Shipping Intelligence.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1440, 27 September 1872, Page 2

Shipping Intelligence.

PORT AHURIRI. PHASES OF THE MOON. New Moon 3rd October, 3 a.m. HIGH WATER SLACK. TO-MORROW. Morning, 3.50 ... ... Evening, 4.15 AETtIV ALS. SEPTEMBER. ••• 26 —Mary Ann Hudson, ketch, from Wairoa PASSENGER LIST. INWABDS. la the Mary Ann Hudson—Mr Fitzpatrick EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Celestia, barque, from Newcastle Nebraska, p.s., from Southern Ports Oreti, schooner, from Dunedin via Oamaru Saucy Lass, schooner, from Mercury Bay Star of the South, a.s., from Auckland VESSELS IN PORT. Ballarat, barque, from London Mary Ann Hudson, ketch, from Wairoa Hero, schooner, from Wairoa Greenwich, cutter PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Hero, schooner, for Wairoa, to-morrow Nebraska, p.s., for Auckland, ou Monday next Mary Ann Hudson, ketch, for Wairoa, on Tuesday The ketch Mary Ann Hudson, W. E. Baxter, master, left Napier on the 18th inst., with a miscellaneous cargo, and arrived at Wairoa on the 21st inst. Discharged and took in cargo, and left for Napier at 0.30 p.m. yesterday, arriving here at 9.30 last night. Cargo : 70 bushels maize, 1 bundle sheepskins, 21 empty casks, and 4 empty jars. She will sail for Wairoa again on Tuesday next. The New South Wales Government has called for tenders until the 20th October for a monthly mail service to California, calling at Fiji and Honolulu ; the passage to occupy 30 days, with a penalty of £SO daily if over time, and a premium of <£so daily if under time. The vessels employed to be iron propellers of not less than 1,500 tons register. The service is to commence next July. The 24th of May was, we learn from the Shanghai papers, to mark an era in the progress of Chinese ship-building, it being named fur the launch of the first heavy war frigate ever constructed by Chinese artificers. Ihe vessel in question is the largest of any class yet built in that part of the world. According to the details furnished, her gross measurinent is about 2,700 tons. The engines, of 400 nominal horse-power, but capable of working up to 1,800 horse power, have also been made at Shanghai.