DEPARTURES.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5015, 22 February 1878, Page 2

DEPARTURES.

February 21 -Rangatira, s.a., for Poverty Bay. Passengers — Messrs Pocock, Tilley, Buttle, Gray, Cooper, Maney, Jackson, Black, and 4 original. February 21— Rotorua, s.s., for Wellington and Southern ports. Passengers — Mrs Gilman, Misses Kennedy and Irvine, Messrs Gordon, Hussey, M'lntyre, M'Kenzie, Cross, Hassal, and 20 original.

The s.s. Rangatira, Captain Evans, left the breastwork yesterday evening at 6 o'clock for Poverty Bay. She has about 25 tons of cargo for that port, which she will land to-day, and in the evening steam again for Wellington and this port, leaving here at 11 o'clock on Saturday morning. The p.s. Manaia, Captain Petersen, was expected to get away for the Wairoa at a late hour last evening. The s.s. Rotorua, Captain Kennedy, arrived in the roadstead from Sydney and Auckland at 6 o'clock yesterday morning. She left Auckland on Tuesday last, making the run down the coast in 36 hours. The s.a. Sir Donald and Bella waited on her, the former for cargo, of which there were some 40 tons, and the latter for passengers. The Rotorua had a fine weather trip. She left for Southern ports at 11 a.m. The s.s. Result, Captain Baxter, was to have left for the Wairoa at a late hour last evening. We noticed she had, besides a full cargo, a fine lot of sheep on board. The time of the Wanaka's departure for Northern ports has been extended until 4 o'clock to-morrow evening. An invention which, ff it succeeds, will be a triumph of united chemical and mechanical science, is being tried by a series of experiments at Constantinople. It is the work of a Greek, and consists of a submarine boat intended to act against torpedoes when sunk in the sea or rivers, and to cut the wires connecting them with electric batteries on shore by means of a kind of screw-chisel. The boat is lighted by electricity, and floats as well above as below the surface of the water. A special apparatus provides for the absorption of the carbonic acid gas, and to supply the necessary pure air to enable the crew to breathe. The Monkchester left England for Brisbane in October, 1876, with a crew of 18 hands all told. The crew signed articles on the day of clearance for a period of two years. The voyage out was successfully accomplished, and it would appear that the ship was subsequently engaged in the intercolonial trade. Her movements, however, do not appear to be very clearly known. One thing is certain, that she has not been heard of since April 3rd, 1877, and at the lowest computation she has been at sea for nearly 240 days, and there is no hope entertained of her reaching port. She was a composite barque of 635 tons, built of wood, but with an iron frame, at Sunderland in 1865, classed at Lloyd's Al for 14 years, valued at about £5000, and owned by Mr A. Strong, of Newcastle-on-Tyue. Captain Berryman, of the British barque Exile, was fined lOOOdols. at the Baltimore Custom-house, November sth, for violation of the United States law. The barque, it was admitted, put into Tyber (Ga.) for orders, and remained there 40 hours without haying regularly entered and cleared, as required of vessels stopping over 24 hours in a port of the United States. The fine was paid under protest.