SHIPPING.

Globe, Volume IX, Issue 1206, 15 January 1878, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OF LYTTELTON. Weather Report—January 15. f> a.m.— Wind, N.E., light; weather, cloudy; Barometer, 29.43 j thermometer, 68.00. Hwh Watfr -To-morrow. Mominir, 1.02 j night, 1.32. Arrived—January 15. Hawea, S.s., 462 tons, Wheeler, from Akaroa and Dunedin. Miles, Hassal and Co, agents. Passengers—saloon—Mesdanies Fletcher, Penlington, Atkinson, Saunders, Coombes awl child, Prosser, Misses McClure, Hislop, Donelly, Cotterill.Mrand Mrs Hvatt and family. Rev. Anderson, Messrs Fletcher and Son, Haddison, Penhngton, fnwood, Harris, Ayrton, Coombes, Prosser, Culling, Flowerdew, Worthington, Lund, Malcolm, 10 in steerage, and 30 for North. Arawata, 8.8., 623 tons, Underwood, from Wellington and Nelson. Dalgety, Nichols and Co., agents, Passengers—saloon—From Coast, for LytteltonMessrs Moss Davis and child, Maber, McQuade, M. Bowron. E. J. T. Ford, Palmer, Simmons, Carruthers. Fitzgerald, Sydney Smith, Stephenson. Miss Fisher'; Mrs Fisher; steerage—Messrs Dowme, Williams, O'Neill, Ledget, Douglas and family (3), (Jordan and Son, Smith, Allison, Kelly, and 40 for other ports. St. Kilda, s.s.. 174 tons, Plowerday, from Dunedin, Oamaru and Timaru. Boyse, Stead and Co., agents. Passengers—B for North. Easby, 5.5.,969 tons, Anderson, from Sydney via Port Chalmers. Passengers—saloon—Messrs Pasman, Casiu and family, and Mrs Rattray. Cleared— January 15. ketch, 40 tons, Whitby, for Wellington. Cn j And Graham, agents. Hawea, s.s., 462 tons, Wheeler, for Auckland via East Coast. Miles, Hassal and Co, agents. Arawata, s.s., 623 tons, Underwood, for Melbourne via South. Easby, s.s., 969 tons, Anderson, for Sydney via Wellington. Royse, Stead and Co, agents. Richard and Mary, schooner, 44 tons, Britt, for Waitapu. Cuff and Graham, agents. Sailed—January 14. Kestrel, ketch, 20 tons, Mortimer, for Pigeon Bay. Master, agent. Sailed- January 15. Omaha, brigantine, 132 tons, Hughes, for Chatham Islands. P. Cunningham and Co, agents. Passengers--Messrs W. Wood, Chudleigh, W. Moore, F. Moore, J. Johnson. Derweut, brig, 221 tons, Thompson, for Newcastle, in ballast. Master, agent. The s.s. Arawata arrived from Wellington and Nelson at o' a.m., and sails for Melbourne via South this afternoon. The s.s. Hawea arrived from Port Chalmers, and sails for Auckland via Fast Goast this afternoon. The s.s. St. Kilda arrived from Dunedin, Oamaru, and Timaru, at noon, and sails for Wellington and Wanganui to-morrow. The s.s. Easby was coming up the harbor when our express left Port at 1 p.m. INTERESTING NAVAL EXPERIMENTS. Some interesting and highly satisfactory experiments were made on board the Oberon hulk at Portsmouth on October 12th, for the purpose of ascertaining how, in cise of war, merchant and mail steamers might be made available as auxiliaries to the Royal Navy. The machinery of the steamers belonging to the mercantile marine not unfrequently rises 20ft. above the waterline, and if called upon to act as transports or patrols in case of hostilities breaking out, it is evident they might be paralysed by a shot penetrating into the engineroom or stokehole. How this danger could he provided against was more particularly the object of the experiments on hoard the Oberon. Two compartments were formed along the side of the hulk by means of hulk-heads extending from the main to the upper deck. These compartments, which gwere each 17ft. 6in. in length and 10ft. deep inwards, were filled with coal, No. 1 being filled with Welsh anthracite coal, and No. 2 with blocks of patent fuel. Through the hunkers thus formed two boiler-plates fin. thick were placed loosely through the coal in a vertical directiou. This completed the experimental protection for the machinery. Three shots were tired against it from a 64-pounder gnu on board the Bloodhound gunboat, two against No. 1 and one against No. 2 compartment, at a range of about 200 yards. None of these got through. Four shells, containing a bursting charge of 71b., were next tired, one against No. 1, and three again.-tt No. 2 compartment, with the same result. They all penetrated the first loose plate, and one burst open the upper deck, but none succeeded in perforating the protection, nor was any portion of the coal set on fire by the burst. The result of the experiments was considered highly (satisfactory. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. Port Chalmers, January 14, Arrived—Brigantine Annie, from Hobart Town.— Ship Dallam Tower, from London, 2600 tons cargo, 8 tons powder, 44 passengers. Left London Ocp. 20th; c eared laud 24th; crossed Equator lorg, 29.45 west 19th Nov.; rounded Cape of Good Hope lat 47 S. 14th Dec. ; massed aeh tin of icebergs 15 miles to the north-east" in lat. 48.8 long. 34.30 E., Dec. 18th : the chain eitended for a length of seven miles. Made the Snares on the 11th hist., and Heads at 1.20 p.m. 12th. Encountered a territic SW.gale. Anchored outside; towed up 11 p.m. 13th. Passage, 79 days from land to land, 81 days port to port. Wellington, January Id, The Wakatipu left at 1 p.m. Passengers— Mesdames Marks and Frankell, Miss Frankell, Messrs McDonald, Goodall, Butler, Donoghue, and original from Sydney.