SHIPPING.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 235, 2 January 1875, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OF POVERTY BAY. AE RIVALS. t DECEMBER. 30—Pretty Jane, s.b. Capt. Fernandez, from , Auckland, with general cargo. Passengers: —Miss Bach, Miss Barker, Mrs. Lawrence, Messrs. Stabbings, Ferris, Viack, Lonorgan, Lawrence, Master Lucas Bloomfield, and others. DEPARTURES. JANUARY. I—Pretty Jane, s.b., Capt. Fernandez, for Napier, with 30horses, and 2,000 ft. timber. Passengers :—Messrs. Mogridge, Gillibrand, Moore, and others. The Star of the South arrived in Auckland I -cm the 27th December, from Levuka. ' The Southern Cross left Auckland on Monday last for Napier and the southern provinces. ’ The mail steamer Cyphrenes was due in Auckland on Monday last, but had not arrived when the Pretty Jane left that port. Immigrants for New Zealand. —The Agent-General telegraphs on the 12th November, from London, that he has despatched the India with 163 immigrants for Auckland ; the Hudson and City of Vienna, with 721, to Napier; Rakaia, with 333, Io Canterbury; the Garelock, Oamaru, Wellington, and BK>unedin, with 983, to Otago, together with a large quantity of railway mateiinl. [The long talked of Bessemer steamer, whose chief feature is her patent swinging saloon, was successfully launched at Hull, on the 24th ult., | in the presence of 20,000 persons, including the inventor and a great many naval officers of ■ various nations. The christening ceremony was performed by Mr Bessemer’s grand daughter, and was followed by triumphant music played rby band. The steamer is too broad to enter »ny dock “at Hull. She is to ply between Dover and Calls, and is exp.-cted to be ready for sea in a few weeks, as Ixur engines are already on board. Auckland. The ship Assaye, which has been expected for a length of time, turned up safe and sound on the 26th inst. Her voyage has been protraded by a succession of light winds. She is a fine iron ship of 1,281 tons register, and Bister built to the Parsee, a ship she much resembles. Captain M’Ritchie reports leaving --—the Start Point on the 12th of September, j Crossed the Equator on the 11th October, and the meridian of the Cape on the 6th November. The easting was run down in 45° 8., l and the North Cape sighted on the 21st irst. r No bad weather was experienced. The Assaye , is owned by Messrs. J. and W. Stewart, of Greenock, who had her built in 1868. She is under charter to the New Zealand Shipping * Company, who bring out 419 immigrants by her.