SHIPPING.

Globe, Volume III, Issue 212, 12 February 1875, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OF LYTTELTON. ARRIVED. Feb 12—Beautiful Star, s.s, 146 tons, Pietersen, from Dunedin and Timaru. Passengers Steerage : Messrs Seager and Brown, Feb 11 —Easby, s.s, 969 tons, Kennedy, from Wellington. Passengers Saloon: Messrs C. E. Dransfield and H, J. West, and sixteen for South. Steerage: Messrs Ruddick, W. Gibbs, G. Cross, E. Roberts, W. Bull, J. Johnson. Feb 11—Antelope, cutter, 17 tons, Malcolmson, from Akaroa. Master, agent. CLEARED, Feb 12—Easby, s.s, 969 tons, Kennedy, for Dunedin. Feb 12—Crusader, ship, 1058 tons, C. H. Renaut, for Port Chalmers, SAILED, February 12—Easby, s.s., 969 tons, A. Kennedy, for Dunedin. Passengers: 16 original. The s.s. Easby arrived in harbor last night, after 11 p.m. She brought a small quantity of cargo for the port, and a few passengers. She sailed again at 11 a.m. The Beautiful Star arrived in harbor at 10.30 ».m. to-day. She was berthed at the Screw Pile Jetty. She sails at 1 p.m. to-morrow for south. RECENT GALES. {From the New Zealand Times.) By permission of the Hon W. H. Reynolds, Commissioner of Customs, Commander Edwin, 8.N., has handed to us the following account of the heavy weather which has recently visited our coasts. A fall of the barometer commenced in the north on the 20th Instant, and by next day had become general throughout the colony; on the 23rd the glass was still moving down steadily, and telegrams were on that day sent to all stations, from which weather reports are received lor storm signal purposes, to the effect that bad weather might be expected probably between south and north-west, by the 24th, this weather had set in at many places, and the barometer had fallen at Auckland '33, wind southwest, strong. At Grahamstown, *46, fresh wind from same direction, increasing and blew hard during evening of the 24th and morning ot the 25th. At Mannkau, *33, wind only moderate from southwest. At Tauranga the glass fell '55, strong gale from same quarter. At Napier, '6B, wind hard gale from W.S.W. during p.m. on 23rd ; strong S.W. during the 24th, At Cashpoint the fall amounted to '66, wind heavy N.W. gale on the 24th. At Wellington the barometer feu upwards ol 8-lOths, and a heavy gale from N.W. blew during p.m. of thfi 23rd and early morning [of the 24th, during which the squalls were very sudden and violent, moderating later in the day, though the barometer continued to fall until 6 p.m., after which hour the wind again became squally. At Kaikoura the barometer fell an inch during the four days, but no information of any heavy gale has been received. At Hokitika and Westport the fall amounted to fully ‘7O, though only moderate S.W. winds were experienced until the 26th, when it blew hard from that direction for •ome hours at Westport. Strong S.W. gales were experienced at Lyttelton, with barometer down to 29*46: and the lowest pressure is reported from Oamaru as 29-06 at 6.30 p.m. on the 25tb, being a fall of nearly an inch and 3-10 tbs in the five days; the wind was generally light or moderate from the eastward, until the barometer reached its lowest point, when the wind flew round suddenly from E.N.E. to W.N.W. and S.W. Sea smooth throughout 24th and 25th. Strong S.W. winds were felt at Fort Chalmers on the 24th, the barometer falling to 29‘30, and the wind freshening to a gale on the 26th: Snow fell during the night of the 23rd on the bills round Lake Wakatipu, and Sunday is described as having been a most disagreeable day, the wind being in strong gusts from N.W. by W. At Bluff' the barometer fell one inch between 8.30 a.m. on 20th and24tb, and heavy gales from W.to W.S.W. were experienced, accompanied by hard squalls and rain. The weather in all parts of the colony was very hot and oppressive during the time that the barometer was falling; and on the 22nd the atmosphere became very misty, which increased so much by the 23rd that both the sun and moon appeared nearly blood red and shorn of rays until they bad attained a considerable altitude, the appearance of the sky being unusually wild and threatening, especially during the evening of the 23rd inst. There seems evidence sufficient to show that this was a disturbance passing across the colony from about west or south-west to the eastward, the lowest pressure, or central area, being probably .to the southward of these islands.