Shipping.

Evening Star, Issue 4097, 13 April 1876, Page 3

Shipping.

HIGH WATER. To-UOSROW.

PORT CHALMERS. ARRIVED April 12.-Samson, p.s., 124 tons, Edie, from Oamoi-u. Passengers: Mesdames Lindsay, Oliver and two children. Misses Begbie, Nelson, Pymm, Duggan, Messrs Johnson, Balmer, Meek, Conyers, M‘Lenn, Guinness, Irving, Marr, Oliver, and five in the steerage. April 13.—Taiaroa, s.s., 262 tons, Stewart, from Timaru, Passengers: Mesdames De Grouse, M'Millan, Misses M'Millnn (two), Messrs Buckingham, Gawne, M’Fayden, Harraway, Edwards, and ten in the steerage. Beautiful Star, s.s., 146 tons, Peterson, from Lyttelton, via Timaru. SAILED. April 12,—Express, s.s., 130 tons, Fraser, for the Bluff. Anne, ketch, 26 tons. Stout, for Gatlin’s River. Fanny, ketch, 25 tons, Williams, for Gatlin’s River.

Huon Belle, ketch, 42 tons, Cowan, for Gatlin’s River. Albion, brig, 248 tons, Payne, for Lyttelton. April 18.—Matau, s.s., 102 tons, Urquhart, for Oamarn. ■fflWoodville, barque, 362 tons, Condy, for Newcastle.

At her trial trip at Sydney, the Zealandia averaged 134 knots.

The Union Co.’s p.s. Samson, with passengers and cargo, including 148 hales of wool for ship May Queen, arrived at 11 p.m. yesterday, and steamed up to Dunedin.

The Albion Co.’s s.s. Taiaroa, with cargo and nineteen passengers, from Timaru, arrived at 7.30 this morning, and steamed alongside the ship Oamaru to discharge 371 bags of grain. She left Timaru at 7.30 p.m. yesterday; had strong S.W. winds to arrival as above.

THE COLIMA.

Regarding the survey on the Colima at Lyttelton by a special inspector of steamers, at the request of the Postmaster-Geueral. the report states that owing to the vessel being afloat and fully coaled, the inquiry was necessarily of a superficial character. The hull, as far as could be seen, was in good order, though the stem indicated about three inches out of line, through the Grenada fouling her at Kandavn. On examination of the ship’s log, the pump well soundings showed that the ship had not made any water. The boats were in good order, and properly equipped with the life raft and sixty life belts, spars, sails, and gear, complete and serviceable. The engines and boilers were in first-class order; the repairs effected in Sydney were first-class in workmanship. The Inspector thinks that the want of a governor to prevent racing in a heavy sea was probably the cause of the loss of her propeller. At the time of the accident the Colima was under easy steam, and the loss of her propeller is supposed to have been caused by a fracture of the propeller boss during heavy weather encountered between Auckland and Wellington, the fracture gradually increasing till she finally lost her screw. The Inspector gives as his opinion that vessels of the Colima’s build, though suitable for trans-oceanic purposes, are not adapted for coastal service, owing to the vessel’s great draught of water being in itself an insuperable objection.

THE STEAMER FOR THE OAMAEU-D UN EDIN TRADE.

The ‘North Otago Times’ has been furnished with the following description of the Union Company’s new steamer Waitaki, which is to replace the Samson in the above trade. The Waitaki will be an iron screw steamer, to be propelled by a pair of compound surface-condensing engines of 100 horse power nominal, made on the latest and best principle, and with all the improvements extant in the way of machinery. The following are her dimensions 1 —Length of keel, 165 f t; beam, 22ft; depth of hold 10ft; to he built to Lloyds’ 100 A class: to carry 180 tons dead weight on a mean draft of Oft 6iu; to be schooner rigged, round stern, plumb bow, topgallant forecastle, long noop and bridge connected. She will have four' bulkheads and water-tight compartment. She will cany three substantial boats of suitable size, one to be fitted as a life-boat, with copper buoyant tanks, and Douglas’s patent disengaging apparatus. She will be supplied with one of Napier Bros.’s windlasses, capable of being worked by hand or endless cha n from forward steam winch. Her saloon will be 42ft in length, to be fitted with thirty-four open sofa berths, all face mouldings, and round seat bertha, to be made of mahogany; a light green and gold comice to run all round the saloon and stair lobbies; and the former to contain a handsome mahogany table 3ft 3iu in width, to be made to draw out the whole length of the saloon. The cabins to be heated with steam, the pipe to pass through the ladies’ cabin and round the saloon in front of the seats. On the right side of the entrance to the saloon there will be a large lavatory, fitted with all the latest improvements j and on the left ■ an elaborately furnished state room, containing four berths. Just forward of this state room, on the same side, is a large and beautifully.fitted up ladies’ cabin (12ft square), finished in enamelled white, with tinselled panels, gold-edged mouldings, and neat cornice and trusses i the sofa berths, of which there are eight, are similar to those in the main saloon—and all the useful and pretty little kuicknocks suitable to a ladio cabin will be provided. On each side ef the after-hatch are lavatories, closets, and pantry. Forward of this is the engine-room, cabins for the engineers and first and second officers on each side of it, On the bridge is the captain’s cabin, handsomely fitted up and furnished ; and between that and the fore hatch, but placed on the main deck, is the purser’s room—the same size, and equally as comfortable. Forward of the fore-hatch is the steerage, under the main deck neatly lined and fitted for twonty-four passengers’ with two ladies’ sleeping berths, capable of accommodating four qaoh. The men’s room to be fitted with sixteen open berths, mahogany table and settees, mirrors, washbasins, &c„ all of the most substantial kind. The forecastle will be fitted for twelve of a crew. On the deck, just abaft of the entrance to the saloon, will be an elaborately fitted up smoking saloon, Oft x Bft. Taken altogether, the Waitaki will be ope of the smartest boats on the New Zealand coast, with all the luxunea in her fittings and fnraishinga that experience can suggest and money obtain. No expense is being spared in older to provide a boat that will be alike a credit to her builders and her owuers, and to the port to which she will belong. She is to average twelve knots, and passengers travelling by her will he able to go to Dunedin in less time than they could by the railway. By the time she arrives here the trains will be running through from Oamaru to Christchurch and we have ne doubt that a large number of travellers en route from Dunedin to Christchurch will come as far as Qomrnu ip tfio Waitaki, and then take the northern train on to their destination. 1 o people who are not good sailors this will be a great convenience, as instead of being eighteen or twenty hours on the sea, they will be only four. The Waitaki is being built by Messrs Wingate and Co., under the superintendence of Mr John Darling, building inspector at Some for the Union 0 team ship Company. In the same yard two steamers are building for the U.S.S. Company—the Wanaka, for the Timaru trade, and a new tug-boat for Otago Harbor. We may mention that Messrs Wingate are the builders of the Ringarooma and Arawata The Waitaki is expected to arrive in Port Chalmers during July, *

SHIPPING TKLEGEAM.

Gbeymouth, April 18.—Arrived, 2.30 p.m.: s.s. Maori, from Hokitika. Sails to-morrow for South,

Heads, 1 Pt, Chalmers. I Dunedin, 5.44 p.m. 1 6.24 p.m. | 7.9 p.m. Saturday, 6.22 p.m. | 7.2 p.m. | 7.47 p.m.