Shipping Intelligence.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 2979, 12 January 1881, Page 2

Shipping Intelligence.

PORT AHURIRI

DEPARTURES.

12 —Boojum, 8.8., for the Wairoa, wiLb 21

excursionists. 12—Keaftilt, s.s., for the Wairoa, with 33 excursionists.

The Union Steam Ship Company's launch Boojum, Captain J. Mabbett, steamed for the Wairoa at 7.15 a.m. this day, taking a small quantity of cargo and twenty-one excursionists.

Ihe s.?. Result, Capt. W. E. Baxter, left for the Wiiiror*. at 8 o'clock thi3 morning, taking thirty-three excursionists and four raco horses.

The s.s. Knw, Capt. Jas Campbell, left Caetle Point it 11 o'clock this morning, and should arrive here lube to-night. She is advertised to steam for Wellington at 2 o'clock to-morrow.

The barque Alexa, Capt. GL Robb, for London, is still lying at the anchorage wind bound.

The Fairy and Sir Donald await a favorable opportunity to proceed, to the coast.

At the present moment. (here are under conduction in this country five merchant eteamers bigger than any afloat, whu only one exception. Wo w r ' .ko the greatest first; this is the City ; '->xne, which is being built at Barrow-in •■ urnes3, for the Inman Steamship Company. She is 600 feet long (or 100 feet longer than St. Paul's), 52 feet 3 inches broad, and has a carrying capacity of 8000 tons. Then comes the Servia, ordered by the Cunard Company of Messrs Thomson, the Well-known Clyde builders. She is 510 feet long, 52 feet wide, and will carry 7500 tons. Another Clyde firm, Messrs Elder and Co., who hare just got the Russian Imperial yacht Livadia out of their hands, arc busy with the Alaska, destined to augment the GHiion Line of Atlantic steamers. Her length will only be ten feet less than that of her neighbor of the Cunard Line, and her burden will be 6400 tons. Messrs Elder are also engaged upon two steamers of 5500 ton 3 each respectively, intended for the Orient Steam Navigation Company and the North German Lloyd's. Appropriately enough, at this time, too, the Great Eastern, as was announced the other day, has been refitted for sea, and will shortly be engaged in the American cattle trade. This gigantic vessel—she is the exception before referred to, being 692 feet long, and capable of carrying a burden of 12,000 tons —has had anything but a prosperous career since she was launched in 1859. Slie was built too soon. But recent events have justifledher existence, and it may be that she will, after all, repay the trouble and expense she has caused. — European Mail.