Shipping Intelligence.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1062, 18 April 1882, Page 2

Shipping Intelligence.

PORT OF POVERTY BAY. A rrivals. —April. 16th.—Ringarooma, s.s., Captain Edie, from Southern Ports. Passengers:—Misss Hargraves, Miss Griffiths, Messrs Pulmer, Hill, Smith, Shelton, Ellison, Cato, A. Foster. Departures.—April. 16th.—Ringarooma, s.s., for Auckland and Sydney. Passengers:—Misses Nelson (2). Capt. Scott, Messis 11. Cook, Usher, Smith. Burne, Bennet. F. Fox.

The 9.9. Rusina, Captain Scott, will leave fur the Coast t -morrow (Wednesday), with a general cargo. Tue s.s. Oreti, Captain Campbell, is expected to arrive in port from Wellington via Napier, on or about Thursday next, whence •s ie is likely to proceed North. The Union Company’s Hero, Capt. McGee, left Auck'aiid f >r Gisborne, yesterday morning, at 10.30 o'clock, and may be expected this afternoon.

The Union Company’s Ringarooma, Capt Edie, arrived in port, on Sunday evening last, from Melbourne and Southern Ports, with about 40 tons of general cargo. She left the same evening for Auckland, Russell and Sydney, with 22 L bags grass seed.

At the end of either this or next passage, the Australia and Zealandia are to be fitted with refrigerating chambers, a hi Orient, and will bring down any quantity of fresh salmon, to be sold in Auckland at one shilling per pound. I am also informed, by a gentleman who professes t-o be intimately connected with the P. and O. Company, that the Directors have fully determined to take up the New Zealand trade, and that the Sumatra will be one of t e first boats put on. — Star correspondent. H.M.S. Miranda arrived at Lyttelton on the 4th inst. from Hobart, and according to the Press her stay in that port wi.l extend over a few weeks. The Miranda is describ 'd as one of the modern style of cruisers, handy in size, strongly built, and possessing good steam power. She is rigged as a barque, and is composite built, her description being that of a steam sloop of 1,120 tons register, and 1,020 horse power. It is her first commission, entered upon in July, 1880; and since leaving Devouport she has been cruising in the South Sea Islands for the greater part of the time. S e carries six seven-ton Armstrong guns, mounted on modern principles for service at sea, and has a portable Armstrong adapted for use on shore or in a boat, besides a Gatling. All told, there are 147 officers iw.d men on board, and her crew carry M ait pin- Henry rifles. Two torpedo services complete the fighting service of this “dog of war.”

The mail steamer Zealandia had a narrowescape on a recent trip to Auckland. A correspondent of the Auckland SZaesays:—“The ship drew near to the coast of New Zealand, and consequently went half speed all day. About 2 p.in., the captain, mate, and second officers were on the bridge with a man up aloft and two on the forecast le, looking intently into the fog for the Three Kings, which they expected to find thereabouts, though, as they had no sights for two days, they couldn’t be absolutely certain, and all of a sudden, through the dreary gloom, came t te ominous s und of heavy breakers, and before anyone could say '‘chopsticks’ a reef, with enormous waves pounding on it, was visible straight ahead. To put the engines ‘full speed astern’ was the work of an ins' ant, but. for several minutes — which seemed like half-an-hour to the alarmed watchers—it appeared doubtful whether the engines would be strong enough to arrest the vessel’s progress in time. A passenger standing on the hurricane deck threw a piece of pa|M*r into the sea, and watched it intently. Need I say that he drew a deep breath of thankfulness when the white speck first of all stood stationery and then disappeared slowly in the direction of the breakers.”