SHIPPING.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1346, 23 August 1883, Page 2

SHIPPING.

ARRIVALS. August. *" 22—Taiaroa, s.s , Captain Parsons, from Auckland. Passengers :—Messrs Davey, Williams, and Banbury. DEPARTURES. August, 22—Taiaroa, for South, passengers Mr. Witty, Moat, and Southern. The Taiaroa arrived at 2.30 yesterday mo ning last, from Auckland, and sailed at 8.30 for South. The Waihora is expected from Auckland on Friday next. The Southern Cross left Napier yesterday afternoon with 60 tons of cargo for this port, and arrived early this morning. She takes her departure for North this afternoon, the last boat leaving the wharf at 4 o’clock. The Ringarooma will arrive from Melbourne and South on Sunday. «The s.s. Rosina left for the Coast as far as Kawa Kawa on Tuesday night last, with a full cargo, and the following passengers ■ Mfas Jones, Mr. and Mrs. Ward, Mr. Cooper and several natives. She was expected to return about to-morrow, but on account of the heavy weather coming up, she may be away a week or more. The schooner Gisborne, Captain J. H. Skinner, for East Coast ports, via Mercury Bay, cleared outwards at the Auckland Customs on Saturday last, with a large general cargo, and the following passengers : —Miss Hawkins, master Jones, and one native.

As was stated some time since, the New Zealand Shipping Company ordered of John Elder and Co. three steamers for the direct steam service. The first of these is to be launched this month, and is to leave Plymouth in October, following the lonic. The Company have received by the steamer Wakatipu, transhipped from the British King, at Port Chalmers, a model of the steamer just mentioned, and which is to be named the Tongariro. 1 he model, which is about Bft long, is a most complete one, formed according to scale, and showing every detail of the Tongariro’s exterior. The dimensions, 380 feet long and 46 feet beam (depth not noted) shows the Tongariro to be a vessel of 4,000 tons gross register. The lines of the vessel appear from the model to be those most recently adopted by naval architects—an almost fiat floor in the midships’ section, but running for’ard and aft so as to secure a fine entrance and clean run. A hurricane deck extends from right aft, where the saloon accommodation is situated, forward to the break at the fore hatchway. The great beam of the vossel in proportion to her length, is also on the plan of the most recent experiments in naval architecture, which havp shown that speed is to be attained erpi lly in a vessel of broad beam as in one wh< e biim is as one of ten of her length. The longariro will carry three masts, and is to steam fourteen knots an hour. She is to be fitted for passengers, equal in style to any vessel afloat. She will be constructed of steel, and the name of her builders is a sufficient guarantee of the quality of the workmanship in building her, She will also be supplied with the electric light. Referring to the depth of the pioneer boat of the company’s own direct liners, it may he mentioned that it is 33 feet 4 inches. Her draught loaded will probably be 25ft Four cargo working hatchways, with a patent steam winch at each, are provided. Judging from the model, it would seem that the whole of the passenger accommodation is in the poop and ’tween decks. Somewhere in the neighborhood of one hundred and twenty port holes are pierced along the passengers’ section of the vessel, justifying the prediction that there will be extensive provision for state rooms and cabins for first and second saloon and steerage passengers. One of the uncommon features of the Tongariro—a feature which adds much to the ‘‘gracefulness,” so to speak, of her form—is her flanged stem, much after the shape of that of the Union Steamship Company’s Rotomahana. Her stern is elliptic. The model is at once the personification of that of a vessel in the design of which the carrying of cargo has not bnen sacrificed for the passenger trade, nor vice versa —a truly useful vessel for this trade. Her appearance may at first strike the eye as being rather “ wall-sided,” but that she will be a comfortable ship to travel by, a firet-rate cargo-carrier, and a swift steamer is beyond question. Her engine power is 4,000 effective.—“ Press.”