Shipping Intelligence.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1079, 27 May 1882, Page 2

Shipping Intelligence.

The schooner Gisborne wih leave for Auck- ‘ land via the East Coast on Monday next. On account of tlie rough state of the wea- I thrr the K sina has not yet reached her des- ' nation. At present she is at Toluga Bay. and ! way not be expected here before next week. Che schooner Atlanta. Captain Bradley, arrived in the Bay on Thursday last, and crossed the bar shortly after. She brings a cargo of i about 22,000 feet timber from Mercury Bay, consigned to J. R. Morgan. The Union Company’s Te Anau, Captain Carey, is expected to arrive early to-m<»rrow morning from Napier and Southern 1’ rrs. After landing passengers and discharging cargo, she will proceed to kuckland. The s.s. Oreti, Captain Campbell, dropped anchor in the Bay about I,3<»yesterday morning, from Wellington and Napier, with one passenger, Mr Longsdale, and 50 tons general cargo. She departed at 12.3 d o’clock the same day, for Tauranga and Auckland, with 200 sheep, and following passengers : —Mrs Lind and child. Mrs Williams, and Mr Skar. The Union Company’s Rotorua, Captain Tozer, arrived in the Bay last night at 9.30, after a tedious passage of 33 hours. She experienced very strong bead winds and a heavy head sea from port to port. She brought only a few passengeis for Gisborne. After landing passengers and discharging cargo, she steamed for Napier about midnight, with 81 sa ks grass seed, 11 casks tallow, 2 cases tobacco, 5 bales wool, 4 boxes, 1 package, and following passengers : —Mrs Weils ; Alessrs S. Wyllie, W. Common, C. McDonald. A novel application of the motive power supplied by the waves of the sea has been designed by an American inventor, Mr Bigler, of Newbury, in the utilisation of the movements of the water for the purposes of illumiuating an electric lamp attached to buoys placed to mark sunken rocks or other dangers to navigation. Experiments recently made at New York seem to prove the practicability of the scheme. A small dynamo-electric machine is fixed to the buoy connected with a mechanical contrivance so arranged that the movements of the buoy as it is tossed about by toe waves set it m motion, and so generate a current of electricity, which is conveyed to an Edison incandescent lamp fixed outside the buoy. The intermittent action of the waves conveys a corresponding intermittent action to the machine, and causes a similar alternate illumination and extinction of the little lamp. Consequently, when the sea is rough, the lamp is instantaneously lighted and remains alight during the passage of one wave over the aide of the buoy, and then remains extinguished till the next wave sets the machinery in action. This ingenious contrivance is an adaptation of an existing method of causing buoys to become self-acting foghorns. The buoy is fitted with an apparatus so placed that ti.e pressure of a •wave confines a certain amount of air in a receiver, from which it can only escape through a whistle or horn. By this means a warning sound is emitted at short intervals, more or less intense, and of longer or shorter duration, according as the sea is rough or smooth. During a calm, when the buoy is easily seen or avoided, both foghorn and warning light are not in action ; but they both come into activity when the violence of the sea increases the necessity for the signals which they LOS T AT SEA. As the steamer Hauraki, from Kaipara to Waitara, was nearing the latter place, a seaman named Michael Walsh was knocked overboard by a sail at about two o’clock on the morning of the 19th inst. A boat was lowered, but got swamped, and life-buoys were then thrown overboard to the man, but without avail, and he soon sank.