Shipping Intelligence.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 17, Issue 1057, 1 July 1871, Page 2

Shipping Intelligence.

Port Ahuriri. latitude, 39 deg. 28 min. 44 sec. S. j longitude, 176 deg. 55 mini 10 sec. E. Phase of the Moon—Full Moon on the 3rd July, at 1.6 a.m. .THE TIDES APPROXIMATE TIME OP HIGH V/ATEH SLACK. Monday ... Morning, 7.00; Evening, 7-25 ARRIVALS. Nil. DEPARTURES, Nil. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Mary Ann Hudson, ketch, for Wairoa, When the weather permits Meteor, schooner, for Auckland, early Why Not, ketch, for Porangahau, early EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Amherst, brigantine, from Newcastle Beth Shan, ship, from London via Nelson (139 days out) Crest of tho Wave, schooner, from Dunedin Hero, schooner, from Wairoa Lord Ashley, s.s., from Southern Ports, 4th July Luna, p.s., from the North Napier, s.s, from Auckland via Poverty Bay Nevada, p.s., from Wellington, Lyttelton, and Dunedin, 10th July Kangatira, e.s., from Wellington, about 6th July Star of the South, s.s., from Auckland Wellington, s.s., from Southern Ports, 4th July VESSELS IN PORT. Mary Ann Hudson, ketch, from Wairoa and Mohaka. Maggie, brig, from Newcastle Meteor, schooner, from Auckland via the met Coast Three Brothers, schooner, from Wangawehi Why Not, ketch, from Porangahau Greenwich, cutter (lightering) Mahia, Cutter (lightering) Una, steam launch

The arrivals at this port during the month ending 30th June were 21 in number, and the departures 19—showing an aggregate tonnage respectively of 4,694 and 4.7G8. The large amount of tonnage shown in the above figures is of course due to the visit of the Nevada, the tonnage of that vessel being nearly half of the whole amount. We may remark, however, that the arrivals and departures of Government vessels are not included in the above yeturn. The southerly weather which prevailed here yesterday, and throughout last night, must Lave been very severe outside, as evidenced by the heavy 6ea which has been rolling into the Bay during to day. A Board of Trade return which has just been published in England shows that during the past ten years there have occurred on and near the coasts of the United Kingdom 5,826 wrecks, collisions, &c, involving total loss, and 11,076 others in which only partial damage was done. In the same period 106,803 lives were saved, and 8,105 were lost. Of those saved, 4,431 were by life-boats, 3,624 by rocket apparatus, &c, 4,412 by coastguard and other similar boats, 9,989 by ships and steamboats, 19,157 by the ships' own boats, 110 by indi yidual exertions, and 5,080 by other means. The British Trade Journal, May 1, says : t( The tonnage loading on the berth for India, China, and the Cape of Good Hope amounts to 46,320 tons, and for Australia and New Zealand to 38,467. The freight market continues fiat, and in some quarters a retrograde movement may be observed." The Sultan, 12, armour-plated screw ship, left Spithead on the 6th April, in charge of Capt. E. H. Swinton, of the Steam Reserve, to try her engines. She commenced running on the measured mile in Stokes Bay shortly after 10 o'clock, and the first mile was got over in 5 minutes 18 seconds, being at the rate of 13-953 knots per hour. The second mile was accomplished at the rate of 15 knots j and the third 13-740 knots. Just as the fourth mile was about to be commenced, a report was made that the after crank pin had become heated, causing some of the metal to melt, and the trial was stopped. The mean speed of the three runs was 14*423 knots, and while the horse-power guaranteed by the contractors of the engines—Messrs. Penn and Son —is 7,200, that attained at the trial was 9,900, being the higbrest ever attained in any man-of-war.