SHIPPING.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume II, Issue 208, 26 September 1874, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OF POVERTY BAY. ARRIVALS. SEPTEMBER. 23 — Rangatira, s.s., Captain Lloyd, from Wellington and Southern pons. Passengers—Mr and Mrs Turner and servant, Miss Drysdale, and Mr. Bishop. DEPARTURES. SEPTEMBER. 23— Rangatira, s.s., Lloyd, for Napier and the South, with original cargo. Passengers — Mr and Mrs Brookes, Messrs. Locke, Bold, Chandler, Jones, Simmonds, and Kennedy.

The Rangatira was signalled not to tnke the bar at Napier on her last trip from Wellington, she consequently, ran on to Poverty Bay, without communicating with that port, for which trivial circumstance, we are made to a offer by her staying here barely an hour, and .dosing the outward mail before the inward mail was delivered. This, we need hardly state, caused much inconvenience, in-as-much as the Rangatira was quite a day before her advertized time. Pome of these days an action will be laid against some of these steam* ors, by some irate and disappointed passenger, which may teach them a lesson in paying greater attention to public convenience. The Luna was lying in Wellington Harbor when the Rangatira left Nothing seems to be known of her movements.

A steamer, well out to sea supposed to be the Luna, was seen to pass the Bay, on Thursday lost. We rather think it was the Star of the South making her coast trip towards Dunedin.

The Dismasted Iron Ships.—Now that the clipper ship John Kerr is once more a-tsunto.” and all her sails bent, it may be as well to show the advantages she hjts gained over those that were dismasted at the same time, by having her repairs effected here, instead of getting the spars and gear sent out from Home, as the ships Loch Ard and Cambridgeshire are having done. The John Kerr is ready for sea again, and at an expenditure of a fraction or so more or less than £10,000; and the work is pronounced by the surveyors and all concerned in the vessel to be equal in wormanship and material to anything that could be turned out in Great. Britain ; in fact, they could not be surpassed. The ironwork was done by Forman and Co., Yarra Boiler Works, for £2687 LOs.and consists of new fore and mainmasts, new fore and main lower yards, new lower topsail yards, new mizentop, and requisite repairs to cross jack and mizentopsail yard. The Loch Ard’s mastsand gear have arrived in the ships Loch Tay and America, and the Cambridgeshire’s are daily expected in the Obero, so that fully two months will be yet taken up lief ore these two can be ready for sea; and it is very uncertain if, when the reckoning of the expenses is arrived at, the John Kerr’s has not been much less than the other ; and, to add to the outlay, a gentleman came out by the last mail steamer to supervise the fitting-out of the Cambridgeshire.—Age. The following notice has been sent by the captain of the Strathnaver, to each consignee of cargo by that ship : —“ Wellington, 14th September, 1874. Sir, —I hereby give you notice that the ship Strathnaver, her freight and cargo, were this day arrested in a cause of salvage, civil and maritime, at the suit of Messrs W. and G. Turnbull and Co., and that the cargo consigned to you cannot be delivered until you have released the same, by giving bail or otherwise. And take further notice, that unless you obtain such release with all convenient speed you will be charged with demurrage for any delay in clearing the ship.”