SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

New Zealander, Volume 7, Issue 565, 13 September 1851, Page 2

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

AKRIVALS. Soptember 10— Victoria, 17 tons, I. Merrick, from Waiheki, with COO rails, I fc tons fnewood. September 10 — Antolope, 35 tons, D.Mackinnon, from Wangaroa, with 10 head of cattle. — Salmon 3c Co., agents. September 10 — Ilawkhead, 22 tons, R. Lawrio, from Mahurangi, with 200 posts and rails. September 10— Susan, 17 tons, Williams, from Coromandel Harbour, with 800 shingles, 13,000 feet sawn timber. Sept. 11— Iliomama, schooner, 68 tons, .T. S. Macfarlane, from the East Coast, with 1,014 bushels maize, 862 bushels of wheat, 22 casks of salt pork, 1,000 lbs. bacon, 575 lbs. lard, 12 casks and 3 tuns of oil, 6 cwt. of sheet copper and composition, 2 chaincables, 1 anchor, 50 blocks. — Salmon and Co., ngents. September 11 — Napi, 17 tons, J. Tautari, from Russell, -with 120 bushels wheat, 1 cask lard, 20 sheep, 1 package of bags. Passengers — Lieutenant Hill, and servant, Mr. Marlow. — P. A. Phillips, agent. September 12— Children, 30 tons, Jones, from Russell, with 8 head of cattle, 6 cwt. bacon, 4 pigs, 1 case preserves, 20 bushels corn, 8 casks pork, 1 keg laid. — T. Lewis, agent. September 12— Eliza, 42 tons, Ellis, from Hawke's Ha}', with 30 casks humpback oil, 2?() bushelb wheat, 15 do maize. — W. S. Grahame, agent.

DEPARTURES. September 10— Norfolk, barque, 349 tons, Capt. 11. C. Kreeft, for New Plymouth, and Nelson. Passengers—Mrs, Kreeft and child.— Brown & Campbell, agents. September ll~Glencoe, barque, 15<) tons, J. Lillewall, for Shanghne. Passengeis— -Mr. Hendorson.— T. Lewis, agent. September 10— Victoria, 17 tons, I. Meriick, for Waihelci, in ballast. September 10— Antelope, 35 tons, D. Maclunnon, for Wangnroa. Passenger — Mr. Br.uthwaite. September 10— ilawkhead, 22 tons, K. Lawrio, for Mahurangi, with 5 bags of flour, 4 lbs. tobacco, 1 barrel beef, 2 bags sugar, 60 lbs. nails. September 11 — Koioranka, 18 tons, Paerau, for Bay of Islands, in ballast. September 11 — Sarab, 14 tons, Thomas Appleby, for Matata, with 500 feet sawn timber, 3 horses.

CLEARED OUT. September 12— Lucy James, 45 tons, Joyop, for TnranaU, with 2 cases blankets, 5 boxes candles), 1 parcel, 3 boxes candles, 1 bale drapery, 2 do., 1 do., 1 case do., 1 do., 1 case books, 4 packages soap, 4 bars iron, 6 trusses, 5 boxes drapery, 1700 foet sawn timber, 5 kegs groceries, 2 bags sugar, 1 box; candles, 2 cases, 2 do., 1 bag, 2 bags, sugar, 1 box candles, 1 bos soap, 5 packages, 3*do. 4 do. sundries, 20 cases geneva, under bond. Passengers — Messrs. Madden, I fai graves, DeMole, Vcrcoo, and sou, Mrs. Smait. — Davy & Macdowell, agents.

EXPORTS — rOREIGU. Per Glencoe for Shanghae — 45,000 feet timber, 25 spars, o coils rope.

The Thames, for Wellington, will drop clown to the Heads to-day, and sail to night or early to-inomm morning. The Arabia, Captain Wing, sailed from Poverty Bay for Ilobart Town about 14 days ago, with a cargo of oil, after discharging which she will be laid on for this port. The Isabella, from Hobart Town is now clue, and may be daily expected.

Iron Lighthouse for the American Government. — Mr. John- Walker, of Gracechurch Street, is at present constructing a corrugated iron lighthouse lor the American Government. It is, we believe, to be fixed on one of the quays off the coast of Florida. lie has only contracted for the iron pai t of it, and the lantern is to be furnished by the Americans, who are to erect it. It is now being put together at the Shepheid aud Shepherdess Fields, New North Road, Iloxton. The foundation is to consist of 16 solid wrought iron screw piles, •which will be bedded in the solid rock, and are to rise 15 feet above it. 12 of these pillars will be disposed to form a square 45 feet each way. The remaining four ■will make a smaller interior square, and will be the foundation for the tower. On these, iron giulersare to be placed, and above them a thick flooring of oak plank, forming a platform, fiom which the lighthouse will spring. We now come to the part which is to be seen erected at Iloxton. It may be divided into two parts —the house for the keepers of the light, and the lantern tower. The house is 38 feet square, and 11 feet in height, and is made of a double casing of corrugated iron three-eighths of an inch m thickness, and placed five inches apart. It is divided into nine rooms by partitions of a similar construction ; the doors, windows, corners of the house, places whore the partitions join the sides, and top and bottom of the sides, are all cased with angle-iron. In a wooden house the angle iron is represented by the timbers, and tho corrugated plates by the boarding. It is surmounted by a curved roof, which is of single iron plate, inside of which will be placed a timber roof, for this tho heat would be intolerable. The whole of the house is bolted together in pieces two feet six inches in width. The tower is laised through the roof and from the centre of the platform. It is also made of a double casing of iron, is cylindrical, and 7 feet inside in diameter. It is divided into rings 6 feet in height bolted together, and each ring is lifted to its place in two pieces. The height from the platform to the commencement of the lantern is 76 feet. The tower derives much strength from a spiral cast iron staircase, which ascends to the lantern floor, and is supported by a solid iron newel. Each step, as it is bolted to the side, nnd also to the newel, forms a stay in itself. To secure additional stiff,ziess, pieces of gaspipe are to be placed between the castings every 11 inches, and to be bolted through. In addition, from the piles, 12 stays of cast iron pipe, 11 inches in diameter, will rise, and be inclined to meet the tower at the top, just beneath the lantern, and als>o four stays from the inner piling. This again will all be stiffened with vertical, horizontal, and diagonal bracing, So that when erected it will have the appeal ance of a pyramid of iron network, surmounted by a lantern, and enclosing a house and monster chimney. The double casings spoken of will not only be a great advantage with regard to strength, but also for the purpose of ventilation. Openings are made at the bottom of the building in the partitions and the tower, so that a free current of air will pass everywhere. The foim of corrugated iron, which may be described as a succession of waves in and out, or curves of contraiy flexure, gives great strength in itself. What with the bracing, aud the way in which both house and tower are tied together, it is supposed that it will resist a hurricane, and, no doubt, from its situation it will some day or other be visited by that unpleasant customer. There is one other casualty to be considered — lightning. It is true that the whole building is a conductor, but how will that affect the safety of those inside? Certainly the hghtning will have a choice out of the 16 pillars which to descend by, but if an uuforlunate keeppr was leaning against it, it might prefer passing down him. However, all this is the work of the Americans, who, no doubt, will adopt proper precautions for this and other dangers. The building will shortly be completed and whipped to its destination. — Times, January 31.