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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume II, Issue 38, 20 March 1862, Page 3

.Airedale.— The Inter Colonial Mail'Company steam ship Airedale Captain’Kennedy sailed from the Manukau for Kew Plymouth and the Southern ports on Sunday last, crowded in every corner where a human being could possibly indeed so extensive has the passenger traffic on this line become that there would, we incline to think, be no great difficulty in filling a ship of double the Airedale’s dimensions. On Friday last on the invitation of the local manager Mr. W. H. Hobbs, we paid a visit to the Airedale to witness the many and great improvements that have been made in her, and that arc to be carried [out in all the Company’s vessels under the new and practical management of Captain Tine Hall. To those familiar with the Airedale when she first arrived on this station it would be difficult to recognize her except externally, and there too paint polish and the hand of the diligent are agreeably conspicuous. Inboard however the improvements are most striking ; great as were the alterations from her first little series of cabins to her present well considered saloon there stilllackod those additional amendments which have since been made. Inside and out the ship has been completely renovated. An exceedingly comfortable house for the Captain has been built on the quarterdeck near to its break it is furnished with many requisites a tell tale and a chronometer each in convenient cells, and with windows which command the deck in all directions Under the same roof with this house on the port side a very easy and airy staircase leads to the Saloon, which is entered from a convenient lobby, the pantry, a well contrived room, occupying the forward angle on the port side, thc'purscr’s room the centre, and the ladies cabin the forward angle on the starboard side. By removing the Captain’s cabin to the deck, which it trenches on little more than an ordinary companion way, four berths arc gained. Indeed the economizing of space in the most convenient and comfortable way is one of the remarkable peculiarities of the Airedale which for her inches may safely be pronounced to bo the best ordered boat on the Kew Zealand coast. Off the Saloon there are 24 berths for gentlemen and six berths for ladies. In the second cabin, which has also been vastly improved, there is accommodation for 52 persons with berths to each. On the decks a good deal of unnecessary hampcr’has been got rid of two obstructive ladders have given place to a convenient bridge by which the platform from which the ship is conned is reached from the quarter deck direct by this means much clear space has been acquired. In the Engine department the ameliorations are not less obvious. The Engine room has undergone thorough purgation the machinery is as bright as if newly turned out; a water jacket and super heating apparatus have been supplied and the two bladed screw has been superseded by one with three blades the result of these alterations is that the ship is propelled much more steadily and swiftly than heretofore, the estimated accession of speed being fully two knots per hour consequently there is a rational assurance that for the large outlay some efficient alterations are to be made in the other vessels of the Company’s squadron. The Lord Ashley is now in the hands of Sydney artificers, and when completed as she is likely to be in five or six weeks the Lord Worslev will take her place. Captain Hall seems determined not to patch up, out to render the ships under his charge as perfect as they can be. Wo commend him for his enterprise, and wo heartily hope that ho will be able to work the lino as it ought to be worked, with the addition of two or three more efficient steamers from England. —New Zealander, Feb. 12.

Money-making at a London Bazaar.—The Countesses of Tankcrvillo and. Durham drove a great business' 1 by retailing iced claret cups, “ warranted not Gladstone’s” at 2s. the small, the very small tumbler ! At one stall ladies were offered the inspection of “ a lovely portrait,” and gentlemen -- a view cf the gorilla,” for 3d ! When the money was paid down, there was held up to each a looking-glass ! Bouquets were sold at the price of a flower bed ; and one contrived to make a bottle of cau-de-eologne produce some 155., by doling it out at 3d. a thimbleful on handkerchiefs. Court Journal.