SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. PORT OF AUCKLAND.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVII, Issue 4426, 1 November 1871, Page 4

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

PORT OF AUCKLAND.

Ktoh Water This Day.— 8.35 a.m. ; 8 53 p m. Sunkhr and SunskpThis Day. — Mornin^, 4.59 ; evpninij, fi 28. Wind and WrATHER. — October 31: Wind, southerly ; cloudy. Pu\si; of thb Moon. — Last Quarter, November P, fit 0,34 p m.

Arrivals. Hamelin, French man -of. war, 4 guns, Captain fonthier, from Noumea, New Galedonia, Tawera, schooner, 52 tons, Kennedy, from Poverty Hay.— J. S. Macfarlune, agent. Colonist, schooner, 32 tons, Lewis, from Kaipara.— M Niceol, a^ent. Southern Cross, Missionary schooner, Jacobs, from Norfolk and other Islands.

CfiHARED Outwards. Oityof Adelaide, a.s. 824, D Walker, for Sydney via Wellington Passengers— Captain Trouton, Messrs. Neil, Nicliol, Kerr, and 2 in the steerage. — H. M. Jervis, agent.

Depautukfs. City of Adelaide, for Southern port? and Sydney.

Exports. Per s.s. City of Adelaide, for Sydney, via Wellington: 134 balci flax, W. Roberts; 1,000 boxes gum, Brown, Campbell, and Co ; SO bales wool Brown, Campbell, and Co. ; 4 boxes gold, Bank of New Ze iland ; 1 case books, 1 parcel, A. Lucy.

The US..N.Z, and A. Mail steamship Nevada is duo hereto-day from Sydney. She will leave again with the English mail for Sail Francisco to-morrow. The French man-of-war Hamelin, Captain Ponthier, from Noumea, arrived in harbour last evening. She left Noumea on the 19th, and experienced fine weather aud head winds throughout the passage. The Hamelin is a Hne full-rigged vessel, carrying 4 guns and a crew of 150 men. The 'City of Adelaide' took for Sydney yesterday 4 boxes gold, containing 5,610 ounces gold, shipped by the Bank of New Zealand. The City of Adelaide took her departure for Wellington and Sydney yesterday morning. The schooner Tawera, from Poverty Bay, arrived in harbour yesterday afternoon, bringing a cargo of 142 bales of wool for transhipment to England. The schooner Colonist arrived in harbour lact evening from Kaiptua. Her cargo consists of TO tons gam. A.v ICxmviiVK Project. — A plan has been Eropnsed for trausfei ring steamers and ships y railway over laud from one body of water toanothei, which has been endorsed as practicable by \V. L Ilaiihoom, United States Naval Constructor, aud others. The plan is to employ an oidinaiy floating-dock to laisethe vessel aud place it on a ciadle bed which stands on tracks. When the water is pumped out of the dock, and the v hole is lifted to the proper grade, a locomotive is attached and tha whole is hauled away, like any other load. The road over which this transportation is to take place is to be from foity to sixty feet wide, with eight or more rails, the roadbed to be capable ok sustaining any weight. Mr. Hausoom thinks such a railway, with clocks, &c, thirty-seven miles across the Isthmus of Panama, ceuld he built foi $22,500,000; while actual, with the accessary locks and basins, would cost eight times th.it sum, or more. At liist sight such a pioject seems visionary, but more improbable achicvetnonts luve been acoouiplisliod— t'io electric telegraph, for instance.