SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Wellington Independent, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3852, 9 July 1873, Page 2

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Hiaa Watkb a.t Pobx Niohoison. s . Morning, 8.47 ; evening, 4.12. ASBITSD, JUIT 8, Nil. SAILED. 8, Luna, p.s, 196 tons, Fairohild, for Wanganui. 8, Rangatira, 5.8., 185 tone, Hepburn, for Wanganui. . Passengers: Miss Gray, Mis 3 Hutoheson, Mrs Hutcheson, Mr Wilson j two in steerage. EXPORTS. In the Rangatira, Hartraann, agent— 2 caßes, 1 pel, 24 pkgs, 1 case chairs, Harfcmann ; 7 gnnnieß sugar, O'Shea j 1 pel, Lyon ; 1 box, Grey ; 42 felloes, 2 sheets iron, 2 puncheons seed, 1 pig do, 2 trusses, 7 cases, 8 boxes, 6 pkgs tea, 1 half-chest do, 4 gunnies sugar, Order ; 1 bag leather, Guilford ; 1 pkg, Johnston and Go ;- 66 oases, Levin and Co ; 1 case, Crease ; 3 cases, 1 bath, Barraud ; 8 cases, Bell ; 1 pel, Turnbull and Co ; 1 case, Beaumoat ; 2 cases, Allan ; 2 pels, Burrett ; 1 case, Hunter ; 3 pkgs, N. Z Educational Department ; 1 bale, 1 truss, Hirst ; 2 pkgs, M'Dowell and Co. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. 10, Alhambra, from Melbourne, via the South. 11, Ladybird, from the South. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. 10, Wellington, for the South. ' 10, Alhambra, for Melbourne, via the West Coast. 12, Ladybird, for Picton, Nelson, Tar an aid, and Manukau. . The " New York Bulletin" states that in an Albany shipyard there is now in process of construction a tugboat designed for towing and wreoking purposes, both inland and at sea, and that it will be provided with a centrifugal steam wrecking pump, of 18 inch suction, and same discharge, worked by a powerful separate engine. This pump will have a capacity of raising and discharging water at the rate of 15,000 gallons per minute, 900,000 gallons per hour, or 9,000,000 gallons per working day of ten hours. This is said to be one of the largest capacity in these parts, if not in the coontry.