NEW STEAMER FOR WELLINGTON.

Auckland Star, Volume IX, Issue 2507, 6 April 1878, Page 2

NEW STEAMER FOR WELLINGTON.

The prestige which the shipwrights and. ironworkers of Auckland have obtained in their trades has not, it seems, been damaged by the action of the North Shore Ferry Company, in sending away from this city an order for an iron vessel, which could have been constructed here Quite as well as, and cheaper than, in England. The fame of -Auckland shipbuilders h.s been sounded throughout New, Zealand, and several orders from the South nave been received for new vessels of various kinds. Mr Yeoman lias just been engaged by a Wellington firm to build an iron steamer about as large as any other which has yet been constructed in tins port. Her dimensons willj be:-l*ngth.of keel, 110 feet: length overall, 120 feet: breadth of beam, 16 feet; depth of hold, 8 feet. Her engines will be on the compound principle, and the cylinder will be 13 and 22 inch, with 16-inch .stroke. The work of manufacturing these has been entrusted to Messrs T. Masefield and Co., of Albert-street. The ve=sel will be furnished with all the latest improvements, and will be fitted up with regard to excellent passenger accommodation aud carrvingcapacity. Amongst other things she will have a large saloon on deck, which will de fitted up handsomely. Messrs Sims and Brown, shipbuilders/of the North Shore, have been engaged to get out the hnes, and furnish the woodwork and cabin of the steamer, and this alone will be a sufficient guarantee that the work will be performed in a satisfactory and workmanlike manner. At the last fortnightly meeting of the Harbour Board on Tuesday last Mr Yeoman applied for a site on the harbour reclamation on tbe west sidei of the wharf whereon to build the vessel. As the contract must be completed within six months, the work will be commenced at once. The fact that these contracts when completed will circulate a large sum of money in this city cannot tail to be satisfactory to citizens generally.

Cleared Outwards— Mercury, cutter, for Tairua, in ballast; Firefly, schooner, for the Wade, with a cargo of provisions and three passengers; Lake Erie, barque, for the Sandspit, inlballa. t. ' Entered Inward s*.—Ada, ketch, from Thames, in ballast; Fireflay, schooner, from Wade, with 26,000 shingles, 8 bags gum, 11.000 palings; Mana, cutter, from Tairua, with 22.500 feet timber, and 50 sacks gum. The schooner Agnes Donald cleared at the Customs to-day for Levuka, and wdl sad this The Magellan Cloud, brigantine, will probably sail for Levuka via Loma Loma on Monday morning. ~ , The barque Lake Superior, after undergoing extensive repaii-3 at the hands of Mr D. Gouk, in Freeman's Bay, has been taken off the stocks, and the repairs will be completed in a few The s.s. Wanaka left Tauranga at 7.30 this morninsr, and will arrive at Queen-street wharf about 9~o'elock this evening ■ The s.s. Taranaki will arrive at Onehunga about 11 o'clock on Monday. ; . The schooner Christian arrived at Napier, from Auckland, on Thursday night. The s.s. lona arrived in harbour, from Russell and the North, at an early hour this morning. She brings a full general cargo, consisting mincijallyof gum and oysters, and the followiuo- passengers: Miss Mcßride, Mesdames Cole. Whitehead, and Harris, Messrs. Heppa, Hayes, Dousing, Danber, Stanton, Vendel, Harrop, Hood, Campbell, and another. . The schooner Leetitia, from Noumea, is discharging her cargo of maize alongside the Queenstreet Wharf. ~ , ;-_ _. . . The brig Speedy cleared at the Customs for Maiden Island, in ballast, to-day. She will sail to-morrow. , . _ , ~ The Sinews of the arrival in London, after a passage of about 90 days, of the ship City, of Auckland will be read with interest in shipping circles The cuttor Iris brought a cargo of 200 sacks of gum from Mangawai yesterday. . The large topsail schooner Gael arrived in harbour last evening, from Dunedin, via Oamaru. She left the latter place. on the evening of the 21st ult., and had light winds and calms up the coast; the passage being an unusually lengthy one. The Gael brings a full cargo of produce, which she commenced to discharge alongside the Queen-street Wharf to-day. The s.s. "Wanaka and lona are advertised to leave for Russell on Monnay afternoon.