SHIPPING.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1347, 25 August 1883, Page 2

SHIPPING.

The U.S.S. Co’s Omapere is expected to take her departure from {Dunedin on Mon* day next, the 30th instant, for Oamaru, Timaru, Napier, Gisborne, Tauranga, and Auckland. Up to the time of going to press there was no sign of the Waihora. It is expected she has passed on her way South, on account of the inclement state of the weather outside. The Taiaroa may not be expected here before Friday next from South, and not on Wednesday, as previously announced. The Ringarooma will arrive on Monday from Melbourne and Southern ports, on M mday morning next, instead of Sunday, The Southern Cross left this port for Auckland, on Thursday last, with 23 head of cattle, and 54 sheep. One hundred and ninety-five vessels, of 116.137 aggregate tonnage, entered New Zealand ports during the June quarter, as against 180 of 100,650 tons for the same period last year, and 244 of 153,301 tons cleared outwards, as against 206 of 122,249 tons for the June quarter. Vast improvements continue to be made in regard to the speed of ocean*going steam* era. Two new Atlantic steamers, the City of Rome and the A urania, have just been tested almost simultaneously, and both have attained precisely Hie same maximum speed, 18? knots, or 21 j miles an hour. The City of Rome measures 8400 tons gross, and her engines indicate 12,000 horse power. The Aurama is 7500 tons, and her engines indicate 10,000 horse power. The latter vessel is the broadest ship in "the Atlantic trade, having no less than 57ft beam to a length of 470 ft and a depth of 38ft 6in. These ships, together with the Arizona, the Alaska, and Oregon, all employed in the same trade, and the steam tea-clipper Stirling Castle, have inaugurated a new era in ocean steaming.