SHIPPING TELEGRAMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 12604, 6 March 1903, Page 4

SHIPPING TELEGRAMS.

KATPARA HEADS. March s.—Arrivod: Rio,' barqucntine. from Nelson. Sailed: Kiithlosn Filth, barque, for Adelaide. AUCKLAND. March 5 —Sailed: 5 p.m., Paparoa, for fiisborne. From Onohunjra.— Sailed: Ngspuhi, s.s., for New Plymouth. Passengers: ?\fir-Fs Donovan, O'TTr.vn, Simpson. Flynn, Poll, ilcfdamcs Pcilinj, Well?, Raines, Simpson, Morion, Bili'ke, Atkinson, Smith, Dunn. Lindsay', O'Hara, Snllivmi. Raiuey, Suthorland, Tanner, Wilson, Williams, Fiynn. Hall, Williamson. Panics. Linksey, Govorsley, M'lntyrc, Mason, .Tohnscn, Parkcs, Rawson, Ball. YvoKon, Matthias, Sinclair, Harm. Minoher, Sawnerow; and 14 in the steerage. WELLINGTON. March i.-Railed: IO.'O p.m., Rimu, for Duncdin. March s,—flailed; 7.15 a. m.. Mercedes, for Hon<'knng: 9 a.m., Helen Denny, barque, for Sydney: noon, Waiwera. for Gi c borne; 5.?,0 p.m., Waikare, for Napier. Sailed: Tarawera. for Lyfc. teltoil. Passengers: Mis™ 1 ® Andrew?. Rogers, Fnlln. Todd, Spillcr, Crawford, Thomson, Gillon, - Montncy. Cimplwll, Preston, Robertson, Harper, Hoskin. Rolhfram, Mesdames Ransn*.-. Fill. Wii]imi?nn, Harper, Melville, Surlier, Eerie. Smith. Clement, Messrs Miller, Harper, Oillon, Williamson, Marsh. Smith. Oonern. David, Cooni. Dawson, Bunk, Stanley, Todhunter (2), Laken, Earlo. Kitchen. Forsyth, M'Grpgor. Townsend, Biillev, Thompson. Nisrhtingnle, Lindsay. Small. Wells, Webster, .Tamieson, Smith: end 15 in the steerage. LYTTELTON. March 4.—Sailed: «.45 p.m., Waikare. for Wellington. March 5.— Arrived: 8.55 a.m., Mokoia. from Port Chalmers.; 11.40 a.m., Mceraki, from Wollincton. TDIARU. March s.—Arriv&d: 6 a.m., Rimufflka, from Lvttelt-on INYERCARGILL. March s.—Sailed: 4 p.m.'. Inwrearzill, for Port Chalmers. ■ SYDNEY, March s.—Sailed: -Marera, (It 11.20 a.m., for Auckland, THE DIRECT STEAMERS. WELLINGTON, March 5.-Arrived: 7.50 a.m., lonio, from London Passengers for Diinedin: Messrs Feb, Kingsford, Marsh, Turner,' Webster; (second saloon—Mr J. Balrd. NAPIER, March s.—Sailed: 3.15 p.m., Deiphio, for London. .. j The s.s. Moura. from Auckland, via East' Coast ports, arrived yesterday morning and was berthed at tho cross wharf. She loaves again for the north .this afternoon. The 8.6. Moeraki, from Sydney, via Wellington, is' due' to-morrow morning. She leaves Port Chalmers the following day on arrival of tho 2.30 p.m. train for jriybourno. The e.«. Monownl, which left Melbourne on Wednesday for New Zealand, is due hero next Tuesday. • The s.s. Rimti, from the north, is due to-day.' •' • . The- Uooiu will be replaced in the running to kelson and New Plymouth, via wav ports, next week by the Koon.va, which will leave Duncdin at 2 o'clock on Monday aftern°The s.s. InvercargiH. from the south, is due at Port this morning to load tranship-. merits ex Aotea. She sails r.gain in the J afternoon-.-

1 The s.s. Manapouri wao swung for the adjustment of her compasses yesterday, Rtntl left-Port Chalmers in tho afternoon for the Fiji Islands, via Auckland. She completed the complement of her men yesterday morning. The s.s. Dnckenfield commenced tranship- '• ping a quantity of coal to tho ship Samuel n ] riimsoll at the Bowen pier yesterday by way of ballasting her prior to her leaving 0 for Sydney and Albany. ■ • The brigantine Enterprise was hauled up on the bard yesterday for the purpose of e • having her copper sheathing repaired. . 1 The s.s. Janet Nicoll called at Port Chalmers yesterday afternoon, and after taking in some transhmnuints left to - .' the West Const. '• | Tho Braunschweig, the largest battleship ■ ' ever built for tho G»rnnn navy, was • i launched on December 20 last at,tho Ger- • msarn Yard of Krunp and Co., at Kiel. The new ehin makes a great-ndrance even '■ upon the very latent of her predecessors. She is a vessel of 11,800 tons displacement, and is protected by a water-lino belt of ICriipp st«9l, ranging in thickness fromSjJin c nraidFhipa to 4in at the extremities. Above this is continuous citadol armour an two ranges 6in and thick, extending to, and • giving protection with, the big gun turrets, ° which have n maximum thickoiess of llin. Covering all, of course, is an armoured deck, it Turning to tho armament, we find the four S big guns 40 calibres long, increased from 9.45 in to llin,. and mounted at commanding heights in the two turrets, 'l'hcy arc not so largo in calibre as English guns, but tho Germans appear to think them as powerful. Jn addition, she carries 14 6.6 in quick-firers, of which 10 aro completely protected in the 11 citadel casemate, and four with a wide arc of fire are singly in' as many turrets on the upper deck, which have 6]in armour and their bases completely protected! In addi- > tion to those aro .12 3.4 in guns behind shields, 12 I.4in automatics and f eight machine guns. The torpedo armament consists of ono submerged tube at the liow, 11 four on tho broadsides, and one above-water tube at the stern. Lastly, lot it bo noted, '■ the ship is provided with three triple-expan-sion engines, driving as maniy screws, and > answering to a speed of 18 knots. The boilers are of a " Gorman Admiralty mix'i hire"—six cylindrical and eight water tiibo on the Schulz principle. The coal supply '» is 700 tons normal and 1600 maximum, and 200 tons of " tar oil" will be carried. The ; ship's com,pany will number 600 men.