Shipping Intelligences.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1042, 28 February 1882, Page 2

Shipping Intelligences.

PORT OF POVERTY BAY. Abrivals.—Feb ru ary. 25th.—Hero, «.a., Captain McGee, from Auckland. Passenger: —Miss Blair, Metiers R. Cooper, Berry, Ewing. (J ark •. iiunlp .nes, Adair, Gardner, MeUraig. an.t Bak ke. 26th.— Rotomahann, e.s.. Captain UnderWOud, from tae South. Powe u gers:—Miss Ki eDonal I, Miss Harvey. Miss Hooper, Mis liawey, Mis Divia and child. Miss Tathum, Dr. and Mrs Leggett and 4 children. Colonel "Whitmore, Master Belziutuur, Messrs Sheppard, Po grain, Gunn, Gracie, Christian, iiatupa, Pollen, McKerrow, and Ferguson. ■Departures.—February. 25th.—Hero, s.-s., Captain McGee, for Melbourne via Southern Porta. 26th.—Rotomahana, sa , for Auckland. Passengers :—Mr and Mrs A. Graham and 2 children, Messrs J. Sunderland, Fryer, Image, aud J. Adams. The a s. Rosiwa, fteptain Scott, arrived from the Coast on Saturday eveningdait. She w ill convey Colonel Whitmore and putty ae far as W’aipiro this (Tuesday) evening. The 6.8. Oreti, Capt. Campbell, left Napier at 10 o’clock lust night, and will arrive in the Bay early this morning. She is announced to take her departure for Tauranga and Auckland, this morning, at 10-o'clock. The Union Steamship Company’s Hero, Ceptain McGee, arrived from Auckland on Saturday last, and left again for Melbourne via Southern Ports, the same evening, taking the racehorses A.G., Prim, Hero, and Kuaiiine to Napier. The Union Steamship Company’s Rototnahana, Capt. Underwood, arrived from Melbourne via Southern Ports, on Sunday morning, and left for Auckland before noon. She had to leave a mob of 200 sheep behind. The schooner Minnie Hare arrived in Auckland from Gisborne and East Coast ports on Saturday. 18lh Feb. She experienced a strong gale from the N.E., with heavy rain on-Thurs-day. Mr Gamble the Auckland for the Pacific Mail S.S. Co’, has received a cablegram stating the S.S. Australia left San Francisco on Thursday, 16th February, and may be looked for on Thursday, 9h March. A Tirnaru telegram states that Captain Curm j r, of the barquentine Edith May, which arrived in Auckland from Newcastle on Tuesday night, repo t« passing the deck of a vessel of about 200 tons about ten miles off Palmeiston. The British men-of-war Dreadnought, Devastation, and Neptune, are to be fitted with independent electric-firing gear the guns in each turret being fired from tne inside. It is under consideration to fit the turret ships with electric apparatus for discharging the White-head torpedo.