SHIPPING SUMMARY.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 4870, 26 September 1877, Page 3

SHIPPING SUMMARY.

This summary deals with the month to date September 213t.

Shipping business has been fairly brisk for what may bo termed tbe opening month of tbe season, and so fa? a-i it i 3 possible to forecast, the ensuing season will be a brisk and profitable one. We hear encouraging accounts of the prospects of produce grovrsrs, and with the probability of an increased demand in. European markets, whilst the Yventher ao far hag been most favourable to agriculture, high hopes are not unreasonably entertained that the. season 1877-78 will be more than usually prosperous. ' The month has been somewhat barren of special incident. The .Upper Harbour improvement . scheme has, we are sorry to say, not made much progress, but there are indications of a possibility of the contractor setting to work. The question of according all reasonable support to local manu faotnrea has been dis-: cussed in the Colonial Parliament this month, aod drew from the Ministry a promise to the effecl; that provided work couM ba done as reasonably--all things considered—within the Colony as outside of it, the Colony should haye the preference. The large and efficieut iron-working plant at the Port Chalmers dock workshops was particularly alluded it, 3nd the sense of the House was evidently in favour of Eiakingnse of it. We can say that it has not been idle this month, for since the_ steam-hammer came into operation not a little -work has beeD. done for the Government in the way of turning out axles for railway carriages and trucks. Some orders for private firms ha^e also been executed—notably a number of cams and cranks for qnartz-crushing machines. • ••■ •

STATISTICAL, FOREIGN,. ETC.

: The business of the month to dati September 21st, is represented by 177 arrivals and departures, aggregating 39.497 tons, of | which 83 of 19,397 tons came in, and 94 of 20,100 tons cleared out; Of this return 7 vessels pf 7626 ions came within the cite- | gory of the far over sea trade, 5 of them of 4690 tons arriving, and 2 of 2336 tons departing. The arrivals comprised, firstly, on the 3rd inst., the barque Dragon, from Calcutta, consigned to Messrs Russell, Bitchie, and Co., with a cargo of rice, woolpacks; cornsacks, &c, part of .ifc for this porfc, the remainder for Lyttelton. .She duly delivered freight, and left for Lyttelton on the 19th inst. Next to show up was the Albion Company's ship Timaru, on the 6th inst., from Glasgow, after a paasage of 85 days from port to port, and 74 from land to.land— a yery fair passage indeed. She came consigned to Messrs CargiUs, Gibbs, and Co. Following her came Messrs Shaw Savill and Co.'s ship Helen Denny on the 9th, also from London, consigned fco Messrs Cargiils. Gibbs,. and Co. Her pas3age occupied 90 diys from port to port, and S5 days from land to land. Next in order of arrival was the New Zealand Shipping Company's chartered ship Martin Scott, from. London, a. grand vessel, the comparatively long passage of which is attributable in. great measure to her trim.. She lay deep in the water, with' immense cargo on board. . She came in on the "I.2th instant, and made the run in 94 days from port to: port, and. 89 days from land to land., Tho last on the list was the American barque Herbart Black, from New York, consigned to* Messrs Neill arid Co. She came out in 113 days from port to pert. The two departures, \vere the barque Wanlock, for Valparaiso, on the 29fch ultimo, and the ship Lady Bhthven, for Calcutta, on the 7th instant.

INTERCOLONIAL.

Brisk and wholesome are the terms to be applied to this month's Intercolonial relatiens. The trade with Melbourne was wholly monopolised byMessri Macmeckanand Blackwood's steamers, of which the Ringarooma, Tararua, Arawata, and Claud Hamilton came to hand, and left. again on their way back, some by the northern passage, through Cook Strait and West Coast ports, others by the more direct by the Bluff, whilst one went via Bluff and Hobart Town. They were; a3 a rule, well freighted, both in passengers and cargo. Since tho route via Hobart Town was adopted by the firm, trade relations with Hobart Town havo assumed an improvod phase, for now that a steamer from and to that emporium of fruit, jams, timber, tanning bark, &c, once a month can be depended npon, a steady business is developing, and one, too, that must increase. But business with Hobart Town was not confiued to the steamers, two sailing bottoms—the barquentine Agnes Jessie and schooner Rally Bayley —full of cargo, having arrived during the month. From Newcastle, three sailing vessels—tho barques Nonpareil, Frederick Bassil, aud Memento—arrived with full coal cargoes; and Mr F. Fulton's steamer Easby also made her usual trip in average time calling at Sydney, and Lyt'elton, and Wellington both ways. Trade with Sydney has been confiued to its usual groove, all requirements being met by the Union Company's steamers Wakatipu and Rotorua, the former going via Lyttelton and WeUington, the latter via East Coast ports and Auckland. The Rotorua's trip was characterised by a close race between her and the stenmer Hero, a rae, however, that would have bsen anything but close but for the breaking of three blades of the Rntorua's propeller. Even t'-us crippled she was only 25 minutes longer on the passage than the Hero, and must have beaten her by a day at least if tho propeller had hold good. At first the passengers of the Hero crowed lustily, but their tone altered when the true f ac t 3of the case became known. The Hero is admittedly a fine boat, but no match for the Rotorua. _Only .one other intercolonial arrival is to bo mentioned, that being the sdioona Clyde from Bateman's Bay, New South Wales! She brought a cargo of hardwood timber. Of departures, outside the steamers, thebarques NoupirieJ, Frederick Bassil. ; Memento, barquentine Garron, and brig Miss Kilmansegg went to Newcastle, and the barquentine Agnei Jessie for Hobart Town. The intercolonial trade of the month has employed a tonnage of 13.554 tons, in 26 bottoms, of which 13. aggregating 6685 tons, arrived, and 13, of 6869 tons, sailed. Last month's returns were—arrivals 8," tounr.ee 5109 ; departures 11, tonnage 6519. °

HOME TRADE.

The port s,sliare of the home trade of the Colony has maintained a good average, hut is slightly below that of lasfc month,' the comparative returns b-ing :—This montharrivals 65. tonnage 8022; departures 79, tonmgo 10,695. Last mont'-—arrivals Sl,' tonnage 8406 ; departures. -81, tonnage 10 880. The Bure and constant running of the Union GoinpanyV steamers up and down both coasts of the Colony has bsen a thing cf course — tho service is really remarkable for ita unvarying steadiness and also is that to the Bluff and Riverton by tha st-amera belonging to Messrs Hough ton and Co. As usual, the timber trade 1 from both Northern and Southern piris has been brisk, whilet a great deal of cereal produce and general merchandise has bepn shipped away in sailing bottoms--besides very much'1' more that was taken away by tha steamers. Ths short steam service - fctwenn this port and Oamaru i 3 admirably attended to by the Oamarn and Dunodin g S. Company's steamer Waitati. Blow high or low, she mates her trips to lime.and his acquired a reputation of the highest kind. The steamer Samson also runs in the trade, and ia a regular "fly-by-night" —lm- trips behi" always made during the night seas m She thu3 conveniently alternates with t*ie day steamer Waitaki. Tho steamer Shag continue* running to Shag Point and Moeraki, an i •," l B a stoaay> Profitable business; whilst the little steamer Ino attends to whafc trade there is by water with Pert Molyneux.

DOCKS, ETC.

There is no improvement to report in the shipwrights' trade, for excepting casual repairs to one or two vessels, nothing has hem stirring in wood. Tbe ketch s Good Templar and Alpha, which had biunpei on the Catlin's lliver bar, had to be taken out of water to be repaired, the ono in the Pelichet Bay Dock, the otl^r on Isbister's Slip. At the latter, tbe s .hooner Awarua waa also taken on tibs overhauled Neither h»s therebeea much doing is iron, excepting, of course, the new steamer tha* is fast growing under the inanipnlst; on of her builder?. Messrs Kincaid and 'Al'Queers. Shs is quite plated, and. will bo turned* out of laud witliin coutract time, alout thfe litter end of next moath. Messrs Kincaid and M'Queen have ai*o commenced a new sie.-jn launch for the Harbour JBeaid. She pro-

raises to be a smart, handy little craft, that will do credit to her buildersand theport. We •tre pleased to report thafc the enterprise of persons interested in the Clutha districts Has led up to a'resolution to place another steamer on the river. She is to be built at Unnedin by Messra Davidson and* Co., and Nvill be 110 feet long by by 18 feet beam, and 4 teet G inches depth of hold. Her plating wdhbe from £ inch to 5-16 of an inch, and she id to be built in four water-tight com. partnMit*. Power to drive her will bo aerived from two high pressure engines, aggregating a nominal power of about 50 horses, and acting upon a stem wheel, which has been proved to be the most suitable mode of propulsion on a river so infested with drift timber and snags as is the Clutha. •Busiuess in connection with docking has been slack on thewhole. The Graving Dock ha? .accommodated the. steamers Waitaki and Hawea, which went in to receive their periodical overhauling. . The; tug Koputai was similarly treated in the Floating Doclc, which ls'now .occupied by the schooner Endeavour, that met with rough treatment in a gale ori tha coast and needed repaira in consequence.

"WRECKS AKD CASUALTIES.

■Q.l. thess there are,none to roport this month.; Of preceding ones, we may state £t it. tbe"reck of the Ooean Mail at the Chatham. Islands has of late broken up, and the greater part of the cargo has been washed ashore. The purchasers, it is said, will make a good thing out of the venture. , The same may h e sai< i of tbe purchase,-, 0 f t^e wrec fc of the Queen Bee, at Farewell Spit, a gieat w£ ntlfcy °f "e. r car 8° b&ving beon recovered. VNhat at the time was supposed would prove the total loss of the schooner Mary Ogilvie, on Greymouth Beaoh, has resulted in an opposite direction. She was got ofif, and comparatively uninjured, and is now in active service again, having arrived at Lyttelton the other day with a cargo of coal from Greymouth.

THE WEATHER

The month opened with fine IST. E. weather, vhicb, however, soon changed to westerly, heavy and coarse. Westerly winds have sicca, then been in the ascendant,.: with several heavy gales and much raia^ sleet, and snow. Sunday last, the' 16th, was "a bitter day, gale being' from S.W. with snow aD j BL eet DuriDS the night, the wind lulled, and the heaviest snow storm known in the district, for very many years set in, and enveloped the country in a fleecy mantle to sea level. Then the gale came on again, and on the following Tuesday blew furiously from fc>-W. ; for a fow hours ifc raged with hurricane force. Jt, however, had the effect of settling the weather, for since then, clear skies and sunshine and light easterly winds have prevailed.

ARRIVAL OF THE DRA.G N.

.The arrival of this vessel was notab'e, because she was ttie tirst to bring a direct shipment of merchandise from' Calcutta to this port. The barque R:se M., which arrived here in the early part cf 1874, wa* from Gal-SJ-mW. 18 t, rlle ' but IH)t dirt"t« for Bhe c*lled at Port miliplicads for orders, and was thence sent here. Before her advent, we hive no recollection, neither can we ascertain any record, bf any vess-1 \on 'we; here directly or indirectly from the great Indian port; but now that the ico of direct shipments is broken we hope to see trade increase from that direction. «hi. h it certainly should as population- increases, a:d the market for Ihdrw products becomes more live'y.' The Dragon is a fine iron barque, ol 693 torn register, built many years ajro at Stock-^a-on-Teei "by Messra Pear c and Co., and, like aU vessels of her sc-e : ; w very heavily pUted. She-is owned by Messrs rListon, "iounjr, and Co., London, and may be classed amonitst the extreme free tradeis, for she has roam»d 1•• rJ. d Pver asa.carrier. -.So s*ys her msster, Captain Al OleJiion; who" has commanded her during the past 12 years, and speaks well of her m»ny pood qisi '«?' She comes here consigned to Messrs Rus?ell,«Riteli.o, and Co., and ■hiis •'-brought about a thousand tons of woolpacks, cornsacks,.and xun^ies about a couole of thousind biffs of rice, and 1000 cases castor oil. JFour hundred t6ns- of her freight is for ths port, and the. remainder ■{* Lyttelton. The Drago^i commenced lier pasage from Calcutta bn June 19th, cleared tho Sandhea-is .on the 23rd, and then met the first of the S.W. monsoon fiery and strong. It in f-ct blew a succession of fresh gales as she worked down the Bay of Bengal, and. drove her between the Andaman a;nd Nicobar Groups, the latter being s:ghtol, and also: Aoheen Head, the northern extremity of Suuutra, on ..the ICth July. The monsoon gave out on the 22nd in 1 North, arid the wind then veered to: W.W., took hir across the Line tho same day, long. 93.33 East. Two days later, sbe met the S.E. Trade in lat: 2 South, ctrried ita strong-wind to 2S South, where it left her on August 2nd. It held at nearly S.E., and the gre.ter part of the timo she had to keep a reef in tho upper topsails with topgallant sails occasionally set over them. A soutii gale theu set in, and blew for half ad y and after that she had strong variable winds from S S E by the West to N. W., r lunded the Leuwin on the 16th", and passed Tasmania on the 26th/ the wind banging much to the southward between tho two places. From Tasmania strong westerly: wind^ carried .her to the Snare 3by the 31st, and then the eime down with a heavy Bouth gale, hauling to S.S.E., with thick, rainy weather and heavy sea. Tne Heads were sMited on the 2nd, but could not be male out distinctly for the thick weather, and hence she drove past the Port, and fetched back with the north-easter of Monday morning. The ..steamer Iron Age, which was seeking" at the Heads early, look Pilot Kellv off to her, aud attended her up harbour. "

ARRIVAL OF THE TIHAJW.

lhe Albion Company's good ship Timaru put in an appearance at the Heads on the sth mat., but as the tide-was ebb, snd a heavy so* on, sbe mtt J.e for the offlny, and weather and sea favouring, ahe worked in to the land again next dny, was picked uu by the Koputai within a mile or two of the Heads, and brought up to the Port by 4 p.m. An hour or so later saw her sifely moored at the Railway Pier. As | regards oue or two we .ther particulars, the ] imam's Tepoit coincides wilh thjse of vesse's which have recently, arrived at Melbourne and traveled'iho great Southern Ocean wilh her. She encountered tremendously heavy weather between the 56-.h and the 110 th merloiaus, and received a dressing that h-ts left its run ks upon lier. The Timaru shows a fine side, and therefore that she was so boarded by teas speaks volume-i lor the fearful weather encountered. StiU the ship tehaved well through it all ; indeed she was put upon her mettle, and only her excellent qualities, combined wiih clever handling, carried her thnugh the ordeal S'.ifely. Couf.iderinsr all things, she has come into port i.i good orJer —weather-stained outside certainly, but clean anl snug within.: « apt dn Taylor U still in commmd, and reports leaving Greenock on June 13th, and, whh the wimlal S.E., to -k the northern passage for it. Dropped the tujr off Rathlin Island, and thence, to the 'panillrl of 43 N. experienced only light southerly weather — one day making but 10 miles on her. course. Sho pavsed Cape Clear nn the seventh day out. From the abovo parallel a northerly wind tosk her into the N.B. Trade, lat. 30 N., long. 23 \V. TLe Trade proved' light, av-raj,'-ingr only 6£y knots, and gave out in S N.. and 28 west. Light southerly winds followed and headed her until the S.E. Trade was met, when sho ch> eked her yards in tiam. den.tily hb-.ral Tr ide-au eight-knot breeze on tha average. But before that the Equator was. crossed on July 16th—ih« 23ra day out. The Trade died away in 25 south, long. 35 west, and from that position ahe edijed avay to the southward and eastward, with the winds fruiu N.B. to S. \V., and on the fortieth day out ciowd the meridian cf Greenwich. A rattling westerly brv-ze was then behind *l D"'^md three days later bhe crossed the meridian cf tha Cape iiriMrw.- •• K^ptn^^w ,h at parallel and 44, she stn^tl on her eastward course, exper.cncin<very heavy rains and, high cross sea, whilst tho wind fluctuated between N.E. by the N to W. A-gust the 14th f mr.d her on tho 57th meridian, an 1 then she fell In with a very heavy s*.u h galo, which, meeting a nonh-trly swell, raised * tremendous sea that broke on board frequently, but did no areas harm. Ouring th.s ensuing ten d;.j-s, gale after j;ale, between S W. and 3S. X., issued her. On the 15th, -the was scudding under lowcr-tof.Siiis before a howiinar sou'-wc-.ter, a:teadcd by hitter squa Is of snow and hail. On the ISih aad l9ch, sho fell in with ••nothe'- gale from nea-ly due south, tipp'ns seas findinsr th^ir wav over the bulwarks. . The i-tarboard lifeboat was smashed, ~ and part of top-galant bulwarks i-tove in ; ihe booby hatch was al- o wrenched off. Through all this the s'jip ra-i,excepting when the wind took casting, and then she w.j* edg d aw.y to the northward under 1- wer-top-s tils. Such seas and we.ither. of course, mule her labour he-ivily. August 25th saw her across the meridian of the Io win, and, on the 30th, sho pa>scd Tasmania, the wind meantime hanging much to ills northward, and so held until the'Siures were pas ed, but not in u^ht, at midnight on ihe 2nd Inst The weathe • was very hazy at ihe time. Fiom the_Snares, tbe winds were from N.N.E .to n'.Tth and V.liable, and it was not until ll a.m. on the sth that she mule her land fall at Sa -die Hill. No ice or r.nd was sightel during the passage, nnd only ihn , f'lilowir.g voxels were spoken:—July 7th. lat 7.1C north, lonft. 24.26 wesr, ship Kei:gal from Live pxd to Calcutta. 26 days out. July 24r.|i, lat. 331 N., long. 18 22 W:,- ship Branddetze, from Amster. 'tarn to Sir Edward PeTlo-v's Island, 2S days out. The 'liwaru bn>u>hts9 passengers and HiOo't/iis of carco, of which 900 ton* con-ist of coal. Her p-is-sensiera speak in the highest terms of Captain Taylor, and the entertainment aceoidei them on board.

AItKIVAL OP THE HHLEM DENNY.

Itisfcver.il years silica the Helen Denny paid hrr last visit, to ibis p .rt, and ihen she wa* a shi'o sailing wider the well known.colours of Messrs .Patrit k-Hen-derson and Co. Sine? then she has changed hands, and now flies Shaw, Savill, and Co Yco'ours at the in iin. has dispensed with her after yards, and presents herself in liarque rip: —and' one, t»o, that bf coin^s her well i-noucfh. Alth-uuh she was reiroced from the 0 asp trude, the Helen Dt-nny's focus of att action wns still New Ze.itaad and Napier heruhi. f place of call. During the l.vt four or five se^on; i-ha h s trs>d«d there, and is again bound there, for of th- 1200 tons or *o of eary-> she has on hoi^d ab-.uit one-third is for deUvery nt Napier. Her catyo is m ide up < f between sev*n and eight hundred tons of mixed loods aod four or See hu-dred of c ment, coal, and iron. Tha 11-.len Deuny comes here in command ot Captain ltutli, \vh'\ touahing hor i.:t=.HH<j fl ou'., reports ; that she let Lundon June Kth, and a ter dropping I the tog worked down channel a^>in--t moderate S.W. winds, wiih thick dirty weath"r. On the ev,:n:i;K of the llth, v hen the barque was a little ps*t th i Ncs>. ' a tcrriiu tha.-'aler-sloi'Ri cam: on, and Ugle-i during the S'eiter part nf the niyht. On the loth lhe 1 a que cleared the' Channel, inking her dciMrture from the Lis ird, wi, d -till S.W , and continued so wilh singular p-jr>istenci\ j minim;; her away t> th* eastward iuside he Can ry I-laud*. Mie pissed between them and the main, sighted: Lanc-irot* on tlw 29ih, and at noon was abreast of the Bocsguo Channel. There the N.~E. '1 rutin found hor, a:id blew a strong *t-tady breeze t> the t,Vp« do Verdi ii-lanch, and gave out alt"j(e lier in ll- north on July 4th. The eqtutoria' S. \V. monsoon then met ho', and h Id unt!! clear of the indruight upon the heated dtsi'rs of Ai-ica. T,c buque met. the S X Trade on the 12lli in 5 Dorlh, and tin the 15th, crossed the Equ it.>r." Ion:/. 2^. 13. The SX. T ade proved fresh, stwdv. atd freo. and hod to the 27ih July, le'.vmg her "in 31 sout'l. It was icpl ced almost'immediately by the northerly and westerly winds, wh eh ran her right into the'belt of the truo passage winds, aiid- j-a-t Kighlin-ale I>iaad in tight onthe SO'.h. --August 2nd saw her. RC.-OF3 the Meridian ttt Creeuw eh, lat. 41.30, nod roili.is- along with the wia-lts'strong-behtad hr, slie eros-ed the Mc-idisn 11 the rape four days iaier. Thence tho v.md became ye.v unsteady, Snn times traversing the lutf Cirtld irom north

t> south l-y the west in twenty - four bourn, htili the barque made good ruaDiiig, and oh the 18th August sighted Hoy and Peng.iin Itlands, of the Crozot group—Penguin bea-iug 3, W., eight miles at noon. On the 18 h August, she touched the 77th meridian, nnd the -c the first of a sucooision of heavy wosterly ga'es nauglit her. It w>s a terrific blow from S.W., and ial<;td a heavy sea, and after running as loner as prudent, tlw barque was hove-to for 14 hours under. low f -r tops*! s Owing the gale she slrpped large quantifies of wrter, und lost parfc of her topSral'act bulwarks. As the gale moderated she bo-e aw.yv,. and on the 23.d was assailed by another severe blow from tin same quarter/and hive-to a?ain under lower nnintop<ail go^sewing, lower, foretopmil, and the mizen. "Whilst the hands were preparing to round her to they had their coins softened by a coupe of big seas, which tumbl-d o'i board first over, one rail and then over ths other, as she rolled to it. The men were literally washed about tho dec* by the water. 1 hat time sho was hove to f0 hours, and again on the 27'Jr<-he hadl come to the wind for a few hours during the heignt of a severe N.W. gale. On the 2Sth she crowed the meridian of Cape Leuwin, racing away with strong gales behind her -.but on the 30th he»ve to was again tho word, when another very heivy N.W. eale assailfd her.' She lay to for 18 hours, and then made another stretch. to the: eastward ; passed' Tasmania on r,l;e 2nd inst., and wm a'irea>t of the Snares on the Gth, but not. within- mM ot thr.m,- the weather being^thick. There she ; fell in, with the last of the g.ifes-a .sneezer from SM.— with terrific sea, snd weathered it,. hove co, for 1 ■ landfail was not made until the Sth inst., when Quoin Point loomed up on the port band. Westerly and variable wiDds brou.-.ht her thence, the £?;T S.i bci? ff sl ghted ear,y n,-xt morning, and by ft, h vK? pu£l had.bionehthcrto- the anchorage aW°,h°r^n, The HeJen:.Denny.made her easting 6rt %bout the 47th parallel, and sighted no ice south It 11 atr?mS lassage from the Cape, and the barque's J£h wl?l- "o cr v.d: y> ai ,d frc<l"ent'y half-rail liigh 6 * h, e b,c^ ved weU throu^ ifc a". «n<J has come mto pori looking but.little the worse from the or- eal she «aj submitted to. An a«cideot, unattended Dy tatal results almost by a miracle, occurred to one of \rL°» mr- y seanien na,ned Rich»rd Doy. He fell from the mizen t.pmast he.-.d, struck the cros-trees. and thence fell sheer tothe dei-.k.;. Singular to say, the man s injuries were confined te a,few severe bruises aii«ii7-«7.» k,°P', mitlhf<l? now about the decks again, iS ?°« able t0 Perform a full day's work, tii rJTIIO^ laff ve.3*?ls were commumc^d with by the Helen Denny: July 7-Latitude 10 BN, longitude •ib W.. ship Candidate, from Cardiff to Hocjr Kone 2-> \v' S o °"t- xTJuIy »-I*tUndo "25 Ni, longitudf 20 aid on lPth^T lan I Hal' 1 ?° m Cardiff to Japan; frnm i same day a four-ma-tei ship, bound fc^nl^ t0 T c^ Q«"a, that exhibited the signal let ers QNTS July 27th-Latitude 31 south, longi,P Nimrod.fr^C*rdiS to BarcidUh,

■ARRIVAL OF THE MARTIN SCOT?. «Fr."m^ Vh." i t W>V ' to 1)e Feen °* her above water, Uie' Martin Scott, wmch arrived on thel2tn inst;. from LonM™, i^ 1 g,od *!"**{ Her line ß , however, only suggest. theraselves/for she is deep in"tha water, and her mould beneath it can only ho sunuiej. But that she 13 one f the latter-day ocean sroing Hners is"p itent enough, and with respect to equipments has not been surpassed by any ship of her class that has visit* d this p.rt. !>he is a comparatively new vessel, launched three years ago from the yard of Mr J^C. Scotfc of SET^' ?Dd ls, ownedbyMr. J. Jamieson 'of that port. She is constructed of iron throuehout in accordwV V,:]l the 5'S hest class a* Lloyd's, and has iron lower masts, and lower yards and lower topsail yards «^S' S" Pl re. are two Powerful steam winches on ueck. one at the fore, the„other at the main-hatch, ar-' a nge(i,t0 drivethe pumps (Mills's patent) and the windhas (oneot Hadfield's).Vw-decVspaw is exceedingly ample, and her poop, something over 60ft. lon-, contains exceUent passenger accommodation r*? V# fco '-nan9fr and ~"mS well fur.ished Bide cibms. with aU necessary offlce* ibe dimensions of thi* fine ship are :-Length <mr h n I th!? vof !ge'andof others one ww made to Calcutta and one to Melbourne. She comes under charter to the Kew Zealand Shipping Com™™ and has brought a large and heavy cfrgo, compS 1400 tons ot measurement foods and looVtons of dead. ZVfl^ r UlOh ? f lfc "^W iron and c^ent. She hw also 100 kegs of powder stowed in a "magazihe. The Martin Sett has made the pas«a ffe outiols days from Fh'fV, vV' «nd f dJP? Irom her Po^ of departure, the bU.t, to her landfall, the Nuggets. ' Coris'detin" the r,.,a.nti<y.of freight stowed i.t hbr.the tfme"he male was iroocl; ana then, again, she.was not highly favour .1 by winds, the NE. Trade, beiig iight, with I •ourherly winds from Us southern limit to the Equator ' leported by the vessels which preceded her, ehe had paly moderate winds whilst running down her longrtude, and once had a spell of four days : ea'm or next to it.; during whiih the barometer ra-ured remarkably'high registering from 30.40 to 30 74 Certainly th« shio'did not touch a high latitude in search, of winds, for.in .accordance with the expressed desire of her charterer the Company she" was kept on tne lower side of the 43rd parallel whilst !cross ing.the Southern OceW.' Very IUeV ?h^ lite citcular issued by the Admiralty relative to the dancer incidental to searching for winds in a high s-mthern latitude, may have influenced the Company in the : matter Although not over and above well favoured by wmd? the sh p was attended by beautiful" weather. It was m fact a fine weather pa*sige, arid throughout not a gale worthy the name beinjr experienced, andat the wor.-t the ship could always show whole topsails to it, with reefed topgallant sai's over them Tne approach of the...Martin Scott, was intimated by signal early, but it was not until the fortnoon was- well advanced: that her name was made known. It was theii blowing hard from'.'S.W.'. and increased during the'afternoon to a severe gale and hence some curiosity w»s. excited as to whether the tug Koputai would deal with her heavy tow, inthe teeth of such a gale, as easily a? her admirers anticipated, bhe fastened to her soon after three o'clock, and brought her well up for the bar in grand style and then suddenly the ship was seen to.breafcoff broadside to the gale, set her foretopmast-staysail arid lower foretopjail, and head for the offing again, closely followed by the tug. , It was at once surmised, and the .surmiso proved correct, that the tow-'ihe! had parted; not a very serious mishap, for .'very"soon afterwards ths tug w&s fast to her again, and making really light work of the job, brought the ship to moorings at the Powder Ground in something less than an hour.thm proving herself competent to deal with heavy ships injieavy weather, for it was very much the heaviest tow that had ever fallen to her share Thei Martin Scott's passage; was absolutely unhidden .£), and so far as details go is soon disposed of. She left Gravesend June lOthy baa light' easy winds down C uhau lley a,l,d cI,H-edthe land on the 13th; Thence she head.d for the Trade Belt, w^th winds varying between S.W. and N.AV.; found the Trade on the 27th in lat. 32, and lost it in 11 north on Ju'y 7th. Hindered by light wind? thence,. she' did not cross tho Equator until the IMb, lon-'. 24, and on 9 ,the„ for°r"?. n ß- dl/ met the S.E. Trade in lat. 332 south. It proved a good wiivl^a eady at SLY. and fell away oirJuty 23rd, lat. 20.' A week or so of light northerly weather followed, and then cime the passage winda, lat. 30 south, lotijf. 35 \V., which, as we before said, held moderate Mid light right across tothe Now Zealand coast. On the 2nd Ausust, the xhip crossed »he meridian of Greenwich, that of the Cape on the 7th, and the meridiin of the Leuwin ou the lst September. Shi passed the Snares, but not in'ateht ou the night of the 10th.