Shipping.

Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 250, 14 November 1872, Page 5

Shipping.

PORT CHALMERS. November 4. The ketch Kedcliffe sailed this morning for the Molyneux. The bngantiue Coronet, reported yesterday at the Heads with a cargo of timber, beat up to the Port with this afternoon's tide. The brig Ocean Monarch, for Newcastle, and the barque Cantabre, for I yttelton, with part cargo of sugars, were towing to sea when our despatch left the port this afternoon. An accident occurred on October 30 th, on board of a schooner at Auckland, a seaman falling from aloft. The captain landed the sufferer on the pier and sailed without giving him any further attention. November 5. The schooner Awartfa, supposed from the Bluff, arrived last evening with a cai'go of timber. The cutter Advance, from Waikouaiti, arrived this afternponl" ' ' The s.s. Pretty Jane sailed last; evening for the Molyneux. The s.s. Maori sailed early this morning for Lyttelton via intermediate ports with passengers aud a large general cargo of merchandise. The B.s. Taranaki, having to-day completed cleaning, paiuting, and overhaul, Laves the Graving Dock to-morrow morinng. Conspicuous amongst recent arrivals in port was a new iron clipper ship, the Mermerus, one of the largest and most powerfullooking merchant vessels which has ever yet anchored in Hobson's Bay. She is Clyde built ; in fact, is the largest sailing vessel ever launched there, and in her equipment and finish she leaves little, if any thing, to be desired. The Mermems was constructed by Messrs Barclay 1 and Curie, of Glasgow, and nothing that ingenuity and experience could suggest has been neglected to make her a high- class vessel. Her dimensions are — Length, 295f b ; breadth of beam, 39ft; depth of hold, 22ft lOin. The Mermurus is built of iron, and her lines are as fine and as delicate as those of a first-class yacht, whilst her carrying capacity has not been made

subservient to the beauty of her model, her register tonnage being close upon 1700 tonsShe has been greatly admired, both at Glasgow and Liverpool, for her noble appearance, and for the elaborate manner in which she has been fitted up with all the newest improvements for working tbe vessel for the comfort of passengers. The ship is very taunt rigged, and looks so notwithstanding the squareness of her double topsail and doable topgallant yard?. She has steel topmaats and topga lanfc masts, and her spread of canvas is said to be larger than any vessel of her dimensions afloat. The saloon is very handsomely furnished, and has quite an elegant appearance, and the arrangements for the convenience of passengera are most complete. On deck, in addition to several other contrivances for saving labor there is a powerful donkey-engine for loading and discharging cargo, and for working a Harttield's patent windlass. In the galley there is a large patent condenser, capable of distilling 500 gallons of water in 24 hours. The Mermeras has been built for Messrs A- and J. H. Carmichael, of Greenock, and she is commanded by Captain PeterMr M'lntyre, well known in the Indian and Australian trade, and who was out here not long ago in another very fine large iron clipper, the Jason. On the voyage the ship, although deeply laden, made some astonishing running, ths distance logged ranging from 3M to 330 miles. The Mermerus brings an enormous cargo— about 2800 tons deadweight and measurement — and the lines in some of the items are to the largest ever brought to this port in one bottom. November 6. The s.s. Storm Bird sailed for the Bluff last evening. The s.s. Wallabi sailed at midnight for the Bluff. The s.s. Pretty Jane arrived early this morning from the Molyneux. The s.s. Uangatira, from the Bluff, arrived and passed up to Dunedin early this morning. The s.s. Taranaki was taken out of the Graving Dock this forenoon. We hear that the E. P. Bouverie havirg lightened, is likely to go alonside the Railway Jetty on Saturday next to discharge the residue of her cargo. November 7. The s.s. Wanganui sailed last night for Oamaru. The ketchs Lloyd's Herald and Eliza M'Phee for Catlin's River, sailed this forenoon. November S. The Geelong was getting up steam at 4 o'clock this afternoon to tow the ship E. P. B.<uverie alongside the railway jetty. Ihe s.s. r'retty Jane sailed last night for Oamaru with cargo aud a large number of passengers. The schooners Jane Anderson, for Havelock, and Mary Van Every for ( )amaru, and the cutter Jane, lor Shag Puint, sailed this forenoon. I The s.s. Phoebe, that arrived from the North last evening, was this forenoon taken into the Graving Dock for periodical oveihaul. The s.s. Fangatira was taken into the Floating Dock tni3 forenoon for periodical overhaul. Last evening a report reach* d Port Chalmers that a square-rigged vessel had yesterday passed the Ocean Beach. The steam tug Geeloug proceeded outside this morning in quest of her, but no vessel was then in sight, though one had been seen from tbe Pilot Station last evening, but at such a distance in the offing as to render the destination of the vessel uncertain. The speculation that has been indulged in regarding the name of the vessel observed off the Beach, recalls a suggestion made, that seeing that several-persons living near the Beach have powerful telescopes, it would be well if inward vessels would display their numbers in passing. The plan has been adopted in one or two occasions, with success, and we hope the suggestion will be copied by our contemporaries into their columns in order that it may meet the eye of shipmasters, November 9. There is little doubt that after all the vessel that was observed off the Ocean Beach, on Thursday evening, was the Lady Jocelyn. She has not yet arrived, though so reported. ■ The ship E. P. Bouverie, drawing 164 ce^ aft and 15J feet forward, was yesterday unmoored from the stream, towe I by thj steamers Geelong and Peninsula, and berthed alongside of tfye Railway Jetty at 8 p.m. ' PASSENGER LISTS. Per Taranaki, for Northern Eorts. — Brqf. Sale, Messrs Barton, J,ones, Stephenson, Smytjiies"(^), Chapman, Drytien, Wells (2), M'Carg, Hyde, Mrs Forrgat, and \0 in fhP steerage.

Per Wanganui, for Oamaru. — Mr and Mrs Huuter, Messrs M'lntosh and Taylor.