SHIPPING.

Globe, Volume VII, Issue 743, 6 November 1876, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OF LYTTELTON. Weather Report : .“’November 6 —B a.m., wind, N.E., fresh breeze; weather, clear blue sky. Barometer, 29.97; thermometer, 56. High Water : To. morrow—Morning, 8.35; night, 9.06. ARRIVED. Nov 6—Kestrel, ketch, 20 tons, Rutter, from Mclntosh Bay. Nov 6 Akaroa, 43 tons, McLean, from Akaroa. Passengers -Mrs Sunckell, Mrs Billings and two children, Misses Sunckell and Preston, Messrs Thomas, Preston, Frankish, and Bushell. Nov 6—Wakatipu, s,s, Cameron, from Sydney, via Port Chalmers. Passengers— Saloon—Mr and Mrs Hitchins, the Misses Wilson (2), Messrs Maundrill, Dodson, Driver, Roberts, Kitching, Waugh, Reel, Mudie, McKay, Royse, Chaplin, Spedding, Brydone, Taggart, McLean, Campbell, Weston, Baker, Hawson; 8 in steerage, and 21 for North. CLEARED. Nov 6—Wakaripu, s.b., Cameron, for Sydney, via Wellington. Nov 6—Taupo, b.b., 461 tons, Carey, for Port Chalmers. Nov 6—Antelope, cutter, 17 tons, Malcolmson, for Akaroa, f The b.b. Wakatipu arrived at 7.30 this morning. She sails for Sydney, via North, this afternoon. The a.. Taupo, for South, sails this afternoon. YESTERDAY’S. ARRIVED. Nov 5—W. C. Wentworth, barque, 315 tons, Law, from Newcastle. Hawkins and Co, agents. Passenger—Mr W. Stedman. Nov 5-Alert, schooner, 41 tons, Hayes, from Hokitika. Cuff and Graham, agents. Nov 6—Linnet, ketch, 16 tons, Molyneaux, from Pigeon Bay. Master, agent. Nov s— Elizabeth, schooner, 48 tons, Goodman, from the Sound. Nov s— Taupo, s.b, 462 tons. Carey, from Northern ports. Miles, Hassal and Co, agents. Passengers—saloon: Capt and Mrs Eraser, Mr and Mrs Ingley, Mr and Mrs Preston, Colonel and Mrs Leckie, Mr and Mrs GUUgan, Mr and Mrs Urwin, Mesdatnes Walter Johnstone, Richards, Groves, Misses Cagway, Beetham, Gordon, Captains Walker and Petherbridge, Messrs Baker, Smith, MoDougal, Clayton, Evans (2), Bell, Sievens, Heslop, Alexander, Reed, Brown, Morrison, Fraser, Woodward, Wellwood, Fitzroy. Pierce, Campbell, Luke, Hooper, Pickering, Elliott, dagger, Handley, Palmer, Basoh, Redwood, Warren, Dyer, Hammond, Walker, Freeman, Selkirk, Knight, Reynolds, Swan, Jackson, Stock, Landson, South, Barber, Mclntosh, Sellars, McCardell, Fisher, J. Martin, Dash, H S. Smith, Moorhouse, Globe Variety Troupe (8), 20 in steerage, and 12 for South.

THE TELEGRAPH CABLE AGNES. The Agnes, steamer, owned by the Eastern Extension and Australasian Telegraph Company, arrived in harbour yesterday morning at 6.30 o’clock from Singapore via Sydney. As is known to our readers she comes here to relieve the ship Zelandla of some seventy miles of cable now lying In that vessel’s hold, and to lay it across Cook’s Straits, The Agnes is a steamer resembling in many respects, as regards her hull, the s,s Easby, but smaller, and more heavily plated. Her rig is that of a fore-and-aft schooner, and she is flushdecked right aft to the mainmast. On deck are innumerable contrivances for the laying, picking-up, and stowing of the cable. Forward, on the starboard side, is the picking-up gear, which is driven by a very powerful engine, and we need scarcely say that it is of great massiveness and strength, performing, as it does, the heaviest part of the work. Attached to this gear is a contrivance called a dynamometer,vwhichltells to a certainty the weight upon the grappling hooks and line when they have found the cable. Abaft the picking-up gear is a large circular tank in which the cable is stored, measuring 23 feet in diameter and 13 feet deep. Eight aft on the port side is placed the paying-out gear, which consists,of innumerable cog wheels and breaks, and measures about 30 feet in length. By the breaks the running out of the cable is regulated. There is no steam connected with the picking-up gear, the speed of the vessel, together with the weight of the cable, being quite sufficient to put the machinery in motion. In the after-part of the ship is situated another tank for the keeping of the cable, but at present it contains some to miles of cable belonging to the Eastern Extension Company. The Agues was built at fitookton-on-Tees in the year 1870. Her dimensions are—length 200 ft, beam 29ft, depth of hold 16ft, which gives her a builder’s measurement of 560 tons. Her engines are on the compound surface condensing principle, of 100 h. p. nominal, and about 4CO h. p. indicated. The high pressure cylinder measures 30in, aud the low pressure 54iu, with a 4ft stroke. The engiues work at the rate of from 10 to 75 revolutions per minute, and the boiler, which is a very large one, carries a working pressure of from 75 to 801 bof steam. The Agnes’s rate Of speed Vvhen in good fettle is nine knots, and When under sail she can cover eleven knots. She Is manned by 50 men all told, G. R. Sims being commander, and Mr G, Taylor chief electrician. The other officers are as follows:—Chief officer, Mr E, McKenzie; second othcer, Mr W. Trenanan; first engineer, Mr J. McLean: second engineer, Mr W. Staff. Referring to her voyage from Sydney, we find from the chief oiflcer’s logbook that she left there on the 32nd ultimo, called in at Botany Bay, where a tank was dug, and nine miles of cable, shore ends, was buried; left there on the afternoon of the 27th ultimo, and had variable weather, with fresh S.W. wind, till making New Zealand. After arrival the Agnes went alongside the ship Zealandia, and at six o’clock last evening commenced taking the cable on board It is removed by means of steam, but the gear used is so sensitive that when the least extra pressure comes on the cable it stops, and thus prevents any damage to it by straining. The work of transhipment is expected to be finished by Monday next, the opera tions going on night and day.—"N. Z. Times,” November 4 th.