Shipping Intelligence PORT OF POVERTY BAY.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1085, 10 June 1882, Page 2

Shipping Intelligence PORT OF POVERTY BAY.

There are no particulars as to the whereabouts of the s.s. Oreti, but she may be ex•pected here in the course of a day or two. At present the weather is still too rough for the Roeina to venture out of the river ; but she is prepared to leave at any moment, having her cargo already shipped. We learn from the agent, that the Union r’onipanv’s Southern Cross left Auckland last evening for this port, and may be looked for to morrow (Sunday) morning ; she will proceed south during the day.

Op board the Lusitania on her last trip to Australia, amongst the improvised amusements Were cuvket and dawn tenms. The former was managed by having theawning spread and curtains suspending* from them to the rail of tike-ship, to prevent the ball going overboard. The Union Company’s Ringarooma, Captain Edie, arrived in the Bay yesterday afternoon about 4 o’clock, from Aiu-iland, with 10 tons of cargo. Owing to to the boisterous weather the lifeboat was unable to communicate with her, but will leave the wharf at 7 o’clock this morning, if the werfther proves favorably. The Union Company’s Rotomahana is expected early to-morrow morning, from Melbourne and southern ]>ort-s. After discharging her freight and passengers she v.ill -steam for Auckland and Russell; si e will tranship •cargo and passengers into the Amwnta at Auckland for Sydney direct. The last boat leaves the wharf at 8 a.m. The Auckland Weekly News says :—Merchants doing business with Gisborne will be pleased to learn that the s.s. Pretty Jane has ■been purchased by Messrs. Waller, Legge, -find Co., the owners of t he s.s. Oret i and other -Steamers t rading un the Coast. It is intended that she will be run constantly between Auckland, Gisborne, and Napier; and we ] ave no doubt but the shippers of goods to *Gisborne and shippers of stock from Gisborne '•will welcome her back, seeing that she goes direct to Gisborne wharf, thereby saving the risk of tranship >ing in the roadstead. The J?re ty Jane will arrive here from Melbourne in about two weeks. The Xerotine Siccative Committee have forwarded a report to the Admiralty, and it is understood that, subject to analysis confirming itheir view of the intlammable properties of ■that dangerous composition, they arrived at cthe conclusion that it led to the loss of the DotereL Professor Abel undertook,o n behalf -of the Committee on Gas Explosions in Coal to determine the precise explosive (properties of the composition, and his tests ;are understood to have abundantly confirmed -the views of the Committee, the practical >r*sult being the order to destroy all the xerotine siccative in store at the dockyards.

ALTERATIONS IN THE FLEET. An excessive propensity for rolling being anti<ci|»ated with vessels of the Satellite class, the Admiralty have ordered all vessels as yet launched, as well as these under construction, to be fitted with bilge keels of a much grcM*r •depth than originally designed, or than now’ .fitted. To that end the Heroine has been placed in No. 1 dock, Devonport Yard, and immediately tire improvements upon her are completed the Hyacinth will-succeed her. The composite gun-vessel Wanderer, now building at Middlesbrough-on-Tees, will be taken to Sheerness Yard to complete, at a cost of £l5OO. The vessel is of the steel composite class—lso feet long, 36 feet wide, and 9 feet 6 inches depth of hold. She will have engines of 750 horsepower, and will steam 12 knots per hour. Being constructed mainly upon the model of ’the Chinese gunboats—or rather, floating guncarriages, as designed by Mr Rendel, the new Admiralty CivilTiord—she will be armed with •one 12-ton and two 6|-ton guns and two Nor•denfelts. Three vessels of the same class are to be laid down in Devonport Yard, and advanced about one-eighth. The total cost of material and labuurupon each hull is estimated at £30,000, and engines £9,800. The three guns are estimated at £22,500. The composite gunboat Forward put out of Devonport basin on April A The Euphrates, which is to be commissioned at Portsmouth on June 15 by Captain Hand, has received a new crankshaft on board. — Broad Arrow.