By the time the schooner Jane Anderson is out of the hands of the shipwrights she will have been con verted into next to a new vessel. The course of re pairs she is undergoing is very extensive. She is to have a new keel, new waterways, and covering boards, and a -great many of her bottom planks replaced by new ones/ She is also to receive several new timbers. The work in connection with her is scarcely half through yet.
The buoy boat, so termed, contracted for by the Provincial Goveniment through Messrs Murray and Co., of the Port, is ready for launching, and will be put in the water in a day or two. She is a well-built, strong, substantial craft, of about 16 tons, great float ing power, and should prove thoroughly suitable for the work before her at Blutf Harbour.
It was the intention of the agents to have had the Wanganui placed in dock, and to have placed the Waliabi in her running ; but, as both docks are en gaged, it has been determined to despatch the Wan ganui on her usual trip South to-morrow.
The fine steamship Easby will make an excursion to Lyttelton and b-ck, leaving here on or about Thurs day, and returning from Lyttelton about Saturday or Monday.
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