AUSTRALIAN SHIPPING.

Press, Volume XXVII, Issue 3644, 14 March 1877, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN SHIPPING.

The Lonely left Neweast c for LytteHon oa Feb. SSth. * Toe Oeeola left Adelaide for New Zealand on Xarch3rd. THE WHITE SfAE BTEA.MEK BBITANNIC. The " Liverpool Courier" of December 88th. 1876, states that - ttic p*s»enKers who embarked on this remarkable vessel in New York harbor on the morning of Saturday, the 16th December, although doubtless aware of her speed, hardly reckoned upon being- landed at Liverpool on Sunday evening, the eighth dar out. But such was the eaoe. Averaging 382 nauticil miles per day. the Britannic steamed along -her M«.urj- track, which, eworriss to the sontn-west, ocenpies a lunger time, but takes the ship out ot the way of outward-bound vessel*, and touched at Queenetown shortly after midnight on Saturday la»t. tor the purpose of landing mails and some pascengera. After a brief delay off the harbor, the Britannic continued her course up Channel, crowing the bar at the entrance to the Mersey at 5.5S p.m. on Sunday, and landed her passengers shortly afterwards, thus enabling them to catch the Sunday evening traius, aod spend Christmas with their families, with lively feelings of satisfaction and thankfulness because ot the heavy gales through which they h«d p&e*ed, and which appear to be still raging. The Britannic , B passage to Queenetown was 7 day* 13 hoars 41 minutes, and to Liverpool (Including alt detentions) 8 days S hours 16 minutes, performiuire*, we need scarcely add, never before . equalled. The Britannie's average passage this I year la-Outwards, 7 days U hours Sβ minutes; and a Bomcwarda— 7 days SO hoars Sβ minutes."

iifXKKPBOVINCIAL SHIPPING f ] TELEGKAMB. \ ABBTVALB. { Port Chalmers -March 13th. 7.45 a.m, Arawata • 4.45 p m, Wellington, from lflrttelten. Wl ™ , " DEPARTURES. I' —WKixiNGTOH-Hareh J3th, 4 p.m, Hawea, for /'