SHIPPING.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4299, 31 December 1874, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OF WELLINGTON High Water, 10.10 a.m.; 10.30 r.M, arrived. December 80. —Kate, schooner, 26 tons, J. B. Tilley, from Pelorus Sound. Master, agent. Jung Frau, barque, 585 tons, Scotland, from London. Passengers—Cabin: Mr. Evans ; three second cabin, and three in the steerage. Johnston and Co., agents. Stormbird, s.s., 67 tons, Doile, from Wanganui. Passengers—S saloon and 4 steerage. W. and G, Turnbull and Co., agents. Isabella, brigantine, Greatcole, from Wanganui. CLEARED OUT. December 30. —Ann and Jane, barque, 262 tons James Thompson, for Newcastle, in ballast. R. S. Ledger, agent. , Elizabeth, schooner, 33 tons. Short, for Havelock. Master, agent. IMPORTS. Kate, from Pelorus Sound : 21,000 ft sawn timber. EXPORTS. Elizabeth, for Havelock: 2 qr-casks 2 cases brandy, 3 octaves spirits, 4 cases geneva, 4 gunnies sugar, 3 half-chests tea, 2 cases pickles. 3 boxes candles, 1 case currants, 2 cases old tom, 1 case whisky, 2 cases brandy, 1 box soap, 6 cases kerosene, 3 cases champagne, 2 cases jams. 1 case soda crystals, 2 trunks, 2 casks ale, 2 casks coal tar. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. London. —Avalanche, Hindostan, Carnatic, Berar, Humboldt, City of Vienna, Ardentinny, Invcrenc, and Hudson. New York.. —Sunlight, barque ; Ossea. GEOtiKAi’iiE Ray. —Grace Darling. Southern: Ports. —Ladybird, s.s., Ist January. Northern Ports.—Phcebe, s.s,, 3rd January. Melbourne, via the West Coast, —Tararua, s.s., 16th January. Melbourne, via Southern Ports. —Otago, s.s., 3rd January. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. London —Adamant, about Oth Jan.: Jessie Roadman, early; Howrah, in January; Soukar, about 7th February. Melbourne, via the West Coast.—Otago, s.s., 4th January. Melbourne, via the South. - Tararua, s.s., ICfch January. Northern Ports. —Ladybird, s.s., 2nd January, Southern Ports. —Phcebe, s.s., 4th January. Dunedin. —Easby, s.s., about sth January. LYTTELTON AND —CfoutUcm-CrooG, -8.5., 2nd January. Castle Point. —Aspasia, schooner, 4th January. East Coast Forts (North Island). —Rangatira, s.s,, 4th January. BY TELEGRAPH, LYTTELTON, Wednesday. The Taranaki sails South at four o’clock, and the Ladybird for the North at six o’clock. Arrived ; Agnes, from Auckland; Mary Ann Annison, from Newcastle : Natal Queen, from ilobarton ; Grace Darling, from Geographe Bay, which put in to Launceston, leaky, on December 17. FOXTON, Wednesday. Arrived— l2.3o p.ra.: Napier, s.s., from Wellington.

The fine barque Jung Frau, Captain Scotland, came into harbor yesterday evening at seven o’clock. Having powder on board she brought up at the outer anchorage. She left London on the 27th September, the Downs on the 2nd October, and the Start on the 7th, thus making the run from the Downs in eighty-nine days, or ninety-four from the Docks. On the 29th October boarded the French barque Marsella, from Mozambique to Marseilles, forty-three days out; on the 30th of the same month sighted the Wynyard, from London to Hobarton, thirty-three days out. Crossed the Equator on the 2nd November. On the 7th October signalised the ship Maggie Tyndall, from Liverpool to Kurrachee, forty-two days out ; on the Sth spoke ship Dundee, from Dundee to Calcutta, forty-three days out. An unusual number of ships were met with by the Jung Frau. In the same week in which she met the Dundee some fifty ships were sighted, amongst them a man-of-war, all crossing the south-east trades. On the Ist December, in long. 49 deg. S., and lat. 44deg. E., fell in with a largo iceberg. The barque ran down her easting between the parallels of oOdeg. and 51deg. south latitude. Made Cape Farewell at 7 p.m. on Monday evening, thus taking two days to come from the Cape to the harbor. Captain Scotland reports average weather throughout. The barque, which is one of the licet of Messrs. Glover, of London, comes under charter to the N.Z.S. Company. She has one saloon and six other passengers. The barque presents a .clean and smart appearance, looking not at all as if she had but just made a long °The ship Langstone, having discharged her powder, came up from the outer anchorage yesterday, and took a berth at the outer T. The Fitzreuter, ship, was to sail from Hamburg for Hawke’s Bay on the 20th November, with 475 immigrants. Foundering- op the Brio Windhover. —The Sydney Morning Herald reports that this vessel, under the command of Captain Reels, sailed from Sydney on the afternoon.of the 11th inst., bound for Lyttelton, N.Z., with a cargo of timber. The same evening she sprang a leak, and was abandoned on the 13th inst., the crew being taken off frem the sinking ship by the barque Saxon, from Newcastle, bound South. Captain White, of the latter-named ship, furnishes the following particulars:—“Sunday, 13th December, 1574, at 4.30 a.m., strong gale from S.S.W., sighted a brig; brig bore away for us, with signal of distress flying ; at 7 a.m. the captain of the brig (Windhover, of Sydney), spoke and reported five or six feet of water in the ship,'with all starboard bulwarks and stanchions washed away, and asked me to stand by him; wore ship, and stood to W.N.W., in company with the brig, for the land. At noon, the Windhover, apparently becoming very heavy and low in the water, bore down on her, and the captain reported the water gaining on them, and his boat stove by the sea. The brig now had a very deplorable appearance, the sea running right over her. Hove ship to, and sent the lifeboat in charge of M. A. Bankier, chief mate, to communicate with and save the crew, the brig apparently sinking. At half-past 1 p.ra., succeeded in getting the captain and crew all safely onboard, with some effects.” Ijiprovements in Placing Screw Propellers. —ln the polyspheric ship, alluded to a few weeks ago, great speed is sought to be attained by the lifting power of certain inclined planes acting upon the water over which the vessel Is made to glide. The principle of lifting a steamer seems to be applied also to the new Atlantic steamer Britannic by the arrangement of the screw itself. Instead of being arranged horizontally, as in most steamers, the screw shaft runs at an angle with the keel, so that there would be a manifest tendency to raise at least the stern of the vessel, Further than this, the screw can be lowered when in deep water that one-half of it is below the keel line. The advantage gained by this is that it is never unsubmerged, and all loss of power consequent on what is known as the racing of the screw when raised out of water by the vessel pitching is altogether avoided. One disadvantage of the plan seems to lie in the fact that, owing to the necessary cutting away of the keel so as to allow of the lowering of the screw, the sternpost, to which the rudder is attached, has to bo left altogether unsupported at its lower end. Whether this will prove a drawback' or not does not appear, whilst the success of the plan with respect to the attainment of high speed seems to have been secured, since the first trip across was made in seven days nineteen hours and thirty-five minutes, or within half an hour of the fastest time recorded. It is not stated in the accounts to hand whether this rapid passage was made under extraordinarily favorable circumstances, but, at any rate in a first trip, when accidents are generally looked for, such a result is highly encouraging—“CEdipus,” in the Melbourne Leader.