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SHIPPING BREVITIES.
The steamer Karaweera left Adelaide for Sydney
on Monday.
The barque Hyderabad is new fully due here
from Fremantle.
The ship Thomas Stephens left Melbourne on
Monday for this port.
The ship Coriolanus left Cairns on the 20th inst.,
for this port, in ballast.
The barque C. Paulsen arrived at Batavia on the
:th ult., from this port.
The barque Saxon arrived at Wallaroo on the
20th inst., from Newcastle..
The barque Kassa, from this port, arrived at
Port Pirie on the 21st inst.
The schooner Ihate Tatham arrived at Napier on
the 19th inst., from this port.
The schooner Sea Bird arrived at Auckland, prior
to the 24th inst., from Newcastle.
The schooner Hally Baylcy, Captain aezer, sailed
from Townsrille on the 22nd inst., bound to this
port.
The P. and O. Company's R.M.S. Vnaletta, with
thie inward English mail via Suez, arrived at
Albany (W.A.) on Sunday, and left for Adelaide on
Monday.. The Newcastle portion of her mail may
he expected on Sunday.
The schooner Silver Cloud arrived in Sydney on
.Tuesday from Wangaroa (N.Z.), with a cargo of
210,000 feet of sawn timber. She experienced
unusually fnlue easterly weather, and came acrossin
nine days. There were no vessels in Wnaugarox
when the Silver Cloud left.
The steamship Gabo, Captain Pain, arrived yes
terday morning from Melbourne, via Sydney, and
berthed at the A.A. Co.'s wharf. She cleared Port
Phillip Heads at 1.25 p.m. on the 23rd inst., and
entered Port Jackson Heads at :1.50 p.m. on the
25th, having experienced light southerly and southl
easterly winds, with heavy rain and an casterly
swell throughout.
The s.s. Fiado, W?. IH. Smith arnd Sons (limited),
Captain Seymour, from tMelbourne, cleared the
Heads at 10 p.m. on the 12th, the Promontory at
7.50 a.m. on the 2ith, Gaho Island at 0.20 a.m on the
26th, Cape St. George at 3 p.m. on sanme day, Syd.
noy Heads at 11 p.m, and entered Nowclstle at 6
a.m. on the 27th. Experienced light to moderate
southerly and westerly wvilids to Cape St. George,
moderate southerly and easterly winds and rain to
arrival.
The barque Zoila, which arrived here on Monday
from IMelbourne, is to be placed on the Stockton
Patent Slip, where she will be subjected to a
thorough overhaul, stripped, recailked, and re
colpered. In an apology wohich was read at the
Shipwriglht's banquet on M'onday night, frcm MIr.
Charles Chatfield, foreruin of the patent slilp, thrat
gentleman stated that although the trade had been
in a low state for some time there were signs of It
improving. Newcastle had had to compete against
Meclbourno, Sydney, and New Zealandrn tihe matter
of repairing vessels, consequently we had been
comuelled to cut down the charges to a very fine
point to have a show of obtaining contracts.
Tihe ship Rodney, which was recently purIchased
by Messrs. Devitt and Mloore, along with tile Mel.
bourne, expressly to run in thle service between
London and Sydney, reached Port Jackson on
Monday, after having accomplished a remarkably
quick voyage of 70 days It Iours front London
Docks, or 67 days from tie Lizard. This is the
fastest performance chronicled for a considerable
time to the colonies, and is proof of the vessel's
sailing capabilities. She is saidl to be as "heeler"
by Captain Barrett, who is confident sire is not to
be beaten by anything afloat in the matter of sail
ing. The Rodnecy was for 13 years engaged in the
London-Melbourne trade, in which she earned a
high reputatiou forthro rapidity of her passages.
She was then one of ilackwall's famous liners,
The clipper ship Ventura, 1660 tons register,
Captain A. Cumming, arrived ait 5 p.mln., after i
good passage of slxty-thrce hours from Port
Phillip Heads, hiaving left there during Christmas
morning. Tlhe Ventura is nearly now, this being
her second voyage only; the first venture having
being to Yokohama, thence to ports in Java, load.
ing for home, Captain Cunlming then, as now,
been in charge. Th'e Ventura is now only four
months from Liverpool, and has discharged over
3200 tons of cargo in Mellbourne. Site is one of the
finest ships afloat, in perfect order, and well worthy
of inspection. Captain Cumning has been for
years in the colonial trade, but has not visited this
port for twenty years. The vessel is consigned to
Messrs. J. & A. Brown, and is to load a cargo of
Wqsl4ald vGql for Sau Francisco,
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