Shipping Intelligence.

Otago Witness, Issue 527, 4 January 1862, Page 4

Shipping Intelligence.

ARRIVALS.

Dec. 27— Hermine, 250 tons, Berg, from Wellington.

Dec. 00— Defiance, 44 tons, Priest, from Hobarton Master, ngcnf. Dec. 30.-Oriental, 500 tons, Macey, from Melbourne. H. Houghton, agent. Dec. 30.— Parana, 296 tons, Marriott, from Hobarton. Master, agent. Dec. 30.-9.5. Lady Bird, 220 tons, Rolls, from Melbourne. Dalgety & Co., agents. Dec. 30.— Pienrd, 165 tons, Gryp, from Hobart Town. Young & Co., agents. Dec. 80.— Frowning Beauty, 236 tons, Marr, from Sydney. Young & Co., agents. Dec. 30.— Dart, 128 tons, Santome, from Ho- I barton. J. Paterson &Co , agents. Dec. 30.— Matilda, 639 tons, Lee, from Melbourne. Clevc and Co., agents. Dec. 30.— Mountain Wave, Hardy. 11. Driver & Co., agents. Dec. 30.— Ynrra, 120 tons, Hcdstrom, from Sydney. R. G. Gibbons, ng&it. Dec. 31— Unoiu, 166 tons, Jacobs, from Melbourne, 6th Dec. Young and Co., agents. Dec. 31— Robert and Betsy, 140 tons, Henderson, from Launceston, Oth Dec. Dalgety, Rattray, and Co., agents. Dec. 31— Danube, 203 tons, Nelson, from Melbourne, 18th Dec. J. and R. Baird, agents. Dec. 31— Gem, 101 tons, Duthie, from Hobart Town, 13th Dee. G. Burke, agent. Dec. 31— Vistula, 133 tons, Cuibcrt, from Melbourne, 11th Dec. Wright, Robertson, and Co., agents. Dec. 31— Success, 289 tons, Eady, from Newcastle 13th Dec. Cargill aud Co., agents*. Dec. 31-Heather Bell, 188 tons, M'Eachen, from Melbourne, 13th Dec. J. Brook, agent. Ts e^ l~l ~™ ma 4^°™> F voss ' Avm Melbourne, 13th Dec. Thos. Norton and Co., agents v,^" 2 '~ Ja " T e ' W2 tons, Mitchell, from Melbourne, 17th Dec. ; Master, agent. **»* from Mcl ". \ i™ 2> '7 s< lV? r^ ce 4**!** ' 7< # tons > Bowden, froini Sydney, via Nelson, and Lyttelton, with 5 bags onions,

2 ditto potatoes, Green and Co.; 20hh™|ffirV5 boxes ditto, 1 case, R. Atkin; 1 case drapery ,?Jathan; 60 casks ale, 25 kegs butter, Jones & Williamson; 3 bales bags, Webb is Co. ; 12 kegs butter, T. Dick; 8 wheels, 3 bearings, 1 bag chisels Mason ; 6 pktja bacon, Bing- & Co. ; 1 bag, Young '& Co. ; 10 kits oysters, Martin ; 6 pieces machinery, 1 case, Berar ; 1 parcel, 1 cask, 1 case, order. ' Jan. 3.— Mary Ann Wilson. 944 tons, Smith, from Melbourne, 21s.t December, 391 passengers." Thomas Norton & Co., agents. Jan. 3.— Hannah Moore, 1133, Murphy, from Melbourne, 20th Dec. Young & M'Glashan, agents. Jan. 3.— lndia, 201 tons, Lucas, from Geelong, Dec. 23. Jan. 3 —Lady Bartley, 30 tons, Adams, from Melbourne, Dec. 23. INWARDS COASTWISE; Dec. 31— s.s. Guiding Star, 74 tons, Fraser, frSrii Molyneux, in ballast. Green, agent. Jan 2.— s. Rainbow, 75 tons, from the faieri, witil 7 cases herrings, 2 cast's sundries ; Master, agent. , Jan 2.— Mary Jane, 28 tons, from Molyneux, witft 14 bales wool, Young and Co. ; 4 ditto, 4 bales sheepskins, I cask tallow, Dalgety & Co. ; 4 cases luggage, order; 8000 feet timber, *Begg, Christio & Co.; Master, agent. Jan 2. — Mary Thomson, 52 tons, Thomson, from Picton, with 33,306 feet timber, Wright, Robertson, k, Co. ; 10 passengers, Master, agent. Jan 2. — Julia Anne, 18 tons, Swanson, from Lyttleton, with 6 tons flour, Daltrety & Co ; 7 casks cheeseorder ; 7 passengers ; T. Norton k Co., agents. DEPARTURES. Dec. 27— Pilot, 114 tons, Jamieson, for Guam, in ballast. Dec. 27— Cosmopolite, 145 tons, Lewis, for Guam, in ballast. Dae. 27— Athol, 245 tons, Brown, for Newcastle, in ballast. Dec. 27— Wild Wave, 70 tons, Stevens, for Walkouniti. Dec. 28— Aldinga, 1000 torts, M'Lean, /or Milbourne, with 20 cabin and 110 steerage passenrfett, Doc. 30— Indus, 368 tons, .MnckinnOn, for Mel= 'lourne, with 06 passentrers and gold. Dec. 30.— Hound, 356 tons, Connwny, for Guam. :n ballast. Jan 2.— s.s. Lady Bird, 220 tons, Rolls, for Melbourne. Jan. 3.— Warren .Goddard, 186 tons, Kuhl, for Guam, in ballast. OUTWARDS COASTWISE. Dec. 28— Maid of the Mill, 15 tons, Johnson, for Waikava, in ballast. Dec. 28— Post Boy, 90 tons, Gilroy, for Bluff Harbour, in ballast. Dec. 3!— Falls, 11 tons, Costa, for the Molyneux, with 27 bags sugar, 39 bags flour, 1 cask rice, I pkffi 1 bale blankets, 10 bass salt, 7 bags sugar, 10 bof M -oap, 2 chests tea, 1 hlf.-chest do., 2 cases brandy, 1 ir.-cask vinegar, 1 cask sundries, 6 cases do.^ 1 ense tobacco, 20 bags oats, 12 cases, 6 bags, 3 tins sundries. Jan. 3.— Fanny a Garrigues, 189 tons, Wpodcock, for Wellington, 5 passengers. ' ' . PORT CHALMERS. ARRIVALS. At 6 p.m.— the Themis, ship, Rodpers, master, from Melbourne, 21st instant, with 270 passenger* and general cargo. At 7 p.m.— the Alma, barque, Kross, master, from Melbourne, 23rd instant, with 90 passengers and reneral' cargo. The barque was towed up by tht Raiubow. Passengers per Prince Alfred -.—Chief cabin-— Mr. Thomson, Mr. Sherlock, Capt. Herendeen, Messrs. 'laywood, Howell, Dr. Levy, Johnson, Mrs. John* «m, Messrs. M'Phee, dough, Mr. & Mrs. Sheppafd, Mrs. Henson, Mis 3 Hussock, R. Atkin, 'Capt. .Jotnvsjn, Messrs. Faulkner, Ledger, Mrs. Collet & 3 children, Mr. Parker, Mr. fc Mrs. Harthorpe, 'Mr. Tooler, Mr. Browning, and 67 in 2nd cabin. '• «. Simoon.— This fine American clipper, .of 1600 tons register, arrived yesterday from the Clyde, after an unusually smart passage of 72 days. She brings 1000 ' valuable prime Leicester sheep, for Mr. Holmes', and i large general cargo for Dalgety, Rattray, and Co. )f the sheep only five per cent, have died since leaving he Clyde : the remainder are in excellent Condition. By the Indus, which left Geelong on the,23rd Dec, we learn that the William Watson. Witchof the Tees, md Golden Spring left Geelong on the'same day." On Jan. 2, arrived ship Mary Anne Wilson, . Smith naster. from Melbourne on 23rd. Tfhe captain, re■orts to be only four days from Port Phillip Heads to Stewart's Island — the remainder of the time has been mating up from Stewart's Island to this port, against ight head winds. She brings 391 steerage passenrcrs, and 6 in the saloon— viz , Mr. Pincers, Mr. Polkman, Mrs. Best, Mrs. Kraft and family. Capt., igent. At 5 p.m. arrived ship Hannah Moore^ Murphy, ram Melbourne on 22nd, with 3000 sheep and 29 lorses. The sheep and horses belong to Mr. Peck — sonsignees Young and M'Glashan. 13 cabin passengers, 10 of which are for the Otago police. Capt. Frazer, of the " Guiding Star," reports the irrival at Molyneux Bay, on the 30th December, of he brig North Stnr, from Hobart Town, with a general cargo. Roman Rook Light, False Bat, Cape op Good HopE^-From Tuesday's Government Gazette we extract the followififf " Notice to Mariners," vliich has been published by the Government of the Cape colony for general information : — " Notice is 'lereby given that a light will be exhibited from th« new lighthouse on the Roman Rocks on the 16th September next, which will supersede that shown at rhe light-vessel now moored a cable's length north of Ihe rocks. It will be a revolving white light, showing i bright face for the space of twelve seconds twice ivery minute, which will serve to distinguish it from the Cape Point light in thick weather, as that light •evolves only once every minute." The light will be fifty-four feet above the sea, and visible in dear .veather from a ship's deck thirteen miles distant The light-tower is forty-eight feet high, the lower ialf of which will be painted black and the upper talf white. From the lighthouse Noah's Ark Ufears 5. 55 deg. W. 7-10ths mile, and the Dockyard clock, W. by N. 1-65 miles. N.N.E. § E., two cables and iiree-quarters from the light-house, lies the Castor Rock, with only fifteen feet on it at low water springs. Fts position is marked by a beacon with a flag having Che word "rock" painted on it. There are patches }f nineteen and twenty-four feet between the Castor Rock and the lighthouse, which render it necessary for large ships to give the lighthouse a berth of at least three cables and a-half, when passing to the N.E., before hauling in for Simon's Bay. In sailing for Simon's Bay, by keepiug the light-house in line with Elsey Park, bearing N. } W., a ship will pass midway between the Whittle Rock and Miller's Point. (The bearings' are by compass, and the distances' in nautical miles. )—Argw. . , - Unsinkable Iron SHiPs.—On Saturday a handsome iron steamship, constructed on a novel but «mple plan, which the patentee affirms renders entire submersion impossible, whatever accident or daman ■nay befall her, was launched from the yard of Mf. Lungley, at Deptford-grecn. She is divided into compartments by transverse iron bulkheads, but, in addition to this precaution,— which the experience of the Connanght and some other iron steamships that have been lost during the last three or four yean, shows is by no means an effectual safeguard under all circumstances,— she is built hi three distinct .decks. each being in effect a ship in itself. The advantage of this arrangement is that if a plate were removed, or a hole knocked through the side in either deck, or even if her bottom were torn away' altogether, she would still fjloat, there being no communication bettween either of thclower decks, each of which communicates with the upper deck by a separate shaft or hatchway. Not only is the danger of water thus guarded against, but the frequently more serious one at sea, of fire is brought completely under control. Were a fire to break out in the hold or in either of the compartments it would be only necessary to close the communicating shaft, and leave it to die out of itself, which as no air could get to it,— the several decks being air-tight as well as water-tight, — it'must soon do, or any quantity of water might be pumped down, even to the entire filling of the space between decks where the fire existed. Her engines nnd furnaces are, of course, placed so high in the vessel that no amount of watwr in the lower decks would interfere with their free action. The name of the new vessel, which is the first that has been built upon this patentiisthe Briton. and she is destined for the Cape mail service.