Shipping Intelligence.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1050, 18 March 1882, Page 2

Shipping Intelligence.

■>D OF POVERTY BAY. > sc’’ounce t '-luin'-i i. left for Auckland on Thursday morning, hut returned . mi-thv . ow>ng to a lo ad wind prexuilShe left again yesterday. sc'u'unrr <‘np'uiu Skirn r. in Auckland last wt-k. S-jc will leav p >rt vO her return trip to Gisborne via on Munday next. «e't<toner Minnie Hii'c. <’apt. Ni< - liol- J ■ll lyxre for Auckland to day, if there is vat*-/ to admit of her ero—.ing I e $J»e 4akes a full cargo uf gras* t»ved, j hides, etc. The Union Steamship Com pans’) Ninea- I Captain C iattiebl, left Auckland \es- ! abufit noon, and adsa be looked for thi< : She will «’.ea\r this evening’Tori Ports and Melbourne. ■ The Onion Steamship Company* Te Anau. Carre.. havnig been detained down her arrival at this port w altered t<> next, instead of to-mt4TU«' (Sunday ), will take her departure for Auckland and M*ydney shortly after arrival. Ha nf\v metho j> oe(<)wm rs ic atfng ■ WITH WRECKED VESSELS. Low axi» Ik >F, engineers, Dundee, ■Lave just made an important improvement in ■ connection with apparatus f-or communicating ■ with wrecked vessel*. It is a new gun width they tried at Mouifieth recently with marked •access. The gun is 2ft. long, with a bore of 2 jin., and it is so constructed that tlioline which i* to be Cred from it passes through the Quick end of the gun. In the experiments auntie the line was shot -l-Of> yards with 2ozt. of :jK»wdrr, which would have sent it farther had the line used on the occasion been longer. The.rord is coiled in the form of a cop and quit inside a steel ennioter. This canister is j fired out of the gun. and leaves the line stream- • ing behind it. The distance to be covered is -aimply a question of size of gun and canister. The gun was sent to Birmingham and tested in the most thorough manner in the proofhouse there. The twine used in the exfieriments was made of flax, and carried 2001bs. dead weight with a length of 6ft. of twine.