SHIPPING.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume V, Issue 209, 4 January 1865, Page 2

SHIPPING.

ARRIVED. January I—Succcss, schooner. 30 tons, G, Frost, from the coast, with a cargo of wool for shipment here. 8. Begg, agent. January 2—Rapid, schooner, 32 tons. M'Kenzie, from Tauranga, via Wangapoa, with 5 boxes luggage. 1 iron bedstead, 2 chairs, 1 table, Halpin; l,n(X) slates, 9 cans nails, 40 pieces piping, JO pieces ridging. Sl.tiOo feet sawn timber. Hall. Passengers—Mr and Mrs Haljrin. Master, ■gent. January 2—Emerald Isle, schooner, 25 tons, Boulton, from the Pelorns, with 20,000 feel timber. Watt. Kennedy and Watt. Master, agent. January 3—Wild Wave, schooner, 93 tons, Hugh Paterson, from Invercargill via Stewart’s Island, with 67,000 feet cawn timber, Watt, Kennedy and Watt. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Egmont. s.»„ from Auckland (carrying H.Jf. mails) oa the Sth Inst. Queen, s.s., from Wellington and the South, on the 6th inst. Queen, s.s., from Auckland, on the 15th inst. Rangatira, s.s., from Wellington, on the 16th inst. RROJECTED DEPARTURES. Egmont, s.s., for Wellington, with English mail, on Che 6th inst. Queen, s.s., for Auckland, on the 7th inst. Queen, s.s., for Wellington on the 16th inst. Rangatira, s.s.. for Auckland, on the I7th lost. VESSELS IX POET, fttrathallan, ship, from London. Emerald Isle, schooner, from Pelorns Sound. Rapid, schooner, from Auckland. Success, schooner from Wellington. 2Ula.h. schooner, from Auckland. Superintendent's cutter, from Auckland. Wild Wave, schooner, from Otago.

The Rapid, Captain M’Kenzie, left Tauranga on the 19th ult.; arrived at Wangapoa on the 20th; left Wangapoa on the 27th, and arrived at Napier on the 2nd inst., at 3 p.m. She experienced line weather and light variable winds during the passage. The schooner Erne, aid Isle, Captain Boulton, left the Pelorns on the 21st; experienced a heavy southerly gale in the Straits, and put into Port Underwood. Left Port Underwood on the 27th. On the night of the 3uth spoke the Joanna, south of Flat Point; on the 31st, passed the Sea Serpent off Castlepoint.

The Steamer Waixabt.— This trim little steamer, the property of Messrs N. Edwards and Co., went outside the harbor on Saturday afternoon, to run the measured mile, and to ascertain the effect of the improvements in her steering apparatus. These last were found excellent, as she turned rapidly, and ans wered the least motion of her wheel. There was blowing from the land a strong breeze, which was a beam wind both going and returning, but which had fore-and at canvas been hoisted, would with steam have carried th < vessel along at a rapid rate. In the adverse circumstmois she did the mile in Timm, going ont, and in Train. o.,cc. on the return, making a fraction over eight miles an hour, with something like 201bs. pressure of steam. The Wallaby was in bad trim for steaming, particularly against a wind, as she had no cargo on board, and she steams best when laden, which she can he to upwards of eighty tons. Considerable Improvement in cabin accommodation has been made in the Wallaby. The stern cabin has become the second cabin, which is roomy and well Hghted, and on deck, amidships, a house has been built, and now forms the main cabin. Underneath this is the ladies’ cabin, which is being tastefully fitted up, and will, like all the rest of the accommodation, be luxurious and comfortable. The Wallaby will have about forty-five passenger berths fore Mid aft. She leaves fcr the Buller, the Grey, and the Okitlki, this day,— XfeUon Colonist, Dec. 20. “ We notice by Auckland' papers that the six seamen who were remanded to Bussell some short time ago on the charge of scuttling the steamer Aphraria, on ner passage to Sydney, have been brought before the Resident Magistrate there, and honourably acqu t ed.