SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

New Zealander, Volume 8, Issue 684, 3 November 1852, Page 2

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

ARRIVALS. Oct. 30 — PtTspveiance, \6 tons, Grumty, from M.ihujangi, v\nl) 24 tons-. hiei\ood. Oct. JO— Fauces, 20 tons, James, fiorn "Mfthurati»j, with 28 tons (itevvood, and J piles. — Coouibes Hud Daldy, a^^nts. N«r. 1 — Alec, 16 tons Mcirett, fiom the Wade, with 7000 fret sawn tunb r. Kov. 1 — Lizii, 15 ions, L mlirs, from Coroiuandel Jlaibour, m balksi.

BDrARTUItES. Oct. 50 — Nsumai, 1 1 tons, StroucJ, for Kaipara, with 4 cafikri tobacco, 42 hags sugar, 1 chain cable, 4 anchors, 1 can tuips, 3 boxt-s axes, 8 cases slop 11 , 1 cask vinegar, 2 cas>lcj, wine, 1 cask rum, 1 do whiskey, 7 ke^s nails, 2 cask* ironmongery, 7 blocks, 5 coiU rope, 53 iron potb, 1-8 kettles, 1 giuid-totie, d boxes soap, 14 bags rice, 20 bag* flour, 29 do. bis-cmts, 1 package saws, 4 packages lionmongery, 1 package Ipatlier, 1 keg paint, ID bags salt. Oct. 30— Boyd, 15 tons, Mclntosh, for Wangaroa, wi'h 1 ton flour, 11 cw t. salt, 10 gallons rum, L 2 coiN fop>-, 2 hags sugar, \ chest Ua, 3 bales slops>, 6" saddles, ~i •ieve*, 2 busliels oats, 1 do. bailey, 40 lbs. tobacco, 2 boxes, 7 packages. Oct. 30 — Frances, 20 tons, G. James, for Mahurangi, in ballast. Oct. 30— Peisererancp, 16 tons, Glumly, for Waibeki, in ballast. Nov. 1 — Theodoie, 2t tons, Wilcox, for the B rt y of Plfntv, with 2 hags sail, 2 bags Migar, 1 case slops, 1 box soap. 2 coila rope, 9 bolls ctinvas. 13 bars iron, 2 ca«l>s pitch, 6 gallons oil, 1 keg pa nt, 1 keg nails. — T. Russell, agont. Nov. I— lsabella, 17 tons, Hare Matenga, for Tauranga, in ballast. Kov. I—Aien,1 — Aien, Id tons, Mcrritt, for the Wade, in ballast Nov. 1 — Lizzy, 15 tons, Landers, for Coromandel Harbour. Pdssent-ers — Messrs Creighton and Cook Nov. 2 — Herald, 25 tons, W. Brown, for tliu Bay of Isknc'i, in ballast. Passenger — Mr. Mitford.

Hydrostatic Slip. — We have seen a prospectus issued by Mr. Y. S. P^ppeicorne, civil eniineer, proposing <i plan lor lifting ships in docks or slips for repair, by means of the hydrostatic pressure engine combined with steam power. The method proposed by iSJr. \ eppercorne is founded on the lijdrostulic application and mechanical employment of water, on the principle of hydro-mechanics, by which a small quantity of water may bn made lo counterbalance a weight however great, through the medium of proper machinery, and which it is proposed ihere'ore to call the hydro-mecbsiuical 01 Hydrostatic Slip, in which vessels of the Urgent tonnage, can be raispd to any height required, by a peipendicular lift, and the machinery and apparatus by which this is effected are so simple that the attendance ot four or five men n all t J .iat is required to lift a vessel of 1000 to 3000 ton-* burthen. The principle is the s.imeas ilint so sucossluJJjk brought into operation bv Sir Robert Stephenuon in lai-ing the Great Tubular Britannia Bridge over the Menai Straits. By the plan pioposed, the apparatus consiMts-of a Miong wooden platform and cradle, whicsi is sunk to the depth of about 10 feet below ihe surface of the water, ai low wa'er, in a dock or slip of 21)0 feet in length, by a clear width of 50 teet, these dimensions being sufficient to accommodate a vessel of 1000 tons nnd upwards. The yes-el is floated on to this plaiform at high water, and placed in a proper position in the cradle, and this platform being; connected thiough the medium of certain machinery, with two powerful hydrostatic engines, when the rams of these are moved by the injection of water into the cylindeis, their motion is communicated to the platform and cradle bearing the ressel, which is thus slow h raised to the suifdce, and properly secured in an upright position by shoies> and bilge chocks, permitting of free access all around, and when the repairs are completed, the platform and ciadle, with the ve«»el, are lowered .i^am slow ly into the water, by simply opening a valve, and peimittmg the water to escape. The projector estimates the expense of ♦reeling 1 the n^ces^arv works and procuring the engines, at jfc'sooo, exclusive uf the purchase of a site. He ftckons upon a revniue derivable from the repairing of tbe la'ge class o! .steamer* and other vo sels v\ Inch may be expected to vKit Port Jackt<on, and whic'i th^ dry docks, now in course of erection at Cockatoo Island, may be unahle to accommodate. The proposed works would probably occupy fiom twelve to sixteen months. Mr. Peppercorne we understood, intends forming a cod.pany to carry out his pioject. — From the Sydney Herald, September 30.