LYTTELTON.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 7878, 19 January 1903, Page 3

LYTTELTON.

. ARRIVED. ! Jan. I&— Kini, «.s., 702 tons, Broplhy, from x Greymoutih. XTnion Steamship Company, agents* . . . " \ The a.s. Kini arrived from Greymoulih at 11 *>j_. y&pterdray. 1 The total number of seaman employed on March 31, 1901, in the Royal Kaval 'Reserve, wnich is almost altogether •recruited froctn nien born in the British Islands, is ahown to have been 111,140. , . Captain Rotinson fcaa taken command ol tho Union Steamship Company's *.&. Rotokino. Advice has been received that the Tyser kner Balmoral left. New York for Melbourne, Sydney and* New 'Zealand on Jan. 13. . 'rue French Oonsul'ar Agent at Hobarfc onus received en intimation that twenty French j_eroa_.tile vessels are on theii way, or aboivt to sail, for Hobart, where they will _wai* orders. They come under the profitable French . bounty system. „ „, tA notice in l_rt week's "•Gbzette states than the Greymouuh Harbour >Boa.rd has motilied that dredging operations have been commenced alongside the -wharves an the Grey •River, with the object of deepening the berthiige accommodation, and that wJule these " operations are in progress vessels are required to ; p-ass to the north of ct outsado the <fcredge, end to slow fchedr engines whan passing. From Bunaei to sunrise a white light will be exhibited on the north side of the dredge, and all resaela will therefore- pass to the north or out*de the dredge. . •■ On« of the moafc wonderful vessels in fine world is the Baikal, built to th© order of the •Russian Government by Messrs .Aimisfcrong, Whiiwoxth and Co., of N-ewcastle. She carries tho trans-Siberian, railway trains iacrass Imko Baikal. In appearance she is anything but ■graceful, being more like a huge tkree-ciliLni-neyed barn Hihan an ordinary vessel. If necessary sha cam carry three goods trains fuilly laden, and eight hundred passengers. The chip is of over 4000 toco's, close on 30»ft long, ■ : »nd_*s nearly 60ft beam. She haa three triple expansion engines of 1250 horse-power, two . and one in tugf bow. T ! hi_3 power as required iaii tha loebrea^ng. Sho wall brisk through ice 36in thiclr/!and her bow is made with « curve, -bo that when the ice 5& thicker she can be backed, «.nd ifiien go full-steam, at \ it, partly dinalb o_ it ■with her impetus, and crush it -with iher weight."