SHIPPING SUMMARY.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4411, 10 May 1875, Page 7

SHIPPING SUMMARY.

PORT OF WELLINGTON. ARRIVED.

April 15.—May, three-masted schooner, 237 tons, Plumley, from Port Louis (Mauritius), via Adelaide. Turnbull and Co., agents. April 16.—Tararua, s.s., 523 tons, Clark, from Melbourne, The Bluff, Port Chalmers, and Lyttelton. Passengers—Saloon ; Mr. and Mrs. Moss, Mrs. Skelly, Mrs. Martin, Mr. and Mrs. Gunuinsson, Mr. and Mrs. McGregor and four children, Mr. and Mrs. Malone and four children, Mr. and Mrs. Graif, Messrs. Nixon, Clark, Brown, Bennett, Bellairs, Burrell, Alade, Clawes, Saxeburg, Russell, Carter, Ward, Pilkington, Bray, Holmes, Beck, Wilson, France, Rngg, Toskeuelll, Toovcy. William Bishop, agent. April 23.—Sunbeam, barque, 442 tons, from London. Levin and Co., agents. April 24. —Light of tho Age, barque, 472 tons, Alexander, from New York via Dunedin. April 25. —Mercury, barquentine, from New York via Port Chalmers.

April 29. —Internet, French corvette, 9 guns, Pierre, from Sydney, via Picton. May I.—Neptune, brig, 209 tons, Crole, from Newcastle. Passengers—Cabin; Mi’., Mrs., and Miss Short. May 2.—Otago, s.s., 042 tons, McLean, from Mel. bourne via The Bluff and Southern ports. Passengers : From Melbourne-—Mr. and Mrs. Moriah and family (8). From Dunedin—Miss Whelen, Mrs. Stemper, and A. J. Tolhufst. From Lyttelton—Mrs. Johnston, Mr. and Mrs, Ludland, Miss Johnstone, Sisters Duvalli and troupe, Messrs. Duncan, Ashton, Mills, Collard, Lyon : and one steerage. W. Bishop, agent. May 5. —Mary Bannatyno, brigantine, 115 tons, Munn, from Melbourne. Turnbull and Co,, agents. May o.—Albion, s.s„ 591 tons, Underwood, from Melbourne via Hokitika and Nelson. Passengers— From Melbourne : Mr. and Mrs. Jones, Mr. and Mrs. Kebbell, Mr., Mrs.,- and Miss Watt, Hugh Black, and ■4 steerage. From Hokitika: Messrs. Deakin, Grey, and Johnston. From Nelson ; Mrs. Canning and child, Mr. and Mrs, Bishop, Mrs. Staples and child, Miss E. Staples, Messrs. Boyce, Morris, Southern, Robinson, Berghoff, Lorimer; and 1 steerage. 13 passengers tor Southern Ports. W. Bishop, agent. Edwin Bassett, barque, 450 tons, Forster, from Newcastle. IV. It. Williams, agent. SAILED. April 18.— Tararua, s.s., 522 tons, Clark, for Nelson, Groymouth, Hokitika, and Melbourne. Passengers—Saloon : Miss Christian, Ilev. Charles Clark, :Mr. and Mrs. Tattle, Messrs. Smytlie, Murray, and Chew. IVm, Bishop, agent. April 28.—William Ackers, barque, 209 tons, Davies, for Newcastle, N.S.W. Passengers—Mr. and Mrs. Larss and. two children, Mr. Schumaker. Captain Williams, agent. Alhambra, s.s., 49H tons, Eawden, for Lyttelton, Port Chalmers, The Bluff, and Melbourne. Passengers—Saloon ; Misses Gifford, Mr. and Mrs. Hay, Mrs. Tyrham and child, Mrs. Smith and three children, Messrs. Harding, Higginson, Cain, Stevenson, Evans. William Bishop, agent. April 28.—Carnatic, ship, 872 tons. Moon, for London. Australian Sovereign, barque, for Newcastle, April 29.— May, schooner, 237 tons, Plumloy, for Hongkong. W. and G. Turnbull and Co., agents. . May I.—lnternet, French corvette, 9 guns, Pierre, for Auckland, via the East Coast. May 4.—Otago, s.s., 042 tons, McLean, for Melbourne via Nelson and Hokitika. Passengers ; For Melbourne—Mrs. Kreeft, Messrs. Leslie, Bucher, Drake, Quinn, Hooker, and White. For Nelson— Messrs. Moran, Aitken, and Morlcy. W. Bishop, a °Camille, barque, 305 tons, Williams, for Newcastle. Alarm, brig, 195 tons, McColl, tor Newcastle. May 0. —Dallam Tower, ship, 1437 tons, Campbell, . for Callao. Light of the Age, barque, 472 tons, Alexander, for Newcastle. POET OF AUCKLAND, Arrived.— April 18, Kenilworth, schooner, from New Caledonia. April 23, Elmgrove, barque, from Sydney. April 20, Chanticleer, from Hobarton. April 29, Feniglen, ship, from London. April 30, I Kapido, barque, from Sydney : Bella Mary, barque, from Hobarton ; Dauntless, schooner, from New Caledonia ; Tien Tsin, barque, and Prairie, brig, from Launceston. May 5, L’lnternet, French man-of-war, from Wellington. Sailed.— April 22, James -Wilson, whaler, from Russell. Bay of Islands, on a cruise. April 23. Roderick Dhu, brigantine, for Sydney; Fairhe, tor Launceston. April 20, Macgrogor, s.s., for Sydney. April 30, Star of the South, s.s., for Levuka. May 1, Hero, s.s., for Sydney. PORT OF LYTTELTON. Arrived.— April 12, Adeline Burke, from Newcastle. April 19, Eyre, from San Francisco, called, but proceeded to Timaru. April 20, Corrido, from Newcastle. April 28, Warwick, ship, from papier. April 30, Herald, from Newcastle. May 1, Joliba, from Sydney. May 2, Tin tern Abbey, ship, from London. May 3, Mary Ann Annison, from Newcastle. May 0, Coq du Village, from Newcastle (twenty-two Bailed.— April 23, Avalanche, ship, for London. April 20, W. W. Smith, ship, for London, via Auckland May 1, Hudson, ship, for London. May 2, barques Hopeful, Corrido, and Adeline Burke, for Newcastle : Ashburton, for Melbourne. May 8, Lady Jocelyn, for London. PORT CHALMERS. Arrived.— April 14, Young Dick, schooner, from Melbourne. April 15, Woodvllle, barque, from Newcastle. April 23, William Davie, ship, from London. April 29, Otago, s.s., from Melbourne, via The Bluff May 1, barques Bobycito, Union, and Duke of Edinburgh, from Newcastle ; Agnes Jessie, schooner, from Hobarton. May 0, Timaru, ship, from Glasgow ; and Portland, ship, from Hongkong. Sailed.— April 12, Albion, s.s., for Melbourne, via The Bluff. April 13, Tararua, s.s., for Melbourne, via Hokitika. April 14, Eliza Mary, for Melbourne, via Oaraaru. April 17, barques Lynx and Fleur de Maurice, tor Newcastle. April 20, Waitara, ship, for London. April 21, Wellington, ship, for Point de Galle. April 25, Margaret Galbraith, ship, for London, April 27, Woodvllle. for Newcastle; Alhambra, s.s., for Melbourne, via The Bluff. April 30, Otago, s.s., for Melbourne, via Hokitika.

The Light of tha Age, barque, Captain Alexander, arrived in harbor on Saturdaj', April 24, from New York, via Dunedin, with a cargo of Yankee notions. We learn that the brig Eobin Hood, belonging to Mr. Williams, made the run up to Newcastle from this port in six days, and that the barque Australlnd had a passage of eight days. The clipper ship Pleiades sailed from Lyttelton on the Cth April, tor London. Mr. Edward I’earco’s three-masted schooner, the Melaino, sailed round to the wharf on Thursday from the patent slip, Evans Bay, where she lias received a most complete and thorough overhaul, which cost her owner just within £IOOO. The extensive renovation sho has received has made her nearly equal to a new craft. Her lining lias been stripped

off and replaced by kauri, she has received new decks, waterways, deck beams, stanchions, top sides, bulwarks, rails, jibboom, bowsprit, and foreyard. Her cabins and forecastle have been refitted, and new deck houses and fittings have replaced the old ones. She is probably now a better vessel than when first launched. When she receives a couple of coats of paint, and everything has been taut, not a handsomer or more substantial vessel will sail out of this port. The work has been somewhat retarded owing to the scarcity of shipwright in Wellington during the progress of the work. The Prince Alfred, a vessel of 131 tons, sailed from Picton last Sunday with a cargo of timber, measuring about 100,000 feet, for Lyttelton. The Prince Alfred is commanded by Captain Bennet, who owns about one-half of the vessel. He purposes opening up an intercolonial trade between several of the ports of New Zealand and ports in Tasmania and Australia. On his present voyage, after taking the timber to Lyttelton, he will ship grain from that port to Auckland, and proceed thence to Tasmania, shipping fruit there for Auckland. He will then come down, on his second voyage, to Picton, and there again ship timber for South, whence he will take a shipment of grain, and proceed, as may seem desirable, to Auckland, or to ports in. Australia or Tasmania, making another round by way of Picton, for the purpose of loading there with timber. —Marlborough Times, April 0. Our river tins week presents an unusually brisk appearance, as no fewer than two schooners are actively engaged discharging their cargoes. The William and Mary, a boat well adapted to the requirements of this river, was specially chartered by one of our enterprising merchants, Mr. S. Taplin, whose example we trust to'see followed by other local firms. The Patea merchants arc no doubt in a good position to offer inducements to vessels of a similar draught as arc now lying in the Patea River, to trade in their interests to this port, and thus avoid the unnecessary transhipment and vexatious delay which their goods often suffer while in transit to this port. The captains of both vessels inform us that the river is not half so bad as it is painted, and are quite willing to return, providing sufficient inducement is offered. The Huon Belle is consigned to Mr. G. W. Williams, with a full cargo of fencing wire, &c. — Patea Mail, April 28. The brigantine Mary Bannatyne, Captain Munn, arrived here on Wednesday from Melbourne, after a lengthy passage of eighteen days, in the course of which she encountered very tempestuous weather, besides having the misfortune to lose a man overboard. Captain Munn reports leaving Melbourne on the 17th ultimo, with a light northerly breeze ; but the winds continued variable until the morning of the 27th, when a strong N.E. gale sprang up, accompanied by a heavy sea, which lasted until the morning of the 29th. On the 28th, whilst the ship was hove-to, in latitude 43'SO S., longitude 103*15 E., a heavy sea struck the ship’s bows and washed Joseph Kitchen overboard, whilst engaged with the captain and another seaman in hauling down the jib, which had been split during the gale. A lifebuoy and a ladder were thrown to him, but the unfortunate man was unable to make use of them. No time was lost in getting the boat clear, but it was impossible to launch it as a fearful sea was running at the time. Soon afterwards. Kitchen! was observed to sink by some of the hands who were aloft. The deceased was a German, a native of Dantzic, and was shipped at Hokitika on the previous voyage. From the 30th ult. to the 2nd inst. encountered strong S.W. winds with squally weather. On the remainder of the passage had light variable winds. The Mary Bannatyne was here about three years ago, under the command of Captain Henry. Her new skipper, Captain Munn, brings his vessel into port in a very cleanly condition, after meeting with such bad weather. She brings IGO tons of general cargo, consigned to Messrs. Turnbull and Co. The Melanesian Mission vessel Southern Cross left at noon to-day, for a seven months’ cruise among the South Sea Islands. Since her arrival from her last cruise she has undergone extensive alterations in her rig and internal accommodation. To ensure an improvement in her staying powers, which were defective, the mizzenmast has been removed three feet forward, and she has taken in 25 tons more ballast. The ladies’ cabin has been enlarged by the removal of some fittings to another part of the vessel. It is unfortunate that since the alterations no opportunity has been afforded Captain Jacobs of trying the ship under her new conditions. The Southern Cross, which went away under steam, was accompanied out of the harbor by the yachts Secret and Daphne. A large party of ladies and gentlemen, the latter including some of the trustees of the mission, and several clergymen, went with the vessel as far as the Rangitoto Channel, where they were taken off by the yachts and brought back to town. The passengers comprise the Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Bice, the Rev. Mr. Penny, Mr. William Taylor, and two masons. Mr. Penny has only lately arrived from England, and is making his first voyage as a Melanesian Missionary. Mr. Taylor is a master-mason, who, it will be recollected, arrived from Norfolk Island about a month ago in the cutter Magic. His object was to procure two working masons and the requisite tools for building the proposed Paterson Memorial Church. These are now on board, and on the vessel’s arrival at Norfolk Island—her first port—the work will be proceeded with. There is no need for importing stone, as there are excellent quarries on the island. Mr. Bongnard still occupies the position of chief mate. Before the Southern Cross weighed anchor, Dr. Goldsboro' made an inspection of her crew, and gave Captain Jacobs a clean bill of health, to satisfy the Norfolk Island authorities that no measles or any other disease is on board.—Auckland Evening Star, April 15.

The New Settlement at Katikati. —Captain Marks, pilot and harbormaster, lias already announced his intention of placing two buoys in the Pani Pani anchorage, and they will prove a convenience of no small nature. We trust, however, that he will not rest satisfied with this, but will continue operations up the Pani Pani channel, between it and Katikati, and more particularly that part near Matahoe through the mangroves at the meeting of the waters. Already a large passenger traffic has arisen with Katikati and the Thames, and travellers are constantly being delayed owing to this channel not being buoyed out, it being almost impossible to distinguish it at high water, at which time of tide alone boats can pass. Wo have every reason to believe that a steam launch will shortly be running between this port and Katikati, when it will be absolutely necessary to mark this channel,—Pay of Plenty Times. THE SHIP CARNATIC. The clipper ship Carnatic cleared the Customs on April 24, and it was the intention of the agents to have her towed out to sea by the s.s. Wellington, but in consequence of her taking the ground when attempting to haul off from the wharf, the idea was abandoned. She finally cleared away from the wharf early on Saturday and dropped down to the fairway, which she finally left on Wednesday, April 28. The Carnatic is in excellent trim, and, with ordinary luck, should make a good run Home. Wo wish the captain, officers, and passengers bon voyage. The cargo is valued at £35,836 10s. lid., made up of the following items, viz., 1717 bales wool, £28,175 4s. 3d,; 5082 sacks wheat (shipped from Lyttelton), £4380 ; 103 packages leather, £1224 ; 35 bales sheepskins, £394 Is. 9d ; 10 bales calfskins. £504 ; 37 packages, £216 3s. 9d.; sundries, £793 Is. 2d. Total, £35,830 10s, lid. ARRIVAL OF THE EDWIN FOX. ' After a long passage of -114 days from Gravesend the anxiously-looked-for barque Edwin Fox, Captain Davis, dropped anchor in Wellington Harbor at 7 o’clock on Sunday, April IS. She is an East Indian built ship (since converted into a barque) of 835 tons register, constructed of teak, with five years to run on her renewed letter of thirteen years. Her hull, as viewed from alongside, does not present a bright appearance, but the application of a couple of coats of paint will remedy this defect. In justice to Captain Davis and Dr. Tighe, the ship’s doctor, it must be said that not a cleaner or more comfortable immigrant vessel has entered these waters. Her ’tween decks are the .pink of neatness and cleanliness, and in a measure indicate the superior character of her immigrants. On the whole, the passengers’ -health has been excellent, although bronchitis and catarrh were very prevalent during the first month of the voyage, without doubt due to the constant foggy and rainy weather which particulars marked the early part of the voyage. Diarrhcea—a complaint more or less fatal on 'every immigrant ship—was very mild on board the Edwin Fox, and but one adult succumbed to it ; whilst another, a male immigrant, 68 years of age, who in falling broke his thigh bone, also died, his age and prostration tending to that end. Four children died, throe of bronchitis and one of catarrh. The births, six in number, equalised the deaths. The doctor attributes the general good health of the children to the abundant supply of milk and other suitable provisions which were furnished to persons under twelve years of age. Hospital accommodation is ample, half of the saloon having been partitioned off and converted into comfortable, clean, and airy apartments for the sick—an arrangement which it is hoped will bo more generally adopted in immigrant vessels. The immigrants number 215 statute adults, or 250 souls. On Monday last, a sailor named Neil Burgess, whilst aloft reefing, fell from the mainstay on to the deck, and sustained a severe fracture of the base of the skull, but he is said to bo progressing as well as might bo expected under the circumstances. Captain Davis will be remembered as having been in command of the ship Dallam Tower on her first voyage.to New Zealand in 1873 ; and Dr. Tighe was surgeon of the ship Surat when that unfortunate vessel was run ashore on the Otago coast, and more recent still, surgeon of the ship Zealandia, which arrived at Auckland about six months ago. The doctor proceeded home from that city via San I rancisco, and on the third day after arriving in England ' ho accepted his present appointment on the Edwin following is a resum# of the Edwin Fox’s voyage -—She loft London on November 28, but anchored at Deal, where she lost an anchor and chain. Put back, sliipped new mooring tackle, and again started on her voyage for Wellington. The vessel was then imdor the command of Captain Walpole, and another doctor had charge of the immigrants. The second attempt to get clear of the channel was even more unsuccessful than the first. The vessel collided with and sank a collier schooner, and drifted on the Deal Bank, from off which she was towed and placed in a dry dock, where repairs were effected. She left the dock on December 23, and was placed under the command of her present captain, who, at that time, was about to proceed to India overland to fetch homo a new vessel for Messrs. Shaw, Savill, and Co. Dr. Tighe also on that date assumed the medical supervision of the passengers, and the Edwin Fox once more made a start on the 25th (Christmas Day). The weather being foggy, the anchor was dropped the same afternoon off Chapman light, and weighed again next morning, only to be again dropped In the afternoon off the Nore lightship. She finally left England on the morning of December 27. A succession of S.W. gales, accompanied with rain and fog, were experienced, and were very fresh at times, but they enabled the vessel to make good average daily runs. Breezy weather continued till abreast of Tasmania, where a zone of easterly wind was met •with, which lasted three days. A continuance of N. and N.E. winds afterwards compelled Captain Davies to go south about, and the first New Zealand, land—the Snares —was sighted on the morning of the 13th instant. For seven days previously, so foggy and thick was the weather, no observations could be made, and the vessel was kept on her course by dead reckoning. Light favorable winds brought the vessel to the vicinity of Kaikoura Peninsula on the 16th, where a gale from the N.E. was experienced, which lasted thirty hours. On Saturday last, a light southerly wind came up, which rapidly increased, and Cape Campbell light was sighted at midnight;

two hours later Pencarrow light was opened out, the vessel being then under two lower topsails and foresail. AVellington Heads were defined at daylight, and Captain Davies determined to make for port without a pilot. After Barrett's reef had been passed, and the vessel was nearing Point HalsweU, Pilot Holmes came on board and brought the ship to an anchor. The Edwin Fox is under charter to Messrs. Shaw, Savill, and Co., and comes to Messrs. Turnbull and Co. THE BARQUE SUNBEAM. The Sunbeam, a barque of 442 tons, which loaded Home from this port some years ago, arrived from London on Friday night, April 23, dropping anchor to the north of Magazine Point. She finally left England on the 2nd of January, and has therefore made a passage of 110 days. Nothing eventful occurred during the voyage. She was boarded on Friday morning by Pilot Holmes, who succeeded in beating her to an anchorage against a strong N.N.W. breeze. She has 500 barrels of powder on board, but no passengers. The vessel is consigned to Messrs Levin. We have been kindly furnished with the following report of the passage of the barque Sunbeam, from London, by Captain Chapman:—Left Gravesend on December 24, but did not clear the Channel until January 1, in consequence of having thick weather to contend against. From the Ist to the 17th January encountered a succession of very strong S.W. gales. Sighted Madeira on the 24tb. From that date until arrival fine weather was experienced. The Sunbeam has a large quantity of gunpowder on board, which will be discharged into the lighters early this morning. She is also the bearer of 200 packages of railway material, consigned to the Minister of Public Works. THE S.S. WELLINGTON. At a meeting of the directors of the New Zealand Steam Shipping Company, held on April 24, the tenders for new boilers and other repairs to the s.s. Wellington were opened and considered. Each tenderer had to state both the price and the time required. first for the construction of the boilers, and secondly for the completion of the work after the steamer had been handed over to the contractors. The tender accepted was that of Messrs. Yeoman and Co., of Auckland, the price being £.2885, and the total time required eighteen weeks. The rejected tenders were —E. W. Mills, Wellington, price £2BIO, time seven months; Kincaid and McQueen, Dunedin, £2718, and nineteen weeks ; Robertson and Co., Wellington, £3104, and six mouths; Fraser and Tinne; Auckland, £3445, and six months; J. Anderson, Christchurch, £SOOO, six and a-half months. The reasons which induced the acceptance of Messrs. Yeoman and Co.’s tender in lieu of others which were lower were as followslst. The time required was the shortest of any, a far more important point even than the price ; 2nd. The fact that the kauri timber required for new spars, deck, &c., could be had on the spot in Auckland, thus saving the very heavy expense of carriage, which would have been unavoidable in the other cases : 3rd. The weather in Auckland at the time the work would have to be done is better than that in the other places; 4th. The successful tenderer already had done work for the company in satisfactory style, e.g., the boiler for the p.s. Manawatu. Mr. E. W. Mills, of AVellington, and Messrs. Kincaid and McQueen, of Dunedin, were shut out by the length of time they required, as well as by the above considerations, which rendered Messrs, Yeoman’s tender really by far the cheapest. THE SCHOONER MERCURY. The three-masted schooner Mercury, under the command of an old friend. Captain Thomas, arrived in harbor on Sunday, the 25th April, after a fair passage from Port Chalmers. She left that port on the 23rd, and had fine weather and light S.AV, winds throughout the passage. The Mercury visited these waters about two years and a-half ago, and she looks as spank and neat as she then did. She was the theme of general admiration, as, lying alongside the wharf, she looked like a waterwitch. Messrs. Duthie and Son, of Aberdeen, were her builders, and they are to be congratulated on the fine specimen of naval architecture they have turned out ia her. The Mercury’s registered tonnage is 301 tons, and she is classed at Lloyd’s as A 1 for twelve years. She'made a splendid run of eighty-seven days from New York to Port Chalmers, particulars of which have appeared in the Dunedin papers. AVc republish the following report from the Otago Daily Times : —Concerning the passage out. Captain Thomas reports leaving New York on January 3rd, with easterly winds. The ensuing week was marked by singular weather. Every day the wind went round the compass, and blew heavily between the S.E. and S.W. quadrant, obliging the schooner to lay-to for about six hours each day. Hie sea ran crossly and heavily, and on the 10th the wind settled into north, and held there fresh and steady for a couple of days, taking the Mercury to the northern verge of the N.E. trade. The latter scarcely deserved the name, it being two points to the southward of east, and hence not a mile of easting was made until the day before the Equator was crossed, when the breeze freed a little, and the schooner, coming up a point or two, managed to cross the line on the 31st meridian on the 27th January. She was favored by escaping doldnun weather. The breeze held at east, and gradually merged into the S.E. trade, but hung much to the eastward, keeping tolerably steady at E.S.E. Hence, notwithstanding her westerly position when she crossed the Line, she was enabled to lay a good course across the South Atlantic, comfortably weathered the Brazilian coast and its outlying islands, her nearest approach to it being sixty miles when she passed Cape St. Augustine. The S.E. trade gave out m the Bth February, in lat. 27, and was followed by a week of calms, during which she did not make 100 miles. Then the passage winds found her, but proved fickle and poor, hanging to the northward, not once veering south of west, and at times hauled round to N.E., leading the schooner points off her course. Notwithstanding this, she made very fair running, crossed the great meridian on the 20th of February, and that of the Cape on the 25th, in lat. 43. AVas favored by moderate weather, not one gale assailing her, and only once fell in with ice, that occurring on the 18th March in lat. 47 S., long. 10S E., when two or three bergs were sighted. The meridian of the Leuwin was crossed on the evening of the next day, and thence she made a good run to the New Zealand coast, the S.AA r . point of Stewart’s Island being passed close aboard at 2 p.m. on the 30th ultimo, and the breeze holding, she ran the coast up, and when she arrived off the Heads was then taken in tow by the Geelong, and conveyed to the anchorage of the ■ Port. The Mercury has brought a full cargo of Yankee notions, of which more than three-fourths are for Dunedin and tee balance for Wellington. AVe may observe that she ran her easting down upon about the 47th parallel, and that her best day’s run was 270 miles. THE FRENCH AVAR SHIP INFERNET. The French man-of-war Infcrnet, 2000 tons, corvette rapide, arrived in harbor about 11 a.m. ou Thursday, April 30, from Picton. The following is a list of her officers : —M. Pierre, capitaino jde vaisseau ; M. Galachc, capitaine de frigate; lieutenants de vaisseau: MM. Billard, Pugo, Augarde, Pillot; Enseigue * de Vaisseau Boularde, Quartermaster Campana, Surgeon (Ist class) Serez, AssistantSurgeon Maglioli; Midshipmen: MM. De Saint Pern. Thibaulfc, - Segras, Mondot, Martret -de. PreviUe, Moraggani. Her crew numbers 212 men. Her equipment for war is altogether nine guns, four on each side, and one immense five-ton gun in the lore part of the ship, which can be worked into position for firing in any direction. The foremast is supported on both sides by huge beams in the form, of a tripod, which enable the shrouds on each side to be cut away for firing purposes. Another great feature in the vessel is that her bulwarks work on hinges, and are let down when at ■ close quarters so as not to bo in the line of fire of the monster gun. She has the usual number of boats and a steam, .launch, much the same as in an English man-of-war. The engine-room is well worthy of inspection. The engines, on the AA r oolf principle, were constructed by. a French firm, “ Inderet,” in ISG9. There are four large boilers and eighteen furnaces, which work the three cylinders up to 1800 horse-power. ■ There is also a condenser, which makes three tons of water daily* The consumption of coal is very slight, through the iisc of a patent condenser, which is of very recent invention. The coal on board at present amounts to 350 tons. The Infernet’s speed maybe set down at between fifteen and sixteen knots per hour. She sailed a few days afterwards for Auckland.