SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 131, 21 September 1876, Page 2

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

PORT OF OA3JARU. ■■ ♦ VESBUI3 tW POST. Surf a.>n)Rii 2t. Brltc—'Waw, EXPORTS. SxrcKAtßsn at. F«f IflHsy Kinst.. for Owiymoath—tOO sacfce wheat. KH> weHfM 12* sacks bran. 25 Com* potatoes, I.* tone Hour, and 40 sacks pollard, i. and T. Steisft. • • THE »9. WAKATirr. the Wafcatimx ta described as hsing: not absolutely "a thine of b«ftttty,'*but the fact that her builders wt»tt* Benny's, of Bnmßarton. wUI reudiiy account fertile statement bhaS "she ts *«ry nicely modeited.'* Stuck te said by our contemporaries ot her superior •ccammoitettfott Jof passenaers. and ingenious- interior arrnniremenist*, mow particularly thoma for discharging •araa" Piero truck to R««I. the material chiefly asset lu £« construction i» iron. A comparatively new armnnmant in be* hold is the use of tanks, by which ballast, in the ordinary sense oi the tern*, is dispensed with. These reservoirs arc capable of containing 3U<> ton* of water, and can be pumped fntt. or emptied, as Mattirwl ta a cuupie of hotws.. For the totercoteniai trade thie mast be found & very great advantage-. Than, by means of bar many steam appliances, cargo o»n be dJscharjfdit ovw both sicfus from threehatches,, or am equivalent to six wtaehes at work, so that delay at the port of call wilt be reduced to a minimum, f fsr ensrae*. which" are compound with ait the latest improvemMts.can be worked up> ti> 1.500 I horse-power. A sulftuienoy of boats are onboard tor eases of emergency, and alt aw proirtded with Douglas's patent towering epparatus, which; removes alt danger frerai upsetting-. Altogether the craft will evidently be a wedit to the Company and the Colony, ft is intended to> rum her primarily between the various ports o£ Jfew Zealand and Sydney ; hot. as the "Argus * says* " the tfniow Company, beimr evidently strong in resources, may possibly try a little aggressive potiuy, and the Wakatlpw may again enter an appearance m Port snaus.'*