Shipping Intelligent.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 1012, 15 December 1881, Page 2

Shipping Intelligent.

:o: PORT OF POVERTY BAY. The Roaina left for the coast on Tuesday evening last. The schooner Gisborne sailed from Auckland, en Tuesday last, for this port, via the coast. Referring to the fleet of the Union Steamship Company, the Globe says : —“ Tho seventeen steamers which at the present time wear the * red funnel ’ and fly the flag of the Union •SteamshipC’ompany wiU be shortly augmented by five new ones, whose aggregate gross registered tonnage amounts to no less than 6850 tons. The aggregate indicated power of these •new comers will be also 6000 h.p., divided as -follows :—The Manipouri, 1900 tons, and the Wairarapa, of the same tonnage, are each of 1750 h.p.i the Hauroto, whose tonnage (2000) ’exceeds that of any other-steamer in the fleet, will be 1500 h,p., and the Onapcre (600 tons) ■and Mahinapua tons) are to be of 500 ‘h.p. each. In other words, the Company wil', accidents excepted, then possess a fleet of twenty-three steamships, with a total tonnage of as many thousand tons, or, to be exact, 22,500 tons gross register, and a total equal to 20,850 horses. -Considering the comparatively -short time the Company has existed its progress may well be said to be remarkable.