SHIPPING.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1152, 20 September 1882, Page 2

SHIPPING.

The schooner Minnie Hare cleared for the Coast and Auckland to-day, being towed into the Bay by the B.S. Noko. She takes with her a general cargo. The U.S.S. Company’s Rotorua, which left this port on Monday last, arrived in Auckland at 5.15 p.in. yesterday. The ketch Wild Duck was towed out of the river into the Bay this morning by the s.s. Noko. The bar was in splendid condition for crossing. The ketch will proceed north as soon as a favorable breeze springs up. Captain Fairchild, of the s.s. Stella, when off Puysegur Point lately, picked up a piece of a ship's jxiop rail, with part of the brass-work still fixed to it. From certain marks about it and a peculiarity of the brasswork, Mr M'Clatchie, the stevedore, who knew the ship well, and also Captain Galbraith, the pilot, recognized it as a relic of tlie fine ship Miny-don, lost on a voyage from Newcastle to Dunedin. Mr Benjamin, in an article on “ The Evolution of the American Yacht,” published in the “ July Century,” compares the time made by some sailing sqi}»s, 20 ami 80 yearn ago, with that of the fastest steamers to-day. In one of the recent “fastest jmssages ever made” by the Alaska, her greatest run was 419 miles in 24 hours. Before 1850, the ship James Baines, built by Donald McKay, ran 420 miles in 24 hours. The ship Red Jacket built at Rockland Maine, ran 2,2a0 miles in seven days, or 325 miles per diem for a week. The Flying Cloud, McKay's most celebrated ship, once ran 374 knots, or 433 miles, in 24 hours and 25 minutes, equal to 17*17 miles per hour. The difficulty sailing vessels experience in competing with craft whose motive power is steam lies not in the ability of the ships, but In the fact that the wind is unsteady.