The s s. Kokanui shipped a new mainmast yester da.y '»* *4 e Eattray atreec wharf ; she is expected to sail for Waikawa about Saturday! The ketch CaUin has landed a quantity of timber at the Jetty street-wharf. The s.s. Eotomahana steamed down to Port Chalmers yesterday forenoon; after embarking mails 1^ ta

_ The Japanese AdrairalAkamatsu is saidtohave invented a new floating fort for coast defence. The JSZ i-nff- 8 V Ullt £ n a mkind ot made of steel j ft 1?,1^1 The armour is t0 12in thick, tafwart tl° WIU b! ?P? cially Protected witha steel bulwark. The vessel is to have a double screw and engines oi 200-horse. power, capable of attaining a speed of three miles an hour. On. the first bridge will be placed 12.15-centimetre cannon, and on the second eight S6-centimetre. THe crew will number

THE ALBION AND DUPLEIX. We learn that the steamers Albion and Dunleix which are to run between New Zealand and Sydney'; hayeboth been thoroughly overhauled and fitted with all the latest improvementa. The owners iiaving determined to enter the trade, have spared no expense in making both steamers suitable to the requirements of the public. • . -

OVEBLAND PASSBNGEKB,

YKSTBRnAV'B TRAUfS,

Fbom DumEDDf fob thb North.—Mr W C Edwards, Mr (Jus E W Jones, Mr E Buphemie, Mr M'Kinlay, Mr L Aslin. ■

Por iJUNBDiw from thb Worth.—Mr Espenete, Mr Herdman, Mr C H lies, Captain Cameron, Mr J P°t Id Batten, Mr S Harris, Mr T A

Fbom Dxramiw for thb South.—Mr J Kissell, Mrs Kissell and child, Mr W Harris, Mr 0 Eout Mr J Hammond, Mr J B Allison, Miss Caffrey,Be'v. J B^Wra and Miss Walsh, Eev. J H M'KeDzie, Mr

For Dottbdin from thk Sodti.—Hr and Mrs taurenson, Mr J Kinc. Mr and Mrs Brown, M c A Tapper, MrsXawson, Mr E Blair, Mrs T Eoob and family, Mrs Valpy, Mr B Fulton, Mr Alexander Meggett, Mr Foster Brown, Major-general I Bland Strange, Mr W Downie.
