Shipping Intelligence.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1063, 20 April 1882, Page 2

Shipping Intelligence.

PORT OF POVERTY BAY. A rrivals. —April. 18th.—Hero, s.s., Captain McGee, from Auckland. Passengers :—Miss Nelson, Messrs E. W. Pii&e. McDonald, Ring. Departures.—A pbil. 18th.—Hero, s.s n for Melbourne via Southern Port®. Passengers :—Rev. E. Williams, Mr C. A. Tabateau, Mr Palmer. The ketch Plnenii arrived in the Bay on Sunday last. The ketch Jessie, Captain Cameron, arrived in ]K>rt on Tuesday last, from Mercury Bay, with a cargo of timber. The P.M. 8.9. Zealandia left Son Francisco on Tuesday, the 11th hurt., and is expected to arrive in Auckland, on Tuesday, 2nd May. The B.s. Ri-sina, Captain Harris, did not L ave for the Coast last night, as expected, but will take her departure this evening, with a general cargo. The schooner Venus, Captain King, arrived in the Bay on Tuesday morning, and was towed into the river on Tuesday evening by the Noko. She brings a cargo of timber. The B.s. Oreti, Capt. Campbell, is announced in our advertising columns to take her departure for Auckland direct, this (Thursday) afternoon. She is expected to arrive in port early this morning from Napier. The Union Company’s s.s. Hero, Captain McGee, arrived in the Bay about 4.30 o’clock on Tuesday afternoon last, from Auckland, with three tons general cargo, and 6,500 feet kauri timber, which having been discharged, •he proceeded south the same eveuing at 8 o'clock, as far as Dunedin. The Patca Daily Mail gives the following account of the stranding of the steamer Palea: —“The wind was blowing strongly from the south, the wash being almost broadside on, and the course being too near the north head, the steamer struck the spit just inside the bieakwater. She was got off astern, and turned round to steam out seaward. The blades of one or both propellers had been broken by grounding, and the steamer was found to be unmanageable. She drifted northward, until she landed close under the head, within a few yards of the high cliff, but on a •oft muddy bottom.” During the time the s.B. Arawata was laid up at Dunedin she underwent a most thorough overhaul. The engines particularly received special attention, and are now in excellent working order. New eccentrics and steeps of malleable iron were supplied to the fJßvard engine. The link motion was overhauled and ' the brasses renewed. The thrust shaft was taken out and turned up in Messrs Morgan and Cable’s shop, and new’ rings fitted. All cocks, valves, pipes, air, circulating bilge, and feed pipes were attended to and repaired where necessary. The main boilers and superheater were repaired and put in a thoroug l ly efficient condition for a long spell of work, and the steam winches and windlass were taken down and looked to. The rudder was taken off and refitted, and two new blades were fitted on the propeller, the pitch of which has been set a foot finer than it was before, nnd there is good reason to think that an increase of speed will be the result- The main saloon has been cleaned out «nd furnished up, as also have the second cabin, forecastle, and officers*. quarters.