SHIPPING.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4334, 9 February 1875, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OF WELLINGTON High Water, C. 32 a.m.; C. 48 r.u. ARRIVED.

Febkuaryß.—Phosbe.s.s, 41010113,Worsp, from Port ] Chalmers and Lyttelton. Passongers—Saloon: Mr. and Mrs. Whitheridgo and family (3), Mrs. Morley *nd family (5), Mr. and Mrs. Annett and family, Mr. and Mrs. Eobjohn, Mrs. May, Miss East, Miss McLean, Miss Stevenson, Miss Tewsley, Messrs. Mair. Wright, Orotlicrs, Pearce. Galbraith, Frazer, Mcintosh, Penny, and 13 for tho North ; 10 steerage for Wellington, and * for the North. It. S. Ledger, agent. Atu-ora, schooner, 64 tons, Eomeril, fromKikcrangi. Edward Pearce, agent. Eangatira, s.s., ISS tons, Griffiths, from Poverty Hay and Napier. Passengers—Saloon : Mrs. Hamson, Mrs. Sproul, Mr. and Mrs. Robson, Miss Ling, Sergeant Ralph, Messrs Dugdale, Donald, McKirdy, Maney, and Greenwood; 8 in tho steerage. B. S. Ledger, agent. Edwin Basselt, barque, 234 tons, Williams, from Newcastle. Captain Williams, agent. SAILED. • February S.—Dido, cutter, 3(1 tons, Shilling, for Blenheim. Turnbulland Co., agents. Florence, schooner, 55 tons, Lambert, for Foxton. T. W. Pilchcr, agent. Manawatn, p.s., 103 tons, Evans, for Foxton and Wanganui. Passengers—Saloon: Mr. and Mrs. Olive, Mrs. Bett, Mrs. Sulited, Mrs. Boyd, Messrs. Burbridge and Crowther ; and 73 in tho steerage. E. S. Ledger, agent. Taranaki, s.s., 209 tons, Lloyd, forLyttelton and Port Chalmers. Passengors—Saloon : Mr. and Mrs. Thompson and family, Mrs. Ilall, Messrs. Keogh, Brown, Coalman, and Weir ; 22 in the steerage. E. S. Ledger, agent. Stormbird, s.s , f>7 tons, Doile, for Wanganui. Passengers—Saloon: Messrs. Weston, Shaw, Plimpton, Kirkbride, Robinson, and Dodson. Tunibull and Co., agents. Falcon, ketch, 37 tons, Fisli, for Blenheim. Turnbull and Co, agents. IMPORTS. Stormbird, from Wanganui: 31 bales wool, 5 bales fungus, 5 cases hardware, 23 pieces pig lead. Hannah Broomficld, from Kaipara: 93,99Gft sawn kauri timber. Falcon, from Blenheim : 102 bales wool.. XXX, from Blenheim : 44 bales wool, 100 sacks malt. Taranaki, from tbe North : 30 pi.">es, 2 bales, 3 case 3, 1 cask. 92 bars iron, 1 pump, 1 box, 75 sack 3 seed, 1 akin", 85 cases. Arthur Wakefield, from Pelorus Sound: 32,000 ft &awn timber. Phoebe, from the South : 1 cask, 50 lengths pipe, 9 sets axle arms, 6 cases, G colonial ovens, 3 plough wheels, 1 pkg, 3bdls, 3 cases. lOhhds ale, 15 cases, 1 pel, 11 pkgs, 1 plough, 2 bdls shares, 4 sacks seed, 1 range, 1 box, 1 case, 2 trunks, 4 cases cheese, 60 sacks malt, 12 cases, 3 cases cheese, and a quantity of cargo for transhipment to Wanganui, Napier, and Poverty Bay. Aurora, from Kikerangi: 73 bales wool. Ruby, from Te Kopi: 08 bales wool. Zelia, from Newcastle: 300 tons coal, 200 bags maize. Eangatira, from Napier and Poverty Bay: 7 bags grass seed, 12 boxes fruit, 1 trunk, 5 empty casks, 8 pkgs fat. EXPORTS. Taranaki, for the South: 10 qr-casks whisky, 19 ceses, 9 bundles, 1 bale, 30 castings, 2 axle arms, 2 pels, 73 cases, 3 crates, 1 pel, 16 casks, 6 pkgs, 1 box, 1 bdl, 2 casks. Stormbird, for Wanganui: 75 cases whisky, 95 mats sugar, 5 cases brandy, 1 carriage, (»cases; groceries, 5 casks currants, 3 cases zinc, 1 hhd hardware, 1 pkg mats, 12 cases groceries, 21 bags do, 2 casks do, 12 nests tubs, 1 cask white lead, 5 cases turps, 5 pkgs forks, 9 cases axes, 10 casks ale, 2 kegs herrings, 5 cases and 10 bags groceries, 50 pkgs sugar, 22 cases groceries, 10 casks ale, 1 cask sugar, 1 keg treacle, 20 bags groceries, 53 pkgs sugar, 2 trunks, 43 pkgs ironmongery, 2 cases, 2 rolls leather, 1 safe, 1 ca«e. Falcon, for Blenheim : 15 tons coal, 1 case, 2 pkgs. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. . London.—Hindostan, Ardeutiivny, Hudson, Dalran, Hkiy York.—Chandiere, barque. Mauritius.—May, three-masted schooner, early. Hwnukonc;.—Medora, barque, early. Melbourne, via the West Coast.—Tararua, s.s., 14th inst. Melbourne and Southern Ports.—Albion, s.s., loth inst. Port Chalmers.—Osseo, American brigantine, early. Northern Ports. —Wellington, s.s., 15th inst. SYDNEY.—Easby, s.s.. daily. PRO J ECTE D D HP A ET U RES. London —Howrah, in February; Soukar, about 10th February. Mklhourne, via the Souin. —Tararua, s.s., 14th inst. Northern Ports.—Phcebe, s.s., this day. Melbourne, via the West Coast.—Albion, s.s., Isth inst. Samu and Poverty 'Bay.—Eangatira, S.S., tomorrow, BY TELEGRAPH. LYTTELTON, Monday., Arrived : Eakaia. from London ;.eighty-one days from Plymouth^-'--*,'''--.'-. .._. Arrived : Wellington, from Taranaki. ■ The Heversbam sailed from Newcastle on the 30th ult. for Wellington, with 700 tons of coal. The Easby left Sydney on the 2nd instant with 1000 tons of coal. She calls at Wellington. The time-ball may be used to-day for rating chronometers. A chronometer true on Greenwich time ■would show 12 h, 30 m. when the ball drops. Any difference is error, plus or minus, of chronometer. The steamer Manawatu, for Foxton and Wanganui, with seventy-three immigrants and a few saloon passengers, sailed yesterday afternoon. The steamer Taranaki, Captain Lloyd, for Lyttelton and Port Chalmers, sailed yesterday afternoon. On arrival at Port Chalmers she will be placed in the dry dock. The steamer Stormbird, Captain Doile, sailed for Waaganui yesterday afternoon. 'xhe steamer Phcebe, Captain Worsp, from Port Chalmers and Lyttelton, arrived in harbor yesterday morning, fine strong breezes from the southward having* been experienced. She will leave for Picton, Nelson, Taranaki, and Manukau to-day. The ketch Falcon, Fisk, master, got away for Blenheim last night. The barque Edwin Bassett, from Newcastle, with a cargo of coal consigned to her owner. Captain Williams, arrived in Wellington harbor last evening. She was immediately brought alongside a coal hulk\ into which she will commence to discharge this morning. The steamer Eangatira, Captain Griffiths, arrived early yesterday morning from Poverty Bay and Napier, the latter part of the run being rather unpleasant owing to a strong southerly wind. After discharging her cargo, she steamed round totheslipin Evans Bay, for the purpose of receiving a new propeller and having her bottom painted. She was taken on tbe ways at twelve o'clock, and will probably be launched to-morrow evening. She will resume her running on Wednesday next. Principles ok Shipbuilding.—Writing about double-hulled ships, the Vail Mall Gazette observes that " the Castalia, and vessels of her class, point in their mechanical structure to a remarkable fact well known to Oriental navigators. It may be true that it is incorrect to term the Castalia a twin-vessel. It haa been urged that she is rather one large ship. partially divided in such a way that while her lateral motion in a rough sea shall be slight, yet her progress forward shall not be seriously impeded. Yet when we look at the mechanical principle on which she is constructed we find that not only is she to all intents and purposes a double ship, but also that in her build she is but the exemplification on a large scale of that oneoutrigger system which is so universally adopted between Ceylon and the Pacific Islands, and which has, strange to say, never been elsewhere largely adopted. Here we come to a veritable historical puzzle. From Ceylon to the west, and tho islands of the Pacific closest to the American shore-line to the east, we meet everywhere with small sai'ing craft carrying the one out-rigger. Nowhere else in the whole sea-girt world 13 this the case, and nowhere, as far as history tells us, has it 'ever been. These craft , not only sail, very rapidly, but in accordance with . certain principles yet unascertained, we believe, are wonderfully steady in the roughest sea. Along the coast of Nether India, as well as along that of Java and Sumatra, the outrigger itself is frequently fitted with small sails, but this is not the case near Ceylon. Cross over from Ceylon westward— only a few miles—to the coast of Southern India, and not a glimpse is to be obtained of the ingenious one-out-rigger system." ■ „