SHIPPING.

Globe, Volume III, Issue 237, 13 March 1875, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OF LYTTELTON. ARRIVED. March 13—Avalanche, ship, 1161 tons, Bishop, from Wellington. Passenger—Mr Haines. March 13 —Phcebe, s.s., Worsp, from Northern ports. Passengers—saloon : Mr and Mrs Stuart, Mr and Mrs Batt, Mr and Mrs Tasker and family, Mesdames Hutchinson, Blair, Boyd, Cliff, Hill, Hadfield, Messrs Smith, Francis, Pateri, Jones, Ritchie, Newsham, Sinsted, Lightband, Bird, Caldwell, Shean, Hood, Wilson, Nathan (2), Cook. Steerage—Mr and Mrs Edwards, Mr and Mrs Robinson, Messrs Nelson, Hunter, Shearer, Woodward, Harris, Jones, and eight natives, and twenty for South. March 13 —Ocean Bird, schooner, 33 tons, Brett, from Havelock. March 13—Gazelle, s.s., 47 tons, from Boat Harbour. March 13—Volunteer, schooner, 27 tons, Foster, from the Bays. CLEARED. March 13—Columbia, schooner, 46 tons, Conway, for Napier. March 13—Antelope, cutter, 17 tons, Malcolmson, for Akaroa. March 13—Phoebe, s.s., 146 tons, Worsp, for Dunedin. SAILED, March 13—Alice, barque, 627 tons, Burgess, for Bluff Harbor. March 13—Blackwall, ketch, 26 tons, Outridge, for Rangitiki. March 13—Emerald, ketch, 40 tons, Whitby, for Wanganui. March 13—Fiery Cross, schooner, 72 tons, for Kaipara, in ballast. THE BARQUE GLOUCESTER. The barque Gloucester, from Hong Kong, was towedup to her anchorage of! Carey’s Bay by the tug Geelong yesterday. She left Hong Kong on the 3rd of January with the intention ofpassing through Bashee Channel, but after standing to the eastward for twenty-four hours bore away for the Mendora passage with a fair breeze as far as Mendora Island, where she experienced light breezes until clearing the island on the Bth; passed through the Bassalau passage on the llth, and lost the N.E. trades in lat 2.30 N., long 131 10.; thence had light and variable winds for twelve days with a strong current setting to the S.W., and shchad to keep away and pass to the westward of Fulur Group. While lying becalmed off the coast of New Guinea, near the Cyclops Mountains, a number of native canoes came alongside containing two or three men each, who brought witli them bows and arrows, cocoa nuts, and tortoise shell, which they offered in exchange for pieces of hoop iron and knives, the latter being highly prized by them. A canoe more ornamental thau the others, and fitted up with a platform, brought a chief, who was decorated with feathers In his hair and a lime tree branch with a lime on it. He was accompanied by two of his wives, who managed the canoe, and they were invited on board, which invitation they declined. An attempt was made to purchase the feathers which decorated the chief, but nothing seemed valuable enough to induce him to part witli them. Thence site had a moderate westerly monsoon as far as lat 18 S., long 158 E., where she picked up the S.E. trades, which carried her as far as lat 31 S., long 153 E„ on the 18th of February. Thence strong variable winds until passing Stewart’s Island on the sth, arriving off the Heads at 9 p.m. the same day. She brings 269 Chinese passengers, who were conveyed to Dunedin this morning by the p.s Golden Age.— “ Dunedin Star,” March 8. THE SHIP EARL OF DALHOUSIE. In his monthly 'contributions to the “ European Mail,” Anglo-Australian gives an account of the sailing of the ship Karl of Dalhousle from London to Adelaide with immigrants and describes a “ new patented system,” introduced for the first time, in berthing the married people. From the description given, it is evident that the plan is elaborate and ingenious, but, as the writer says, “it is almost impossible to convey a clear idea of the arrangements without the aid of a plan and sections : but we may add that the object sought seems perfectly attained by the new arrangement—viz, that each couple shall have a dressing and mess compartment communicating with their berth, the whole accommodation in each case being perfectly separate from the remainder of the passengers, thusensuring thorough privacy, and this without adding to the space already allowed. The Earl of Dalhousio is the first ship fitted in this way.” We are delighted to hear that so decided a step has been made in the above direction, and hope that if the new system proves a practical success, it will be adopted in all immigrant ships trading to the colonies. The same writer conveys a valuable hint taken from the “ Lancet,” re the exportation of hides from the colonies. He says—“ It appears that at a recent meeting of the Academy at Paris. Mr Jaccond referred to an epidemic of typhus whicli he witnessed on board the packet Gironde, from Rio de Janeiro to Bordeaux. Twenty-four persons were attacked, of whom five died. The disease arose from a cargo of half-tanned hides coming from La Plata, where, for the last few months, a severe cattle plague had been prevailing. The author concluded that very serious fevers may be engendered from hides coming from animals stricken with (he plague. He entered into the pathology and the therapeutics of the case he had seen, and considered that the authorities should step in. No cargo ought to be allowed to sail which does not bear the strictest hygienic investigation, and the carefulness ought especially be extended to passenger boats. The importance of this suggestion will be seen at once. The practice here is, I believe, to destroy the skins with the carcase, and it would be as well that it should prevail in our colonies, as one diseased skin might imperil the lives of a whole ship’s company, to say nothing of those of the passengers.”