LATE SHIPPING.

Evening Post, Volume LVIII, Issue 113, 9 November 1899, Page 6

LATE SHIPPING.

ARRIVALS November 9— Aorere, bs, 49 tons, Tinney, from Paten and Opunuko KNTKRBD OUTWATtDP November 9— Kotoiti, ss, 629 tons, Robertson, for Onehunga via New Plyinoutb. Passengers : Cabin— Misses Watts, Newtort, Marchnnt, Freeth, Mesdames Arnold, White and 2 daughters, Thomas, Messrs Nowfort, Honocks, Soroby, Hawker, Sawtel, I'cntoii, Mnvclmnt, I'ussell, Walts, Thomas ; 17 steerage! The Aucilnud-owneil barque Quathlamba has just made a fust x)assaf*e ot seven days from Kaipara to Sydney. The barque Northern Chief sniled the distance, in ei^bt days. The Quatlilainbu logged 230 knots on one day. A severe oxperieuco bei'el the steamer Kendall Castle, which arrived at Natal a few weeks ago from Australia. • Sixteen rtnyß after leaving AdeJaide she fell in with a lnmicu.no, south-wet.t gale, and as the ship wns heavily freighted and btood deep in the water, the seas freely swept the decks. This hurricane lasted 21 hours, and during its continuance eight double pens of sheep, numbering about 250, were washed overboard. Nothing could be done to save them. Nine of the cows calved on the voyage, and the ship landed 21 head of cattle, three of the calves having also been swept overboard during the hurricane, but both cows and horses were landed without loss. On 21st September the Invernia, built for the Cunard Steamship Company by Messrs Swan and Hunter, Limited, was launched at Wallsend-on-Tyne in the presence of 20,000 spectators. The ship is the fourth largest in the world, bcinj? about 400 tons smaller than the Kaiser "VVilhelm der Grosse. Among English steamers there is only one larger, the recently-built Oceanic. A sister bbip, the Snxonia, is at present being built at Clydebarik, Glasgow. It is the intention of the Norddentscher Lloyd and the Hambuig- American lino conjointly to maintain a regular fortnightly mail serviop to and from the East, calling at Penang. The first sleainer of the new service will be the Koenig Albert, due to leave Genoa outward bound on 17th October. The steamer would arrive m Pwiang outward bound on alternate Mondays or Tuesdays, aud homeward bound on alternate Tuesdays or Wedue&d'ays. According to a French paper successful experiments have been made with an entirely new model of t orppdo boats. The vessels are small, and intended to be swung like ordinary ships' boats to the sides of ironcJ.ids. They can be lauuehed rapidly, and their object is to defend the parent ship.