THE PORT MELBOURNE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10241, 25 December 1894, Page 1

THE PORT MELBOURNE.

The Port Melbourne, from Calcutta, arrived at Sydney on Saturday, and was to leave yesterday (Monday) for Wellington direct. After discharging her cargo at that port she comes direct to Dunedin.

The s.s. Flora, with passengers and cargo from the north, arrived at the Kattray street wharf at 8 a.m. yesterday. She left Wellington at 11.30 p.m. of the 22nd inßt., and arrived at Lyttelton at 2.15 p.m. of the 23rd; left again at 3.15 p.m., had fine weather along the coast, and arrived at headquarters as above. The b.s. Napier left Dunedin yesterday afterCoon with cargo for Invercargill. The s.s. Invercargilllanded cargo at the Kattray street wharf yesterday. She will make excursions down the harbour to-day and to-morrow. The s.s. Alanapouri left the tongue wharf yesterday afternoon with passengers and cargo for Melbourne, via the Bluff and Hobart. During the week ending December 23,10 vessels, representing a total of 5869 tons register, arrived at the Dunedin wharves, and nine vessels, with a total of 5750 tons, left them. The barque Himalaya left Liverpool on the sth Df November for this port, via Wellington. The ship Earl of Zetland, of Glaßgow, from London to Melbourne, which grounded at Romney on December 4, was successfully floated off on the 10th inst., and returned to London. The S.S. Herald landed cargo at the Kattray Btreet wharf yesterday. The barque Alcestis having completed the discharge of her cargo and taken in stiffening ballast, was hauled over to the Jetty street wharf yesterThe barque Kirkmichael, from Liverpool for Melbourne, which was wrecked off Holyhead daring this recent gales in Great Britain, was a steel vessel of 933 tons gross, built by W. Doxiord and Sons at Sunderland in 1882^ and owned by Messrs J. Steel and Co., of that port. She wa3 classed tlfrO Al at Lloyd's. The ship Blenheim has still a quantity of Eeneral cargo to put out. , The barque Firth of Forth 18 getting on well With the discharge of her cargo at the cross WThe New Zealand Shipping Company's barque Cynisca in getting on well with her loading There is also a large quantity of wool in the J K&rt which left the George j Btreet pier on Sunday morning for London, via Lyttelton and Wellington, took on board the , following cargo at Part Chalmers :-364 bales wool, 74 do sheepskins, 120 do rabbitskins, 46 do leather, 10 do tow, 5 do hair, 50 cases meats, 3«o pkgs butter and cheese. 1681 carcases mutton, and 3 pkgs sundries. _ .. The Shaw, Savffl, and Albion Company s ship Crnsader ib fast filling up, having now on board 3040 bales wool and skins, 2400 sacks oats, and 8 casks tallow, in addition to which there is a Quantity of wool iv the shed. ... I The Chilian cruiser Blanco Encalada has been recently completed at the Elswick shipyard of Sir W. G. Armutroug, Mitchell, and Co., at j Newcastle, from she designs of Mr Watts, and j finally left the Tyne '<« Chili on October 9, under the command of Captain Mnnoz Hurtado, of the Chilian Navy. She has <, length of 370 ft, breadth i 4(iift, and draught 18Jft, with a displacement of ; iaOO tons, alw is fshuatlied with v<M and 4

coppered, but otherwise built entirely of steel, with a curved armour deck extending her whole length, aad affording protection to the machinery, magazines, *c. Her armament, which is ui> i usually heavy for a vessel of her size, consists of I two Sin guns, 10 6in, and 24 smaller quick-firing I guns, and five torpedo discharging tubes. 'TT.or.j speed with natural draught is 215 knots, and with forced droughtovcr 22J knots, and is without doubt one of Hie most formidable cruisers afloat. Tim Blanco Encilada received her name in memory of the ironclad which was sunk during the recent civil war in Chili. As may be remembered, she wether end in Oalclera Bay, where sha was surprised in the early moraine by the " catchers C'ondell and Lynch, which, after expending several torpedoes, at last succeeded in blowing a hole in her, and she foundered in three minutes.