The Kawatiri was taken into the graving dock on Saturday for cleaning and painting. The steamer now being constructed by Denny Bros, for the Union Steam Ship Company to re place the Alouowai in the San Francisco trade is to be delivered in nine months from May last. The intercolonial steamer which, as we announced the other day, has been contracted for by the same firm is to be ready by .February next, while the cargo steamer now underway at AFAlUlan’s yards, Dumbarton, should arrive in the colony about January. The costal steamer which the company propose building for the West Coast-Wellington trade will be somewhat larger than the Waiaui, and will have superior accommodation for passen gers.— 1 Post.’ The largest private yacht yet constructed in Great Britain is building in the yards of Messrs J. and G. Thomson at Clydebank, to tho order of the American millionaire Air Ogden Gnnlet. She is designed to lie the fastest and most luxuriouslv titted pleasure vessel that has ever taken form iu Great Britain. She measures 310 ft over all, has a beam of 40ft, with a depth of hold of 3Gft; she will measure 1,700 tons, and be propelled by twin screws driven by triple expansion engines, sup plied by steam from boilers of the 11 Army” type. Her coal-carrying capacity will approach 1,000 tons, and under forced draught she will steam eighteen knots at sea, although her measured mile performance is expected to approach twenty knots. __________ THE DIRECT STEAMERS, Lyttelton, July 12.—Sailed, last night, Tonga riro, for London via Monte Video. Passengers: Saloon Count Tarsis, Count Groppi, Sydney; Miss J. Knox, Melbourne :_AIr S. J. Nathan, Mrs Nathan, Aliss Dorothy Nathan, Airs Andrews, Miss AI. S. Andrews, Alaster Thomas Andrews, Master Charles Andrews, Mr T. H. Chapman, Auckland; Air Janies Taylor, Air JohnT. Wade, Napier; Airs Wilson, Miss J. L. Alorrison, Wel lington ; Air E. H. Hayward, Airs Hayward, New Plymouth ; Air C. 11. Verity, Air James Adair, Christchurch; Air Gandar, Mrs Gandar, Aliss Gandar, Air A. E. Alacphcrson, Timaru; Airs Needham, Aliss A. Needham, Invercargill. For Atonte Video—Air A. Cameron, Napier. Steerage —Mr Charles T. Hogg, Auckland ; Mr G. L. Davies, Gisborne ; Mr R. Beernacki, Airs Fawlk ner and two children, Wellington ; Aliss B. Smith, Mr E. T. Petty, New Plymouth ; Air T. Alartin, Mr J. 