VESSELS EXPECTED.

Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 223, 21 September 1888, Page 2

VESSELS EXPECTED.

■' Nemesis, s.s., from Melbourne, duo 27th V Dorio^l-s., froiti London ; sailed August 11, due 24th inst;' - ■- * ' Selembria, s.s., from London; sailed July 27 th j* : Wairoa, ship, from 'Am n'don : sailed; June 10th ' i Clairmont, bq., from London, sailed Juno 10th i -Mary A. Greenwood, barque, from New York; sailed July 27 f: ..' Rebecca Crowell, bqn., from New York; sailed June 30 _ . , ~, /Trevelyan, ship,-from Glasgow, via Port ;^ ;'\ohalmers; sailed Mari-h 23rd -..'. liutterworfch, barqtio, from Glasgow, via Port Chalmers ; sailed May 19th ; sailed .'■m'froin Port Chalmers .16th inst., ■ Monica, barque, from Rio Janeiro ; Bailed 'p...... -May 2nd-; _ ... ~. . , .:,,,,.._•>, ; Star of the East, barque, from New York, A. yi& Dunedin ; sailed May sth . ... Iw'aeds Coastwise.—lda, scow, from fl ]Pg,kiri_ with logs; Ennnj', cutter, from Whaugapona, with 30,000 feet timbef.' ■:. tfeic-JjO^wAnnp CoAffltoSE.—Morning Light, .'cutter, for Cabbage' Bay, with stores; Wear, cutter, for umata, in ballast; Vixen, i cutter, for Barrier, in ballast. f. , .*.The barquentine Mercury is loading 550 I tons Kamo coal at Whangarei, for Albany | (W.A.). - _■■ "'*" .About 12 o_lock;Ast night the s.s.; lona j arrived from the Barrier with one passenger, ' . Mr Edstgate. • '•'■ V"'"' The ship Crusader Has almost completed ! loading her cargo, of gum, etc.,-for .lon 1. don. I. At the Railway Wharf the barque Rose f M. has almost finished discharging her [;■ cargo of hardwood, etc. ,■,-•''■,'. f _he schooner , Agnes' Donald is 'now I ' Itakipg; in' stores, etc., for Rdrotonga,. for I, which place she sails shortly. f The ;barque "Deva at the Qucon-street I "Wharf i. busy discharging herWrgo, which f .'is''beitig"' brought out' in excellent coni" dition. __'■... j Mr.G. Niccol, .the contractor for the dis-L.v-.cljMJjajpf; the .Swedish bai-que |Bt_vanger, [ " expects to h.-ivc the whole of the'guano out beiori-tho end of next week. '. ,Tho barque Belle Isle has almost finished f discharging her cargo of raw sugar at the I Colonial Sugar Refining Company's whairf afc f CheltOnbam. _" % ■ ■'* '(,■'■ Tlie.three-masted schooner Frank Guyis now due here fro__sfSyd_ey. Sue brings a ,[..,'. cargo of-shale for the, Auckland Gas C-pm-\.y '^pahy'! lwyy'A\yiy : -_y' "- " y '■'■'J_. •'._,, 1 . ,ThJ3iWO^pl»g the fc;arque Alberb Russell ,haulof|fpul_ intd the stream. "She sails to- | . inorrqwfor New -'York with- a cargo 0f.5,930 : '■'' -packages kauri gum." f" ' The Union Co.'s,s.s. Wanaka, Captain: J. '} Mead, f^p'the Spubhjjtook her deparbureat ten o'clock this morfifrig, with a general ;.-. ca^qand several pasiingors. . :?_..:* t ."-■'••• \ To-day tho ship Killoohan, having com- |... plefced.the discharge.of her inward cargo, is j ; bow engaged in iiilcingin ballast for stiffen-! : Ing. When finished, she proceeds to Lyt- ] ' 1 telton,. there to fill up wibh grain and wool i for.Jtondon. The whole of the ship's cargo | "£.-; has been got out ib the short space of nine I j,,,,,;. day 5,,,,,,,',,,.... . : .- '~ y.'y::y, j .'About, 4.30 this morning the s.s. : Clans-j j man arrived'from Russell and the North' \ with, the followinj|:paßserigers:—-Mesdames ' f .-j Jervis, 'Johnson, __atcli_e, Flavell, Phipps, i . Sampson, Donaldson, ~ Misses Stewart, , Lewis, McLean, Brown Christie, Snowdon, •... Adamson, Messrs Cook, Adamson,."'Ratr eliflb, Sampson, .Tagger, Phipps, Blundell, f. ■'.; Yarborougb, Grey, Jervis, Moody, Web. r 'flter, OlSon. Williams, Warnock, Arch- )■ deacon Clark, ands steerage. She brought I a cargo of 198 sacks gum, 55 cases gum, 3 [ .sacks hides, 3 tons sundries. \ At an early hour this morning the.s.s. i Wellington arrived from Whangarei -with ■ ISIII^ - feflpwing, ..passengers-:—Messrs Hart, Clendon, Niccol, Hockin, Cox, Marshall, Hurst,. Jones, Jackson, Wiseman, McLeod, Jackson, Garrand, Waller, Dudley, McPike," i Novin, McLean, McAuley,-Bissett,'Bull, i Millar, JTerroltl, Culpan, Nolan, Rattray, CarteiyKendall, O'Neill, McLeod, McLean, -Noton, McGregor,"'McMullen,' Mr and Mrs "•Knight, Mr and Mis. Davies, Mrs Heighloy, Mrs Culpan and servant, Misses Davis," A • Bay ward, Biasett.and Dix°nJ a.nd three in the styfei-age. ■'' "•-•".,' .■■■'■■'-.'■::.;■/ '-y |j. . -The Fairfield, Company, the builders of the Etruria and the Una bria,; intend to confibrueb'a vessel which, bhey assert, wiil lay 1 all others in the sha,de. Her dimensions are to be: Length, G&Oicefc ; beam, 63feet; ; 'depth, 52 feet; with a tonnage of 11,500 „-,„•,:. tons, S]je,;is .to, have*accommodation for ljOOOjpabin passenger's, a.'few second-class, and a puiqber .of .third-class passengers. She wiil be divided internally by 17-water- } . tight bulk-heads.. There are fouj|,funnels for 12 boilers placed in four water-tight comp(i|bmaßts,i, -and-*,the ;'-mmel":: will ■ bet: .propelled By 'twin screws.!! "She is .expec||ijto;make the trip acjrosls the Atlanbic ; in .Mffi'^ays, -:but as yet the phepo'mehal : ■vessox''is only on paper. Tho mosb likely competitors kif the City of New York and tho Efcrtiria are thetvVo Whitei $tar liners now being built at the Yard of Harlancl and ; Wolif, at Belfast-;1 The new vessels will be th^ largest ships alloat excepting the Great Eastern. They will have small bar i keels atnidships channel irpn frames, I instead of the ordinary angle1 |p>n, frames. ; The, plates, which are of unusual length, aro to be thinned ab the ends.; for overlap: ■ ping. :The principle of subdivision is to ; ;f>e carried; bub' in the vessels,' there being . a number ;of tranverse bulkheads, while..'.i there will' be'-S' (Similar partition running lengthways ami(|sSips for the greater par. . cf the length of fche ships. There is to be ; , a turtlo-back deck aft, and a longer ono forward. The engines will be of tho triple ' expansion type; driving twin, screwf. -...The.h ';_',. _rrahgement o{ the propellers is to be pecu , liar. Atthe stern there will be an appra-J tnr'e s.miliar in form fco that of':single screw '•_ ,: steamer Si.but very] much-larger; -The, in\A: tention is that one of the propellflrs will be; ;. , carried further afb than tbo otheri and that , the blades will overlap. The armng.ment : _ of the screws so closely. togethovtwill enable < the shaft tubes to be■ jphned^o the ; extronie | after -pub of the ship,' instead of being hold' ■ .by brackets. - ' '_f. ■ i . ~,.;,!,...;. „.',. -,-,.:.,;,:-1. A ■■y.-^:y.. 1 y..:, . :!i y ; . _~ ..<