Shipping.

Evening Star, Issue 3916, 11 September 1875, Page 3

Shipping.

HIGH WATEB, TO-MORROW.

Heads. I Ft, Chalhxbs. I Ddnidin. 0.81 p.to, I 1.11 p.m, | 1.5G p.m.

Monday,

1.13 p.m, J 1.53 p.m. 1 2,38 p.m

POET CHALMEES,

ARRIVED.

August II. —Kate Brain, brigantine, 118 tons, (lay, from Knipara.

Phoebe, s.s. 410 tons, Worsp, from Northern Ports. Passengers; Mr and Mrs Townsend, Mesdames Brown, Walls, Barbor ond family, Messrs Burns (2), Hay, Black, Murphy, Jarvis, Holey, Lesbiu, Dempsey, Howsdeu (2), Bent, Walker, Fos, and 10 in the steerage.

aAII.TtD.

August ll.—Frowning Beauty, barque, 3fi. r » lons, Arnold, for Newcastle. Clio, schooner, 81 tons. Chambers, for Mocraki. Memento, barque, Ifri tons, Kuwaiti, for Newcastle. Eliza M'Phee, ketch, 38 tons, Reid, for Gatlin’s River.

The s.s. Express took her departure this afternoon for Invercargill and Riverton. The schooner Clio, for Moeraki, took her departure this morning with a light S.W. wind. The ketch Eliza M'Phee came down from Dim. edin and sailed this afternoon for Gatlin’s River.

The ship Woodlark was removed this afternoon from the railway pier, and anchored in the stream by the tug Geelong. The barque Memento, in ballast, for Newcastle, was towed to sea this afternoon by the tng Geelong. The ship Altcar discharged a heavy case of machinery, weighing 12 tons, yesterday afternoon, into the lighter Edinburgh for transmission to Dunedin.

The schooner Elibank Castle was towed flown yesterday afternoon from Dunedin by the s.s. Juno and hauled alongside the ship Portland to load coal for Otuaarn

The barque frowning Beauty, in ballast for Newcastle, was towed to sea tbit morning by the'tug Geelong. | The New Zealand f.’o.’s s.a. Phcebe arrived alongside the railway pier from the Northern Polls at, ‘U,'> this morning. She left the Mauukau 1 p.m. on the o’th, and called at Xols.ui, Pioton, Wellington, and Lyttelton. We thank Mr Harbor i purser) for report and exchanges. The brigantine Kate Brain, with full cargo of 0(5,000 feet of limber, arrived last evening from Ivnipnra, which port she left, on the hd inst. She had W. and N.W. winds as far as Capo ('ampbell, which was passed on the sth, when the wind shifted to the southward and increased to a heavy gale for thirty, six hours, during which she ran back to Port Underwood for shelter. Arrived there on the7tli, ami left again with a light easterly wind at ■!• p.m. on the Bth; passed Capo Campbell on the evening of the hth • had easterly weather to arrival, and passed the port to Dunedin. Captain Gay reports that the brigantine Sea Gull and barque Hariett Avrnitage have arrived at Kaipara.

LOWERING BOATS.

A new method of lowering boats of a very (ingenious character has just been tried at Portsmouth. The inventor is Mi’ Polknrd, and it has passed the test, of the Steam Reserve very successfully, though it must be observed that the experiments, so far, have been confined to still water. The foremost, and aftermost thwarts are|picrced ni the centre, the apertures forming the opening of hollow V shaped cases connecting the thwarts with the keel. Through these cases a long link, some three feet long, passes, the top being connected with the sling block, while the bottom is secured and kept taut by means of a bar. Thus secured for and aft the boat swings securely from the davits so long as its weight is fell by the attachments, but the moment it reaches the water and the strain is relieved it becomes detached. This result is effected by means of what is termed the lazy tongs, a mechanical contrivance which may be rendered intelligible to nou-toclinieal readers by saying that if is neither more nor less than the arrangement of joints by which toy soldiers are made to advance or retire at will. Placed amidships is a square box in which the ends of the bars, which secure the elongated rings iu their places, are connected with lazy tongs. The raising of a heavy weight, extends the tongs to their utmost length, by which the bars are forced out and into the tore and aft rings, the weight being kept in its place by the strain of the suspended boat. But. tlie inonicn the boat becomes waterborne ibe weight falls and compresses the lazy tongs, and the bars being at the same time withdrawn from the sustaining links, the boat becomes simultaneously free at both bow and stern, without the slightest assistance from the crew.