PORT OF WANGANUI.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXIV, Issue 9662, 31 October 1882, Page 2

PORT OF WANGANUI.

HihhWateb.—Morning, 12.42; Evening, 1.12., £„ v ABBIYAItS. . OLBABBD. October SO—Charles Idward, p.s., 97 tons, Wbitwell, for Nelson. Passengers—Miss Freeth, Mesdames Byan and E. C. T^ung and ohild, Mr Brownlie. EIPOETS. Per Charles.Edward.for Nelson—37head cuttfe, 186 sheep, 10 lambs, 1 horse, Brownlie. EBOJEOTED DEPABTTOES. -;V Hauraki, for' Opunake and Waitara, to-day. Huia, for Wellingtin, to-day. Clyde, for Pateo, to-day. Bowena, for Onehnnga, t:-morrow. The Charles Edward lett for Nelson direct atjloon'yesterday. .- The Clyde will leave for Tatea at 5 p.m. today. , ■, The cßowena 'will- sail': for. Onehnnga at midnight to-morrow night. - --..-- The.Hnia will leave this port for Wellington at' midnigSt to-night. -: '-' ' '-'.-. The Hauraki will sail for Opnhoke and Waitara at 9 o'clock to-night r, r _ " - The.Mnry Banmityne leaves to-night for Srdney with 75,000 feet of white pine. She will be towed to s"ea by ttio Huia. timber ib shipped by Mr C. S. Cross, on account of Messrs Bailey and Bartholomew. - • — The .Circe commenced loading, with timber for Melbourne yesterday. „ : , • The "schooner Clyde is about half loaded with totaia for'Na'pier, ■ ••"' [ ' ' ' ■-'■'- The Hauraki.left Wellington for this port at 5 p.m. yesterday.. ' , - , . „-.-. The Go-Ahead arrived at Lyttelton from this port at 7 a.m. yesterday. ' * ' The Bowena left Onehunga for this port at 12.50 p.m. yesterday. - The.Hnia left Wellington for this port at 7 p.m; yesterday. The Te Anan arrived at the Bluff from Hobart at 10.30 a.m. yesterday, with the Suez mail. The steamer Wakota, having been found to bo mnsuitable for the Patea trade, has been sold, we beliove to Cross Bros, of Nel-on,<for £4«oo. It'is understood she wi>l be put. in the trade between Wellington a- d Waita a. —Post.- ... , \ ;» ■ At British Parliamentary return shows that the ~ cost,of! building and completing for sea service Her Majesty's ship Inflexible was £809,504, of which £589,431 was for the ball alone. ■ . • The Victorian Commissioner of Customs has, decided to: stock tbe- islands- oh the' southern coast and ix Bass's Str its with rabbits for the snecour of snipwrecked'persni.s. ' - < We leain that Captain Williuns, of Wellington, has two steamers building on the Clyde for the Naw Zea and coastal trade. One will c irry abont 600 tons, and the other about £00 tons. The latter will be finished first, and she is expected to reach this colony in April next. Captain Williams'B son is superintending the building of these 1 steamera.—NelßonMail. ; " ' '' ".'..'' The;Knwatiro,-an iron screw, steamer of- 750 tonsjbnilttbtte order,of the Westport Colliery Company of New Zealand, was recently launched, b. Mes<rs- H:'Mclntyre and Co, Paisley. This in the first of three the' builders have 1 n'hand for fho same owners. The third steamer is the hundredth contract Messrs H. Mclntyre and Co. have conclnded since; commencing • business a little ever five years r go. and the Kawatiro is the ninetieth vessel launched, , ■ -■ j A short time'asro one of the Bey E. L, Berthen^s experimental, coUapsitye boats was dropped into the s a 400 miles from the Bcilly Islands, having cix persons on board. She belt about in heavy, weather <and made the shore in six days- She then.left Scillyin the faethof a gala, going up Channel,'and rechedthe Needl-s in thirty-five honrV* travelling, sometimes at ten knots, per hour,,; The featire of such a craft is that Bhe can carry seventy persons, » ith stores for a fortnight," and that when she is folded up and stowed away on the ship's side she me sures but two feet m width/by about nine 'feet in length, and can be made ready for Be* in one n<inute. with all necessary gear and her water-beakers filled.