Shipping.

Evening Star, Issue 3407, 22 January 1874, Page 2

Shipping.

HIGH WATER. To-mobbow. . Heads. I Port Chalmers,!. Dunedin, 6.8 Kuprin. '1 '7.28 p.m. f PORT CHALMER& /- ' s : ; ARRIVED. January 22.—Samson, p.s., 124 tons, Peterfrom Oainatn. \ Albion, as.'; 800 tons, M‘Lean, from Mel bourne (via the Bluff). Passengers: Mr, Mrs. and Miss Irehmd, Mr, Mrs, and Blisses (2) PiUans, Mrs Thewcusfci, Mrs Sicvwright, and child, Mr and Mrs Park, his Honor the Superintendent, Messrs W. Janies, Roberts, Som-'-Berr’BeclyrAl. J- Hart, Malcolm, Peterson, Belcher, • Gray, J. Leggatt, .Fraser, H. B. Donaldson; -Kemp, 'and twenty-five in the steerage., _ - -- - SAILED. January 22.—Comerang, p.s.; 152 tons, Hughes,- for Lyttelton and intermediate ports, . Wanganui, s.s., 179 tons, Fraser, for the ; -- r : . ? V, ‘ A number of excursionist* for the. Maori ■ : Kaik arrived'at the Port by the 12.30 train • 'to-day. The s.s,.Result left the old jetty with ; * them at 1. 30.. ■ ; •: i , The s,s. Wanganui .sailed for the Bluff with : is largo number of passengers this afternoon, v’ The three-masted schooner Elctorslie was towed down below the shipping by the p.s. Peninsula, this morning, and sails for Port Esperahce, Tasmania, with the first fair wind. The p.s. Samson arrived at 7 p.m. last night frpm her usual trip to Oamaru, and passed up c - to Dunedin'; came down this morning, arid after coaling, steamed alongside the ship Xealarvdja to discharge wool. ; ■ . The p.s. Comerang, for Lyttelton and intermediate ports, sailed at 3 a.m. this morning. Messrs M‘MCckan and Blackwood’s s.s. Albion arrived shortly after ,9 o’clock this morning, having the Suez mail on board, which was immediately landed and conveyed with f a number !of passengers by special train to Dunedin. His Honor the Superintendent was a passenger by' her.' Reports leaving Port Phillip Heads at 2.30 p.m. on the 16th ; experienced light winds the first twp. days, then fight winds and calms until arriving at the Bluff at 9 a.m. oil the 21st ; discharged cargo, and sailed for Port Chalmers at A p.m., and arrived as above. We thank her purser, Mr Norffe,'for report and r j , • . The first Bessemer ship, which is to be emr ployed in the passenger service between London and Calais, is now being builttat Hull. j iThe framing- of the ship is nearly completed, - _ and the larger portion of the outer planking is (■ r ( worked upon it. The steamer is 350 ft long, 40ft, broad inside her paddle-boxes, and; 2.774 • tons burden. She will be driven by two sets of paddle-wheel engines, acting Upon a double seta-of paddle-wheels, situated 100 ft apart, the ~ aggregate, horse power of the engines being no ; less than 4,600 i The vessel will be one of the /most remarkable examples of novelty in steam " ' riarigation the world has ever seen. In the centre of the ship will be placed her saloon, . which willb© 70£t long and 30ft wide, and suspended upbn massive pivots'at the centre and at the extremities,. Thus supported, it will be brought under the " control bf powerful hydraulic gear, worked by the principal boilersof the ship.’ / ' ■ Vv- . SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. Wellington, January 22.—The ship Duke of Edinburgh proceeds to Lyttelton. -■ . Lyttelton, Sailed: Brig- Carl, for Bluff, with railway iron. The Wellington has arrived, mid sails for the North at 4 p.m. to-day.

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