SHIPPING.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3758, 1 August 1883, Page 2

SHIPPING.

POET OF NAPIER

DEPARTURES.

July 31— Kiwi, s.s., for Wellington. Passenger —MrM. Boylan.

Tho steamer Kiwi, Capt. James Campbell, got away for Wellington at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon, taking a load of wool, tallow, BlieepHkins, anfl limestone. The s.s. Maori, Capt. Anderson, is to leave for Wairoa at 8 o'clock to-morrow, and will bo taking a full cargo and some passengers. The Union Company's steamer Southern Cross, Captain Allman, left Auckland for Gisborne, Napier, and Wellington at G o'clock last evening, having some 27 tons of cargo on board for this port. She is expected here on Friday, and will be sailing the same day from the wharf for Wellington. A sail was signalled from the Soiith when our report left the Spit. The steamer Fairy, Captain Petersen, <is to leave for Wairoa to-morrow night, with passengers and cargo. The Union Company's steamer Waihora, Captain Edie, has been delayed a day in Dunedin, and will not arrive here before Sunday. Her time of departure for the North has in consequence been extended until 4 o'clock that afternoon.

LAUNCH OF THE S.S. TAKAPUNA (From tho Barrow Times, 9th June, 1883.) On Tuesday morning last there was launched from the yard of the Barrow Shipbuilding Company a steel screw steamer, built to the order of tho Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand. She is a handsome vessel of 950 tons. Her principal dimensions are as follow: —Length between perpendiculars, 220 ft; breadth moulded, 32ft; depth of hold, 17ft Gin ;to class 100 Al, and having scantlings in excess of Lloyd's requirements. Sho has flat keel, bilge keels, and a fender on each side, •water ballast on the cellular-bottom principle, all fore and aft except under the boilers; steel upper deck, covered with teak ; bridgo and forecastle decks of kauri pine, supplied from New Zealand. There is to be accommodation for 80 first and 80 second-class passengers, tho entire'tween - decks boing devoted to that purpose, as well as a large deck-house to include 18 staterooms, dining saloons, smoke-room, draw-ing-room, ladies' cabins, baths, &c, all to bo fitted up in the most elegant manner, and illuminated throughout by the Edison system of incandescent lighting ; rigged as a two-masted schooner with steel lower masts, steam steering gear, steam winches ■with capstan combined, • and all the most recent appliances for working the ship and discharging the cargo. The vessel will be propelled by a pair of compound surface-condensing engines, with cylinders 39 and G8 inches diameter respectively, by 39 inches stroke, designed to ■work at a pressure of 751b. The engines are largely and the boilers wholly constructed of mild steel, and every improvement is being introduced with a view to add to the efficiency of tho machinery and economising the consumption of fuel. They will be capablo of exerting 2300 horse-power, and the high speed of 15 kaots (the highest yet attained witli so small an ocean steamer) will, it is expected, bo considerably exceeded on trial. The model of the vessel is very fino, and is specially designated for a mail jvnd passenger despatch steamer, intended to mftko quick passages botweon the North and South Islands of New Zealand, and "to connect regularly with the Pacific Mail Steamship Company's steamers. Tho construction, and indeed the wholo arrangements, have been made to the specifications of Mr John Darling , , constructing , engineer for the Company in England. On leaving fehc ways she was named the Takapuna by Miss Fleming, of Grassmcre (in tho unavoidable absence of Miss Macandrcw, daughter of tho London chairman of tho Union Stoam Ship Company). Tho successful launch was witnessed by numerous spectators, including Mr Fell (the Mayor), the Hon. G. M'Lean (chairman of the Company in New Zealand), Mr Macandrew (London chairman of the Company), Captain Jones (commander of the vessel), Mr M'Alister (superintending , inspector), and other ladios and gentlemen, (Bγ Cable.) London, July n ol ,_ The Orient steamship John 'E\'\ eY> ir ' om Melbourne on June 13, with a car g O of 2000 carcases of mutton a t; Sydney, and tho P. and 0. etcr mß },jp Ballarat, from Melbourne on Ji'.'iio 5, have arrived at Plymouth. The Moroiwnt Shipping and Underwriters' Association report tho arrival of the ship Oamaru from Port Chalmers (left May SO. Albany, July 31. Arrived, last evening, P. and O. steamBhip Australia, with the inward Suez mail.