SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. PORT OF AUCKLAND.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVII, Issue 4408, 30 September 1871, Page 2

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. PORT OF AUCKLAND.

Utoh Water/This Day. -7.26 R.m.; 7.42 p.m. SvNimE and Sunset This Day. — Morning, 5.41 ; evening, 5.59. Wind and Wkather. —September 29 : "Wind: .N'.N,"W. Weather : Showery. Phase of the Moon.— Last Quarter, October 7, at 5.11 a.m.

Arrivals. Free-trader, barque, 20G toup, Robinson, from Adelaide. Passengers — Mi. Sheahy, Mr. Smith, Mia. Smith, and family (4); Mr, llobinson.— Henderson aud Macfarlane, agents. Celestia, barque, 232 tons, Rose, from Newcastle. Passengers— lo. — Henderson and Macfarlane, agents.

Departures. Alarm, foy Newcastle ; Tien Esser, for Newcastle ; Kenilworbh, for Levuka ; Success, for Russell.

Imports. — September 29. j Per barque Fiee-trader, from Adelaide ; ' 300jbags flour, 1,738 bags wheat, Heuderaon and Macfarlane ; 120 bags wheat, 100 bags flour, order. Per baiquo Celestia, from Newcastle : 306 tons coal, 3 tons coke, Henderson and Macfarlane.

The U.5.,N.Z., and A. mail steamship Nebraska is cine here from Melbourne and Sydney on Tuesday next. She will take her departure for San Francisco, vi.l Honolulu, on the Oth. The Countess of Kintore has hauled into the berfch vacated by the ship Excelsior afc the wharf. She will commence to discharge on Monday. The barque Free-trader, Captain Robinson, from Adelaide, arrived in harbour yesterday, bringing a full cargo of grain. Captain Robinson reports having left on the 3rd, and for the first throe days had light bafiimg winds. On the 14th a strong easterly gale spraug up which lasted for 10 days — the barque was hove to for five days ; made the North Cape on Tuesday last ; thence down the coast variable winds. The barque Celestia, from Newcastle, with coals, arrived in harbour yesterday. The brig Alarm and* schooner Tien Esser both sailed for Newcastle yesterday. The ship Excelsior hauled off from the wharf tbia morning. She will take her departure for London to day. The sensational announcement that one of the islands of the New Hebrides group had disappeared was made not long ago in Nature. It has since trauspired that a mistake was made in confounding Aurora Island with the lies de l'Aurore. The existence of the latter has never been proved, so they could not have disappeared. A French ship passed over the spot where these islands should, according to old charts, have been, and the captain reported the circumstance on his arrival at his next port. It is a case of mistaken identity. Mistakes are being frequently made iv a similar way respecting those twin islands in the Indian Ocean, St. Paul's and Amsterdam, on one of which (he crew of the Mcgsera are supposed to have been cast. There are a great many similar reproaches to hydrography on the charts, but they aro being gradually reduced in number. Steel in Ship-building.— The Journal of the Society of Arts publishes an extended article by Mr. Ho well, advocating the use of steel in ship building. Mr. Ilowell thinks that the objections which are urged against the uae of steel for constructive purposes have arisen entirely from ii regular UKimif.ic ture. Another point of iuipoi uncc advocated by Mr. Howell is tin dcsirablcus I*,1 *, wheie convenient, of having tho dull used instead of the punch in perfoiuli ig tlie mxlholes in steel plates ; they should also, as soon as possible after their manu'auturo, bo well payed, and, when practicable, sub neivoil in boiling linseed oil Platca thin coatud have been found after three yeais' ccpos'iiv to the weather, to exhibit not tho bl:'j['tteat tendency to corrosion, though su'vjectul to alttinate web anil <liy. Mr. Howell considers that tho life of th'o pUtt'H will bo lengthened greatly by thus process, an ! that Uio plates will take the paint much better for it It is mo-fc important, too, that dcstiucthc OMilation should bo avoided as much a3 possible. The newly formed oxide arising from the boat of the furnace does not decay until cxpos.e.l. The oxide formed on atccl ulatos in tno fire is much mo 1 c ton.icious than that foi mod on iron, and foi ma more completely p.ut of the plato, being vory difficult of romoval.