Shipping Intelligence.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1072, 11 May 1882, Page 2

Shipping Intelligence.

:O: PORT OF POVERTY BAY. The 8.8. R sina, Captain Harries, left on Tuesday evening last for the C’ua-r, with a general cargo, and two Native passengers. The Union Company's Arawuta. Captain Sinclair, is expected to arrive early on Sunday morning next, from Melbourne via New Zealand Ports, whence she will proceed north to Au kland and Sydney. The Union Company’s Rotomahana. Captain Underwood, will leave Auckland to-day, for this port. She is expected to arrive about noon to-morrow (Friday), and will leave fur Melbourne via Napier, Wellington, and the South, the same evening. The last boat will leave the wharf at 5 p.m. A Brooklyn man has patented a storm ru Ider which is meant to enable seamen to readily control their vessel should the rudder be made useless by storm. The invention consists in placing rudders on the sides of the vessels and in arranging suitable mechanism for operating them so that the vessel can be controlled s lould the ordinary rudder be disable I. Anyone wh« ha< ever felt the utter help‘essne>s which comes on a s'ip’s company when the sea snaps off the rudder, wiil readily understand how heartily welcomed a successful invention of this sort would be. It would appear that there is a probability of a visit being made to the colonies by another Japanese man of war. The “Japan Mail ” of a recent date says: —“Captain Ito and other officers 11.1. J. M.S. Tsukuba have been received by the Emperor prior to the departure for the Pacific. The voyage should commence on the 4th of March, and the ship will visit Hong Kong, Batavia, Melbourne (Victoria), Hobart Town (Tasmania), whence she will return to Japan, there coin pie i ig a cruise estimated at 15,lCOri. (about 37,000 miles).” There now remains (says the Auckland Star) little prospect of the safety of the Auckland island trading schooner Euith. She left Suva fur Ena in December hist, in ballast, and advices received recently by a firm in town from the latter port state that the schooner had not arrived there up to the 22nd of March, neither Lad any information been received regarding her whereabouts. Mr Otto, owner of the vessel. has lived in hope for several months, but now fears there is little chance of the vessel being safe. He has, therefore, put in his claim for, and received £5OO from the South British Insurance Office. Even though the Edith may be lost, there is no occasion to conclude that her crew have perished, for there are numerous islands in the vicinity of Eua, where they may have been driven ashore or reached by other means adopted by shipwrecked mariners. The Rev. r Baker, who left for Tongatabu by the Myrtle a few weeks ago. promised to make full enquiry resp-cting the Edith, and send t’ e result of his investigation by post to Auckland, and the news is anxibusly awaited. PROPOSED AMERICAN SUBSIDY TO AN AUSTRALIAN SERVICE. The Bill for the establishment of a new mail steamship service between America and England, and authorising the appropriation of a sum of two million five hundred thousand dollars for that purpose, has been reported back to the House of Representatives. NEW STEAMERS FOR THE P. AND O. COMPANY. The Ganges, the latest addition to the P. and O. fleet, has arrived in the Thames after a very satisfactory run from Barrow-in-Furness. The Ganges, which is built of steel, is of 4,200 tons gross register, and has engines indicating 5000 home-power; she is 390 feet lung, has 42 feet beam, and will carry 200 first and second class passengers, and upwards of 3,000 tons of cargo On her trial t rip she attained a speed of over 15 knots. The vessel was built by the Barrow Shipbuilding Company, who have now in hand a sister ship, the Sutlej. It is intended to utilise both the vessels in the India, China, and Australian mail service, the Ganges leaving for Calcutta on the 15th March.