”

ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

ARRIVED. Lyttelton : September 25th, 10.5 a.m., Taranaki, from Dunedin. Timaru : September 25th, 10.50 a.m., Maori, from Dunedin. SAILED. Oarnaru : September 25th, 1.40 p.m., Keera, for Dunedin.