SHIPPING.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 272, 15 May 1875, Page 2

SHIPPING.

POET OF POVERTY BAY ARRIVALS. MAY. 11— Opotiki, schooner, C:i tin Burke, from Auckland ria Mercury Bay, laden with timber, and a general cargo. 12— (10-a-head, s.s., Captain McGillivray, from Auckland, with a general cat go of merchandise. Passengers: Mrs. Lysnar and child, Mrs. Hird, Messrs. Bradman, Pollen, and 12 immigrants. 13 -Kangalirn, s.s., Captain Griffiths, from Napier, with general cargo and the following passengers: Miss Harrison, Messrs N»«mith, Arthur, Mr. and Mrs. Upham, and O’Donoughue. DEPARTURES. MAY. 13 — Rangatira, s.s., Captain Griffiths, for for Napier. Passengers : Messrs Hanlon, Bowlen, J. N. Williams, Henning. Mr. and Mrs Upham and child, Miss Butler. 13—Ijtetitia, cutter, Captain Palmer, for Auckland via lairoa, in ballast. Captain Thomas Chkisp’s appointment as pilot at the port of Poverty Bay, is officially announced in the Provincial Gazette.

The Go-a-head arrived at Napier at 3 o’clock, and the Rangatira at 5 o’clock yesterday morning. The Go-a-hcad will be up about 2 o’clock tu-morrow morning, and will stay only to pick up mails and fmssengers for Auckland- She will not come in the river. Intending passengers will do well to book to-day, ami sit up through the night, or they may be left behind. The Opotiki is on the berth for Napier, and will sail positively this evening. The Teeeoks ue the Suez Route.—A Californian contemporary says : —“ A gentleman, who made a trip by the Suez route between Europe and Hindostan, sends us a statement that two of his fellow-passengers, who started in good health, died of exhaustion from the heat. The thermometer stands for days between llOdeg. and 12Odeg., and when the steamer runs with the breeze the oppression is fearful. On one occasion a captain turned about and steamed against the wind for 100 miles to save the lives of six passengers, who were in danger of dying otherwise. The steamship company, after paying a fine of 5,000d01. for detention of the mails, instructed | the captain to keep straight on the next time. I The length of the Red Sea is 1,400 miles, and even in cool weather it is a hot place. The travellers should know that they can do better by coming this way. Californians going to Europe, by way of China, should manage, if possible, to strike the Bed Bea in the winter.** 1 m port ant to American Traders.—From the A ant teal. Magazine for March, we take the following : —■“ Board of Trade, Feb. 13. — Ihe Board of Trade liave received, through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a dispatch from Her Majesty’s Minister at Washington, inclosing correspondence with the United State* Government, from which it appear* that all vessels in ballast, whether of American ownership or otherwise, trading from foreign ports to ports in the United States, when within four leagues of the coast, are required to be provided with manifests on which their sea stores are exhibited, and the masters of any such vessels failing to be so provided are liable to a fine of 500 dollars.