Shipping Intelligence.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1087, 15 June 1882, Page 2

Shipping Intelligence.

The Majwpmrri leaves Dunedin to day, and Trill arrive hers on Tuesday next. Tiie Rotomalnwa will arrive from Auckland to-morrow abotft ’noon, and will leave for Southern Ports in the evening. The Orient Steam 'Ship Company’s fine steamer Orient left Melbourne for London via Suez Canal, at 8 u ni., on the 3GLIi May. The Orient Company’s magnificent new -steamer Austral, which left Plymouth for Melbourne on the 20th ult., male the passage to Naples in 137 hours. The 5.3. Rosina’s departure f ft tire Coast is postponed until to-day, she being engaged to tow the schooner Minnie Hare -into the river, which arrived yesterday. Bhe takes -with her six passengers for the Oil Springs, -and a general cargo. The s.s. Oi’eti arrived in the Bay early on Tuesday morning last, from Napier and Wellington ; she brought one passenger, Captain -Bend dl, and the necessary appliances for removing the schooner Isabella into deep waler. -She left for Auckland in the afternoon, at 2 o’clock, with a general cargo. The Orient Company’s new steamer Austral, & »00 tons, will leave Sydney on her first homewar! voyage early in July. Intending n&s-ei - gers for Europe by this magnificent vessel must leave Napier for Melbourne not later than the 24th of Jane.

As showing the progress that is being made 4n opening up the We.-t Uoist coal trade (remarks the Otago “ Daily Times,”) it may be •mentioned that, in a Id it ion to the two steamers of the Union Company—the MaLinapuu and Omapere —five others are on the way to tlio Colony or are being built: two for Ihe Westport Coal Company, to carry each 609 Tons on 10 feet; two for Capt. Williams, of Wellington, to carry each 5<K) tons ; and one of similar carrying capacity for a Christchurch caoitalist-. The coal is gaining daily in public -estimation. It has recently been tried on lI.M. vessels at Wellington, and we are informed that H.M.S. Nelson is now taking in 400 tons Jfor her next voyage.