SHIPPING.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 2985, 5 August 1870, Page 2

SHIPPING.

LYTTELTON. A-RUTTED. Aug. 4 —Zingara, brig, Ockenden, from Oamaru, bound for Guam. vessbi*9 in habbour. Ceres, ship. Ramsay, ship. Hermon, barque. William Ackers, barque. Velocidade, barque Nile, schooner. Kaiuma, schooner. Strathnaver, schooner. Rose of Eden, schooner. Lloyd’s Herald, ketch. Annie, ketch. The brig Zingara, Captain Ockenden, arrived in harbour yesterday morning, from Oamaru. K a I A P<) 1. ARRITID. Aug. 4— Gazelle, s.s., M'Lellan, from Lyttelton, in ballast. Aug. 4 —Sturt, p.s., 100 tons, Dyason, from Lyttelton. IMPORTS. In the Sturt, 10,000 palings, 400 bundles shingles, 1000 feet timber, Belcher and Fairweather. The Sturt, Gazelle, Volunteer, E. U. Cameron, Jane Elkin, and Emerald, are in the river. The three latter are loaded, and only waiting a fair wind to sail for their respective destinations. AKABOA. SAILED. Aug. 4— Emu, ketch, for Lyttelton, with 14,000 feet timber, 191 railway sleepers, .Saxton and Williams. TELEGRAMS. Wellington.— August 4, early, Airedale for Picton. Picton.— August 4, 9.50 a.m., Airedale from Wellington ; 11 a.m., Airedale for Nelson. Poet Chalmers. —August 4, 12.20 p.m., Rangitoto from Lyttelton.

THE TIDES. High water at Lyttelton, for the month of August, 1870 :

The schooner Shepherdess, Captain Sedcole, which arrived in harbour on Friday evening from the Bay of Plenty, reports that when off Flat Point she passed a portion of a Teasel’s deckhouse, floating bottom part up. II had two broken beams and a broken iron knee, and did not seem to have been long in the water.—Wellington Evening Post , July 27.

Last month we thought the N.Z.S.N. Co. Sind become the property of the Union Company, formed for the purchase of the old company’s boats and the Taranaki; hut now we discover that we were premature in the announcement. There has been nothing accomplished in the way of a new company, nor in the fusion of existing old ones. Attempts of the kind were made hut without any result, as the public have too fresh a recollection of various steam experiences in the colonies, which has a great tendency to check enterprise in this way. The Wellington is the only boat now running, but will be laid np and sold on completion of the present trip. The Bangatira has been sold by private contract to local purchasers for, we understand, £3OOO. The Ahuriri is lying up in the harbour, and is undergoing extensive repairs.— Wellington Independent , Aug. 2.

Eecontly a number of scientific gentlemen and others opposed to the railroad monopoly met at Trenton, New Jersey, for the purpose of witnessing an experiment of a model steam propeller. The inventor is Mr William Jf. Goodwin, Metuchen, New Jersey. The most novel feature of the new propeller consists in having the propelling wheel placed at the bow end of the boat instead of at the stern. The boat is constructed in the form of a scow, with the sides straight and parallel and projecting in advance of the body of the boat sufficiently to enclose the propelling wheel, made to float upon the surface of the water moving or vibrating round the driving shaft. It has been considered a well settled principle in navigation that the amount of water which a boat will displace is just the same, whatever may be her form, and that the motive power required to force a boat through the water can be diminished only by the employment of acute angles or sharp lines in the construction of her bow and Stem. But this involves considerable expense, and diminishes the amount of storage room, besides lessening considerably the buoyancy of the boat. In like manner there is a vacancy created at the stern, which must be filled by the replacement of the water before the boat can proceed. It follows that the power required to effect this displacement and replacement of water must exist in addition to the power absorbed in overcoming the inertia of the boat itself and the friction of the water upon her bottom and sides. It is known by actual experiment that nine • tenths of the power used in ordinary steamboats are required to displace the water, while only one-tenth is sufficient to propel the boat after the water has been displaced. The preceding difficulties are all overcome in the new propeller. The projecting sides serve the double purpose of receiving the entire body of water to be displaced and confining it while acted upon and forced down by the wheel, conducting the water under the boat and at the same time preventing the commotion of water made by the wheel from communicating with the water on the outside.

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