MISCELLANEOUS

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XX, Issue 2203, 12 August 1864, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS

The Prince Alrre'l CiptainLowne, arrived in the Mannkau on Weiinestliy eiemnsr . t fUe o'clock from Port Waikato ilie Lad} Dar.ni, Cd)>Um Hunt, arrivid also early yester<i*Tmorning in the M'nukau from Drury, for which place she m 11 r jam lea epr b^. I, today riie Dar.ne left lor Jvow Plymouth yesterday, for -which five ahe takeo a in.'il

LAUNCH AT AR UPOWA, COROMANDKL (ritOM Oliß OV'N COKRESPONDENT. ) On the Sth msH'it this lovely bay ( \ranow») wai the scene if tns launch of Y e schoonor Meteor, and as such accounts ue lima 1 !! psrused *> tli some sort of interest, I will give a =ucc net sketch nf the \esse!, -mil also a slight descnption of ih» resliMMes \ hul f illo \cd The dimensions of the -vessel, v nclt i\ns built bj \fi G2O lieeson, sen , I will give first 1 — Ho- length of K> J ?, il feet, length on deck about 70 feet, t c-ue brcdtli 17. -Ct 10 inches she 13 about 90 tons builders' j'lcaMireraent, an 1 > out JS tons Custom-house She has also ■ r •>' c?rrying -in ' -"11115 cipacities, and a fine spacious and -ou'm deck 'slk '? di]>pci built, with masts of a great rake nd quite =u'taule to lie- model She* ill carry, it is estimated, Mr .1 35,009 to JC CM feet of timber on a draft of 6 feet Cm o, \ .-ier He .1 jft of water as she left the ways would be iloit 4 f eet 4 mcli s aft, and 2 feet 5 inches fore aid She , r^ii-'es p veiy fins and well fitte<l-«p cabm, and in fact it is me vhic'i voiia do credit to a 200 ton vessel. She will be m<'er fie roninanc' ot Mr Thomas Farrell, who has, I undcrstind, purchi>edher irom ilr Eecson 111 1 er maiden trip will, t believe, be n-'de to morrow She will carry timberfrom the Messrs M'GrajOi .ir.d Wilkinson's null at Kennedy's Bay, irom wliwJi ))lace she will proceed to Auckland, and so continue running Letmen the two places The Meteor left tho wav in tmlv style She was let off by what are termed dor.'er shore? " Ihe uraj s were laid at an incline of {of an inch to tils foot «hit!inouMtloubtle~saecountforlier3aunch■tg c o si.ccessfullv Tlie launch took place about ten or halfjinst te 1 o'clotl , and shortly before that time the Coromandel h-,rbonr was sUddert v.ith small boats, all wendmj their way ii, 1 i'dcss Jt There nere some "i 0 01 SO persons present, imin^st «horn weis many of our copper-coloured friends 1 ,10 latter departed after the Tessel wa3 in tho water \. dcjeunei Ila ."oiucliette" was piovided, of which about sriijcrioiH pai took \. ith infinite gusto, brealcfast over they djoiured to \ hat l^s kno'in ai the boat passage, where field ■,po>ts ofdiffers.it l-'inda weree-igaged m, *hich in their turn -,!■ 1 "i^erl^ca to tie which, when demolished, >ere m< .-ceded hr canting and singing, which was kept up till 1 ,3 si'iail liours so th it in truth "we danced and lung till the monmi^ " Ei cry ole seemed delighted with everything, and t-ic c-ly regret w.u that Mr Eeeson did not launch a vessel o iro a Dionth or oftoner The day ivas a glorious one, although j.oni the morning 0110 might have expected wet weather.