EXPECTED ARRIVALS.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 4086, 9 January 1878, Page 2

EXPECTED ARRIVALS.

Taupo, s.s., from Poverty Bay, Tauranga, and Auckland Rangatira, s.s., from Wellington Wanaka, s.s., from Wellington and Southern ports Kiwi, s.s., from Wellington Adamant, ship, from London Crownthorpe, ship, from Wellington Silver Cloud, three-mas ted schooner, from Newcastle Falcon, barquentine, from Newcastle Young Dick, schooner, from Melbourne, via Wellington Albatross, schooner, from Whaugapoua Telegraph, schooner, from Auckland, via coast Kenilworth, schooner, from Mercury Bay Columbia, schooner, from Auckland. Minnie Hare, schoener, from Mercury Bay Venus, ketch, from Mercury Bay Acadia, schooner, from Mercury Bay Rapid, cutter, from Mohaka

The barque Crownthorpe, Captain Everett, arrived in the roadstead from Wellington at 4 p.m. yesterday. She left that port on Thursday last, but owing to bad winds, had to put into Worcer's Bay. At an early hour in the morning she was off the Wairoa, : and .made the Napier anchorage as above. She is an iron vessel of Sl2 tons register and classed 100 Al at Lloyds, and is now on the berth to load at this port for London. We have no doubt the Crownthrope will receive quick despatch, as ' there are large quantities of wool ready for shipment at the Spit. The s.s. Mohaka was to have left for Mohaka this morning. She has on board a full, cargo of timber and provisions. ■,"' The s!s. Rangatira, Captain Evans, left Wellington at 6 p.m. yesterday for this port. The steam launch Bella will take her outward passengers from the wharf at 4 p.m. to-day, when the Rangatira will proceed .to Gisborne. 1 The p.s. Manaia is expected to leave for Wairoa about the end of the present week, Messrs Fraser and Tinne's new iron steamer Kotoiti took an engineer's trial trip in Auckland harbor, her machinery working very' satisfactory, considering her stiffness and heating of bearings, &c, invariably experienced with all new machinery. When all works smoothly, eleven knots may be expected from her, and she will doubtless :p'rove a useful addition to the colonial steam ;fleet. The mail steamer Australia arrived at Auckland from Honolulu at 7.45 p.m. . yesterday. The Union Steamship Company (Limited) have just added another vessel to their fleet engaged in the conveyance of mails to the Cape of Good Hope, Natal,, and Zanzibar. The vessel in question is the Durban, built by Mr James Laing, of Sunderland, and engined by Messrs Hawthorne and Co., of Newcastle. The leading dimensions of the Durban are:— Length, 360 feet ; breadth, 38 -feet; -depth, 31 feet; with a nominal hofse-jjower of 550. The Durban is expected to attain a high rate of speed, and this anticipation has been verified in the result of her trials at Sunderland, when she attained a mean speed of 14£ knots. The Durban was despatched from Southampton with the outward Cape of Good Hope mails on the 22nd of November. The returns of the Clyde shipbuilding trade for the month of October show that a considerable amount of work has been completed, and that the amount of tonnage put into water is in excess of the previous month, and nearly equal to the corresponding period last year. Ihis state of affairs (the Glasgow Serald says) is mainly owing to the resumption of work by the shipwrights. In the upper district sixteen vessels, representing an aggregate tonnage of 11,154 tons, were launched during the month ; while in the lower district three vessels, of an aggregate .tonnage of 3,564 tons, were put in the water.