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      Spring Walk by a Fresh Hand V BAKER'S WHARF.--The brig New York lies here, commanded by Capt. Ratcliffe, of this city. She is having new planking, and new timbers are being placed in her stern. She has new taffrail, rails all round, and is being caulked and painted so as …

      Spring Walk by a Fresh Hand VI GARDEN ISLAND.--Delighted with what he had seen in Kingston, the Stranger was desirous of going over to Garden Island, and the only thing which could reasonably prevent him would be the condition of the ice. "Fresh Hand" was fearful of falling ...

      Spring Walk by a Fresh Hand VII MESSRS. BERRY & CO.'S ELEVATORS. --There is no establishment of the kind in Canada which can at all equal that of Messrs. Berry & Co. of Kingston, for the facilities for loading vessels with grain are greater here than in any other ...

      Spring Walk by a Fresh Hand I Without the "Stranger," this year, has "Fresh Hand" been obliged to commence his "Spring Walks," for the former, it appears, has not returned from his world-wide tour. Whither he has gone, during the last twelve months, and how he has spent ...

      Spring Walks by a Fresh Hand III PORTSMOUTH Yesterday "Fresh Hand" paid a visit to his old friends, the ship-carpenters, at Portsmouth, and found them all as busy as ever, mallet in hand, driving in the bolt with unerring stroke. Last year he called the attention of the ...

      Spring Walk by a Fresh Hand IV THE ATLANTIC AND COMMERCIAL WHARVES. A change has taken place this Spring on these Wharves. The Atlantic Wharf, which was leased to Mr. Patrick Doyle last year, and on which Messrs. Chaffey Brothers, had offices and ...

      Spring Walk I THE STEAMER BANSHEE.--The first vessel this season, of the Inland Navigation Company, alias Through Line--to make a move, is the fine and favorite steamer, the Banshee. She has notified a start on Thursday next, up the lake. The Banshee has just come off the ...

      Spring Walk by the Old Hand II THE WHARFS OF KINGSTON The Wharfs or Wharves or Kingston, which should it be? Wharfs is decidedly the best word, but not so often used as Wharves, tho' infinitely more English. Well, the Wharfs of Kingston are the subject of this day's ...

      Spring Walk by the Old Hand III THE SHIPPING INTEREST OF KINGSTON. However much this good city of ours is indebted to its fertile back country on all sides, yet it cannot be denied that its Shipping Interest is one great source of its prosperity and wealth. The ...

      In my opinion this is a very fair assessment of the towbarge situation. Dozens of wooden vessels wrecked during the last half of the nineteenth century were reported to have been in appalling condition when examined. The 20-year-old SOPHIA SMITH (US#22271), ashore on Pte Aux Barques since Sep 9, was …

      Spring Walk V What a change in the weather within a few days! The atmosphere is warm, the sun shines, the streets are clean and dry, and though we have no spring, yet we have spring's antecedent, charming dry days, like an English March. The opening of Navigation has caused …

      Spring Walk VI The weather has been so bad again that it was yesterday only that the British Whig was able to continue its peregrinations about town. The greatest want perceptible in Kingston, is the want of a good Hotel. The City has but one First Class Hotel, the "British …

      Spring Walk II MR. COUNTER'S SHIP YARD AND MARINE RAILWAY.-- Quebec owes a portion of its commercial greatness to the enterprise of its citizens in the way of Ship building. For half a century vessels of all sizes and classes have been built in that city, taken to ...

      Spring Walk IV THE DOINGS AT HATTER'S BAY AND THEREABOUTS The village at Hatter's Bay, or Portsmouth, as some people absurdly name it, though not within the city limits, is nevertheless part and parcel of Kingston; consequently it comes under the category of the ...

      Spring Walk V THE WHARVES AND WHARFINGERS OF KINGSTON In running down from West to East, and slightly sketching the numerous Wharves of Kingston, it is not the present intention to say ought of the various Steamers which ply to them. By reason of the incompleteness ...

      Spring Walk VIII THE STEAMBOATS OF KINGSTON In former years and in former "Walks," the Steamboats of Kingston occupied a prominent position; whereas this year, they come in at the fag end of the "Walk," and form its concluding Number. This arises from an ...

      Spring Walk I Talk of "Spring Walks!" here on the 7th day of April, the weather is as disagreeable, as in the middle of January; the harbor is locked up and won't be open for a fortnight: the streets are filled-with slush, ice and snow; and there is nothing to …

      Spring Walk II THE HARBOR AND SHIPPING Never was Kingston ' Harbor so full of shipping of all kinds as the present moment, at a time every vessel is ice bound, and not one has stirred to do her spring business, and this the 12th of April. Including those ...

      Spring Walk III THE WHARVES OF KINGSTON There seems to have been a sudden determination this Spring on the part of the Kingston Wharfingers to increase their wharf accommodations, by running out into the harbor at inconceivable lengths. It is more than doubtful, even ...

      Spring Walk V Number Five of this our Spring Walk is about as lingering as the Spring itself. This third part should have been published last week, but the gentleman who took it in hand became indisposed, and the editor had to complete it. MR. COUNTER'S SHIP YARD. ...