SHIPPING.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4163, 24 July 1874, Page 2

SHIPPING.

TORT OF WELLINGTON. Ilian Water, a.m. ; 0.2 p.m. ARRIVED. „ , lt July 2'2.—Onward, schooner, 09 tons. I. Brissett, from Lyttelton. No passengers. Thos. W, Pilcher, SAILED. July 23 Manawatu, 103 tons, John Griffiths, for Wanganui, 11. 8. Ledger, agent. Wellington, s.s., 202 tons, M. Carey, for the bouth. Passengers : Messrs. Smart, .Russell, Evans, Crncombe, and Copeland, Captain Rhodes, Kennedy Family (7), and (5 in the steerage. 11. 8. Ledger, agent. Claud Hamilton, s.s., 591 tons, J. Bawdcn. for Melbourne, via East Coast. Passengers—For Melbourne: Mr. and Mrs. Warwick and Mr. Bushby. For Coast: Mr. Reeves. W. Bishop, agent. ENTERED IN. July 23. Kate Brain, schooner, 118 tons, D. Henry, from Oamaru. Anderson and Mowat, agents. CLEARED OUT. July 23.—Canterbury, schooner, 33 tons, J. Anderson, for Havelock. Master, agent. IMPORTS. Onward, from Lyttelton—77 cheeses, 300 sacks flour, 100 bags do, 17 sacks sharps, 40 do bran, 8 cases. Kate Brain, from Oamaru—74l sacks flour, 490 halfsacks do, 175 sacks bran, 20 do oatmeal, 144 do wheat, 872 do oats. EXPORTS. Manawatu, to Wanganui—l case, 1 truss. Wellington, to Lyttelton—lo pkgs, 1 case, 4 pels, 1 level and stand. 5 hhds tar, 1 box, 1 coil wire, 0 puncheons oil. To Port Chalmers—l pci, 13 empty hhds, SO poles, 1 box. Claud Hamilton, to Lyttelton—2 pels, 27 cases. To Timaru—l pci. To Dunedin—lS pkgs, 2 pels, 2 cases. To Bluff—l box, 1 pci, 15 empty hhds. To Melbourne bales. Canterbury, to Havelock—2 sacks oats, 3 boxes, 1 cask, 2 cases, 1 drum oil. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Melbourne. —Otago, via the South, 2Gth inst. Northern Ports.— Taranaki, this day. Auckland.— Schooner Merlin. London. —Reichstag, Strathnavcr, St. Leonards, Panthea, Euterpe, sailed 23th April; Conflict, sailed sth May. Liverpool.— J. A. Thompson, ship. San Francisco.— R.M.S. Cyphrenes, 25th inst. Sydney. —Hannah Bloomfield, schooner. Southern Ports.—Phcebe, this day. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Melbourne, via the West Coast.— Otago, s.s., 27th inst. Northern Ports. —Phcebe, s.s., 25th inst. Southern Ports. —Ladybird, s.s.. 31st inst. Foxton.— Napier, ss., early; Mary and Ellen, Wanoanui.— Stormbivd, s.s., 25th inst: Manawatu, p.s., 20th inst, Kandavau, via Napier and Auckland.— R.M.S. Cyphrenes, 30th inst. East Coast Ports (North Island).— Rangatira, 28th inst. East Coast Ports (Middle Island).—Taranaki, 25th inst. BY TELEGRAPH. PICTON. July 23.—Arrived, 1.25 p.m. : Ladybird, from Wellington, and sailed again for Nelson at 2.9 p.m. PORT CHALMERS. Julv 23.—Arrived r Otago, s.s., from Bluff ; Sam Menclell, ship, from London, 70 days from the Lizard, 371 passengers. LYTTELTON. July 23.—Arrived; Peeress, 118 days from'Gravesend, with 104 statute adults for Timaru, Six deaths and four births occurred during the voyage. The passengers will be forwarded to-morrow per Coomerang. Sailed, 4.30: Phcebe, for the North. NEW PLYMOUTH. July 23. —Arrived: Luna, from South ; she has left again for Manukau. The very welcome change in the weather yesterday enabled shipping matters to proceed with their usual despatch. The wharf assumed a more busy asiiecfc than it has worn for some time past, and the several steamers in port were enabled to proceed to sea. The Ladybird, which had been anchored inside the heads since Tuesday, proceeded on her way North at halfpast nine in the morning; the Claud Hamilton, for Melbourne, via the South, and the Wellington, for Southern ports, also sailed, as did the Manawatu, for "Wanganui, having effected repairs to the damage done by the collision on Monday night. The damage sustained by the Frowning Beauty, from the unfortunate effects of the late gale, will necessarily delay her departure for Newcastle some little time. She still lies moored to a buoy in the stream. Late on Wednesday evening a barque was signalled at the Heads, which she entered, and anchored inside. Pilot Holmes boarded her, and ascertained that she was the Corrido, put in through stress of weather. She left Picton, with a cargo of timber, bound for Lyttelton,but when off the Kaikouras she encountered a heavy south-east gale, which carried away her starboard bulwarks, and the captain thought it advisable to bear up for Wellington, and seek shelter. The barque will resume her voyage on the first change of wind. The Kate Brain, which arrived in harbor on Monday night, beat up to the wharf yesterday about noon, and hauled alongside the inner T, where she will, to-day, discharge her cargo, consisting of grain, bran, and flour. The captain reports having left Oamaru on the night of Friday, the 17th. For the first two days she experienced light northerly breezes, but on Monday she had a strong gale from the S.S.W. The schooner Canterbury has finished ballasting, and has cleared at the Customs for Havelock, whither she will sail on the first opportunity. The Isabella has also cleared for Hokitika. The schooner Onward, which arrived in harbor on Wednesday evening, made a very smart run up from Lyttelton, which port she left on Tuesday, accomplishing the distance in twenty-eight hours. She is now discharging her cargo of flour, bran, &c., at Plimmer'a wharf. The cargoes of the ships Waikato and Weymouth are now being rapidly discharged. The Record is depositing the remainder of her coal cargo into the hulk. fjsThe exports by the Manawatu, given in to-day’s shipping, are merely additional items of cargo shipped during her detention in port since Monday night, when she originally started with cargo and passengers, given in our issue of Tuesday. The price paid for Captain Williams’ late purchase, the brig Robin Hood, was £3300. THE ATLANTIC STEAMER FARADAY. Some of our readers may be curious to know some" thing of the cable steamer Faraday, referred to in the news by the Claud Hamilton. The following account of her is condensed from that given by the Illustrated London News of April 4, 1574, in explanation of a good wood-cut illustrating her launch at Sower Walker, near Ke wcastle-on-Tyne, from the building yard of Messrs. C. Mitchell and Co. ; The Faraday has been built to the order of Messrs. Siemens Brothers, of London, for laying the Atlantic cable of the Direct United States Cable Company, and is of iron, 3GO feet long, 52 feet beam, S 6 feet deep, and measures 5000 tons gross register, but will carry about 0000 tons dead weight. The iron hull has obtained at Lloyds the highest certificate, and the ship receives enormous additional strength from her peculiar structure. This consists chiefly of three enormous cable tanks of plate-iron, forming a series of double arches, united together, and to the general fabric of the hull by five iron decks. She is double-bottomed, the space between the two bottomsbeing a network of iron girders for carrying the cable tanks and at the same time giving longitudinal strength to that part of the hull. The space is further utilised for carrying water ballast, to enable her to make a voyage across the Atlantic without any dead weight but fuel, and to trim the vessel as the cable is run out. A very complete system of valves, cocks, pipes, and auxiliary engine-power has been introduced for filling or emptying any single compartment of the double bottom, or for flooding any one of the cable tanks. The whole system is under the control of the engineers, and is worked from the engine-room. In outward appearance the Faraday is unlike other ocean steamers, her bow and stern being of the same form. She has also a rudder at each end, so that the vessel may be navigated ahead or astern as desired, when paying out or picking up a cable. The steering is done by a steam engine amidships, supplemented by strong solid steering-gear worked by hand. The anchors and cable chains arc worked by a steam windlass, as also is all heavy labor about the decks. Her passenger accommodation is also all that could be required for the large staff of officers and electricians she will have to carry. The Faraday will bo propelled by machinery on the compound surface condensing principle, having two sets of engines, each working a separate screw, so as to obtain great steering power, a very important condition in cable-laying. Each set of engines is placed vertically over the shaft, and has two cylinders, one high, the other low pressure ; and by a degree of expansion in working the system, an important economy of fuel is effected. By all these means the great vessel is enabled to carry her immense burden of cable at an expenditure of fuel which would have seemed quite impracticable a few years ago. The London Times also gives a most interesting account of a visit to the works of Messrs. Siemens Brothers, and of an inspection of the various processes of the making of the cable which the Faraday is to carry. Those who are desirous to see bow a submarine cable is formed and insulated will find every process set forth by the sections of the Cook's Strait cable in the Library of the Houses of Parllaliament and in the Colonial Museum. It is a fitting tribute to the great Michael Faraday that his name should have been given to a vessel devoted to such eminently scientific purposes.