SHIPPING.

Globe, Volume II, Issue 101, 26 September 1874, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OF LYTTELTON,

ARRIVED.

September 26th.—Beautiful Star, s.s., 146 tons, Peterson, from Dunedin and Timaru. Miles & Co, agents. Passengers—Captain Crawford, Mrs Williams and child, Mr and Mrs Bowden, Miss Kingston, Messrs McQueen and Beaton, and nine in steerage. September 26th—Phoebe, s.s., 416 tons, Worsp, from Dunedin. G. Mackay, agent. Passengers, saloon—Mr and Mrs Arneys and family, Messrs Allan, Beasley, Cork, and eight for North, Steerage—Messrs Bogges, Groom, and two for North. September 25th—Nautilus, cutter, 31 tons, Nelson, from Amuri, Bluff. Master, agent. CLEARED. September 26th—Eliza May, 190 tons, W. S. Stuart, for Dunedin. Master, agent, in ballast. SAILED. September 26th—Nautilus, cutter, 31 tons, Nelson, for Amuri, Bluff. Master, agent. VESSELS IN HARBOR. Steamer—Beautiful Star, Ships Hereford, Eastern Monarch, Dorette, St. Lawrence, Cathcart, Canterbury, Carisbrooke Castle, Taunton, Inverallan. Barques—Auriga, Mallard, John Knox, Planter, John Bull, Sea Shell. Brigs—Rio Loge, Princess Alice. Brigantines and schooners Cleopatra J. G. Coleson, Eliza, Mary, Esther, Lady Don, Nile, Bee, Shepherdess. Ketches—Courier, Linnet, and Minnie. The s.s. Phoebe, Captain Worsp, arrived in harbor this morning at 8.45 a.m., from Dunedin. The s.s. Beautiful Star, Captain Petersen, arrived in harbor this morning, from Dunedin via intermediate ports. S.S. MACGREGOR. We take the following*? t of last trip of the Macgregor from the “ New Zealand Herald ” of September 16th:—The mail steamer Macgregor, H. Grainger, Esq., commander, arrived in harbor at 6.30 a.m. yesterday from San Francisco, via Honolulu and Kandavu. with the European and American mails. The following report of the passage has been kindly furnished ns by Mr R. B. Pringle, to whom we are indebted for files of American papers. The s.s. Macgregor arrived at Honolulu from Kandavu on the 29th July. Experienced strong N. and N.E. winds, with heavy beam sea, throughout the passage. Reached San Francisco on August Bth, and landed 170 passengers. Proceeded again on the 18th, at 10.15 a.m. with 286 bags mail, containing 25,000 letters and 80,000 papers for New Zealand, and 132 bags mail for Australia, after being detained two days by non-arrival of the English mail, the delay was caused by mail having been sent from England to Boston instead of New York. Fine weather throughout to Honolulu. Arrived there at 8 p.m.; sailed again at 6 a.m. on the 28th. Passed equator 3rd September, in 169.49 W.; passed Phomia Island on the 4th; sighted Howe Islands on the 7th; passed Direction Island on the Bth. Moderate trades and fine pleasant weather throughout the passage. Arrived at Kandavau at 8 a;m. on the loth; leit at noon; strong S.W. winds, arriving as above. S.W. winds and squally weather were experienced on the passage down. Passed a fore-and-aft schooner oft - Cape Brett on Monday evening, apparently bound to Auckland. The Macgregor steamed alongside the wharf on her arrival. She took in about a hundred tons of coal from the brig Isabella, and took her departure for Sydney shortly after midnight.