SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 65, 6 July 1876, Page 2

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

PORT OF OHMAS.V. ♦ mums us fetes. JCtT ft. lrt*-W*»e. » ■ KACTICAL ITEU9. [From th* "Omily Time*.) U may not be generally known (hat a harbour of refuge ha» been estabUahetf at St. MUihaels. one o( the Aaoro* and in connection with it a commodious* floating dock hw been constructed* " SUtuhett'e Register,"" alfodi&tf to the harbour and dock. »t»t«9 how the •teamor ttuo>. t.OOt} tons,, was* painted and cleaned in the dock in March, lout, making the fourth vessel accommodated by it. The trade of the blond ha* vadtiy tiicii—iwil of late. a» la evidenced by tha fact of no fewer Ulna 3«4 veseete* either trader* or in need of pruilihiiie. eo»J v or repairs, called at Michaels during M 7&. Th* •»«»«* (?) alluded to below were inttesii »rrtt« nary. Th« report* (*»y» the "'Register") received at Portmoouta el the, cruise of the; training brigs Marten •Act Seaflbwwr ere' not entirety satisfactory. Burin? a gale enconnterwi on the homeward passage, consideraWclUßirolisy attended the r««flat£ of the Marten's- topmil*. Ovt of ninety ordinary seamen she had on board. only ten could bit induced to venture aloft. The in* •tractor* of these thing*—mis-namml seamen—had to do the worn. The very powerful foghorn designed by Tfyndall, and which we described in a former issue. h;W (says the ** Register'* of March, 34th); beiun nra triaE for soma time past at Trmity House Wharf. EUwlcwall. and can be distinctly heard for several toil?* round. A plan for shipping and unshipping rudder* at sex baeeif upon * principle patented some year* ago. has been introduced by Captain Henley. The " Register " tftua describes it:—An aperture jnst large enough to. •Itow the rtwkfef to »Hp through eusily. is e»t ia eho ooaittw, »ntt instoiwt of pintlßrt v ift iron tubv.&iw: lenu'ttv of the itotiVpOHtw i» tUvit to it. with it* after-isml open, loulaadmit of the rucWsr post workiaieasily n^ and down. Tli« nwiMsr b i» tha »haps of tho orUinary twiiiut, only that in Ii«« of the uswvl ruciter-pout. an Iran post lit substituted, which Bit* the hollow tubs in. Mle Mern-post in the 3nmu manner iw the guifgeon* St tha pintles. The kaei of the iron p™t Qta into a 9o<;ket hj» tie tower end of the tabu, while the upper part works to • bearing on deck. The rudder t» lowered dowa from, the deck through the aperture, the tiller is then ttiuuL and the aperture dewed m thesame manner •» the trunk of iv eentre-boord yacht. By meansi oc a •crew working in the bearing upon deck, the nidder out be locked in ease of the tiller ropes carrying away. •She denrtli of Civptoin John Oliver, at the ag* of toi J»«*9v to repcjrtetf by the Secretary of the Li«erp«ot teroantlle Ifarine Service the deceased 1 havinir been a peneioner on the Aged Seamen's F\%ikl„ la Bonneutiort w«h that boity. its fought at Trafalgar under Sfetoon. and bad been seventy years at 9ea. A boy named John Lane, ogett thirteen, one of a number confined on board the industrial ship Ha«an. nnh- at Cardiff. wa» charged with having attempted tt> •et her on lire. He pleaded guilty, and said that he thought v it h* had sneceeded in burning her, ail the other boy» would be irit.