SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 73, 15 July 1876, Page 2

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

*■ ■ .i-«i in + ■ ■ OF OAMABU. ♦ E4WARDS. Jew I*. RaUance. kateh. Hart, firwa Pit-ton. Master, agsat. OCTWARM JctT IS. Stumson,, p.a.. U+ torn*. Edis. "for Dunedin. H. Altitun,, agent. VESSFXJ* PORT. Jtrcf IS. BHK—Wavo. erigantliies—'■JsaQwil. Ethel. Schooner—lino Scollay. (Cotcn™R«lian<.«EXPORTS*. .fi.i.v IS. Per Stanimm. for Dum-din -t ke W. Brfli « ««. (rtiliuul and Esther : I bundlo trees.. .*. RbmU t hridK Miwon; t parcel. Cagiwy wl <'»• '• :slHttids..u 'mrre :«. W. foots: aw bag* win-ac. Andorsoo and to. : ."» Bags wheat, ti. '£. t. H. X <•<». : t<»> b'W* wh ™ r V ,*• 8m and Go.-. t:i bundles skins, t box, A. O. Maude t Bag, Perrl»: l pin-col. W. Anderson: t not. ■>■ Pwttle ; t (Ngkago. .r. K. Brown. Tho Colon Company's p.s. Samson left the Breakwater thit» morning for Dunedin at lu Ift Fassengers : Jtr. and Mrs. T. Konnedy. Mrs. Stewart und daughter, Mies Caddy. Messrs. Wales. Uranf. Amos. Sutton-, Bmwh,. Smith, nnd: si * stoeragn. Thu ketch Reliance, tfuptain- ftart.. from Pieton, arrived in port yesturday afternoon, nf. t.::i> p.m. She brings iv full cargo of timber.- consigned to the N«w Ztmlund Loan and Mercantile Agency tympany. Ths (yilioiv Company's steamer Ladybird, tapfam Andrews, arrived at 1.13 this afternoon.. Ewm Timaru. She leaves for Duuedin en Monday. ♦ ffACTtCAt, ITEMS. "Mitchell'* Register" sivy* that the manufacture of torpedoes will' form an Interesting portion of tha work to be carried on at ths Woolwich Arsenal during the C'. A number of these mysterious weapons of warwill Be supplied from time to time From the Royal Laboratory. Woolwtcn.. to ft. St. ship Vernon, which has been selected for this service, tha Lords of the Admiralty having decided to establish a torpedo- naval suhool. where officers and men may go through a special course of instruction in this new and important method 1 of natfttt warfare. A step In-the rtirht direction Is being taker* by ths Admiralty \n reumittntf for the navy front the younir and best-conditioned of the nuvle inmates of the larioiw Union- Worlthouse» of England; Great «»»>, t» •xarulwid not to seluct boys in tha least tainted with crime. It lias boon determined by tho Admiralty to supplemanti the armumont of several vessels about to bo ooma»i8»ton«d with- those destructive weapons—Catling gun* The ahaw, 2t! v the new Hivjrship of the Pacitio station, will carry them. , The new cltu» of torpedo boats about to ba mtroducdd tnttv tha Jfavy will be the swiftest of any vessels of the Ifcmt. The name of the Hrst one now building Id to be the Uyhtnimr. A deputation (say» the " Maritime Rejjtster X conslHtlntr of Mr. Withy, shipbuilder, of Uartlepoof. and Mesws. Vounjf and London, waited on. the President of tho Board of Trade, and exhibited a mode prepared! to show the value of a rise of sheer. and of the addition of muvrter-deeks. poops, bridirw. and forecivstles to ships, 't'hey explained the utifairne»» of taking a certiun free-hoard measured only amidships- ivs an index of safety, irrespective of the abov» consideration-: they that the free-board ihould be tivlteiv at each emt as well: as amidships, and that the length and height of miarter-decks.. Ac. should be measurud when a vessul was detained for overloading. 'Che Government of Japan notify that a buoy has besa moored to mark the position of the shoat called Shika Nose In tho Inland Sea. The shoal U situated at thu onstern end of that portion of the sea called Hacirna N«la, and tt» about nine miles in a westerly and southwesterly direction from. Vesaki Lighthouse. The buoy t» moored about four and a half cables to the southward of the middle of the shoal, tu seventeen fathoms at low water. Vesaki Lighthouse bears from it S. "!> E.. the summit of Rioruja Varna in Awailgr. S. 3-t E. : the wwtern entrance of Vesaki. near Vemoura, on the western- shore of Awodgi, S. SE. l bearing true. The buoy in painted red. and is surmounted by a circular eivjftt, the top of which-stands 13ft. above water.