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Evening Star, Issue 3500, 12 May 1874, Page 2

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HIGH WATER. To-morrow. Heads I Port Chalmers' I Donedin 12.44 p.m. I 1.19 o,m. | 2.4 p.m. PORT CHALMERS. ARRIVED. May 12.—Awarua, schooner, 41 tons, Sheppard, from the Bluff. Kate Brain, brigantine, 117 tons, Mason, from Invercargill. Jane Anderson, schooner, 96 tons, Paterson, from Havelock, SAILED. May 12.—Taranaki, s s., 299 tons, Wheeler, for the North, Passengers : For Lyttelton— Mrs Baird, Messrs Pryde and Dodson. For Wellington—Mrs Jones, Mr Rundle. For Manakau—Messrs Meyers and Somerville ; and three in the steerage. PROJECTED DEPARTDBES. Alhambra, for Northern Ports, May 30. Beautiful Star, for Lyttelton, May 13. Claud Hamilton, fdr Bluff, May 20. Comerang, for Lyttelton, May 13. Dunfillari, for London, early. DaUam Tower, for London, May 20. Helen Burns, for London, May 15. Ladybird, for Northern Ports,” May 16. Phoebe, for Northern Ports, May 22. Samson, for Oatnaru, May 15. The steamers Taranaki and Paterson, for the North, sail this afternoon. The schooner Awarua, from the Bluff, brings a.cargo for transhipment to the Dallam Tower. The s.s. Wanganui is taking on board transhipments from the ship - Trevelyan for the Bluff. The schooner Jane Anderson arrived from Havelock at 9.30 this morning, and, there being a fair wind and tide, she passed up to Dunedin. The p.s. Samson was taken into Murray’s floating dock this morning, for the purpose of being cleaned and having her bottom coated with anti-fouling composition. The steamers Albion (for Melbourne, via Northern and West. Coast Ports}, and Omeo. and Alhambra (for Melbourne via the Bluff) all sailed yesterday afternoon,. The clipper brigantine Kate, Brain which went ashore at Mokomoko, has been successfully floated,-and arrived this morning for the purpose of going into dock for repairs. She is so far tight that she only makes about one and a-half inch of water per hour. She left Invercargill on the 2nd inst with a light, east wind, and, after knocking about for. some time, in the Straits, put into Port Williams (Stewart Island): left again at 8 a.m. on the 10th with a light N.W. wind; when off Ruapuke got a S.W. Breeze, and was off Cape Saunders at 4 a.m. yesterday: the wind then died away for some time, but a light breeze springing up from the eastward enabled her to get inside the Heads, and she anchored in the cross channel at 7 o’clock last night, and sailed up as far as Carey’s Bay this morning.

STEAM SERVICE FROM THE MERSEY TO AUSTRALIA The other morning the magnificent screwsteamer Iberia, one of the finest specimens of an ocean-going steamer afloat, left the River Mersey from opposite the Prince’s landingstage for the trial trip. She steamed slowly down to the Bar lightship, whence she ran to theM. W. lightship, against a strong head wind, at the rate of 16 nautical miles pep hour. Turning in nearly her whole length, she again went over the course at the rate of 17 nautical mjles per hour, thus attaining a mean average speed of 16J nautical miles against wind and tide, and had the propeller been sufficiently immersed, no doubt a still higher speed would have been reached. The Iberia is most substantially and elegantly fitted, and the most minute attention has been paid to secure the luxurious comfort of passengers. The main saloon is beautifully decorated, and arranged t® afford dining accommodation for 120 persons. There is also a saloen on deck furnished for the use of ladies, andawell-appointedsmoking-room for the gentlemen. The second class accommodation is both roomy and comfortable and the third class arrangements are perfect in the essential requisites of good air, light, and ventilation, while all necessary privacy is also fecured- Thoship will carry 1,000 passengers and a crew of 150 officers and men, 2,000 tons of general cargo, and coals for forty days’ steaming. The engines are on a new principle viz., that of three cylinders; diameter of high pressure, cylinder 66 inches, and of the two low-pressurecylinders seventy-eight inches each with a length of stroke of five feet. They are compound surface condensing, with all recent improvements, and great attention has been paid to the lubrication of the bearings. With these three cylinder? there are po, dead-points, in. each stroke, and continuous effective power, is ensured.The engines are well balanced and work admirably, are o£ 800 nominal horse-power and on the trial indicted' 4,163, making sixty-' five revolutions per minute, the vibration being of the Slightest and the bearings perfectly cook Ihe temperature of the engine-room reachedonly 72 degrees, and of the stoke-hole 64 degreesthat .of the steam entering the cylinders was oUb degrees, the pressure of steam being 651b to TOlb .per ; square, i'.ch, with, a vacuum of 281. Ihe Iberia is 4,800 tons gross register, built and the engines const.ucted, by the eminent firm of Messrs J.ohn, Elder and Co., of Glasgow to the order of the Pacific Steam Navigation Company, of Liverpool. We understand that she has-been purchased by the English and Australian Steam Navigation Company for the purpose of commencing a regular service of monthhr steamers to run between Liverpool Milford Haven, and Melbourne, and arrangements are pending for the purchase, lor the same service, of the sister ship Liguria, now approaching compietion, and which will probaffiy be m the Mersey in about six weeks from ' this date. —‘ European, Mail,’ -

' SHIPPING TELEGRAM. Bldpp, April 12, noon.—The Alhambra ar- 1 nved (here at 6.30 o’clock this morning; the Wallabr at 7; and the Omeo at 8, all from