HBH 1892 May 11 SHIPPING Arrival Port of Napier NO LISTED PASSENGERS inwards or outwards. Arrival 10th-Marmion-schooner from TIMARU. Master-agent. DEPARTURES-NIL Shipping Notes The whaling schooner Christine arrived at Auckland last Tuesday after a whaling cruise of four months. The cruise has been an unsuccessful one, only two whales having been taken. Several schools of sperm and right whales were come upon, but the weather was such as to render pursuit impossible. During the voyage the schooner lay-to for some time off Sunday Island, where the crew were hospitably entertained by Messrs BELL and CARVER. The latter is one of the band who left Hawke's Bay in quest of fortune among the sunny isles of the Pacific, and who still hangs on to Sunday Island. The ship's carpenter named DESGAGNE, who lives in one of the suburbs of QUEBEC, has caused some commotion there by an announcement recently made. He claims to have invented a hydraulic machine, which when fitted into a ship will drive the larges ocean-going vessel at the rate of from 45 to 60 miles an hour.