SHIPPING.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 7074, 21 February 1893, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OF TIMARUt The flagstaff of Timaruia situated u iVldeg 17.20 min East longitude ; and 44 deg 23 mm South latitude, ARRIVED, Feb. 20—Isabella Anderson, schooner, 75 tons, Laing, from Dnhedin. . SAILED. Feb 20—Invercargill, a s , 175 tons, Sundstrum, for Invercargill. ■ IN HARBOUR, Barques—Pern, Araby Maid, Peri, and Highland Forest, Schooner—lsabella Anderson, EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Pdkaki, s,s., to-morrow Massey, barque, from Eookhampton, daily Doe, 1160 tons, from Monte Video, early VESSELS HOMEWARD BOUND. Vessel. Days out. Helen Denny Carnell) ... 72 Cumbrian (Captain Thomas)... ... 66 Mercia (Captain Kimmings) 59 Abercfirne (Captain Lewis i 38 Asterion (Captain Foote) ... ... 26 # Tnra ina (Captain Hamon)... ... 15 Arabella (Captain Dresser) 13 Ragna (Captain Andersen) ... ... 5 * Not including time occupied repairing at Lyttelton. The schooner Isabella Anderson arrived in harbour from Dunedin yesterday afternoon. The s.s. Invercargill finished discharging her cargo of timber yesterday afternoon, and having taken in a small quantity of produce she sailed for the south about seven o’clock. An English exchange says:—A few substantial orders have been booked for Greenock. Messrs Caird and Co. have received orders from the P. and O. Steamship Company for two large steamers similar to the Australia, which is 7000 tons. A Clyde builder has booked an order for a sailing ship of 3700 tons deadweight, at the low price of somewhat below £5 per ton. Messrs Russel and Co., Greenock, have, contracted for two sailing vessels at a cost of ,£ISOO and £2700.

A distinguished recruit has been received into the ranks of naval architects in the person of his Imperial Majesty the German Emperor. A model of a new style of warship has been made from plans prepared by the Kaiser during last summer. One of the chief features of the design seems to be an arrangement of cabins for officers and crew, which arc all placed on deck, and can be readily cleared away in a few minutes before going into action. The question of the economy of lifting laden ships out of the water and transporting them by rail is to be determined by practical experiment. At least it is announced that the financial difficulties in the ay of the Chignecto Ship Railway have been overcome, and that the road will be ready for operation in about a year. This road connects the head of the Bay of Fnnday with the Gulf of St Lawrence. It is about 17 miles in length, and saves abont J3OO miles in transportation between Boston and Qnebec. and 500 miles between Ss J'hu and Quebec. To see a ship coming into port with icicles a yard long banging from her spars, and with her dock covered with ice two feet deep, is no doubt very picturesque and highly suggestive of the Aretic regions. But this is a kind of XncturDsqueness which the passengers and crew can hardly be expected to enjoy. Three or four vessels from Europe have just arrived in New York in that condition, and the passengers must have been glad indeed to see land and to perceive possibilities of at last getting warm and being able to breath—for they had been battened under hatches. The weather in the Atlantic has been exceedingly severe.