SHIPPING.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1573, 5 March 1879, Page 2

SHIPPING.

POST OP LYTTELTON.

Arbi vkd— March 5. Wakatipn. b.s., 1100 tons, Wheeler, from Sydney via Wellington. B. Pnfletfc, agent. Passengers— HeasrH Danvers and 2 children. Misses Eoberts and Brien, Messrs Malcom, Greenless, Ward. Frankeuberg, Mason, Anderson, fleel, Levy, Harding, Bliss, Gaston, Effey, Bowden, Smith (2). From Wellington—Mesdames Lnking, Hammersley Miss Stephens, Hon. W. Fox,, Eev. Znchnnah, Messrs Beuttie, Bailer, Davis, Mask. Daley. Lnkintr Wood, Nelson, Mason, Calcott, Brandon, Black, Wilson, Bodman, Clapham, Bnchanan, Waiuwright, Horan, Davis, Harris, Ellaby, Everett, Came, Davis, Fisher, Hncholz, Brown, "fight, Sharjic, Harman. Williams, Warington, 1 ieia, Brown. For South—2o. Sailkd— March 4. Tni. 8.5., Cl tons, Wills, for Kaikonra and Wclington. Cnff and Graham, agents. Passengers Saloon: Mr J. Adams ; steerage, Mr Gibson.

The U.S.S. Co.’s Wakatipn, Captain Wheeler, arrived at nine this Mioruing: from Sydney via Wcl* lington. She will leave for Port Chalmers this of sailing of the ship Hydaspes is,altered to the 10th inst. ..... The Sissy, Mr J. B. Way, agent, is taking in cargo at No. 3 Wharf for Auckland and Thames. _ Of the Union Company’s newly chartered Spanish steamer Zamboanga, whose arrival from Sydney at Port Chalmers was reported in the shipping telegrams on Saturday, ft Dunedin exchange, the ••‘rimes," has the following:—“The Zamboanga was formerly known as the Formosa, and was built for a French company in the year 1871, by Messrs G. Lung and Co., of Sunderland; and although not a passenger-carrying vessel, like the fine boats of the Union Company, is a handsome and commodious ship. She has been well and faithfully built, and we can safely aver that bnt few steamers come here possessing greater carrying capabilities than she does. Her model is perfect, and it is evident no expense has been spared in her construction, her iron work being of the most solid description, while the decks are all of teak. She is fitted to carry a limited number of passengers, who are well accommodated in a very neat though unpretentious saloon, to which is attached a special room for ladies. The commander and officers have splendid accommodation provided for them in the deckhouses. while the petty officers and seamen are berthed forward. Her commander is Captain V. Arangaren, a gentleman who has for several years past been trading in the Eastern Hemisphere. His chief officer, Seuor F. Barandicn, has also seen considerable service in the China trade ; while the chief engineer in Mr Guy, who is to be complimented on the state of his engine-room and machinery, this, like every other part of the vessel, being of the most substantial description. Ho is assisted by Messrs Lamb and Cummings as second and third engineers, while the usual engine-room crow is composed of Chinese. The mariners attached to the ship are natives of the Philippine Islands, from one of which group she derives her present name. Few vessels have ever come into port with finer machinery than that of the Zamboanga. Her engines—the construction of the North-Eastern Engineering Company at Snnderland—are models of strength and beauty. They are of the kind known as compound surface condensing, the diameter of the high-pressure cylinder being 28in., that of the low-pressure being 5 Hn., with a stroke of 30in. She has two multitnbular boilers, and, in addition to this, possesses a very powerful donkeyengine and its necessary appliances for discharging cargo. Handsome and commodious deok-honses, as we have already stated, have been provided, and in the forward one is a room specially sot apart for the use of the captain and navigating officers; charts, barometers, and all the appliances necessary for their use being provided. Underneath this deck house is the ship’s galley, together with a row of splendid bath-rooms; indeed, nothing has been left undone which would conduce to the comfort of those occupying positions on board. She was originally brig-rigged, and carries her gear for that purpose on deck, it having been thought desirable that she should not bo over hampered on the Australian coast. She is well found with a number of excellent boats, and is, we need hardly say, fitted with the latest labor-saving appliances. The barque Times was towed into the stream yesterday, her place at the pier being taken by the ship Marlborough, to discharge the balance of her inward cargo. SHIP SIGNALLED. A ship was signalled when onr messenger left the Port, 'ihe report from the signal station was “a black-painted ship, not believed to he the Piako.”