Shipping Intelligence.

Hawke's Bay Times, Issue 1553, 24 February 1874, Page 126

Shipping Intelligence.

PORT AHURIRI. AEBIV A L S. FEBRUARY. 20—Three Brothers, ketch, 23 tons, Watson, from Moeangianjji 22—Kangatira, s.s., 185 tons, Hepburn, from Wellington s.s,, 32 tons, Campbell, from Waimarama DEPARTURES. ~ FEBRUARY. 21—Columbia, schooner, 46 tons, Conway, for Auckland 21—Paterson, p.s., 260 tons, Kennedy, for Wellington 21—Fairy, s.s., 32 tons, Campbell, for Waimarama 22—Saucy Lass, schooner, 38 tons, Smith, for Auckland 22—Mary Melville, schooner, 62 tons, Urquhart, for Auckland 23—Bangatira, s.s., 185 tons, Hepburn, for Poverty Bay PASSENGER LIST. INWARDS. In the Rangatira—Reverend and Mrs White and family (3), Mr and Mrs Mitchell and family (2), Messrs Blair, Carter, Fergnsson, Lcary, Menzies, and a native OUTWARDS. In the Paterson—Mr and Mrs Cooper, Mrs Carey and child, Mrs Locke, Mrs Gill, Messrs Bcetham, Hardwick, Jackson, Nairn, Pitt, Putnam, and Wilson In the Rangatira—Mr and Mrs Blake and child, Mr and Mrs M'Hugh and child, Mr and Mrs Rathbone and child, Mrs MacKenzie, Miss Reynolds, Miss M'Cormack, Major Pitt, Messrs Biddell, Cooper, Cohen, Chambers, Evans, Fergusson, W. Higgins, Jobbeins, M'Donald, M'Kenzie (2), Margoliouth, Price, Robjohns, Williams, and Zcllman EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Augusta, brigantine, from Auckland Crest of the Wave, schooner, from Oamaru Dunedin, schooner, from Duuedin Forest Queen, ketch, from Mangatiti Helen, brigautine, from Newcastle Invererne, ship, from London Lsetitia, schooner, from Tairoa Opotiki, schooner, from Poverty Bay Pacific, schooner, from Auckland Pretty Jane, s.s'., from Poverty Bay, Tauranga, and Auckland Rangatira, s.s., from Poverty Bay Shepherdess, schooner, from Wellington St. Fillans, ship, from London—to sail January 20 Swordfish, brigantine, from Hobart Town Taranaki, s.s.. from Wellington—about Bth proximo VESSELS IN HARBOR. Bella, s.s., from Arapawanui Colonist, schooner, from Cabbage Bay Fairy, s.s., from Waimarama Mary Ann Hudson, ketch, from Wairoa Queen of the North, barque, from London Three Brothers, ketch, from Moeangiangi Una, s.s., from Mohaka Hero, schooner (laid up) Greenwich, cutter PEOJECIED DEPARTURES. Fairy, s.s., for Wairoa, to-nighfr Rongatira, s.s., for Wellington, to-morrow Colonist, schooner, for Auckland and Cabbage Bay, to-morrow Queen of the North,, barque, for London, early . The ketch Three Brothers, James Watson, master, returned to port on Friday evening from Moeaugiaugi. The s.s. Rangatira, Capt. F. Hepburn, left Wellington at 6.30 on Saturday evening, and arrived here shortly after 10 on Sunday night.—She steamed' for Poverty Bay last evening with a general cargo, and thirty passengers. The s.s. Fairy, Capt. J. Campbell, left for Waimarama on Saturday evening, and returned on Sunday night, bringing 40 bales wool.—The Fairy will (weather permitting) steam for Wairoa to-night. The p.s. Paterson, Capt. A. Kennedy, steamed for Wellington at about 6 p.m. on Saturday, and arrived there at 3.30 on Sunday afternoon, after a pretty smart run of twenty-one hours and a half. English Shipping.~We take the followin"' from the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co.'s Circular, 24th December :—Arrived : December 1, J. N. Fleming, from Port Chalmers; December 11, Schiehallion, from Lyttelton. SAILED : December 3, Hylton Castle, 548 tons, for Auckland ; December 10, Woodlark, 879 tons, for Wellington, with 260 passengers ; Jungfrau, 560 tons,for Oiago; December 21, Scimitar, 1,225 tons, for Otago, with 350 passen. <rers ; Mongol, s.s., 2,200 tons, for New Zealand ports, with 300 passengers; December 22, Mallard, 620 tons, for' Canterbury and Nelson; December 23, City of Glasgow, 1,160 tons, with 280 passengers. All these vessels bring full cargoes. Loading : To sail January 2—For Bluff Harbor, Dorette, 900 tons ; for Canterbury, Rakaia, 1,040 tons, and Auriga, 520 tons ; January 3—For Auckland, Inverallan, 660 tons; January 10—For Auckland, Huntly Castle, 650 tons ; for Wellington, Wennington, 885 tons; January 20— For Otago, Asia, 1,445 tons ; for Napier, St. Fillans, 1,040 tons; for Wellington, MacCallum More, 1,650 tons ,• January 20, for Lyttelton, Varuna, 1,270 tons. An. Interesting Experiment. The principles involved in the circulation of the waters of the sea were beautifully shown before the royal Geographical Society by a simple experiment. A trough with plateglass sides, about six feet long and a foot deep but not more than an inch wide, was filled with water. At one end a piece of ice was wedged in between the sides to represent the polar cold ; while the tropic heat was represented at the other end by a bar of metal laid across the surface of the water, the projecting end of which was heated with a spirit lamp Red color was then put in at the warm end, and blue at the cold end, so that the currents could be traced. The blue water, chilled by contact with the ice, immediately fell down to the bottom, crept slowly along and gradually rose towards the surface at the equatorial end' after which it gradually returned along the surface to the starting point. Tho red water crept first along the surface to the polar end, then fell to the bottom just as the blue had done, and formed another stratum, creeping back again along the bottom and coming to the surface. Each colour made a distinct circulation during the'half hour in which the audience viewed the experiment.