ENGLISH SHIPPING.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXIV, Issue 3339, 30 March 1868, Page 2

ENGLISH SHIPPING.

Arrived.— January 13, Liberator, from Sydney j Strathdon, from Sydney. January 14, Ironside, from Auckland. January 18, John Paul, from Adelaide. January 25, Brucklay Castle, from Sydney. Dbpjlrttjkes. — From London: For Sydney — January 7, Sir John Lawrence ; January 8, Ben Lomond. For Adelaide — January, Ornate, King of Snowdon. Vessels Loading. — At London : For Auckland — Racehorse, Seward. For Canterbury— Ooleroon, Montgomery. For Nelson— Algernon, Otty, For Ofcago— Silver Cloud, Carr ; Ajmere,Pugh; Niphon, Baker. For Wellington— Gertrude, thease. At Glasgow i For Port Chalmers— Caribou, Mitchell. Messrs. Thomas Wingate and Co. have launched from their, 'building yard at Whiteincb, in the Clyde, • spar-decked screw steamer, named the Rob Hoy, of 340 tons, builders 1 measurement; length, 145 feet; breadth, 22 feet; depth, 16 feet'; fitted with inverted direot-acting engines of 50-horse power ; built under special surveys and classed 'A' B1B 1 at Lloyd's. She is fitted with steam winches, patent windlass, and all tho latest improvements. The vessel was launched with steam up, and immediately proceeded down the river on her trial trip, and attained a speed of 114 knots per hour. The Rob Roy has been built to the order of Messrs. Robinson and Lily, for the Australian ooasttDg trade.

VERT Severe. — A reverend sportsman was once boasting of his infallible skill ia finding a hare. " If," said a Quaker who was present, "I were a hare, I would take my Beat in a place where I should be sure rf nob being disturl ed by thee from the firat of January to the fart of December." " Why, where would go V " Into thy study." Why ii the fish an eccentric animal ?— Because he irill have his («)whim.