SHIPPING.

Globe, Volume I, Issue 59, 7 August 1874, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OF LYTTELTON. ARRIVED August 7 —Lady Bird, s.s., 286 tons, Anderson, from Dunedin. August 7—Helena, brigantine, from Auckland, with sawn timber (ten days out). CLEARED. August 7—Hopeful, barque, 332 tons, Luby, for Newcastle, N.S.W., in ballast. August 6 Jessie, schooner, 38 tons, Schenkel, for Nelson. SAILED. August 7—Florence, schooner, 85 tons, Brown, for Wellington. August 7—-Jessie, schooner, 38 tons, Schenkel, for Nelson. August 6—Phoebe, s.s., Worsp, for South. Passengers—saloon : Mrs Morris and family; steerage—Miss Todd, Messrs Harcourt Gower, and Hammond. IMPORTS. Per Phoebe—From Onehunga: 1 case birds, 1 safe, 1 case, 8 bags, 100 kits oysters. From Nelson—l 9 cases, 2 boxes, 9 pkgs, 1 waggon, 1 chest. From Wellington—l bag, 24 bales wool, 4 boxes, 1 parcel, 1 case, 32 horses. Consignees—Matthias, Bank of New Zealand, Stewart, Husband, Stafford, Carr, South,. New Zealand Shipping Company, Hassell, Guneth, Tancred, Haast. EXPORTS. Per Florence, for Wellington—73s bags flour, 40 bran, 109 cheese, 62 sacks potatoes, 184 sacks wheat, 100 oats. Shippers—Cuff and Graham, W. D. Wood, J. Wilson, H. Hawkins, J.. Dransfield, Cunningham, Royse, Stead and Co. Per Phcebe, for Dunedin—l flywheel, 1 perambulator, 37 pkgs, 1 plank, 1 box. Shippers —Dalgety. Haywood, and Boyle. Per Jessie, for Nelson—lso sacks wheat, 180 sacks flour, 80 sacks sharps, 180 sacks bran. Shippers—Cunningham and Co. VESSELS IN HARBOR. Steamer—Atrato, Lady Bird. Ships—Ballochmyle, Northampton, Stonehouse, Hereford, Eastern Monarch, Peeress, Wennington. Barques—FratilleGaggino, Ornati, P.C.E., Hopeful, Union, Iris, Corrido, Syren, Joliba, East Lothian. Brigs—Emily, Byron. Brigantines and schooners Pearl, Ca milla, Lady Don, Mary Webster, Helena. Ketch—Jane Elkin, Jeannette.

-, The s.s. Phoebe arrived aa 11.30 a.m. yesterday. She left Manukau at twelve noon on the Ist instant ; owing to the rough ' weather she was unable to approach Taranaki, and so stood on her course to Nelson. where, she arrived at 10. p.m. on the 2nd; left at one p.m. on the 3rd; reached Picton I at 9 a.m. on the 4th, and left again at 10.40, i arriving at the wharf at Wellington at 5. p.m., .having experienced, a southeast gale since arriving at Nelson; left at 4.45 on the 6th, and arrived in Lyttelton as . above after a.calm, passage. The barque. Iris shifted from Middle wharf to Peacock's wharf yesterday to complete her i discharge and take in ballast. The barque Hopeful hauled out from Peacock's wharf into the stream yesterday, and will sail with the first fair wind to Nc w - castle in ballast. The ship Wennington will complete her loading about Thursday next, when the Stqnehouse will take her berth at the Gladstone wharf .to discharge. From a New York paper to hand, we learn that two of the fastest trans-Atlantic steamers arrived there during the night of the 9th of May, after a sharp race from Queenstown. Both vessels sailed thence on the Ist of May, and made the following days' runs : —The Adriatic, of the White Star line—24o miles, 323, 336, 308, 314, 319, 350, 330, 223. The Inman, steamer, City of Chester—229, miles, 354, 362, 343, 320, 320, 364, 363, 143. The Adriatic started five hours and a half ahead, and arrived in port five hours ten minutes' before the City. The average outward passages of the principal lines from Ist January, 1872, to 31st March, 1874, were —White Star,- 9 days, 21 hours 21 minutes ; Canard, 10 days, 19 hours, 42 minutes ; Inra»n, 11 days 10 hours 39 minutes ; National, 12 days 10 hours' 30 minutes; Grison, 12 days 12 hours 10 minutes. The "New Zealand Times" of the 4th, ■ays: —One of the heaviest south-easterly gftles experienced here this winter, severe as the weather throughout has been, is now 'passing away. After the fine calm weather of Saturday, a breeze set in from the northwest on Sunday, and gradually increased in strength, with a drenching rainfall all the afternoon and night, with scarcely a moment's intermission. Before sunset the aspect of the clouds was not promising, and the weather was thick—so thick that a bad night was inevitable for any vessel that might be in the Strait. About midnight the wind suddenly shifted round to the south east, from which quarter it began to blow with rapidly increasing violence. The waters in Port Nicholson were greatly disturbed, and it was evident irom the swell that a heavy sea was raging outside. Throughout thenighf it blew very hard, with heavy rain, and all through the day, and till a late hour last night, it continued to rage with unabated fury. At daylight a fine large ship was seen at anchor off Pipitea Point, and when Pilot Holmes came ashore it was as. certained that the vessel was the Conflict, from London, with a large number of immigrants on board. The pilot had boarded the ship on the previous evening, and had beat her up to the anchorage inside the barrier, where she was anchored. When the wind shifted, however, fo hoary a sea set in, rising rapidly, that it was deemed prudent, as the anchor could not be weighed, to slip the cable. An anchor and sixty fathoms of chain were thus lost, but Pilot Holmes was able, although neither the light on Pencarrow nor that on Somes Island could be seen, to bring the ship safely to anchor. About noon fresh supplies of fresh beef and vegetables were sent off, although with difficuly. The brigantine Kate Brain, outward bound in resumption of her original voyage, returned to an anchorage off Halswell Point, where she was lying at sundown. H.M.S. Blanche set down her top-gallant masts and yards, and made all snug, at an early period of the gale. Pilot Holmes reports that a barque, apparently an American, was near enough to the harbor entrance on Sunday evening to signal with bluelights and otherwise for a pilot, but being on board the ship he was unable to respond to them. This morning nothing could be seen of the barque, and in all probability she has been blown through the Strait before the south-easter. The telegraph wires have again been interfered with, aad last night the line was down between

Wellington and the Hutt, stopping communication with the North. The season is proving itself remarkable for the severity of the weather, and especially as regards the quantity of rain which has fallen. It has also been severe, however, all round the South Island, and the complaints at Melbourne and Hobart Town are the same as here. BARQUE BAST LOTHIAN: Captain Norris, of the barque East Lothian, reports that he sailed from Auckland to Kawau to take in railway sleepers there for Lyttelton. He states that the shippers experienced great difficulty in getting the sleepers out of the bush, owing to the heavy rain, which prevented the bullocks from drawing them out, by rendering the bush tracks impassable. The sleepers are kauri, and they are still cutting them in the same bush, as a considerable number are still to come ±rom the same locality. Not being able to get a cargo of sleepers, filled up with 64,000 feet sawn timber. Left Kawau last Sunday week, and arrived off the heads last Sunday. Sighted nothing on the passage, but experienced heavy weather throughout. Anchored off the heads on Sunday night, and came up the harbor on Tuesday. CAPTAIN HART. Captain Hart died on the passage to Dunedin at 12.30 p.m. two miles from Port Chalmers. The flags of all the vessels in harbour are half-mast to-day in consequence. More than £IOO was raised in Lyttelton yesterday, and sent as a subscription to his widow, but it is to be hoped that something much more substantial will be done, as he was much respected, and we hear not to well off. It is to be hoped that some of those in Christchurch connected with the shipping interest, for whom he has done service in time past, will take a lead in the matter. Surely we ought to feel much sympathy toone whodied thus bravely in the pursuitof his duty as though he fell on a bloody battle field. This is the age of commerce, let us do all honor to those who fall martyrs in her cause. He leaves three children.