Shipping Intelligent. POET OF POVERTY BAY.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1058, 6 April 1882, Page 2

Shipping Intelligent. POET OF POVERTY BAY.

The seliooner Gisborne will leave for Auckland via the Coast, about the end of the week. The sjk Oreti left Napier yesterday afternoon at 3 o’clock, and will arrive in port early this morning. The U.S.B. Company’s Southern Cross will leave for Auckland on or about to-morrow (Friday), 7th April. The U.S.S. Company’s Arawata, is expected from Melbourne via Southern Ports, on Sunday next, and will leave for Auckland and Bussell on Sunday morning. The U.S.S. Company’s Hero will leave this port for Auckland on Wednesday next, the 12th April. The Union Company’s Rotomahana, Capt. Underwood, will arrive from Auckland tomorrow (Friday), about noon. She will leave for Melbourne via Southern Ports in the evening. On account of the rough state of the weather the Kosina did not leave for the Coast on Tuesday evening last. She will leave as soon as the weather improves, with a cargo of 10,000 feet of timber for the Southern Cross Petroleum Company. The directors of the Union Steamship Company have (says the Post) decided to build two more large boats of the Te Anau or Manapouri class, in addition to the three now building or ready. The departure of the Manapouri from London is hourly expected to be intimated by cable, and she should arrive here about the middle of May. The Wairarapa, a similar steamer, leaves London in June for this Colony, and the Hauroto follows her in September. The first of the two extra boats is to leave England in December next, and the second in March, 1883. The two last will have about the same speed as the Te Anau. They will be named, like the other boats of the Company’s fleet, after New Zealand lakes, and it is believed that their names will be selected from the following four: viz., Ohau, Taieri, Waihora, and Pukaki, but this is hot yet definitely settled. The two unnamed boats, with the Wairarapa, Manapouri, Te Anau, and Rotomahana, will perform the intercolonial traffic ; the Rotorua, with the Penguin and Hawea, the main coastal between Wellington and Manukau, via Picton and Nelson ; the Wanaka and all the small boats being relegated to less important work, and the Rotorua being removed from the intercolonial to the coasting trade. The Wakatipu will continue to ply between Wellington and Sydney. The Arawata and Ringarooma will probably be used mainly as extra or relief boats in both trades, as required. It is not settled where the Hauroto will run. Several smaller boats are building for the Union Company, and one, the Omapere, will probably leave England next month for New Zealand. NEW STEAMER FOB THE NAPIERW AIBGA TRADE". We (Wsiroa Guardian) are credibly informed that the U. 8.8. Company propose shortly to transfer the Boojum to Gisborne, and replace her in the Napier and Wairoa trade with a superior boat. She is to be much larger than the Boojum, 60 or 70 tons burden, and will besides be fitted up to carry a large number of passengers. She is expected to draw but two and a-half feet of water when loaded, and to perform the trip to Napier in three and a-half hours from land to land. The steamer was built in England and is now being put together in Dunedin, so she may be soon expected in these waters.