SHIPPING.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3605, 31 January 1883, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OF NAPIER

DEPARTURES

January. 30—Kiwi, s.s., for Wellington, Cape Tiimagaiu, and Castle Point. Passengers —Mr and Mrs Herbert and family. 30—Fairy, s.y., for Pourerere. 30—Silver Cloud, three-masted schooner, for Newcastle, N.S.W.

The s.s. Kiwi, Capt. Campbell, steamed for "Wellington and coastal stations shortly after 7 o'clock last evening, taking passengers and cargo. The Union Company's s.s. Taiaroa is telegraphed as having 'left Wellington at G o'clock last night, and should put in an appearance at about 3 o'clock this afternoon. She brings 24 tons of cargo for this port, •which ivill be lightered by the ketch Three Brothers. Her outward passengers for Gisbome, Tauranga, Auckland, and the Bay of Islands go off by the Boojum at -i o'clock.

The s.s. Fairy, Capt. John Campbell, .steamed for Pourcrere at 7 o'clock last evening, taking station stores. The report of the Wairoa bar being unfavorable, the departure of the p.s. Manaia yesterday for that port -was postponed. She will be leaving at 3 o'clock to-morrow morning with passengers and cargo. The three-masted schooner Silver Cloud, Capt, C. Balle, set sail for Newcastle, New South Wales, at 7 o'clock last evening. The Union Company's steamer Southern Cross is telegraphed as having left Auckland at G o'clock last night. SheJ will arrive at Gisbome on Thursday forenoon, leave again in the evening, and arrive here by Friday at daylight. Her time of departure for Wellington is fixed for 11 o'clock on Friday morning. The s.s. Sir Donald is to leave for Tongoio at daylight in the morning, with timber and other cargo.

The Home News of November 17 says:— The recent departure from the Clyde of the screw steamer Hauroto, a new vessel of 1980 tons, for the Union Steamship Company of New Zealand, and one of five built and building of a similar class, shows the development of this enterprising company. The vessel named is the third of a class of screw steamers intended for mail and passenger service between New Zealand and Australia, running in connection with the Peninsular and Oriental steamships from the mother country to Melbourne. In this service the screw steamers RotomahanaandTe Anau, built in 1879—the former of which has earned fame as a quickspeed ocean steamer, and as being amongst the first of the ocean-going vessels built entirely of steel —have been approvingthemselves worthily, and tho three vessels recently completed, together with two of the same class still to] be finished, are sure to augment the efficiency as well as sustain the prestige of the company's service. A sixth but smaller steamer of high speed has recently been contracted for. Other five smaller vessels have lately been added to the company's fleet, which altogether, with the vessels under way, amount to close upon 22,000 tons gross measurement. Four of these smaller vessels were finished during the present year, and two near the end of last year, and are intended to take up connecting stations with the larger steamers. The total amount of tonnage built and building this year for the company exceeds 11,000 tons, spread over ten vessels ; a noteworthy fact in connection with the work being'that all the vessels without exception arc of mild steel.

(By Cable.) London, January 29. The Orient steamship Potosi arrived at Plymouth to-day from Melbourne (sailed December 0). The Merchant Sharping and Underwriter's Association rej)ort the arrival of the ship Rakaia from Lyttclton (sailed October 4). Melboi t rne, Tuesday. Sailed, this afternoon, steamship RingariMjma for the Bluff. This day. Arrived, Arawata, last evening.

[by telegraph.] Auckland, This day. Sailed, yesterday afternoon, Pacific mail f-teamship Zealandia for San Francisco, with tho outward English mail.