SHIPPING.

Globe, Volume VI, Issue 625, 20 June 1876, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OF LYTTELTON, Weather Report : June 20-8 a.m. : calm; weather overcast and gloomy. Barometer —30,32; taermometer, 40. ' High.. Water ; To-morrow morning, 2.52 ; night, 2.38. ARRIVED. < -June 20—City of San Francisco, 4500 tons, J. J. Wardell, from Wellington. June 20 -Quiver, ketch, ,17 tons, Smith, from Le Bon’a Bay. June 20—Elizabeth Conway, schooner, 45 tons, Ware, from Fictou. YESTERI) A Y'S. SAILED. June 19 -Taranaki, s.s, 290 tons, Lloyd, for Northern ports. G. Mackay. agent. Passen-ors-saloon : Mrs Mathers and 5 children, Mrs Hill, lion Jolin Hall Messrs J. E. Brown, M.H-E, Hurst, Meyers, Boye’s, Axup, Norris, Stagg (2), Doyle, Staples, Forest, 6 in steerage; 14 original, and GO Chmam june 19— Otago, a.s, 013 tons. Colder, for Melbourne via Soutli. Dalgcty, Nichols and Co, agents, Passengers—saloon : for Coast, Miss Daley; slceiage, for Melbourne: Mr Lambert, Mr, Mrs, and Master Malcolm. m TORTS. Per Exctelsior— «»ieet timber. Consigned to -Per Witch of the Wave-370 ions coal. Consignee —W. Montgomery and Co. Per Taranaki—Under Arms /tct, Sown snot. Free, 3 crates, 45 cases, 8 bales, t 1 cask. ConsigutH- ”a: ' . ’ ' •*.; Co, E. Black, 1 ,/J-vr. ■ y--5 D’Authreai:, ;. r — r . w.<>» • Gabitea, Anderson, ■. ‘ Walters, Cook sad Terr. ErnEonv.' 1 . Per Otago—Free; kcr Li i :c.'Xia.k _og;. butter; for Bluff: 1 otil ilE;: g bales rope; fer 1-clb:t;rnt; (*. —• y. a “.-° hides, 40 sacks grass seed. BmpEerG-w. -cy.e. Cuff and Graham, Abbott, Da.gety, iLchcb ana Co, F. Dupre, T. S. Paytsn and Cc, Mr-tkcecu-s ■ Acenev, Watt and Co. . _ _ Per Taranaki —F ,ce; for Wellington, x pci, 2 nkgs 3 cases, 7 do bacon; for ITapier: lr cases, 4 trunks ; for Wangan d : 1 case, 25 sacks seed ; ror Picton: I sack seed, 3 do oatmeal, 10 bags flour; lor Nelson: 2pkgs, I case, 13 do bacon, 60 sacks . wheat, 10 kegs butt' r; for Taranaki: 1 bale, 2 cases Hhampagne, 11 kegs. ■ 'kippers Majot llornbrook, jjeovi and tsa u, \Yoledgc and Co, Stir Company, I.ightbaiul, Allan and Co, Trent PSBrothers, 11. Uawkii s, Twentyman and Cousm, Duncan and Son, P Cuuuingham and Co, u. o ilgon General Govci ament, J. Eeharrol, Mm.omiol Brothers, Watt and Co, J. Gilmour.T. Ed warns, 11. Davis.

The barque Witch of the Wave came up the harbor yesterday to an anchorage off the Breakwater. The'three masted schooner tor Wellington, Isabella Pratt, lor Kapler, and Elizabeth, for Auckland, being favored by rue south-west wind, took their departure yesterday morning. We sco by “ Mitchell’s Register that ohe Blairgowrie left Calcutta on February 2oth, for London. The Lactura left the same port, bound for London, . on March 30th. , ~ The ship Pakaia sailed from Port Chalmers, for London, on the 15th. with a cargo valued at £s4,Pro The s g Otago took on board sixty ions o, cargo lor Melbourne, and sailed lor that per* via Dunedin • and Bluff at 325 p.iri. yesterday nrternoor, " The dredge Erskine came into the Brourtwors; yesterday, "where she will bo dismantled and her machinery partly fittedThe Ann Array takes the Alexi'.ndfti r. hertn at the No 2 Wharf on Thursday next, to discharge It is "reported that tin .Tames llaimrd will b.■ brought here from Dunedin, !•' moored in Dm pier’s Bav. anti used as n coal hurt. B-w TIteN.Z.S.S. Company’* favorite steamer fav»Wpftnilfi ’arrived in harbor at 8 am. yo/tevday morning, and was berthed at the tier .v-prU. ei. mi Dougherty, the purser—-to whom we • ■ w.m : flies—reports leaving Port Cnahnerc at u P m. cn Sunday and coming up the coast under easy i icam before a south-west wind. Discharged twenty 1 ens and took on board forty, sailing ior x\orthern pores at 3.40 p.ra. yesterday. The topsail schooner Excelsior put in an appearance yesterday, anchoring’ inside the Breakwater at 11 a m Captain Joiner reports leaving Havelock on June 9th, "with strong westerly wind; on the lltlrmut into Queen Ciiarlotte Sound for shelter, and lay there till the ]4th. when she made another Start, with a strong westerly breeze; passed Cape Campbell same day at 8 p.in, bub had toputmlo Amur! Bluff on the ICth for shelter from a soutnwest <mlc : left ac is a.m. on the 18th, and had fresh * —wwpjferlv breeze to arrival off file Heads at 5 p in. someday, arriving as above. On discharging will load for Wellington. . . . , As will be seen bv the following extract from Saturday’s “ Otago Times,’’ two home vessels have arrived at Pori Chalmers and another is close

to -port,'so that we may expect some of the ships due here hourly, several being longer out than too Oberon ‘Ah we expected would eventuate, the la<l- - W breeze has. brought down Home ships. The Horsa, from Glasgow, put in appearance at t.h> Heads yesterday lorenoou, and was lollowed in th kfternoou by the ship Oberon. from London. W scarcely looted for the Oberon, but thought th Grampus, now eighty-nine days out, might have shown up. The Horsa has been ninety-tour days ; on the way, and the Oberon seventy-eight clays— I the latter thus having made > Capital passage As , it was blowing fresh irom the S.W and the hu ar V ebb, the Geelong did not go down to the Heads p until the afternoon. By the time she reached the " ' ship it was low water, whilst the day was fast closing in, and hence, as the Horsa was drawing 19ft and the Oberon 19ft Om, the pilots in charge decided not to tow up harbor until this morning. We have on a former occasion found reason lor jf commenting unfavorably upon the working of the I Geelong, but on this one it appears to us that she has been made a victim of. Before the Geelong went down, those in charge of the ships must have known that they would not tow in on that tide, and therefore the order for the tug might as well have been countermanded. The Horsa being the , lio-htest draught, will be the first to come in this morning and should reach the port anchorage by »' eight or nine o’clock. The Oberon has powder on board, and will therefore bring up off Pull-an Point. We expect to hear of the arrival of the ship Orpheus, from London to-day, for telegraphing from the Heads last night our correspondent informed us that the ship Oberon reports having spoken the ship Orpheus off the Snares on Sunday last all well on board. She was said to have immigrants on board, but that must be a mistake, ns she <■ is a powder ship, and has simply a long passenger . list—thirty-eight all told. She is consigned to Messrs A Briscoe and Co, whilst the Horsa, chartered by the Albion Company, comes to Messrs Cargills, Gibbs and Co, and the Oberon to tho New ' Zealand Shipping Company. If the Orpheus left according to published date of departure, she has been eighty-eight days at sea to-day. We hail the arrival of these ships with a great deal oi pleasure.”

The new steamer Iron Age, says the “Otago Daily Times” of uie Islh, made a short run yesterday morning, from Eattray street to Macandrew s Bay and back,; ust to test the working the machinery. As it was not a trial trip we shall not criticise the steamer’s performance; but many state that she did sufficiently well to warrant an • expectation of b r fulfilment of ail tnc anoeipations indulged in concerning nor. Wc gave a _ description of th iron Age some -.vreic. l ago, ana now that she is quit? finished can congratulate her builders and ov/.ieis —li e lust ler .’ay tog Lurueci out a steamer or: iitablc tothenoro i nd .l.ornsolvc:, and the second i: possessing what taut,, prove i most effective am I rofitsble vessel. _hcre ate ore or two pcculiariti j about the machinery oi the Iron Age worthy of nc z. She is fitted with a compoua.. engine of 30-horse power nominal, the low pressure cylinder, 26in diameter, being fixed on the a tar board side, and connected with the starboard cran to. the main shaft, whilst the high pressure cylinder, lam diameter, is fixed on the port side, and connected with the port crank of the abaft. 1 he cylinders be in a diagonal position fust forwards of the boiler, and are attached to th a si .aftby long connecting- roes. Tho cranks of the shaft are on the disk principle, and ol cast iron, instead of the ordinary wrought iron, and much smaller cranks. Tne shaxt i& 51 in diameter, and the length ot the piston stroue 3:1, The Age Is a side-wheel -boat, diameter of wheels lOtt, breadth of floats Oft 2in, and dc-nth of do 2ft. They are fixed diagonally, according to Mr Stevens's patent, which, as applied to the steamer Samson, appears to answer very well. The new steamer is 5 very well appointed and fitted. She has a roomy i bridge over a deck-house the fore part of which is Jk-. divided i. totwc Of. Ji'-s, one for tl.s erHjeir. V <• p other for the captain, «ud n ladies erbin mine , alter part of the house. The midships section of | the house covers tUe shaft auu part of tho

machinery, including the air pump, which lies right under the shaft.. There are iron boat davits in the starboard side of the quarter-deck, aud substantial towing gear abaft the boiler and mainmast, the boiler, we may observe, being abaft the engine. Abaftallis a companion hatch, leading down to a comfortable little cabin, lifcfed with cushioned seats, lockers, &c. The Age is steered from the bridge, and is supplied with good tackle and all other requisite appliances. She will run her official trial trip in a day or two.