Shipping.

Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 252, 28 November 1872, Page 5

Shipping.

PORT CHALMERS. November 18. The cutter Jane sailed this forenoon for Shag Point. The brigantine Coronet sailed early this morning for Auckland via Oarmru. The ketch Flying Squirrel, from the Coast, arrived this forenoon, and passed up to Dunedin. The barquo Glenshee, 317 tonß, Captain Jenkins, left Newcastle on November 7th with 407 tons of coal for Port Chalmers, met with light N. N.E. winds until the 11th, when they freshened into a gale, and on the 12th wore round to the S.S.W. when the barque was hove to ; wore ship next day to the southward, after which the gale moderated ; made the Solandersou the 15th, then had light variable winds, followed by a southwester which brought the vessel to the Heads at 4 p.m. yesterday, whea. the Geelong took her in tow, and in the evening brought her to a discharging berth off Observation Point. November 19. Tbe p.s. Samson sailed at 8 this morning for Oamaru. The ship Ironsides, for the Bluff, was preparing to tow to sea at 2 p.m. to-day. The American mail steamship Nebraska was to-day decorated with bunting in honor of the re-election of General Grant ; other vessels also hoisted colors, and also several nagstaffs on shore. A party, under charge of Capt. J. Louder, were to-day employed in removing any hard j substance that might have fallen overboird during the construction of the railway jetty. At noon to-day Mr Mills, the diver, went down astern of the ship E. P. Bouverie, and was engaged searching the bottom when our despatch left, at which time a few pieces of wood, &c, were the only things found, and nothing was di covered that could possiiily injure any vessel that might touch the ground, It is satisfactory to know that where the B. P. Rouverie is now lying there is a depth of 18 feet at low water and a soft bottom. The ship Helen Burns left the Clyde, for Port Chalmer3, on August 14, with the following passengers : — VI r George I'indlay, Rev. Mr and Mrs Neil M'Callum, and Air Henry C. Williamson. Steerage : Mr and Mr 3 Thomas Hourston, Wm. Cuthber fc , John Cuthbert, Alex. M. Ferguson, Mr and Mrs D. flewart and family, John C. Cransten, Andrew Wilson, Mrs Ann Neil and family, Donald Scott, Mrs Cath. Menzio?, and David Sinclair. — Tbe City of Dunedin left Glasgow on September 20, with the following passengers: — Cabin* Mr and Mrs Thomas Andrews, junr. ; Mrs E. Law and family, Mr and Mrs A.. W. Morris, family, and servants ; Mr Charles Shaw, and Miss Jane Bathgate. Steerage : John Watt and Mary Moodie. We learn from a private letter received by last mail that <Sir James M 'Oullocb is en. deavoring to induce the Imperial Government to make Melbourne the head-quarters of the Australian squadron, or at any rate to get a ship of war to call here oftener and to remain longer than an present. — Age. The official trial trip of the new screw steamer, the Rowena, built by Messrs Niocol, of Auckland, took place on the 29th ultimo, the vessel being most flatteringly successful to her builders The vessel is one of the best models that Messrs Niccol have yet turned out from their shipbuilding yards. Tbe engines are on the compound principle, and were manufactured by Messrs Fraser and Tinne. They are beautiful specimens of marine engineering. The hign-presaure cylinders are 1 5 inches in diameter and the low pressure 30 inches. The steam pressure on the boilers is 701bs to the square, nch. The engines on the trial made 112 revolutions to the minute. She ran twelve nautical miles in seventy minutes, against the tide, on her way to Wangaproa but the actual indicated horse-power, from diagrams taken b3 r Mr J. Stewart, Government InBpector of Steamers, was 154 The principal feature of these engines is the large amount of power given for a very small consumption of coal. November 20. The Fanny, from Catlin's River, brings a cargo of timber for Oamaru. The schooner Datpnar arrived from Catlin's River yesterday afternoon. The Pioneer, from Oamaru, arrived and pased up to Dunedin this forenoon. The schooner Jessie sailed this morning for the Bluff. The s.s. Wellington for Lyttelton, sailed at 1 45 this afternoon. The s.s. Storm Bird, for Invercargilll, and the s.s. Maori, for Lyttelton, sailed last evening. The brig Ziska was expected to sail this evening for Melbourne, with original cargo from Foo-Chow. The mail steamship Nebraska was last evening illuminated in honor of President Grant's re election. At each yard-arm blue lights were displayed. At the same time numf rous rockets were discharged from the deck with pleasing effect. Yesterday afternoon, an ingeniously-con-trived raft belonging to the Nebraska was brought to tbe jet.y, and attracted considerable attention. The raft is floated by %wo inflated cigar-shaped indiarub&er tubes, about sixteen feet long,' and about eigjit feet in circuinferenpe j the tube's 'are fifed with air i i a few minutes by means ci bellows., and are protected from injury by close-fitting canvas covers. The space of two feet between the tubes, which are paralel to each, is a suspended canvas cover, which, in case of submersion, would add to the floating power of the Taft, and serves to exclude the water from beneath, is also so contrived that it would immediately carry off any water that might fall on board. Resting on the tubes is -a strong but light wooden frame, with Beats running across, which would in an emergency afford sitting room for about 30 or 40 persons. The advantage of this dedescription of raft is its lightness out of, and its buoyancy in the water, for so long as the tubes remain air-tight it cannot sink. The raft, fitted with a mast and sail, or with oars, is as easily managed, and is capable of as great speed as ordinary boats. November 22. The p.s. Samson sailed for Oamaru at 9.15 to-day. The brigantine Bertha was signalled at the Heads at 3.50 p.m. to-day, but up to four o'clock the port of her departure had not been ascertained. The American mail steamship Nebraska I sailed with the mails via San Francisco at 4 25 last 'evening. The s.b. Rangitoto, from Melbourne, leff; the Bluff at 4.50 last evening ; experienced fine weather on tbe passage, and was bathed alongside the hulk Cincinatti at 5 45 this morning. The following coasting vessels aaile<t this forenoon :— Fanny, for Oamaru ; Oritf, for Bluff; Annie, Tfor Coast; Lloyd's B^rald, for Catling River ; Wesult, for Waikouaiti • c ard Redcliffe, for Oamaru. •' "$ '. >n or about the 25th instant, the Parana, I the pioaeer vessel of a new line of irtwamships between Hong Kong and Melbourne a is expected to reach this port. The PVrana C has] been, despatched "by Meesn Norton, i

Lyell, and Co., shipping merchants at Hong Kong, at the instance of Kong Ming, the Chinese merchant, of Melbourne. The Parana, according to a telegram revived from Norton, Lyell, and < 0., was to leave for Melbourne on the Ist November wHh_a. cargo of tea, &c, and some passengers. She is under contract to deliver the canj* ip- : Melboui ne within twenty -five days from the date of departure, which will make her '-foe' * on the day stated. It is intended to despatch a steamer from Hong Kong rrery thr^e months direct to Melbourne, th« return voyage, however, to be made via Sydney and New astle, if tboaght dem.ible. It will thus be possible for the service to be maintained by one steamer, though the traffic is expected ere long to become considerable enough for the employment of more vessels. A direct traffic with the Chinese ports is regarded as a matter of commercial importance, and the experiment which is now being made will be watched with interest. — Argus, Nov. 9. November 23. The s.s. Alhambra, for Melbourne via the Bluff, Failed last evening with passengers, cargo, and the Suez mails. The Bertba reports that on October 9th the brig Emile was about to load at Mauri' tins for Lyttelton. The brijjancine Bertha, 178 tons, Captaia Harrison, was last eveuing towed to a discharging berth by the steam-tug Geelong. She left Port Louis on October 6 with about 260 tons sugar, consigned to Neil and Co. The S.E. trades were lost in 29 deg. S. On ■the 17th October a fire broke out in the vicinity of the fore hatch. The hatches were removed, and the cargo broke, wben one of the beams was found to be a mass of fire, which communicated to the deck, seventeen planks of which were more or less burnt. On the fire being extinguished, tarpaulins and battens were nailed over the burnt part of the deck. On the following day a S.E. gale broke out, during which large quantities of water was shipped. The ship Sir Humphrey Davie, which ■ailed from Sydney on 19th January last for London, encountered on February 6, off the south coast of New Zealand, a cyclone, which lasted for forty-eight hours, and from which Captain Davie, her commander, had to run before the wind in order to save his vessel. She escaped by a miracle, but had to put into Valparaiso for repairs, and only reached England early in September, on tbe Becond day of the cyclone she passed enormous quantities of wreck— appai ently that of a large vessel — but was unable to heave-to in order to examine it. On his arrival in England Captain Davie, after hearing that the Glenmark sailed on Febtuary 1 from Lyttelton, became convinced that the wreck he passed on February 7 was most probably that of the ill-fated Glenmark. The above information has been received by Mr M. Stodilart, of Diamond Harbor, from Mrs Gordon, mother of Mr Gordon, chief mate of the Glenmark.— Pre&.