Shipping.

Evening Star, Issue 3686, 15 December 1874, Page 2

Shipping.

HIGH water. To-morrow. Heads [ Port Chalmers I Dunedin 7.38 p,m. I 8.18 p.m. | 9.3 p.m. PORT CHALMERS. ARRIVED. December 15.—Mermaid, 12 tons, Brebner, for Waikouaiti, put back. Lloyd’s Herald, ketch, 52 tons, Marks, for Catlin’a River, put back. SAILED. December 15.—Fanny, ketch, 25 tons, Andrews, for Gatlin’s River. Samson, p.s., 125 tons, Edie, for Oamaru. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Albion, for Lyttelton, December 18. Beautiful Star, for Timaru, December 17. Calypso, for London, early. Easby, for Newcastle, January 11. Excelsior, for Napier, early. Express, for Invercargill, December 19. Fleur de Maurice, for Auckland, early. Invercargill, for London, early. Ladybird, for Northern Ports, December 29. May Queen, for London, early. Osseo, for New York, February 10. Otago, for Lyttelton, December 31. Phoebe, for Northern Ports, December 19. Tararua, for Bluff, December 23. Wanganui, for Bluff, December 16. Waikato, for London, December 27. The ketch Fanny sailed for Gatlin’s River this morning. The cutter Mermaid, for Waikouaiti, put back this morning. The barque Hope transhipped her cargo of stone to the s.s. Claud Hamilton. The schooner Pioneer discharged part of her cargo of coal into the steam dredge. The ship Celestial Queen is expected to be taken out of the Graving Dock to-morrow. The ketch Good Templar, for the Molyneaox, came down and anchored in Carey Bay. The Harbour Co.’s p.s. Samson sailed for her usual trip to Oamaru shortly after the arrival of the 7 a.m. train. The schooner Friendship came down from Dunedin and discharged the remainder of her timber at the old jetty. The schooner Maid of Otago and the ketch Edith Reid are taking on board transhipments from the ship May Queen. The barque Glimpse was removed from the hulk Henbury to alongside the railway pier, where she will discharge the remainder of her coal. The ketch Lloyd’s Herald, for Gatlin’s River, put back this morning on account of the heavy sea on the bar. Captain Marks reports the schooner Jane Hannah, ketch Huon Belle, cutter Hope, and ketch Fanny lying at the Heads wind bound. A FLOATING PALACE is the same that might be fitly given to the Rodney, a large new iron clipper, just arrived in Hobson’s Bay, and one of Devitt and Moore’s liners. This is a description of the saloon:— “ There are few sailing ships coming to this port which have such a spacious saloon. It measures 80ft. in length, and has berthing accommodation for sixty people. No cost has been spared in the decoration and embellishments, and yet these have not been promoted at the expense of solid and material comfort. The cabins are 10ft. square, and a number of the sleeping berths can be drawn out so as to accommodate two people. For each cabin there is a fixed lavatory, supplied with fresh water from a patent tap, and by the removal of a small plug in the centre of the basin the water runs away into the sea, so that all slopping is avoided. The lavatory is fixed on the top of a cupboard, which answers all the purposes of a little chetfoniere, being fitted up for the re ception of bottles, glasses, brushes, &c. There is also a chest of drawers in each cabin—a very great convenience—in which may be kept clothes, books, linen, and many “ unconsidered trifle , ’ which generally go knocking about in ship’s cabins at sea. The windows in the cabins are large, admitting plenty of light and air, and the passengers have easy control over them. The ventilation, in fact, is all that could be desired. Goed-sized looking-glasses and handy little racks for water-bottles, tumblers, combs, brushes, &c., also abound, and in other little matters the comfort of passengers has been well cared for. The cabins are also so arranged that two or more, or even the whole of jthem, on one side of the ship, afford communication to each other without going out into the saloon, and where families are together this is very advantageous. The bathroom occupies the space of one of the largest cabins, and hot as well as cold baths are attainable. The saloon is lighted by two large skylights, one of them being 21ft. in length. They are emblazoned with very pretty views of Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, and Gape Town, these being the principal ports to which Messrs Devitt and Moore’s vessels trade. There is also a piano in the saloon, by which the tedium of the voyage may be enlivened, and the tables are so constructed that they can be easily unshipped and the saloon cleared for dancing. For gentlemen there is a capital smoking-room at the top of the companion leading from the saloon to the deck. SHIPPING TELEGRAM. Auckland, December 13.—Arrived—H.M.S. Rosario, from Sydney, She proceeds to Adelaide, where the vessel will be left for a training ship, the officers proceeding to England by the mail steamer.