SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE PORT OF AUCKLAND.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVII, Issue 4406, 28 September 1871, Page 2

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE PORT OF AUCKLAND.

High Watjsr This Day. -G. 17 a.m.- 6 3G p.m.

Sunrise and Sunset This £>ay,— Morning, 5.43 ; evening, 5.58.

Wind vnd Weather. -September 27: Wind: \\\, fresh. Weather: Showery.

Pimm; «.f the Moaar.— Full Moon, September 29, at .">,23 a.m.

Atuuwls. Barwon, brig, Llewellyn, from Newcastle. Cli: vitro Oltwards. Alarm, bug, 105 tons, Walker, for Newcastle.— Ryan, Bell, and (Jo., agents. Kenil worth, schooner, 112 tons, McKenzie, for Levuka.~-Cruicksbank, Smart, and Co., ageuts. Ivauhoe, schooner, 72 tons, McGregor, for Mangonui. — Crmckshank, Smart, and Co., agents. Magellan Cloud, schooner, 99 tons, Mailler, for Chatham Islands. Passenger —Mr. Wood.— o. W. Binney, agent.

Departures. Tvanhoe, for Mangonui ; Magellan Cloud, for Chatham Islands

Imports.— September 27. Per brig Barwon, | from Newcastle : 295 tons coals, order.

Exports. —September 27. Per Kenilworth, for Levuka : 9 boxes tobacco, 5 half-chests tea, G case 3 jams, 12 mats sugar, 3 quarter-casks brandy, 6 cases whiskey, 5 cases old torn, 20 cases ale, 2 quarter-casks rum, 20 cases geneva, 25 casks bottled beer, 12 mats sugar, 2 quarter-casks Turn, 1 bale cottons, 3 cases cottons, Cruickshank, Smart, and Co. ; lhalf-tierce tobacco, H. S. Meyers ; 3 boxes tobacco, D. Levy ; 1 case drapery, A. Clark and Son • 1 case drapery, Cruickshank, Smart, and Co. ; 20 cases preserved meats, 1 parcel, G. W. Binney. .Per Magellan Cloud, for Chatham Islands : \5 packages ammunition, Hood ; 6,000 ft. timber, 43 packages, H. S. Meyers ; 3 packages, Cruickshank, Smart, and Co. ; 23 packages, Hood ; 11 packages, Brown, Campbell, and Co. ; 23 packages, Briscoe.

The brigantine Kenilwortli cleared at the Customs yesterday for Levuka, with a full cargo and five passengers. She will take her departure this morning. The brig Barwon, from Newcastle, arrived in harbour yesterday, She left on the sth, and brings a full oargo of coals for the Auckland Gas Company. The barque Alice Cameron hauled alongside the wharf yesterday, to discharge her Sydney cargo.

An Auto:\iatic Loa Book. — The INausismograph is an invention by M. Ferdinand Esposito Faraone, of the Italian navy. It is an automatic lor? book, which, with unerring accuracy, records the way made by the ship in her most unperceived deviations, the degree of her speed, and the amount of rolling and pitching. The apparatus shows the position of the compass (and consequently the direction in which the ship sails) at every tenth turn of the screw or propelling wheel. According to the position of a line traced in pencil on a strip of paper, the speed of the ship, her stoppages, and backward movements may be exactly observed. The colour of the lino changes automatically for the backward motion. On a third strip of paper the extent of the rolling and pitching is delineated by black and blue lines in the form of a bow more or less bent, according to the state of the sea. The compass belonging to the apparatus is composed of a magnetised bar, which carries with it in its oscillations a small steel stem placed beneath it and magnetised in like manner. The combination of these two magnets forms an astatic system, but the preponderance of the magnetised bar above makes it always turn to the north. The steel stem below ends in a small pointed stylus to penetrate the paper, and mark the position of the compass. To obtain this result the strip of paper travels under the two needles, and at every tenth revolution of the screw or the -paddle-wheels a small piece of mechanism lifts the strip, so that the paper itself comes to meet the puncture of the stylus and receive the impression of the in,dex. The apparatus recording the speed of the vessel consists of a regulator, which rises or falls according to the rapidity of the rotation. The regulator is so managed that when the engine is working at high pressure the pencil which follows the regulator makes its mark on a certain line of the paper ; for slackened speed the line marked will deviate according to the regulator, and change its position in accordance Jwith the motion of the vessel during the time of experiment. As to the pitching and rolling, they are automatically recorded by the play of two counterpoises which oscillate round two axes, perpendicular the one to the other. One of these axes is parallel x,o the length of the ship : the counterpoises which oscillate round this axis measure the rolling, the other the pitching of the vessel. The nausismograph is, however, equally applicable to sailing vessels. The apparatus is the same in principle — the indications are given in the same manner. The motive power, which is, in one case, the engine of the ship itself, is iv the other simple clock-work.