Shipping intelligence.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 1007, 3 December 1881, Page 2

Shipping intelligence.

PORT OF POVERTY BAY. A r rivals. —December. 2—Ringarooma, s.s., Capt. Chatfield, from Auckland. Passengers :—Messrs Hesketh, Cooper, McKaig, Milner, and Jacobs. Departures.—December. 2 —Ringarooma, s.s., Capt. Chatfield, for Napier and Southern Ports. Passengers :— Misses Alexander, Miss Cuthburt, Messrs. Baker, J. McKerrow, Gelston, and McKenzie. The Minnie Hare was towed out of the river yesterday, ready for sea. She goes ballast laden, to pick up freight on the coast for Auckland. An English paper says that the new Inman mail steamer City of Rome has left the Clyde on her trial trip. This steamer comes next to the Great Eastern for size, being five hundred and eighty-six feet in length and fifty-two feet broad. She is expected to steam an average of seventeen knots an hour. The New Zealand Shipping Company have opened a branch in Liverpool, and the follow* ing vessels have already sailed from that port, under their flag :—Alestis, for Wellington and Auckland : Himalaya, for Otago ; Loch Kerr, for Lyttelton. It is intended, by the Company, to establish a regular line from Liverpool to the principal parts of the Colony, Trade between New York and Auckland is 'being fostered by the Kangaroaline of vessels which have recently commenced running to this port direct. Two vessels are already on the way thither, and Messrs. H. P. Barber, the Auckland agents, announce that a third will be placed on the berth in January, and that orders sent by the outgoing mail will reach New York in sufficient time to allow of goods being shipped by that vessel.— Star. The schooner Gisborne, Captain Skinner, is on the berth in Auckland to leave thence for Gisborne on Monday the 12th inst. The Gisborne made a fine trip up to Auckland this week ; and is considered to be the smartest vessel on the Coast; she is quite new, and under the able seamanship of so experienced a man as Captain Skinner, should command a ready freight. Consignees and other shippers by this boat are advised to -communicate by wire to the master on board.