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Evening Star, Issue 3670, 26 November 1874, Page 2

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HIGH WATER, To-morrow, Jlhads | Port Chalmers 1 Doreoin 5.17 p.m, I 5.57 p.na. { 6.42 p.mu AT THE HEADS free Trader, barque, from Hobart Town, PORT CHALMERS. • ARRIVED. November 23.—Kate Brain, brigantine, 116 tons, from the Bluff. Otago, barque, 346 tons, Bicknell, from Mel bourne, Nov. 11. Phoebe, s.s,, 416 tons, Worsp, from Lyttelton and the North. Passengers: Mr and Mrs T. B, Gillies and family, Mr and Mrs Strain, Mr and Mrs Scott and family, Mr and Mrs Wilson, Mrs Bryant, and child, Mesdames Hocken, Huntley, Polen, Captains Irvine and Huntley, Messrs Rees, Duncan, Wallace, Alston, Fulton, Drury, Moore, Willis, Briggs, Huntley, and five pteerage. Samson, p.s., 124 tons, Edie, from Oamarn. Passengers: Mrs Ray, Mr and Mrs Mudie, Mr and Mrs Sharp, Mr, Mrs, and Miss Guilfott, Messrs Ritchie, Tenily, Hare, Newman, Wheeley, Wenberg, and eight steerage. November 26. —Olive Branch, barque, 355 tons. Wheatley, from Hobart Town via the Bluff. SAILED. - November 25. —Tararua, s. s., 522 tons, Clark, for Melbourne via Bluff. Passengers : For Bluff—-Rev. Mr Taylor, Mr and Mrs Lawson, Messrs Dawson and Proudfoot, For Melbourne —Messrs H. Bellfield, J. Whitely, Chatterton, and Cullen; and fourteen in the steerage. Beautiful Star, s.s., 146 tons, Peterson, for Lyttelton via Timaru. Wanganui; s.s., 179 tons, Fraser, for the Bluff. Maid of Otago, schooner, 50 tons, Bain, for Timaru. November 26. —Lady of the Lake, for the Molyneux. Janet Ramsay, for Gatlin’s River. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Bruce, for Lyttelton, November 29. Helena, for Auckland, early. Lizzie Guy, for Hokitika, early. Maori, for West Coast Ports, December 5, Osseo, for New York, early. Phoebe, for Northern Ports, November 29. Samson, for Oamaru, November 27. Vision, for Auckland, early. Wanganui, for Bluff, early. Waikato, for London, December 15. The ship Rosalia commenced to discharge her deck load of timber this morning. The schooner Maid of Otago sailed this morning with a fine S.W. wind for Timaru. The brig Thomas and Henry is loading railway iron from the Lennox Castle, for Oamaru. The schooner Dunedin was taken out of Murray’s floating dock at high water yesterday. The barque Glencoe was towed to Dunedin by the Geelong this morning, and berthed at tiie Rattray street jetty. ■ The brigantine Bencleuch was taken in tow by the s.s. Jane to go to Dunedin, but took the ground in the cross channel, where she stuck. The brigantine Kate Brain beat up the harbor yesterday afternoon with a full cargo of timber from the Bluff, which port she left at 11 a.m. on Monday. The brig Vision unmoored this morning in readiness to be towed to Dunedin, but the wind from the S.W. was too strong for the p.s. Golden Age to tow her up. The s.s. Phoebe, 417 tons. Captain Worsp, from the Northern Provinces, arrived in harbor yesterday at 4.35 p.m. She left Manukau at 3.30 p.m. on the 18th, Wellington at 6.30 p.m. on the 21st, and Lyttelton at 4.30 p.m. on Tuesday, The barque Otago, with a cargo of sugar from the Melbourne Sugar Refinery of Messrs Josbu Brothers, was touted up to her anchorage yesterday afternoon by the tug Geelong. She brings part of her cargo for this port, the remainder being for Auckland, for which port she will sail as soon as she discharges the Dunedin portion. She left Melbourne on the Bth inst. , The barque Olive Branch, with a cargo of timber for Oamaru, and thirty-seven horses for this port, arrived this morning, and was towed up by the tug Geelong, She left Hobart Town on the 15th, cleared the land the same evening, had tine weather and westerly winds during the run across, and made the Solander on the 21st, when she had a strong breeze from the eastward, which shifted to the W.S.W., and anchored off the Bluff on the 22nd ; there took on board water and fodder for the horses; left again on the 24tb, and arrived at the Heads as above. Three horses were lost on the passage across. LAUNCH OF THE EGMONT. A new iron screw steamer, named the Egmont, built by Messrs Sparrow aaid Co., was launched at the firm’s yards, en the reclaimed ground, yesterday evening. Her keel was laid on the Ist August, and she is made of 5-16ths iron; her length over-all is 83ft, and her keel 75ft; depth of hold, 7ft; beam, 15ft 6in, and about 70 tons register. She was laundhed fitted with engines of 20-horse-power nominal, made by Messrs Sparrow and Co. The ceremony of christening was performed by Miss Jane Sparrow, and the steamer was launched broadside-on in a most successful manner. The Egmont was built to the order of Messrs Duthie and Co., of Wanganui, and is intended to run between Wanganui and Patea, and no doubt she will prove a most useful vessel, as she will carry a large cargo on a draught of five feet of water, and at the same time will steam wry well. It is expected that she will be ready for sea in about eight days.

THE NAVAL TRAINING SCHOOL, ({From the New Zealand Times.) When Mr Reynolds (accompanied by Mr Seed) visited Auckland, he leased the old Melanesian Mission buildings and grounds at Kohimarama, from the trustees, on favorable terms. The mission schooner Southern Cross has also been purchased for the Colony, and ■will be brig-rigged, and used as a sailing tender in connection with the Naval Training School. The object is to enable tire lads to learn the art of seamanship in a square-rigged vessel. Lieut. G. B. Breton, R.N., has been appointed manager of the Kohimarama school, but the preliminary organisation has been left to Commander Tilley, R.N., well known in connection with the Melanesian Mission, and whose scientific knowledge is only equalled by his practical skill as a navigator. Indeed we may say of our own knowledge that Mr Tilley is quite an enthusiast in his profession. The Government has been fortunate in securing his active co-operation. On the other hand, Mr Breton is an efficient officer. He is a colonist of several years’ standing, and as first-lieutenant of the Iris was well known on the Australian station; later he did good service to the Colony during the war in the Waikato. It is intended to appoint a boatswain, or instructor in seamanship, who shall also have charge of the Southern Cross while in harbor. At the shore establishment there will be a schoolmaster and gardener. Part of the discipline and training of the lads being given ashore, they will be employed in the garden attached to the school building, where sufficient vegetables may be grown for the use of the institution. Mr Tilley has been authorised to engage the staff, and contracts have been taken for the necessary repairs and fittings. He has also been instructed to make a start with about twenty boys, selected from the industrial schools in the neighborhood, an essential qualification being that none of them have been convicted of any crime. The law is specific on this point. It is intended to make the New Zealand Naval Training School a model institution, in which destitute and neglected children may receive a sopmd education, and be trained to a useful calling, and to which they can look back with pride in 4Jlter life as their early home, where they received that care and instruction which I otherwise would have been wanting to them. And here we may remark, that boys who are [ unfitted for a seafaring life may bo apprenticed * to other trades out of school, the manager constituted legul £uardigia; and prpvi-I

sion is made for compelling masters, in such cases, to act properly towards their apprentices. Indeed, the law appears to us to be exceedingly strict in its application to out-apprentices. Kohimarama is admirably placed as the site, for the main Naval Training School. It is situate on a sheltered bay in Hauraki Gulf, about four miles from Auckland city, with which it is connected by an excellent road landward The lads in the Naval Training School will be taught to swim and manage a boat, as parts of their routine training. Having stated what has been already done in the Colony to give effect to the Naval Training Schools Act, we proceed to notice what it is proposed to do to complete the arrangements under it. The Hon. Commissioner of Customs has sent a report on the subject to the Governor, detailing the steps already taken, and suggesting that application should be made to the Imperial Government for two men-of-war to bo used as auxiliary training schools, one to be stationed at Wellington and one at Dunedin, or rather at Port Chalmers. It is urged in this memorandum that owing to the peculiar circumstances of New Zealand, at least two ships will be requisite, and as the Admiralty promised New Zealand a better vessel than the Rosario, which has been given to South Australia, we conclude the request of this Colony will be complied with, backed as it has been by Sir James Fergusson. Mr Vogel, we may also add, will try his utmost, while in England, to secure two suitable vessels out of commission. Should two ships be given to the Colony by the Imperial Government, it is proposed to keep the Southern Cross almost constantly at sea, learning the boys practical seamanship. Fox example, fifty boys will be at Kohimarama; of these, twenty or thirty will be taken on a two or three months’ cruise. The vessel will then run in to Port Nicholson, and transfer the boys to the training ship lying here, taking an equal number on board, who, in turn, will be exchanged at Port Chalmers for a similar number from the training ship there. These lads, having made the requisite cruise, will be sent ashore at Kohimarama, and a fresh detachment taken on board. Thus, every boy in turn will have training at sea, on shore, and in the ships in harbor. They will learn everything to fit them for an honorable and successful career in life ; and should any of them show a desire for learning navigation, to fit them for the higher branches of the naval profession, they will be instructed in it. In this way, it is hoped that the mercantile marine of New Zealand may be built up with an efficient and wellconducted body of men, who otherwise might have grown up pests to society and to themselves.