Shipping Intelligence.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 965, 30 July 1881, Page 2

Shipping Intelligence.

PORT OF POVERTY BAY. Arrivals —July. 27th. —Jessie, ketch', with coals from Napier. 29th. —Rotorua, s.s., Captain Tozer, from Auckland, with 50 tons general cargo. Passengers : —Miss Cousen, Messrs. Gulliver, J. S. Graham, Crawford, Fraser, Owen, and Matter Jones. Steerage: Messrs. McKay, J. W. Burns, and three Natives. Departures—J uly. 29th. —Rotorua, s.s., Captain Tozer, for Napier and Southern Ports. Passengers Miss Smith, Miss Todd, Mr. and Mrs. King and family, Judge Kenny, Mrs. Kenny and; family ; Messrs. E. ff. Ward, Morris, Meldrum, Davies and Graham. Expected Arrivals. Rotorua, s.s. from Auckland, 29th July. Rotomahana, s.s., from Napier and Southern Ports, 31st July. Oreti, s.s., from South. Waiwera, schooner, from Mercury Bay, with Timber. Elsinore, schooner, from Auckland, with general cargo. Fleetwing, schooner, from Bay of Islands, with coal. The s.s. Rotorua arrived in the roadstead yesterday, shortly after noon. She brings the English mail, several passengers, and about 50 tons of cargo. The Home News says communication between the mother country and Australia is being rapidly shortened as regards time by the Orient line. This Company’s steamer Orient and the mail steamer Cathay left Adelaide together, and the letters by the former were delivered in London, when those by the mail had only arrived at Alexandria, thus enabling replies to the letters brought by the Orient to reach Australia a fortnight earlier than those brought by the mail boat. The Winconsin steamer of the Orient line (the Cotopaxi) delivered her letters in London four days before the mail, although she left Adelaide one day later.