EXPECTED ARRIVALS.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XX, Issue 3895, 11 April 1877, Page 2

EXPECTED ARRIVALS.

Wanaka, s.h., from Wellington and Southern ports Jane Douglas, s.s., from Auckland and Gisborne Pretty Jane, s.s., from Poverty Bay Rangatira, s.s., from Wellington Southern Cross, s.s., from Lyttelton Go- Ahead, s.s., from Poverty Bay Fiery Cross, schooner, from Onehunga Silver Cloud, schooner, from Newcastle Lizzie, schooner, from Whangapoua Acadia, schooner, from Mercury Bay Columbia, schooner, from Kennedy's Bay Albatross, schooner, from Wangapoa Waiwera, schooner, from Mercury Bay Tauranga, schooner, from Dunedm

The s.s. Kiwi, Capt. Campbell, left for Wellington at 3 p.m. yesterday. The s.s. Fairy was engaged yesterday in lightering the Falcon. The schooner Telegraph has not yet been able to get away. Probably she will take her departure for Auckland to-day. The s.s. Jane Douglas left Poverty Bay for this port on Sunday morning, but owing to the,(stroug southerly winds she had not put in an appearance up to a late hour yesterday. She has probably been taking shelter under Young Nick's Head. The Star of the South, Captain Carey, was engaged yesterday in discharging her cargo of iron rails. She is advertised to leave for Wellington at 2 p.m. to-day. The p. 8. Manaia is to leave for Wairoa at 3 p.m. to-day. We trust that she will find the bar in a more promising state than upon her last trip. The schooner Tauranga is now due from Dunedin, and will in all probability put in an appearance to-day. There were no arrivals at the port yesterday. Some time ago, it will be remembered, the Pacific Steamship Company's large mail steamers were taken off the Napier run, and an arrangement made with the Union S.S. Campany to run steamers carrying the mail in their stead. This was at that time a matter of regret, but it is now felt that, far from being losers by the change, we are decidedly the gainers. In what way are we gainers it may be asked ? As far as passenger facilities are concerned we are now in a far better position than we were before. The Pacific boats rarely stopped in this port more than a couple of hours, and intending passengers were necessitated sometimes to put themselves to considerable inconvenience by, reason, of the untimely hotirs at which these steamers took their departure. We now have steamers of high standing as passenger boats visiting our port at short intervals, bringing and taking passengers from and to all parts along the East Coast, and affording every facility for the shipping and landing of passengers. We he^ard of one gentleman (though we cannot vouch for the truth of the story) who was a passenger to Auckland by one of the American steamers, and who, upon his arrival in that place in the dead of night, was landed with his baggage upon the Auckland wharf, under a ■ drizzling rain, and without a human being at hand to help him in such an emergency. One might imagine that this was rather a critical position for an utter stranger to the place to find himself in. As far as the carrying of the mails is concerned, we are in a better and surer position now than under the old regime. It will be remembered that on the occasions of thick weather the San Francisco boats, treating Napier as a secondary port, sometimes passed by without landing the mails or communicating in any way ; while on the other hand, only last week, Captain Malcolm, of the Wanaka, not in fulfilment of the contract, but out of compliment to the people of Napier, landed his mails and passengers Ifi hours lieforo the time when he was due. SaviU's new ship Pleione, which arrived at Wellington on the Ist instant, is described by the "New Zealand Times" as a really handsome and superior vessel of her class, and commanded by our old friend Captain Renaut. To quote from our contempary — "The stars again provided a name for a Wellington trader, the Pleione being the mother of the Pleiades. Most of the stars forming that constellation have been represented in ships trading to this port, the wellknown ships Asterope, Electra, Halcione, and Cekeno being familiar names in these columns. The last-named craft was under the command of Captain Renaut for ten years, running to this and other ports in the Middle Island. The motto of the Pleione is " Mater pleiadum, " which is carried at the end of her bowsprit, thus affording the student in astronomy a clue to the name of the ship. Her dimensions are : — Length, 210 ft from stem to stern-post ; beam 34ft 6in ; depth of hold, 20ft 4in ; with a poop of 45ft in length. Iron has entered largely into her composition, for she has iron fronts to her poop and forecastle, covered with teak ; iron deck-house, the deck beneath the house being also covered with the same metal coated with cement, except the sanctum of the cook, who rejoices in the possession of a tiled floor. The gutter water ways round both decks and across the poop and forecastle are unsually wide, their introduction between decks being a speciality which will add considerably to the comfort of the passengers on the lower deck. The ventilation, an important feature in a ship designed for the passenger trade, gives evidence of careful consideration. Besides the three usual hatchways, she has been fitted with another hatch, four feet square, abaft the mainmast ; six ventilating bits on each side ; and two large ventilators amidships, one going up through the house on deck, with a dimension of six feet by four feet, and the other, fitted with a cowl, between the mainmast and the sniall hatch before referred to. Ample ventilation is thus secured, making the Pleione a very suitable vessel for carrying wheat. The centre of her main deck, extending to the plank outside the deck-house, is of teak, so that in the event of the other portion requiring renewal, none of the deck work would be disturbed. She has been fitted with Harfcfield's patent windlass and pumps, both worked by a messenger chain from a powerful steam winch, also with a condenser by Normandy, capable of making SOO gallons of fresh water per day. She is also fitted with Samuler's patent cable controllers for riding. This exceedingly valuable invention should be on every vessel, as it minimises the risk of cables parting. Altogether the Pleione is a vessel eminently fitted for the colonial trade, and we opine that it will become, under its skilful and courteous commander, a favorite, and we trust a fortunate, ship. The Pleione's long passage of 107 days was the effect of heavy south-west weather encountered at the commencement of the passage. She was in the same gales which beset the Euterpe, and had light trades and westerlies and light calm weather from Tasmania to Wellington. LOSS OF THE SHIP INVERERNE. A phivate letter has been received in town from Mr Thomas Harding, who was third mate of the ship Invererne, conveying the intelligence of her toted loss off the coast of Java. The officers and crew had barely time to take to the boats before the vessel became a wreck. The boat in which Mr Harding and seven of the crew were, managed to reach land after being seven days almost entirely without food or water. After effecting a landing, they managed to obtain some food, and then pushed on to a Dutch settlement inland, which was reached after travelling for twenty-six days. The captain, first mate, and several of the crew who were in another boat are supposed to have been lost, as no tidings have been heard of them. The Invereme was well known here, having made three voyages to Lyttelton under charter to the -N.Z.S. Co. She left here about this time last year for Newcastle, and thence proceeded to Java. The names of those in the second boat supposed to be lost are : — Captain Foreman, Mr Pender (chief officer), Mr W. .Thomas (second officer), Mr Blackree (midshipman), John Miller (carpenter), Wm. Moy (boatswain), Robert Beck, Thomas Cocran, James Smith, Edwin Young, Jos Gates, and Emile Ponveren. Those saved are Thomas Harding (third officer), Arthur Abraham, John Grieg, John McGtowan, John

Campbell, John Duffy, Robert Burby (seaman), and Walter Page (cabin boy.)— Canterbury "Press."