PORT OF GREYMOUTH.

Southland Times, Issue 1127, 10 September 1869, Page 2

PORT OF GREYMOUTH.

ABRIVED. Sept. 8. — Pearl, ketch, from Duaedin, sunk on bar. .♦ ■ ■

THB coming Ship. —Wo bave seen a model of what is probably " the coming 1 ' ship of this age. It iB to be of the same size as the Great Eastern, except that instead of twenty-eight feet it will draw only eighteen feet, and it will carry proportionally less tonnage. It is designed to carry four times as many passengers a* any present style of ship, and to substitute for bunks Christian beds ; it will also give four times the space to a state room. The present mode of bunking passengers is unworthy of the age. Sea-sickness, if preventible by construction, should be rendered obsolete. This desideratum is attained in Thomas Silver's coming ship , it is secured by the proportions of ths sliip, and bj their being thirty ieet less of the hull out of water than in the Great Eastern ; but the motion is rendered almost imperceptible by a Hew device- The" state rooms, instead of being nt the cutt>idu limits of the vessel, are amidships ; that is, along the centre line of the ship, where the roll is ecarcely perceptible. The saloon is to be 500 feet long, and clear of obstructions. It is not for dining. Instead of a public table there are to be two be competing restaurants at the extremities adjoining the saloon. The ship will •ell passage only, the board being payable as meals are ordered. It is contemplated to carry second-class passengers and third-class in the same way. The present first-class bunks witt be for third-class berthß. — 'San FrancißCO Times.,