SHIPPING.

Globe, Volume IV, Issue 469, 15 December 1875, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OF LYTTELTON. ARRIVED. Dec 15—Wellington, s.s., 262 tons, Carey, from Northern Ports. Passengers—Saloon : Mrs Watts, Miss Claj ton, Mrs McLean, Mr and Mrs Dransfield, Mr and Master Beaver, Rev Agnew, Messrs Tottenham, Rochford, Randall, McLean, Luckie, Ware, Greuish, Fitzgerald, and 12 for South. SteerageMessrs Hickson, Sweeney, Kenny, Ryan, Morris, Wellington, Hardaker, Mason, Gorrige, Bryant, Clayton, Tallagher, Sweeney (2), Jones, Evans, Lindsay, Kanton, McMahon, Montgomery, and Mrs Davis. Dec 15—Taupo, s.s., 461 tons, Macfarlane, from Dunedin. Passengers—Saloon ; Misses Stone, Heard, Mesdaincs Chapman (3), Mrs Collins, Mrs Martin, Mr and Mrs Sale, Mr and Mrs Williams, Mr and Mrs Dixon, Mr and Mrs Hynes, Mrs Forster, Captain Rose, Master Bayliss, Messrs Grant, Leslie, Powys, Chuddford, Aires. Steerage 7, and 24 for North. Dec 15 —Phcebe, s.s., 416 tons, Worsp, from Dunedin. Passengers—Mr and Mrs Manning, Captain Petherbridge, Messrs Campbell, Harker, and 14 for North. Dec 15—Cyphrenes, s.s., 1500 tons, Wood, from Port Chalmers. CLEARED. Dec 15 —Phoebe, s.s., 416 tons, Worsp, for Northern Ports. Dec .15 —Cyphrenes, s.s., Wood, for San Francisco, Fiji, and Northern Ports. Dec 15 Transit, schooner, 8S tons, Hooper for Auckland. Dec 15 Flirt, brigantine, 100 tons, McKenzie, for Auckland. The yacht Fleetwing arrived at Akaroa at 2 a.m. this morning. ARRIVAL OF THE STEAM HOPPKR BARGE HEATH COTE. Yesterday afternoon a steamer was signalled, and as Done of our regular coasters were expected, there was great speculation as to what vessel it would prove to be, many fancying that it was the now Steamer, for Messrs McLean and Hamilton, the Akaroa. As she steamed up the harbor it was evident that she was the steam hopper Heathcote, that we reported in a late issue as having arrived in Adelaide, 105 days out from London. The barge was built by Messrs Murdoch and Murray at Port Glaspow. Her two masts, one forward and the other aft, Rive one the idea that she has lost one between, and she has a very projecting moulding. We need hardly say that the masts were merely placed in her for the purpose of reaching this poit. She is a capital sea boat, and Captain Ereebody speaks of her behaviour in the most lavorable manner. Shu has been constructed on the newest and most approved principles. She is a long steam barge, built, in watertight compartments, the foremost oue affording roomy accommodation for the officers and crew, while the alter one is occupied by a 35-horse power compound engine. The midship space is devoted to carrying the load, and, though now temporarily decked over, when she is at work it will be quite open, with a portable bottom. Fore and aft amidships is a very strong iron bridge, furnished with chains, which tend to support the hortoin trap hatches, and consequently the loading on them. As soon as she has received on board, from the dredge, 250 tons of mud, llie intention is to *• team away to sea, when the bottom being released the whole of it will fall out. The Sumner, the other steam hopper barge, sailed at the same tiiue, but was left by the Heathcote at Point <le Galle. The Erskine, the steam dredge, left the Clyde on October last. Captain Ereebody reports that she left Glasgow on August 7th, with 108 tons coal on board, and had strong breezes steaming down Channel, and a N.W. gale in crossing the Bay of Biscay. On the 21st touched at Gibraltar and took in 56 tons coal, then steamed to Maita and took in another 30 tons, leaving on August aist, and reaching Port Said on September 9th. She then took on boards tons, and on the 10th proceeded through the Suez Canal, entering the Ueci Sea on the Isth. When tli're experienced strong IS r . and N. \V. breezes till arrival at Aden on the 2lst. I.clt on the 23l'd. and hail fine weather till opening jut Iho Arabian sea, when there was strong S.W. monsoon and high sea. Arrived at Point de Guile on October Ith, took in 50 tons coal and sailed on the l'ilii, and the next coaling station would have been Kin.? George's Sound, but on rounding the Leuwiu had a furious gab- from the W'.S.W.and after running lor twelve hours she was brought to the wind. Winn the jrale abated, she had so far passed the Sound that it was resolved io steam to Adelaide. She did the voyage to Adelaide in 10. S days, and Io the port 128. She averaged about five knots an hour under sail and steam. She comes out to the order of the Provincial Government.