SHIPPING.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 325, 17 November 1875, Page 2

SHIPPING.

POET OF POVERTY BAY ARRIVALS. NOVEMBER. 14— Botina, S.S., Captain Wells, from Auckland. 15— Opotiki, schooner, Captain Hamilton, from the coast, with 67 bales wool, 70 bags make, sundries, and the following passengers :—Mr. Mrs. and Miss Harding, from Awanui. DEPARTURES. NOVEMBER. 13— Agnes Donald, schooner, Captain McCabe, for Auckland. The Lochnagar has not yet completed the discharge of the cargo of coals brought by her from Auckland for this port, but expects to do so this week. She has, within the last few days, shipped some three or four tons of tallow for London, but no wool as yet. There are, however, a large number of bales awaiting to be shipped at Captain Read’s old store, and these will probably be put on board next week.

The schooner Opotiki, Captain Hamilton, arrived in this port on Sunday night last, from the coast. She brought down sixty bales of wool from the stations of Mr. Arthur, Tokomaru, Mr. Tatham, and Mr. Murphy Tologa Bay. She also brought sixty bushels of maize for Mr. Boylan of this town. The Opotiki sails.hence again for the coast to-day to load , wool, and expects to be back here in less than ten days.

The Roeina, (Mr. Adair’s new steam launch) Captain Wells, arrived in this port on Sunday afternoon last, at half past two o’clock- She left Auckland on Friday afternoon, at half past one, thus making the passage in fortyeight hours and a haft. She experienced fine weather on the voyage, nntil she passed the East Cape, when she had to encounter aslight breeze of head wind, which continued till she reached Waipiro. The Roeina steamed at the rate of eight knots an hour during the passage, and consumed coals at the rate of two and a half tons a day. Her sailing capabilities, considering her size, are said to be excellent. She was built by Messrs Sims and Brown, North Shore, Auckland, whose substantiality of work is well known. Her machinery was manufactured by Messrs Fraser and Tinne, Auckland, and we need scarcely state that the very name of that firm is a sufficient guarantee that only first class work is turned out at their establishment. The length of her keel is 65 feet, extreme breadth, 14 feet four inches, and depth of hold, 5 feet 6 inches. Her carrying capabilities are seme what extensive. She is registered to carry 34 tons, but will easily carry 40 in either loading or unloading vessels in the Bay, for which she is well adapted. If she had not been so heavily laden as she was, she would have made the passage from Auckland to Gisborne in less than forty hours, or shorter than the Pretty Jane usually makes it. She brought a mail and a full cargo of timber, shingles, and miscellaneous articles. The Rosin* will, we understand, be employed in loading and unloading the Lochnagar this week; and afterwards in the coastal trade, between Gisborne and Napier—making occasional trips up the coast, as far as the East Cape. We trust that her enterprising owner will find in her a profitable source of trade.

The Pretty Jane, which left here on Friday -morning last at four o’clock, arrived in Auckland on Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock —thus snaking the passage in 50 hours, notwith■etanding the -crippled state she was in. She left for Gisborne last evening, and may be expected here to-morrow. She will leave hence for Napier on or about Friday.