PASSENGER LIST. INWARDS.

Wellington Independent, Volume XVIII, Issue 1964, 1 October 1863, Page 2

PASSENGER LIST. INWARDS.

Per b.b. Airedale, from Picton, Nelson, Taranaki, and Manukau. Saloon: Miss Laidlaw, Miss Hackett, Miss Keene, Mrs Keene, Messrs Duncan, Hartmann, Keene (2) Goodhelm, Cook, Gaby, Tallerman. Second cabin: Miss Samuel, Messrs Charles,, MOombes, Porceaux, Goodl man, Clifford, Bowler, Roberts, and Buck, with 17 cabin and. 73 eecond cabin passengers, for RQMliern ports.

OUTWARDS. Per s.b. Lady Bird, for Picton, Nelson, Taranaki and Manukau. For Nelson : Mr and Mrs Towetti, Miss Towetti, Mr and Mrs Baniger, Mrs Hodges and 6 children, > Messrs Cameron, Preston, Read, Evans, Jepson, Bowuu.ll, 1 Galey. For Picton : Mr and Mrs Sutton and 3 children, Mr Blank. For Taranaki : Messrs Hall, Tompkins, Gilchrist, Hannoke, Cooley, Doolo, Death, King, Bragg, Short Per s.s. Airedale, for Lyttelton and Otago. Saloon : Mr and Mrs Beetham, Mr and Mrs Elwin, Miss Bossitter, Miss Poole, Messrs Dalway, Wakeham. Eoy (2), and Lewis. Steerage : Miss Downes, Mr and Mrs Green, Mr and Mrs Bird, Meßsrs Greenberg, Foley, Mofllt, Ford, Jones, Airey, Johnson, Adams, and 3 others Californian Circus Company, Messrs Alexander, and Saeby. imports. j In the Airedale, I.C.R.M. Co, agents— l parcel, Officer Commanding ; 1 parcel, Buller ; 133 hides, 22 calf skins, 8 bags lime, Hirst ; 1 hale drapery, Knoll & Co ; 1 portmanteau, Inglia. EXTORTS. In the Lady Bird, Duncan & Vennell, agents 4 kegs butter, 1 cask earthenware, 6 boxes grocery, D. Anderson; 1 horse, Bragg; 1 bag sugar, J. Tompkins; 30 sacks flour, 3 parcels, 2 boxes, 1 pkge ; J. &T. Kebbell ; 4 cases axes, 30 nests pails, 20 pkgs, 1 case brooms, 3 stoves and flti tings, Coleman ; 9 pkgs bacon, Deihl ; 4 trusses leather, Hirst ; 8 boxes tin, 1 bdle wire, Shaw & Co ; 3 chests tea, E. Pearce; 1 pkgo plants, 1 parcel, 1 trunk, Dorset; 1 hhd ram, Krull & Co; 21 trunks boots, 2 qr-casks sherry, Owen Bros. In the Airedale, LC.B.M. Co, agents — For Lyttelton: IB kegs butter, Lyon ; G horses, 1 pony, and sundry baggage, Californian Circus Company; 3 kegs butter, Anderson. For Otago : 42 kegs butter, Martin ; 47 do, Lewis; 10 do, Lyon; 2 do, Tonks; 35 qrs beef, Leatham; 1 dog, Bay; lease, N.Z.S.N. Co; 1 canvass pkge, Bethune & Hunter; 1 dojf, Smith. In the City of Nelson, Bethune & Hunter, agents — 25,000 feet timber, Smith & Co. EXPECTED AKBIVALS. Storm Bird, s.s., from Wanganai, Taranaki, Raglan and Manukau, due. Wonga Wonga, from "VVanganui, Ist - Airedale, s.b., from Canterbury, Otago, and the Bluff, on the 10th. Auckland, s.s., from Napier and Auckland, 11th. Lady Bird, s.s., fromPicton, Nelson, Taranaki, and Manukau, on the 11th. Sturt, p.s., from Nelson, 12th. Bangatirt., s.s., from Lyttelton and Otago, 12th. Affiance, ship, from London, 112 days out Asterope, ship, from London, 9G days out. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Storm Birds.s., for Lyttelton and Otago, onthasth Oct. Airedale, s.s., Kennedy, for Picton, Nelson, Taranaki, and Manukau on the 11th. Auckland, b.b., for Lyttelton and Otago on the 12th. Sturt, p.s., for Wanganui and Nelson, 13th. Rangatira, s.s., for Napier and Auckland, 13th. Lady Bird, ».b., for Napior and Auckland, on tk« 14th inst. VESSELS IN PORT. Sarah, schooner, repairing. Shepherdess, schooner, from Lyttelton. Esther, brigantine, from Napier. Harriett Armitage, barque, from Lyttelton. Alexandria, brig, from Newcastle. "Wild Wave, schooner, from Lyttelton. William Carey, Bhip, from London Alert, cutter, from Bangitikei. Ada, schooner, from Heathcote River. Kate, schooner, from Lyttelton. City of Nelson, from Wairau. Valiant, brig, from Otago. The I.C.R.M. Co's s.e. Airedale, A. Kennedy, from Manukau, via Taranaki, Nelson, and Picton, arrived in this harbor at 1.13 pin yesterday. Being bar bound for two days in the Manukau, she did not leave that port till the morning of the 2Gth ; encountered strong head winds to Taranaki, where she arrived at 6am on the 27th, having stood off during the night Left Taranaki at 1 pm the same day, and with a favouring breeze, made the run to Nelson in sixteen hours. Left Nelson at 9.15 pm on the 28th, and made a imart run of nine houre to Picton ; left that port at 8.15 am on Tuesday, and arrived here as above. The Airedale has upwards of 100 passengers on board, tho bulk of whom are diggers from Nelson, bound to Otago. Wo are informed that on mustering her passengers after leaving Nelson, no less than flvo stowaways were found on board ; and we learn from various sources that the number who victimise our coastal steamers by stowing themselves away, to escape payment of passage money, is greatly on the increas*. This doubtless is in some measure owing to the mistaken lenience of commanders who permit such offenders to go unpunished. Captain Kennedy has, however, set an example, which we hope to see followed. Two of tho five personages alluded to, yesterday put in an appearance at our Besident Magistrate's Court, the other three were brought to their senses by seeing tho signal for the police flying at the main as the Airedale came to an anchor ; they, therefore, veiy prudently, to use an expressive term, " stumped up." Inasmuch as it is an injustice to bond fide passengers as well as to ship owners to suffer the nefarious practice reforred to, to go unpunished ; we have no hesitation in expressing our approval of tho steps taken by Captain Kennedy to abate tho nuisance. The s.s. Ranoatira. — This fine vessel is to be employed on the East Coast service, between Auckland, Napier Duuedin, calling at Lyttelton and Wellington on the return passnge. The negotiations for her purchase by the New Zealand Steam Navigation Company have not been successful, as £14,000 was demanded by her owners, being somewhere about double her original cost Nkw Steamer for the 1.C.8.M. Co.— The Board of Direotoro liovo jiisi puruliuaea » »»<>■«■ otoauor of 800 tons builder's measurement, 150 horse power (nominal), and guaranteed, to steam 12 knots per hour, to be ready for sea immediately. Her dimensions are : — length 228 feet • breadth 26 feet 8J inches ; depth of hold 15 feet C inches'. The cabins are fitted up in a superb style, and are capable of accommodating GO Ist class, and 70 2nd class passengers. She is Clyde built and engined, and is classed A 1 for 9 years, being built under special survey. She will carry a largo cargo in addition to 250 tons coal, and would in all probability leave for the colonies about the first week in September. Steam Raciko Extraordinary. — One of the most extraordinary contests for the palm of speed which, among hundreds that we have participated in on tho London Thames, Mersey, the Clyde, and the Forth, took place yesterday on the waters of the Waitemata and the Thames, between the two New Zealand screw steamers Itangatira of Auckland, and Lady Bird of Wellington. To begin at tho beginning ;— the Bangatira is a vessel just arrived, having been purchased at Dundee by an Auckland co-partnery that have decided on placing her on the East Coast line of trade, between Auckland, Napier and Dunedin. Prior to setting out on her flrit intor-provincial voyage, her owners determined that she should make a trial trip ; and to do honor to tho occasion, a numerous party of their friends and fellow-citizens were invited to take part in the pleasures of the day. As it chanced,' one of the New Zealand Steam Navigation Company's boats the Lady Bird, was on the point of departure for Napier and the boutn ; and as both have acquired a. merited reputation for speed, it was determined that a friendly trial between the vessels should take place. Let us describe the pair of competitors. The Lady Bird, is an iron vessel, barque rigged, built by Messrs Denny, of Dumbarton, as a swift passenger boat, in 1851. Her lines and general outline are beautifully symmetrical ; in fact sho is a perfect model. As an English Channel packetboat, and subsequently as a packet betwo«n Launceston Melbourne, Adelaide, and other ports on the coast of Australia, her speed and hor performances were of the highest order. Tho Rangatira is a boat of a different order, smaller tonnage, and more limited power. She was launched at Dundee in 18G3, being constructed, not as a swift packet boat, but as a fair carrying coasting trader Shu was built by Messrs Gourlay, is 145 feet 18 inches long, 20 feet 6 Inches beam, 9 feet 7 inches deep, 50 horse power, and 218 tons register, engine room included. The Lady Bird measures some 70 tons more, with 20 horse power in addition. By eleven o'clock, the hour for starting, the visitors were clustered on hoard the Eangatira, among whom woro his Honor the Superintendent, tho Resident Magistrate, the Collector of Customs, Captain Johnson, Inspector of steam machinery. Captain Machiu (Claud Hamilton), Captain A. Kennedy, (Airedale), Mr Duncan, (New Zealand Steam Navigation Company), and some thirty or forty more of our leading citizens. At ten minutes past eleven, the warps being cast adrift, the Rangatira dropped down harbor, and, after describing a short and graceful circle round H.M.S.S. Miranda, she backed up harbor again to await the leisure of the Lady Bird, which was speedily discovered to be moving from off the Queen-street wharf. Waiting until they came broadside to broadside, both boata observed the command to " turn ahead slow." Both then •' fired up," and did thoir utmost to exhibit tho pace that kills. The picture was one that never has, and probably never again will be equalled. The superior stamina of the Rangatira's new boilers being taken as a sot off against the superior horse power of the Lady Bird, their strength of propulsion may be looked upon as equalised. At all events, never did wo encouuter such an extraordinary pair of competitors. Side by side, at an equal pace of from ten to ten knot« and a-half an hour, they toiled on within a few yards of each othor, neither vessel being able to achieve a single foot in advance of the other. The race was neck and neck, or stem and stem throughout, from off Fort Britomart to Man-of-war Channel into the gulf of the Thames, a distance of perhaps four or five and twenty miles, when the undefeated racers separated, Lady Bird to prosecute her Southern voyage, and Eangatira to return to tbo Queenstreet wharf. On parting, the cheers were loud and cheery on both sides — for each ship was in extacies with tho noble performance of the other — Lady Bird moulting no feather — and Bangatira pluming her, or himself, on holding her own with one of tho moßt redoubted clippers of the Australian waters. In returning, the Bangatira made the round turn of Ponui island, shaping an upward course through the Sanspit channel, and catching a glimpse of the steam gun-boat Sandfly, anchored close in with the Wairoa shore. The day was mild, the water placid, and everything contributed to the pleasure of tho trip. From the Brothers, or Manganese Rocks, distant above twenty miles from the Queen-street wharf, tho run was made in less than a couple of hours. The vessel carried more than a full head of steam throughout ; the average pressure was about 10i lbs, the vacuum clear and good ; the revolutions about an average of 100 per minute, and tho consumption of fuel only 3J tons from the time the fires wero made np. The hospitality of the owners must notboovsr- , looked. As may bo imagined! the saloon of the Rangatira was unequal to tho simultaneous accommodation of so largo a party. The ample and rec/ierchd viands wero therefore submitted to throe or foursuccessive onslaughts, at each and all of which bumpers to the health and prosperity of ship, master, and owners were quaffed until echo choored again. It only remains to say that the Rangatira has fully realised all the expectations that were formed of her; that she is a swift, substantial, sightly, and capacious ship; and that we heartily hope, when she starts on her maiden Southern voyage on Saturday next, she will prove but the forerunner of a long and prosperous line of Auckland Bteam clippers.— j^w Zealander, Sep 24. Trial Trip op the RANGATiRA.—The Southern Cross furnishes another account:— The steamer Rangatira which recently arrived in these waters for the inter-pro-vincial trade, started from the Queen-street wharf yesterday morning shortly after eleven o'clock on a trial trip Cards of invitation had been issued to a number of the friends of the owners, and there were about forty gentlemen on board, comprising many of Ow leading n^n, and

epresentatives of the principal firms in Auckland. She steamed down below the man-of-war and then returned to the wharf to await the starting of the s.a. Lady Bird, it being arranged that the two vessels should try theirspeed together. Tho Lady Bird soon got under weigh, and at about twenty-five minutes to twelve, it might be said the race had fairly begun. By this time both vessels were about half way to the North Head, and a-breast of each other. This position was maintained to the Heads, neither appearing to gain on the other — and indeed until they parted company the same position was maintained; bo that it was impossible for either to say that she had the advantage of the other, — in fact, we believe that such a close, and evenly contested race has never before been witnessed her*. The Lady Bird has tho reputation of being one of the fastest boats on the coast, and it is satisfactory, therefore, to the owners of the Eangatira to know, that if their steamer is not the fastest on the coast, she can keep pace with tho best of them. Tho course taken was through the Waiheki passage, the Rangatira taking the middle and the Lady Bird the big ship passage. As the two boats parted company three hearty cheers were given on board the Bangatira, which received as hearty a response. The Bangatira then entered the Thames, and returned through the Sandspit passage on her way to Auckland, which was reached about half-past five o'clock. The trial was very satisfactory, the engines worked admirably, and a speed of about 10 knots was obtained, with a pressure of 19 lbs., the screw making 96 revolutions per minute. The day was fortunately a fine one, with a nice fresh breeze blowing, and the party on board appeared to enjoy themselves exceedingly ; the excitement of a wellcontested race adding greatly to th© pleasure of the day. The scenery all along the course taken by the Rangatira was exceeding picturesque. A good dinner was provided, to which, aa the wind and wavea were merciful, the company did ample justice. The health of the captain and owners, and success to the Bangatira, with other toasti, were drunk with the usual honors, and duly responded to. '■ On Saturday next the Bangatira will leave on her first j trip for Dunedin via Napier, calling at the intermediate ports on her return. The Pluto. — The loss of this unfortunate steamboat is now-, pretty certain. Her commander, Captain Bowdan, a most respectable man, well known for many years in connection with this port and New Zealand, has left a wife and seven children, entirely unprovided for. "We are glad to learn that Captain Nome and Mr Richard Hill are endeavouring to raise money in the hope of helping this deserving case of distress. At the office of this journal, also, donations; will be thankfully received.— Sydney Morning herald, Sep 8.