SHIPPING.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 229, 9 December 1874, Page 2

SHIPPING.

POET OF POVERTY BAY,

AERIVALS DECEMBER.

B—Opotiki, schooner, Harris, master, from Napier w Ith general cargo. 7— Pretty Jane, s.s., Captain Fernandez, from Auckland, with general cargo. Passengers —Mr. and Mrs. Kelly, Mrs. Carter, Mrs. M Cabe and child, Mrs. Butler, Mrs. Hall, Mrs. Hill and 2 chidren, Mrs. M‘Donald Miss Williams. Messrs. Fox, Carter, Carey,

Siddons, Laughlin, Morgan, Maynard, Carr, Lindsay, Clarke, M‘Vair, Coad, and others. 7 — Advance, schooner. Captain Trimmer, from Tologa Buy, with 118 bales of wool, 6 tons firewood, and 300 rails 8— Christina, schooner, from Auckland with Government stores. DEPAKTURES. DECEMBER. B—Pretty Jane, s.s., Captain Fernandez, for Napier, with 20 casks Ale, Whitson & Co., 2 horses, Kelly. Passengers—Mr. Cucksey, Mr. Crawford, and otk -re. The schooner Advance, which has been windbound for some days in Tologa Bay, arrived in the harbour on Monday morning. Captain Trimmer, and Mr. Thompson her builder, epeak in high terms of her sailing qualities, and we have no doubt she will prove a welcome and useful addition to our local fleet.

The Quern Bee, we learn with much satisfaction, is to wait for the remainder of the wool yet to come from the stations, and may, probably, be detained for two or three weeks for that purpose. Capt iin Burch was advised to that effect by the Inst mail from the South

We learn that the Pretty Jane is not likely to come into the river again unless something is done to remove the rocks which at present obstruct the entrance.

The Cyphrenes, with the inward mails, i» now due in Auckland.

Captain Fergusson, on behalf of Sir James Fergusson, has presented Captain Fairchild, of the Luna, with a silver ink-stand, of the ▼al ue of £2O.

The Governor’s yacht Blanche was sold for £2.900, to Owen and Graham. It is understood that she has been purchased on behalf of Captain Young, for the South Sea trade. A new Anglo-Australian Steam Shipping Company is announced, with a capital of half a million sterling. The Times speaks of the undertaking in terms of discouragement.

The claim against the ship Strathnaver, for salvage, laid by Messrs Turnhull and Co, of Wellington, the owners of the steamer Stormbird, has been dismissed with costs. A claim for demurrage on the part of the owners of the Strathnaver, will be tried. Sixty Miles an Hour at Sea. —There is a probability of Australia being brought within eight days of Europe. The Admiralty have before them a new form of steamer, with a bottom composed of two or more parallel consecutive inclines, of which great things are expected. The inventor, a Mr. Ramus, states that with his model, he has actually attained a speed of sixty-three knots an hour. From Melbourne to Sydney or Adelaide in nine hours, to Launceston in four, and to London in eight days, would rather revolutionise ocean steam navigation. But it is much more easy to attain a great speed for a few hundred yards in a model, than to keep it up for thousands of miles on board a ship. Theory and practice are not always in accord. —Melbourne Leader.