SHIPPING

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XX, Issue 3400, 18 June 1877, Page 2

SHIPPING

HHJH. WATER AT THE HEADS

This Day— 2.4s a.m. ... 3.16 P.M. EXPECTED. Stormbird, from Wellington, to-morrow Manawatu, from Wellington, to-morrow Colleen Bawn, from Pelorus Sound, early. Waihopai, from Pelorus Sound, daily, Elibank Castl", from Oamaru, daily. As the weather continned very stormy up to 5 o'clock this morning, the Wellington sleamera deed not he looked for to-day. The following: is the number and tonnage of vessels which have entered and cleared at the port of Wanganui during the week ended the 16th June, 1877 :— Entered: 5 vessels; 374 tons. Cleared : 10 vessels ; 746 tons. There is in tho South West India Docks a new screw steamship named the Glenagles, the latest addition to the now famous Glen line of London and China tea clippers. She •was built on the Clyde by tho London and Glasgow Shipbuilding and Engineering Co., and has a cai rying capacity of 4,000 tons of tea, besides an iron room under the saloon for the transport of specie. It is confidently believed that her time on the passage between London and Singapore will not exceed 34 days. Some experiments with a new fog-signal have been recently made at Combs, near Ipswich, England. It is a detonating rocket with half a pound of gun cotton at its base, and the experiments as to the distance at which the report could be heard showed that a half pound of gun cotton, when detonated at an elevation of 900 yards, could be heard ten miles, against two and a half miles when fiied on the sea level. When the rockets reached a height of about 950 yards, they gracefnlly curved over, burst, and a deafening report was heard, somewhat resembling the discharge of a heavy piece of ordnance, and then rolling away on all sides, reverberating from hill to hill, and across the valleys, after the manner of a heavy peal of thunder. — Canterbury Presß.