SHIPPING.

Globe, Volume VI, Issue 669, 11 August 1876, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OF LYTTELTON. Weather Report : August 11 —8 a.m. : wind, N.E., light; weather clear, blue sky. Barometer —29,88; thermometer, 47. High Water : To-morrow Morning, 8.58; Evening, 9.23. ARRIVED. August 11 —Jane Elkin, ketch, 23 tons, Leslie, from Havelock. August 11—Courier, ketch, 31 tons, Sinclair, from Pigeon Bay. August 11—Janette, ketch, 41 tons, McDonald, from Chain’s Bay. August 11 —Alice Jane, ketch, 26 tons, Johnson, from Akaroa. August 11—Albion, s.s, 591 tons, Clarke, from Melbourne, Passengers —Saloon: Mrs McFarlane, Messrs Young, Gatehouse, Cone, Townsend, and Menzies; six in steerage. CLEARED. August 11—Hannah Barrett, schooner, 57 tons, Renner, for Wellington. SAILED. August 11—Minnie, ketch, 19 tons, Marquet. for Decanter Bay. TESTEItDAV’B. ARRIVED. August 10— Woosung, ship,729tons, J. F. Fisher, from London. Dalgety, Nichols & Co, agents. Passengers—second cabin : Messrs B. N: Mainmg, wife and family (9), A. W. Barnet. J. B. Rowlands, A. Keiling, H. IV. Denby. Steerage: Messrs F. G. Felt, F. N. Burne, W. Clarke, A. Manning, H. Martin, M. W. Whatman wife and family (5). BAILED. Aug 10—Sea Bird, schooner, 155 tons, W. H. Meikfeham, for Chatham Islands, C. W. Turner, agent. Passengers—Mrs Buseoe, Messrs E. E, Chudley, A. Potts, H. Moore, M. Sherwin. IMPORTS. Per Flying Cloud—23,ooo feet of timber. Consignee—F. Jenkins. , Per Excelsior—64,64o feet of timber. Consignees —Edwards, Bennett and Co. Per Esther—36,ooo feet of timber. Per Woosung—62l cases, 1301 casks, 57 bales, 1984 pkgs, 25 qr-casks, 11 bars, 54 boxes, 1755 pkgs and pieces, 90 drums. 28 hhds, 30 trunks, 200 qrbarrells, 6 tanks. For Tlmaru: l box. Consignees —C. Wason, Royse. Stead and Co, C. Bennington, W. D. Carruthers. Walker and Clogstoun, Wood, Shand and Co, H. T. Woode, James Linney. J. Inglls, H. Chapman, Eobt Wright, Cuff and Graham, Dalgety, Nichols and Co, Morrow, Bassett and Co. Wilson, Sawtell and Co. W. S. King and Co, C. Howell, Mrs H. Thorpe, Milner and Thomson, A; J. White. N. W. Guild, S. D. Neave, J. Lewis, G. Gould, Ballantyne and Co, D, and D. Cameron, Gilbert, Butler, H. Fuhrmann, J. S. Wagner, John Baine, Miss Andrews, Garrick and Cowllshaw, E. M. Cotton, Maples Brothers, T. S. Payten and Co, Sargood, Son and Ewen, G. W. Balfour, Lightband, Allan and Co, Twentyman and Cousin, Wm Andrews, E. Reece and Co, Duncan and Son, H. S. Fairbank. L. E. Nathan and Co, Mallock and Lance, T. H. Smith, J. Baxter, W. Wilson, England Brothers, Rev F. G. Brittain, J. White and Co, Sclanders, Fletcher and Co, C. W. Turner, W. Strange and Co, Geo Booth, R. Wilkin, H Hawkins, Provincial Secretary, Edwards, Bennett and Co, D. Davis, Birch and Co, J. Anderson, P. Cunningham and Co, B. Petersen and Co, and Luxmore. EXPORTS. Per Sea Bird—Under Arms Act, 2 boxes powder, free; 3 bales woolpacks, 14 bundles do, 2 do tubs 22 bales hay, 6000 bricks, 22 cases, 7 doors, 6 tins, 4 drums, 2 pkgs, 1 do trees, 1 do tobacco, 1 do spades, 2 handles, 7 boxes, 11 do soap, 71 bags flour, 45 mats sugar, 7 half-chests tea, 1 trunk, 1 trunk, 1 qr-cask brandy, 1 oven, 1 cask, 4 bars Iron, 1 bag oatmeal, 288 pieces timber, 14 do machinery, 1000 palings, 1 bag, 4 rams and fodder, 1 ton coal, 10 sacks oats, C do wheat. Shippers— C. W. Turner, Matheson’s Agency, Chudleigh, Marcroft. Per XXX—34 tons coal. Shipper—C. W. Turner, Captain Gibson, the harbour master, went to Akaroa on Thursday, August 3rd, to superintend laying down moorings at Wainui. He was accompanied by Mr Derbidge. As the Flying Squirrel, with the necessary material on board, did not arrive till Monday last, 7th, the work had to be put off till that day. The work was successfully accomplished on Monday, and Captain Gibson returned here on Wednesday. Captain Galbraith has been appointed Inward pilot at Lyttelton, in place of Captain John Wood, who has taken the command of the hopper barge Sumner. The magnificent ship Desdemona sailed for Portland, Oregon, on Wednesday night. Pilot Reed was in charge, and shortly after 6 p.m. the vessel was canted and ran down the harbor before a fresh westerly breeze. At 7 p.m. she was far outside the heads, and running at a rate of twelve knots per hour for her destination. The smart top-sail schooner Excelsior, Captain Joiner, left Picton on Tuesday the Bth, with a light N.W. wind, after which had northerly winds until arrival at 1 p.m. yesterday. The brigantine Esther, Captain Johnson, left Picton on Tuesday, August Ist, at 6 a.m. with a light S.W, wind, and brought to for three days in the sound, owing to severe gale. Started again on Friday, but a heavy south-west gale sprung up; tried to run into Port Nicholson for shelter, but failed to fetch the heads, sojran under Mana Island. Left on Saturday, and thence experienced northerly winds to arrival at 1 p m. yesterday. The Flying Cloud, schooner. Captain Andrew, arrived from Hokitika yesterday morning. Left that port on July 24th, and had light variable and south-west winds to Cape Farewell, when a strong south-east sprang up, lasting for a week. On Friday ran for shelter to Port Underwood, left again on Monday at noon, had strong north-west to Kaikoura, thence northerly to arrival as above. The Sea Bird, brigantine, was towed out by the p.s Titan yesterday, and sailed for the Chathams. The ketch Sarah and Mary is shortly expected from Havelock with a cargo of timber. The ship Lutterworth, 95 days from London, arrived at Nelson on the 4th. Nothing of any importance occurred on the passage out. The schooner Onward has left Nelson for Kaipara lor a cargo of timber for this port. THE TRIAL OF THE DREDGE ERSKINE. The trial of this dredge took place yesterday, Sir Cracroft Wilson, the Hon J. T. Peacock, Messrs Thornton, Provincial Engineer; Mr Bull, Assistant Engineer*, Mr Derbidge. and Captain Gibson were present. At 11.5 a.m. the work was commenced, the Sumner barge being the one used for the occasion. At 12.18 p.m. she was full, the machinery aboard the dredge working as smoothly as possible. Mr Turpin having fitted it up under Mr Thornton’s supervision with wonderful precision. At 12 20 p.m. the hopper barge Sumner started for Old Clamp Bay, where she arrived at 12.55; she discharged while turning in the Bay, the machinery working smoothly, and no delay occurring, the six hoppers, containing 250 tons, being emptied in two minutes. As the Sumner returned her hopper doors were closed whilst the vessel was under full steam, and she reached her moorings at 1.30 or twelve minutes over an hour Irom the start. The whole trial was a complete success, and there is no doubt that Lyttelton possesses the finest dredging fleet in the Southern Hemisphere. Captain filacey has been appointed to the command of the Erskiue dredge, Captain Anderson to the Heathcote steam hopper barge, and Captain John Wood to the steam hopper barge Sumner, Mr Turpin being the engineer in charge of the fleet. Work will he commenced on Monday morning, the first operation being to dredge a channel from the screw pile jetty to the transporting buoy, to enable all steamers to come alongside at any state of the tide. This work will gradually be extended to include the whole "of the wharves along the seawall. It is the intention of the Government to dredge the whole of the bay enclosed within the breakwaters a depth of 6ft. The dredge will he worked from 6 a.m to 6 p.m in summer, and from light to dark in winter. For the present the mud dredged will be deposited at Camp Bay. The Government finding that the Sumner and Heathcote barges will be unable to keep the dredge fully occupied, have decided to increase the fleet by two barges of larger apaclty, in iron or wood, to be towed by the present Steam hoppers, Mr Thornton, the provincial engineer, having been instructed to prepare alternate designs in wood or iron, for which tenders will be called In the colony. For the present the Sumner aud Hpatbcote will make three trips a day each week, at which rate It will only occupy two years (q clfiftu out tbf harbour to the depth propoicd«