Shipping Intelligence.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 16, Issue 817, 29 August 1870, Page 2

Shipping Intelligence.

PORT OF AH URIEL ARRIVALS. AUGUST. 23—Keera, s.s., 158 tons, i>ain, from Auckland DEPARTURES. AUGUST. 27 -Muriwai, schooner, 23 tons, W. Harris, for Poverty Bay PASSENGER LIST. INWARDS. ! In the Keera,—Mrs Oamybell, Mr Rogan, Mr Powdrell, Mr Rice, and 6 others EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Albion, ship, 560 tens, Krolin, from Loudon via OhallciigerTsaip, (MQ tons, from London via Kelson Comerang, p.s.. from Auckland Esther, brigantine, from Wellington via Castle Point and Blackhead Lord Ashley, s.s., from Wellington and Southern Porta Eangatira, s.s., from Wellington VESSELS Irv HARBOR. Greenwich, cutter, (lightering) Hero, BCuoMSi'. from Wairoa and Mohaka Keera, s.s , from Auckland Mania, cutter, iligiittringj Three Brothers, schooner, from Wairoa Why Not, ketch, from Wairoa PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Foa Auckland—Lord Ashley, this day, Monday, shortly after arrival; Keera, to-morrow evening Waiboa—Hero, schooner, this evening; Why Not, ketch, early The s.s. Keera, Capt. Bain, left Auckland at midnight on Thursday, and rounded tlie East Cape at midnight on Friday. On Saturday night, in consequeuce of strong S.E. gale, came to an anchor in Wangawehi. Resumed her voyage yesterday morning, and arrived here at 5 o'clock last evening.—The Keera will leave for Auckland direct to-morrow evening with a cargo of stock. The schooner Muriwai, Harris, master, sailed for Poverty Lay on Saturday morning, with a general cargo. The s.s. Lord Ashley, Capt. Andrews, left Wellington for Napier at 10 a.m. yesterday. She will steam for'Auckland shortly after arrival at this port. According to the New Zealand Herald, the | Ashley will in future call in at Tauranga both on | her upward and downward trips. The ship Albion, Capt. Krolm, left Nelson for this port at 10 o'clock yesterday morning. The schooner Hero is ready for sea, but awaits a favorable change in tlie weather. The p.s. Comerang was advertised to leave Auckland for this port on Saturday afternoon.

EXGLISII AND FOREIGN NOTES. We extract the following paragraphs from the European Mail, June 17 : The Sultan, 12, iron armour-plated ship, 5,226 tons, 1,200 horse-power, which has been building in No. 2 dock at Chatham, was launched or "floated out" on May 31, in the presence of a large crowd of spectators. The ceremony of christening was performed by a daughter of his Excellency Musurus Pasha, the Turkish Ambassador to the Court of London. The Sultan is a broadside ship of peculiar construction, the first of the kind built at Chatham. She was designed by Mr E. J. Reed, the Chief Constructor of the Navy. Her lirst plate was laid on August I,IBGB. These are the dimensions of the ship : —Extreme length, 338 ft. 6 in.; extreme breadth, 59 ft.; depth of hold, 21 ft. To hasten her construction, from the beginning of the work in dock a large number of workmen have been engaged on the Sultan, and of late nearly 1.000 hands have been at work on her. The Sultan will be a most formidable vessel. She is ranked in the Navy List as a 12-guu ship, and she will carry twelve very powerful guns, bu" on her upper dock she will have in addition a number of guiis of smaller calibre. The main- deck battery will cousist of eight 18-ton guns, the two most forward of which can,-by th&e'oustruction of the port holes, like those of the Heicules, be fired almost straight ahead. Tjjere will also be two guns of less weight and well protected hi the bow of the vessel. But the special feature of the ship is au upper battery, at the after end of the main (leek;,

battery, semicircular in form, the rounded ends projecting somewhat over the sides of the. ship, which will contain two I2£ ton guns, so mounted on Captain Scott's carriages that they can be fired in almost every direction —fore and aft and as part of the broadside. All the guns of the battery are strongly protected by armour plates. An order has been received at Chatham from the Admiralty directing the-building at that dockyard of another new powerful iron vessel to be named the Raleigh, which is to-be at once com menced in the first building dock which becomes vacant. The Raleigh is to be upwards of 4,000 tons burden, with machinery of 1,000 horse power, and will be cased with wood. Two new iron-cased gun vessels, to be named the Snake and Scourge, are likewise to be built at Chatham Dockyard, and are to be commenced as speedily as possible. A meeting of Tyne shipowners and masters and mates of vessels has been held in the Nautical College, South Shields, to consider by what means the frequent loss of life and property, arising from misconception of certain articles of the " rnle o! the road" at sea, might be best obviated. The following resolution and a memorial to the Board of Trade in harmony with it, were unanimously adopted :—" That this meeting is of opinion that the ambiguity of the words ' nearly end on' in articles 11 and 13 of the sailing directions is the cause of many collisions at sea which might otherwise be avoided, and considers that if they were omitted no mischief cpuld ensue from their absence. This meeting resolves, therefore, to memorialise the Lords of the Admiralty and the Board of Trade to advise her Majesty in Council to order their omission, and this meeting resolves also to petition the House of Commons to omit them from the sailing regulations in the Merchant Shipping Act now before the House.