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Evening Star, Issue 3030, 5 November 1872, Page 2

Shipping.

t ; LGH WATER. TO-MOKKOW. liP.U).' i <’ORT OrtAIiMKJW I DUHttHir--. 6.33 p.m. i 7.1 p.m. I 7.46 p.m. S ORT CHALMERS. ARRIVED. Awaaua. fr..n Coast. Advance, from Waikouaiti. SAILED Pretty Jane, for Molyncux. Maori, from Lyttelton. CUSTOM HOUSE, DUNEDIN. THIS DAY, INWARDS, Coronet, 95 tons, Robinson, from Kaipma. Paterson, 39 tons, Paterson, from Gatlins River. OUTWARDS. Jane, 25 tons, Walker, for Shag Point. < Eliza M‘Phee, 39 tons, Peterson, lor Gatlin s River. „ ... Hone, 21 tons, Gay, for Allday Pay. , f* Lloyd’s Herald, 48 tons, Henry, for Catnu s Storm Bird. 37 tons, Fraser, for Bluff. Wallabi, 101 tons, Best, for Bluff.

PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Alhambra, for Bluff, Nov. 22 Claud Hamilton, for Bluff, Nov, i 4 J. N. Fleming for London, early. Maori, for Lyttelton, Nov. 9 Mary Van Every, for Wnngamn, Nov. b Nebraska, for San Francisco, Pretty Jane, for Moiynenx, Nov. i Rangatira, for Northern Berts, Nov. .» Result, for Kakanui, early Eangitoto, for Northern Ports, Nov. A Taranaki, for Northern Ports, Nov. 8 Tararua, for Northern Ports, Nov ■) Waipara, for Hokitika, Nov. 5 Wanganui, for Northern Ports, Nov. hj

The schooner Awarua, supposed from the Bluff, arrived last evening with a cargo of timber. , ___ .. ... The cutter Advance, from VVaikouaiti, arrived this afternoon. The s s. Pretty Jane sailed last evening for the Molyncux. The 93. Mao-1 sailed early tins morning for Lyttelton via intermediate ports with passengers and a large general cargo of merchandise. The s.s. Taranaki, having to-day completed cleaning, painting, and overhaul, leaves the Graving Dock to-morrow morning. Conspicuous amongst arrivals in port was a new iron clipper ship, the Mermeniß, one of the largest and most poweruillooking merchant vessels which has ever yet anchored in Hobson’s Bay. She is Cijde built ; in fact, is the largest sailing vc-sel ever launched there, and in her equipment and finish she leaves little, if anything, to be desired. The Mermerus was constructed by Messrs Barclay and Curie, of Glasgow, and nothing that ingenuity and experience could suggest has been neglected to make her a high-class vessel. Her dimensions are— Length, 295 f t; breadth of beam, 39ft; depth of hoki, 22ft lOin. The Mermurus is built of iron, and her lines are as fine and as delicate as those of a first-class yacht, whilst her carrying capacity has not been made subservient to the beauty of her model, her register tonnage being close upon 1/00 tons She has been greatly admired, both at Glasgow and Liverpool, for her noble appearance, and for the elaborate manner in which she has been fitted up with all the newest improvements for working the vessel for the comfort of passengers. The ship is very taunt rigged, and looks so notwithstanding the squareness of her double topsail and double topgallant yards. She has steel topmasts and topga lant masts, and her spread of canvas is said to he larger than any vessel of her dimensions afloat. The saloon is very handsomely furnished, and has cpiite an elegant appearance, and the arrangements for the convenience of passengers arc moat complete. On deck, in addition to several other contrivances for saving labor there is a power - ful donkey-engine for loading and discharging cargo, and for working a Hartficld s patent windlass. In the galley there is a large patent condenser, capable of distilling 500 gallons of water in 24 hours. The Mermerus has been built for Messrs A- and J. H. Carmichael, of Greenock, and she is commanded by Captain Peter Mr MTntyre, well known in the Indian and Australian trade, and who was out here not long ago in another very fine large iron clipper, the Jason. On the voyage the ship, although deeply laden, made some astonishing running, the distance logged ranging from 3JO to 330 miles, ihe Mermerus brings an enormous cargo—about 2800 tons deadweight and measurement — and the lines in some of the items are to the largest ever brought to this port in one bottom.