SHIPPING.

Globe, Volume VI, Issue 659, 31 July 1876, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OF LYTTELTON. Weather Kepobt : July 31 —8 a.m. : cairn, weather overcast. Barometer —29.90; thermometer, 46. High "Water : To-morrow—Morning, 00.30; Evening, 00.55. ARRIVED. July 31—Maori, s.s, 118 tons, Malcolm, from Dunedin. Passengers—saloon : Mr and Mrs Johnson, Constable and prisoner, Mr Simpson, and 11 for West Coast. July 31—Nonpariel, barque, 399 tons, Brent, from Newcastle, N.S.W. CLEARED. July 31—Bee, schooner, 31 tons, Green, for Amuri Bluff. July 31—Maori, s.s, 118 tons, Malcolm, for West Coast Ports. SAILED. July 31 —Kaikoura, schooner, 32 tons, Anderson, for Wellington. The s.s. Maori arrived early this morning from Dunedin, via Akaroa. She sails on another trip round the Island (North about) this afternoon. The barque signalled yesterday proved to be the Nonpareil from Newcastle, after a dreary passage of twenty-six days. YESTERDAY'S. ARRIVED. July 30—Alert, schooner, 44 tons, Hays, from Hokitika. Cuff and Graham, agents. July 30—Elizabeth Conway, schooner, 45 tons, Ware, from Poverty Bay. Master, agent. July 30—Bee, schooner, 31 tons, Green, from Amuri Bluff. Maßter, agent. SAILED. July 29—Wairoa, ship, 1015 tons, Joss,' for the Bluff. N.Z.S. Company, agents, with part original cargo from London. July 29—Arawata, s.s, 623 tons, Underwood, for Melbourne, via Dunedin and Bluff. Dalgety, Nichols and Co, agents. Passengers—For Melbourne—Messrs Gunn, J. Morris, and J. McKeller. For Coast—Mr and Mrs Shackles, and twelve original. July 29—Ringarooma, s.s, 623 tons, McLean, for Wellington and Nelson. Dalgety, Nichols and Co, agents. Passenger—Mr Bottle. July 29—Matau, s.B, 104 tons, TJrquhart, for Kaikouras, Wellington, and Foxton. P. Cunningham and Co. agents. July 30—Clematis, ketch, 67 tons, Clark, for Timaru. IMPORTS. Per Antelope—3ooo feet timber, 130 sheepskins. 20 empty hhds. Consignees—Malcolmson, H. Mateon and Co, Vincent and Co. Per Awaroa—2s,ooo feet timber. Consignee—J. B. Way. Per Minnie—l2 cords firewood. ConsigneesMontgomery and Co. Per Ringarooma—Under bond, from Melbourne—--8 casks, 6qr-casks, 146 cases, 19bdls, 3 parcels, 1 bale, 2 boxes, 1 pkg, l truss. Consignees—Wilkins and Co, Mackay and Co, Nashelski, J. T. Hughes, White and Co, J. Lewis, E. Cain, Garwood, J. Haast, Litchfield and Co, R. Binstead, White and Co, Bonnington and Co, L. E. Nathan, Pope, Tate, Lake, Mrs Burt, Canterbury College, Bradwell, Carey, Railway Engineer, Moore. Per Arawata—l bale, 29 do wool, 14 casks tallow, 1 case. Consignees—P. Cunningham and Co, N.Z.S. Company, Postmaster. Per Elizabeth Conway—3s,ooo feet timber. Consignee—J. B. Way. Per Bee—4o tons limestone. Consignees—Langdown and Co. RPer Alert—33,ooo feet timber. Consignee—J. T. Brown. EXPORTS. Per Ringarooma—Free, for Melbourne—ss6 sacks oats. Shippers—Moore and Crawley. Per Arawata—Free, for Bluff—6 pkgs. For Melbourne— 887 sacks oats, 472 do barley, 20 do oatmeal. Shippers—J. Clark, Dalgety, Nichols and Co, P. Cunningham and Co, Maories. Per T. B. Taylor—23s iron rails. ShippersGeneral Government. Per Kaikoura—3oo sacks oats, 93 do sharps, 40 do bran. Slippers—Wilson, King, and Co. Per Fernglen—l3o9 bales woo), 2637 sacks wheat, 240 cases tallow, 715 casks do, 535 pkgs sundries, ll boxes gold. Shippers—Johnston and Co, N.Z.S. Company, J. B. Curran, McPherson and Co, R Campbell, New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, W. Wilson, Webster Brothers, Nichol and Tucker, Miles, Hassal, and Co, Edwards, Bennett, and Co, J. Stack and Co, C. W. Turner, J. M. Heywood and Co, R. Wilkin, Birch and Co, Krull and Co, Dalgety, Nichols, and Co, Fell Bros, E. C. J. Stevens. Maidwell, Bluett, Hare, Saunders, Henderson, T. W. Balfour. Per City of New York—3s sacks potatoes, 35 do oats. Shippers—Royse, Stead, and Co. Per Matau—Free, for Kaikoura, 3 cases, 2 do galvanised iron, 1 keg, 3 casks, 3 pkgs, 1 pel, 1 whale boat and gear, 50 bags sugar, 1 plough and shares; for Wellington, 200 cheese, 2a sacks sharps, 100 do malt, 19 cases galvanised iron, 9 do bacon, 1 do tongues, 4 springs; for Foxton, 50 sacks flour, 100 bags do, 25 sacks oats, 3 cases cheese; for Wanganui, 6 cases, 4 do cheese, 2 trunks, 1 pkge plants; for Westport, 6 cases bacon, 3 do cheese, 2 kegs butter; for Greymouth, 30 kegs butter, 6 cases cheese, 5 do bacon, 4 sacks seed ; for Hokitika, 34 cases bacon, 7 do cheese, 16 kegs butter. Shippers—Mason, Struthers and Co, Miles, Hassal and Co, T. J. Maling and Co, G. Fletcher, G. Husband, Edwards, Bennett and Co, H. Hawkins, W. D. Wood, Royse, Stead and Co, J. Beharrell, Cuff and Graham, J. Eagle, P. Cunningham and Co, Dransheld and Roper, Lightband, Allan and Co, Duncan and Son, Watt and Co, Star Curing Co, and Cordner, McConnell Bros, J. Gilmour, T. H. Green. The schooner T. B. Taylor, with railway iron for Oamaru, beat outside on Saturday, but finding the wind easterly in the bay, with very heavy sea, Eut back into harbor. The roll was so heavy that er compass was broken to pieces. The fore-and-aft schooner Awaroa, Capt Watts, left Invercargill on July 24th, with light northerly wind, changing to easterly. Put into Port William, which was left at 9 30 p.m on July 25th, with winds from the S. W., which lasted till off Akaroa on Jul/ 27th : thence light variable winds and calms until arrival at 3.30 a.m on Saturday, the 29th. The smart fore-and-aft schooner Elizabeth Conway, Captain Ware, left Poverty Bay on Friday, July 21st, with a light northerly breeze; anchored in Wangawe for shelter from a N.E. gale, and left again on the following day, the wind shifting to the S.W, and anchored off Kaikoura on Friday, July 28th ; 13ft again on the 29th, with a light S W. wind, which lasted till Saturday, 29tb, at 3 o'clock, when it changed to the N.E, which brought her to an anchorage in the harbor at 8 a.m. The Lyttelton owned barque Queen 01 the South, left Adelaide for Calcutta on July lsth. The brigantine Sea Rip arrived at Melbourne from Wangaroa on July 17th. The schooner Onward, which left Lyttelton for Nelson on Wednesday last, 26th instant, arrived at her destination on Friday following, making a tine passage. The s.s. Matau sailed at 9 p.m. last night for Wellington, via Kaikoura. Messrs Cuff and Graham's smart schooner Alert arrived at 1 p.m yesterday from Hokitika. Captain Hays reports leaving that port on Monday last, with light easterly wind, which held till Cape Farewell was passed early on Wednesday morning. variables were experienced thence to Cape Campbell, which was passed at 4 p,m on Saturday, when a fresh easterly breeze sprang up, lasting to arrival as above. The schooner Flying Cloud for this port, left Hokitika on the same day as the Alert, for this port. The s.s Ringarooma, 623 tons, Captain John McLean, left Melbourne on the 22nd instant at 2 p.m ; passed Swan Island the following day at 11.30 a.m. arrived at Bluil on the 26th at 9 p.m; left on the 27th, arrived at Port Chalmers on the 28th ; left the s'am day at 4 p.m, arrived at Port Lyttelton on the 29th at 7 a.m, and was berthed outside the Arawata at the Gladstone Pier, to discharge. Experienced light southerly winds and fine weather from Melbourne to Bluff, and light northerly winds and fine weather on the New Zealand coast. We thank the purser for report and Melbourne files. The steamer discharged twenty-five and took aboard fifty tons cargo, sailing at 5.15 p.m on Saturday for Wellington and Nelson. The s.s Arawata, 623 tons, T. L. S. Underwood, commander, left Lyttelton at 7 p.m on the 25th, arrived at Wellington at 9 a.m on the 26th, after a finernu of fourteen hours; left at 11 p.m, arrived at Nelson at 10 a.m on the 271 b ; left again at 1.30 p.m, arrived at Wellington 10 p.m, doing the pPMgt la eight and, a half hours against a fresh

head wind; left at 3.30 p.m on the 28th, and arrived at Lyttelton at 6 a.m on Saturday; was berthed at the Gladstone Pier, where she loaded 120 tons of cargo, sailing for Melbourne via South at 5.15 p.m. Some anxiety is being felt as to the lengthy passage of the Briton's Pride, a brig of about 170 tons, that left Hobart Town on June 19th with passengers and cargo, for Wellington and this port. Her first port of call would be Wellington (but she had not arrived at that port up to Friday evening); she was then out thirty-nine days. The barque Southern Crops (well known at this port) thai left Hobart Town nearly a month after the Briton's Pride, arrived at her destination (Port Chalmers) on the :20th, after a rapid run of eleven days. The P.R.M. s.s City of New York arrived in harbor about 12.45 a.m on Saturday morning. A bright, look-out for her had been kept at Lyttelton, and she was barely inside the heads when she was boarded by the Customs officers in the steam launch. Coming up the harbor under Pilot Wood's charge, the big boat anchored off Camp Bay; meanwhile. Messrs Agar and Robert's steam launch Lyttelton was waiting for the passengers and mails, with steam up,at the Waterman's jetty. Getting the passengers aboard was no pleasant job at that untimely hour, and Port Chalmers, with its bounce and bar, came in for numberless blessings. It was hardly expected the big steamer would get to Lyttelton till about 3 a.m, and it was thought that if she did she would probably stop till after daylight, and on the strength of this nearly all those who intended to go by her had turned in, and were just in their first sound sleep when the word was passed that they must turn out or lose their passage. It was a miserable scuffle, but at last all the half-awake miserable children, and their shivering fathers and mothers, were stowed away in the Lyttelton, where "Captain Agar's" hearty voice and kindness helped to cheer them up a bit. Arrived alongside the " City," there was some little trouble getting aboard, everyone being rather grumpy, but at last all was put right, and at 3 a.m the big boat got under weigh again and steamed North. It is to be hoped that if the absurdity of sending another of these large steamers to Port Chalmers is repeated measures will be taken to prevent the recurrence of such a wretched midnight scramble. We arc informed by' Mr A. McKinnon, of Port Chalmers, that the barque James Hannel, now in the Graving Dock, is not Ihe property of Messrs Brogden and Sons. She is owned by Mr Harvey Hawkins, of Lyttelton, and after being thoroughly caulked here, will betaken round to that port and used lis a coal hulk, for which purpose her owner lias long intended her.—" Otago Guardian," July 25th. THE TOWING OUT OF THE WAIROA. Lyttelton may be congratulated on at last possessing a tugboat of sufficient power to tow out a ship against a fresh breeze. On Saturday afternoon the Titan tried her hand for the first time in Lyttelton, and although placed at a great disadvantage, accomplished a complete success. The Wairau cleared the customß on Friday night, and was ready for sea on Saturday morning; a fresh N.E. breeze was blowing. This wind, though right in the harbor, is a fair breeze for the Bluil', the port to which the Wairoa was bound, if the vessel could be towed a few miles from the land so as to clear the Peninsula. This being known in Christehurch, a number of gentlemen came down by the 2 p.m. train for the double purpose of wishing the Wairoa *'bon voyage," ana seeing the new tug tried. Among the party were the Hon J. T. Peacock, Messrs H. R. Webb, J. L. Coster, Selwyn Smith, J. Gould, Revans, G. Stead, Carrick, D. Craig, and the Rev J. Bluett. Proceeding on board the Wairoa in the Titan at 2.15 p.m, lunch was partaken of, and at 3.30 p.m the anchor was broken out, and the tug commenced her work, and in spite of a fresh breeze right in her teeth and a strong flood tide against her, she soon had the big ship moving merrily behind her towards the Heads. The Heads were reached at 4.30 p.m, the four miles having been towed in just an hour. The breeze was E.N.E. outside, and the ship was towed five miles out before she was in a position to lay well clear ot the Peninsula; the word was then given to cast off, and the visitors left the ship and came aboard the Titan by boat. The tug then steamed round the ship, and hearty cheers were exohanged, after which the Titan shaped her course for Lyttelton at a merry rate of quite nine knots to the hour, bounding along as a brother of old Saturn's should. The healths of "The steam tug Titan" and " Cameron Brothers" were drank with the greatest enthusiasm, and at 7 p.m the party were landed at Lyttelton well pleased with their trip, and satisfied that the Titan was indeed a great acquisition to our port. The Fernglon will tow out earl) this week, probably to-morrow, after which it is the intention of Messrs Cameron Bros to put the Titan on the slip, have her thoroughly cleaned, overhauled, her engines looked to, and ballasted to her towing line. At present she is so light, that a oreat portion of her power is wasted. Her owners estimate that these repairs will make a difference of two knots in her towiug speed. In our description of her, which appeared in Saturday's issue, we stated she was built in 1856, but we learn we were wrongly informed, and that she was really built in 1866.

CLEARANCE OF THE FERNGLEN. The handsome little ship Fernglen cleared late on Friday night. Of course, owing to its being the Blackest season of the year, she has been some time filling up, considering that she is one of the N.Z.S. (Jo's chartered ships but she takes home a very nice little cargo, particulars of which we annex. We understand more cargo is to hand, and that there will be a supplementary clearauce, which will considerably increase her freight ltst. She is expected to sail about Tuesday next. The following is a list of what she cleared with:— £ s d 13C9 bales of wool 20,180 0 n. 2637 sacks wheat 2,037 0 0 240 cases tallow 1,080 0 0 715 casks ditto 9,533 6 8 535 pkgs sundries 4,280 0 0 11 boxes gold (ll,olßoz 2dwt 6gr) ... 44,200 9 0 Total value £88,510 15 8 ENGLISH SHIPPING. [From " European Mail."] ARRIVALS. The Duke of Edinburgh passed Deal on June Bth; the Orari, from this port, passed St Catherine's Point on June 7th ; the Waimate, from Otayo, was at Gravesend at June 6th. CLEARANCES. The Border Chief cleared at London lorl.yttclton on June 3rd, and passed Deal June 7th; the Halcione cleared at London, for Lyttelfcou, May 19th, the following is her passenger list; —Saloon—ltev H. S. Hamilton, Mrs Hamilton, Messrs A. Mc De and E. J. Cardale, J. llannam, Boswell, J. S. Holmes, G. Sheath, T. H. Lambert, Dr L. J. O'Leary, Mrs Foi-ter. Second Cabin—Messrs J. Davis, Wilson, W. Donaldson. iSteernE;e—M. J. Wood, B. C. Wallice, K. Brownie, M. Killmartin. H. Lowe, W. Jones, S. Marshall, 11. Itoss, T. Jackson, W. Bedford, Mary Wallace, Margaret Jackson, Emma Jackson, Mrs K. Pardoe. Passengers per Border Chief—2nd Class : Mr and Mrs Baldwin, Messrs Baldwin and Iloyes. Intermediate—Mr and Sirs Hay ward, Mr and Mrs Body; Messrs Tutton (2). Steerage —E. Lewis, E. Howell, Lydia Venables, T. Jackson, AV. Prentice, Jane, Annie, Arthur, and Walter Prentice, Leon and Julia Monbom, T. C. It. and Jessie Blackman, Ellen Clore, P. Bond, B. Greaves, C. Sutton, and W. Clark. GENERAL NEWS. The tonnage loading on the berth at London on June 2nd for India, China, and Cape of Good Hope was 51,426 tons, and. for Australia and New Zealand 65,974 tons. Ourold friend the White Itose is still unlucky. She arrived at Falmouth May 25th from Fiji, and reports that she was leaking, and (hat on February I 23th she hove 000 tons of cargo (guano) overboard. ' Sailed.—The Border Chief sailed from Gravesend for this port on June oth, and the Waitangi on Juue 7th. Launch of the Stella.—On May 23rd the Stella, | the property of the New Zealand Government, went on a trial trip from the Garvel Wharf, Greenock, and made eight runs. The speed was very satisfactory. The Stella was launche.l on April 13th by Messrs Scott and Co, Garvel shipyard, Cartsdyke. Length between perpendiculars, 150 ft; breadth of beam, 2lft; depth of hold, 12ft Gin; 322 tons register; two engines 92-horse power nominal; diameter of cylinders, 40 and 22 inches respectively. Three iron masts, schooner rigged. In the evening she returned to Garvel Wharf. She sailed from Greenock for Wellington June sth.