SHIPPING.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4295, 25 December 1874, Page 2

SHIPPING.

POUT OP WELLINGTON Hiciu Water, 6.0 a.m.; 0.21 r.M. ARRIVED. December 24.—Stormbird, s.s., 6S tons, P. Done, from Wanganui. Passengers—Saloon; Mrs. Jones, Messrs. Marion, Tawso, anil White. Turnbull and Co., agents. Manawatu, p. 3., 103 tons, J. Griffiths, from Wanganui. Passengers—Saloon : Miss Robins, Miss Duffy, Messrs. Hales, Jackson, Plimpton, and O’Halloran. K. S. Ledger, agent. _ . Aurora, schooner, 52 tons, Romenl, from Last Coast. E. Pearce, agent. SAILED. December 24.—G0-Ahead, s.s., 84 tons, H. W. Dale, for Waitara. Passenger: Mr. Hulke. Master, agent. t . Cordelia, 59S tons, J. W. Symons, for Newcastle, in ballast, Turnbull and Co., agents. Malay, 328 tons, If. G. Hill, for Nelson. Passengers—Mr. and Mrs. Petheridge, Miss Petherldge, Mr. F. G. Tonka. Beck and Touks, agents. CLEARED OUT. December. 24. Strathnaver, 1018 tons, J. Dcvey, for Sydney, in ballast. Johnston and Co., agents. IMPORTS. Stormbird, from Wanganui : 120 bales wool, 1 box. Manawatu, from Wanganui: 137 bales wool. Aurora, from East Coast: 101 bales wool. Dido, from Wairau ; 1 boiler and fittings, 3 coops fowls. 24 bales wool EXPORTS Go-Ahead, for Waitara; 33 pkgs ironwork, 4 cases, 1 bale. 1 truss. Malay, for Nelson : 33 cases jam, 2 hearthstones, and original cargo from Hobarton. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. London I . Avalanche, Hindostan, Langstano, Carnatic, Jungfrau, Berar, Humboldt, Avalanche, and Citv of Vicuna. New York.— Sunlight, barque Geooraphb Bay. —Grace Darling. # Southern Forth. —Taranaki, s.s,, 28th inst. Northern Ports. —Wellington, s.s., 28th inst. Melbourne, via the West Coast.—Alhambra, s.s., 27th inst. _ _. Melbourne, via Southern Ports.— Otago, s.s., 3rd January. , PROJECTED departures. Lon don. —Adamant, about oth Jan., Jessie Readman, early; Howrah, in January; Soukar, about 7th February. Melbourne, via tub West Coast.—Otago, s.s., jib January. Melbourne, via the South.—Alhambra, s.s., 2Sth inst. Southern. Ports.—Wellington, s.s., 20th inst. Northern Ports.— Taranaki, s.s., 29th inst. Dunedin. —Easby, s.s., about sth January. Wanganui.—Stormbird, s.s., Ist January; Manawatu, p.s., Ist January. Foxton.— Napier, s.s., Ist January. East Coast Ports (North Island).—Rangatira, s.s., 2Sth inst. Kaikoura.—Ruby, schooner, 26th inst. BY TELEGRAPH. FOXTON, Thursday. Sailed. —9 a.m.; Napier, s.s., for Wellington. NELSON, Thursday. Arrived.—B. 30 a.m.: Albion, s.s., from Wellington ; 9.30 a.m. : Phcebe, s.s,, from Wellington. PORT CHALMERS, Thursday. Arrived : Beautiful Star, from Timaru. LYTTELTON, Thursday. The Peeress arrived on Tuesday night during the gale ; the Augusta, from the Thames, yesterday evening ; and the East Lothian, "from Auckland, this day. The s.s. Ladybird, from Wellington, arrived this morning. The s.s. Go-Ahead sailed for New Plymouth and Waitara yesterday afternoon. On the way out she took the barque Cordelia in tow. The English ship Langstone was spoken by the p.s. Manawatu yesterday morning between Mana and Kapiti, and probably will be off the Heads early this morning. The Steamer St. Osvth.— The St. Osyth sails from London to-morrow, October 31, . calls in at Plymouth, and takes her departure thence for Melbourne on the 4th November. She is a new ship, and is. without doubt, one of the finest specimens of nax’al architecture that has ever sailed from England for the colonies, and the undertaking she enters upon will doubtless be the commencement of a new era in Australian shipping annals. She has been built on the Tyne, by Messrs. Mitchell ami Co., for Messrs. Watts, Milburn, and Co., of, London, and made a capital trip from the north to London. She can carry fully 5000 tons of freight, besides a couple of thousand tons of coal or so. Her engines are 400 horse-power, and of the best possible construction. In addition to the engine for working the screw, she is fitted with a steam apparatus for steering, and this will enable one man, with the greatest ease, to control the whole gigantic mass. In addition to the steam-steering apparatus, she is fitted with a double wheel, but this will rarely be used. As a marine model the St- Osyth is simply perfect. Her lines have been drawn and constructed on the best possible plan, and, as seen from the shore, she is symmetry itself. Her internal fitting and decorations are equally excellent. Her salloon occupies the entire breadth of the ship, some forty-two feet, the first-class state-rooms being astern. These are fitted with all the convenience of a firstclass hotel. An electric bell communicates from each to the steward’s pantry; a similar apparatus is connected with the steering-room and the captain's cabin: fresh and salt water are laid on, and at the constant command of the passengers. Any notice of the ship would be incomplete without reference to the commander. Captain McNab is by no means unknown in Australia. Ten years ago he served in the Gothenburg and the AWinga. Since then he has been engaged in the China trade, and the estimation in which he is held may be judged by his being placed in charge of so valuable a property as the St. Osyth If all things go right she may be expected to cast anchor off Sandridge on or about the 20th of December, just in time to give her passengers and crew a taste of the quality of an Australian Christmas. Should she fulfil this reasonable promise, she is sure to fill with passengers and cargo on the return voyage, and it is to be sincerly hoped that she may prove to be the forerunner of many such ships.— Home News, Oct. 30 . The ketch Amateur left Wellington on the 28th November, and on arriving off the Heads, she experienced squally weather. On the 29th, the wind increased to a gale, carrying away the main boom and splitting the mainsail. The ketch ran for Cloudy Bay, for shelter and temporary repairs; and left again on the 2nd December- She arrived off the Waitara on the 11th, and was towed in the following tide. — Taranaki Herald, Dec. 19. Torres Strait Mail Steamers.— The first vessel built for the new line, for Queensland via Singapore, sailed from the Clyde on the 24th October. The Brisbane, constructed by Messrs. A. and J. Ingli«, is 3700 tons register, and under full pressure steams fourteen knots. She is commanded by Captain Robert Balfour, late of the Cunard line. The steamer has her flrat-class accommodation on the spar deck, forward of the engines, and has been built with special regard to the comfort of travellers. She has large ice-houses, condensers, and smoking-room, and an unusual number of baths and lavatories. The next vessel belonging to this line, the Singapore, will leave the Clyde in November, By this new route letters between England and Queensland will be delivered in forty-eight or fifty days.