Shipping Intelligence.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1406, 20 August 1872, Page 2

Shipping Intelligence.

PORT AHURIRI. PHASES OF THE.MOpN. Last Quarter ... 26th August, 8.5 a.m. HIGH WATER SLACK. TO-MORROW. Morning, 7.50 ... ... Evening, 8.20 ARRIVALS. AUGUST. 19—Luna, C.G. p.s., from Tauranga via the coast DEPARTURES. AUGUST. 20 —Luna, C.G. p.s., for Wellington '■■ PASSENGER LIST. INWAEDS. la the Luna—Mr and Mrs Marshall, Miss Liddell, Mrs Skipwortb, Major Pitt, Mr Clark, and 8 others (including six natives) . ■ OUTWARDS. In the Luna —His Honor Mr Justice Johnston and secretary (Mr Wilmer), Mr Carlile, and others EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Ballarat, barque, from London (sailed 15 th June) Coronilla, ship, from London via Auckland Columbia, schooner, from Auckland via Kennedy's Bay Dawn, cutter, from Wellington Emerald, ketch, from Lyttelton via Wellington Free Trader, barque, from Newcastle Hero, schooner, from Wairoa Hodvig, barque, from Christiania, Norway (sailed 31st May) Rangatira, s.s., from Auckland via Tauranga and Poverty BayStar of the South, s.s., from Auckland VESSELS IN PORT. Mary Ann Hudson, ketch, from Wairoa Three Brothers, schooner (repairing) PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Mary Ann Hudson, ketch, for Wairoa, to-morrow night The C.G. p.s. Luna, Capt. Fairchild, arrived in port last night. She left Tauranga on Friday night, and has called in at numerous settlements along the coast. She steamed for Wellington at 3 o'clock this afternoon. The s.s. Keera, from this port, arrived at Wellington at G 30 last evening, afiei a long passage of 50 hours. The cutter Dawn, we learn, may be expected to arrive here from Wellington in a day or two. There was no appearance of the s.s. Star of the South, from Auckland, up to the time we went to press. Heavy southerly weather is doubtless causiog her delay. This also will'account for the rather long trip of the Keera to Wellington. A new iron steam vessel has been designed and constructed by Messrs W. Simons and Co., of the London W'orks, Renfrew, to the order of the Canadian Government, and combines in itself the functions of a powerful and effectual dredger, a hopper barge, and a screw steamer. It is intended to be employed at the mouths of harbors and rivers in Canada, to keep them clear of silting and other obstructions, at a cost wonderfully below what would be practicable under the old system of a fleet, including dredges, barges, and tug steamers —the work of all which is managed under the new system in " one bottom," The trial on the Clyde the other day was eminently successful. The vessel or floating machinery started for operation in eighteen feet water. In about two hours the <s hopper" cavity was filled with some 200 tons of stuff —sand, gravel, mud, &c, dredged from the bottom of the channel. The dredging machinery was then, with remarkable ease, disconnected, and the screw propeller put into motion. The dredging crew were there and then transformed, as one might say, into sailors, and the moorings having been loosened, the Canada, as the craft is culled, proceeded down the river under easy steam at the rate of about eight miles an hour. At the mouth of Lochlong, andVahput half a mile from the Kilcreggau shore, the trapped bottom of jter hopper cavity was opened, and the 200 tons of dredged stuff above mentioned allowed to slide into the sea. 1.