Shipping Intelligence.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1076, 20 May 1882, Page 2

Shipping Intelligence.

The s.s. Bosina, Captain Harries, left last ruing, about 6 o’clock, for the ( oast, with Hrnar? Potaetnd party, and a cargo of stores. •S e will return to night. T <e Southern Cross which left Gisborne on Wednesday last arrived in Auckland early on Thursday morning; she will return to this port, early next week. It is undecided when the Union Company’s steamer Albion will arrive her? from Auckland, but she is expected about midnight or early to-morrow morning. The s.s. Rotorua is expected to arrive in tl e Bay ear’y to-morrow morning, from Mel bourne via Southern Ports. She will leave for Auckland shortly after*rrival. Theas. Oreti, Captain Camphell, arrived in the Bay <<i Thursday morning last ; she was lightered by the Rosina. and left at 5 o’clock t'*e same evening for Napier and Wellington, from which latter port she will return to Gisborne. Intelligence has been received in Auckland announcing that the brig Robin Hood, 297 tons, which left Kai]>ara on the 28th April, with a load of timber for Melbourne, bad put into Sydney in distress. It is a curious coincidence that the Vindex, the Swordfish, andtlve B'»hin Hood were a’l loading at the K;iip»ra at the same time. The first two vessels have gone down, and the third has as nearly as possible shared the same fate.

WRECK OF THE SWORDFISH. Messrs John Reid and Co. received a telegram (says t e Auckland Star) from Victoria to the effect that the brigantine Swordfish, in charge of Captain James Deltner, had been wrecked somewhere on the coast of that colony. The Swordfish which whs a brigantine of 155 tons register, was owned in Hobart, and was bound for Melbourne from Maiarau, Kaipara, with a load of Kauri timber for Messrs John Reid and Co., having sailed thither on the 7th April. It is supposed that she must have experienced very e- vere weather, and have become so disabled as to render management impossible. It is not as yet known whether the bull of the vessel is insured, but the cargo is fully insured in a Melbourne office, and the freight in Hobart. No advice has been received as to whether the crew are safe.

THE FANNY THORNTON MISSING. Yesterday (says the N. Z. Herald) it was recollected in Auckland that the ketx-h Fanny Thornton had left this port for Hokianga oq the 26th April, and that siie had ■not been heard of since. The vessel was in -charge of Captain Keane, and had a cargo of general merchandise aboard. As the master ■is a man having large experience in the coasting trade, it is believed that he has put into s<-me port on the coast for shelter, and is now weatherbound. NEW ORIENT LINER AUSTRAL. The Austral, ths new Orient liner (remarks the Glasgow Daily News) is the largest vessel yet built for the Austra ian trade, and she is intended to perform the voyage in 30 to 31 days’ time. She is built of st eel, on the cellular ■double-bottom system, and is classed in the higlvest grade at Lloyds. The principal dimensions are : —Length between perpendiculars, 455 ft.; breadth, 46ft.; depth (moulded), 37ft. ; tonnage, about 5600 tons. The engines are of the three cylinder-inverted type, the high pressure cylinder being 62in. diameter, And -tire two low pressure 86in. diameter, by 5-feet stroke. Steam is supplied by four boilers at 901 ba pressure, and w'e engine will develop 6300 Lh.p. on trial. The vessel is built ■with four decks. On the upper deck amidships are erected a series of deck-houses, forming engine and boiler casings, and giving accommodation for officers, servants, galleys music-room, and also entrance to saloon and -cabins. The deck over this house is extended to the ship's side, and is sup *orted on pillars, forming a spacious promenade for the saloon passengers. The whole of the main deck is occupied by the first and second-class passengers, with the exception of the crew’s space at ti e fore-end and a small compartment for the intermediate passengers aft. The greatest novelty in the construction of the vessel is the Arrangement of the saloons on this deck. In■stead of the cabins being placed, as usual, along the ship’s side, they are in this case separated from the side of the vessel by a whole passage, which nearly the whole length of the ship, with cross passages at intervals. The first and second saloons are separated from the ship’s side in the same way. These passages Are lighted by large side-scuttles placed four feet apart —all fore-and-aft—and the saloons And cabins are lighted by windows and also by skylights direct from the upper deck. The great advantage of this arrangement is that the side port can be k *pt open in very rough weather and water that may be shipped wetting the passages only, and not flooding the passengers* cabins as in the usual arrangements of cabins on board ships. The vessel has t’e usual steam winches, windlass, steam steering gear, Ac., and it is intended to be lighted throughout by the electric light.