SHIPPING.

Globe, Volume VI, Issue 674, 17 August 1876, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OF LYTTELTON. Weather Report : August 17—8 a.m. : wind N.E. light; weather clear and blue sky. Barometer—--30.01; thermometer, 42. High Water : To-morrow Morning, 2.33 ; Evening, 3.04. ARRIVED, August 17 —Courier, ketch, 31 tons, Sinclair, from Pigeon Bay. ■ ._ . a 1 August 17—Jannette, ketch, 41 tons, M‘Donald, from Okaiu’s Bay. August 17—Ruby, schooner, 24 tons, Dalton, from Kaikouva. August 17—Omaha, brigantine, 1 2.6 tons, Meiklejohn, from the Thames. August 17 —Zealandia, s.s., 1713 tons, Ferries, from Wellington. Passengers—saloon, from San Francisco : Mr Josephs. From Honolulu—Mr Sinclair. From Coast —Messrs Meech, M'Kenzie, Thorpe, Richardson, Speechy, Palmer, Austin, M‘Donald, Calcock, and Lynch, Mrs M‘Kenzie, 3in steerage, and 2 for Port Chalmers. . CLEARED. August 17—Columbia, schooner, 46 tons, Conway, for Napier. August 17 —Volunteer, schooner, 22 tons, Dani, for Kaiapoi. August 17 —Zealandia, s.s, 1713 tons, Ferris, for Dunedin. SAILED. » August 17—Zealandia, 1713 tons, Ferris, for Port Chalmers. Passengers-saloon : Mrs Hubbard, Mr Laurence. The R.M.S.S. Zealandia arrived with the inward San Francisco mail at 7.25 a.m. this morning, having done the distance from Wellington in 14 hours 10 minutes. She sailed South at 9.30 a.m. THE S.S. AKAKOA. This smart little boat has received a thorough overhaul at Miller's slip, and yesterday was again floated. She has had a new propeller shipped, as the last had lost a blade at the Pigeon Bay Wharf, which for the last two months has not only lessened her speed but also her towing power. The seats for the passengers have been re-arranged, and several added, and she Is as spick and span in and out as paint and polish can make her. Messrs McLean and Hamilton intend running to Akaroa once a week if they are promised sufficient support. ARRIVAL OF THE VALLEJO—FATAL ACCIDENT ON BOARD.

The smart iron barque Yallejo arrived in harbor last night from Liverpool, bringing the balance of the waterworks plant, and a general cargo, part of which is for Lyttelton, for which port she will leave as soon as she has discharged her Auckland cargo. She is consigned to the New Zealand Shipping Company, and has made the passage in 103 days, as will be seen by the subjoined report furnished to our representative by Captain Thomas. Left Liverpool on the 2lst April, and cleared Ball; - cotton Island on the 25th. Had thick foggy weather from the Skerries down Channel, and experienced adverse winds crossing the Bay of Biscay. The N.E. trades were very light. Crossed the Equator on the night of the 23rd May. Had good SE. trades, which carried the ship far as 21S, when variable and adverse winds were experienced to the meridian of the Cape, passed on the 24th - June. Strong winds characterised the easting, which was run on the parallels of 45 and 46 S. The weather continued strong till Tasmania was passed on the 24th July. On the 27th and 28th strong gales from the east ward were experienced. S.W. weather then set in till the Three Kings were sighted on the 2nd August at 3 pm. Strong S.W. gales with violent squads were met with down the coast. The vessel anchored at 8 o’clock last night in Kangitoto Channel, and came up to the Heads this morning, where she was stopped by the ebb tide and W.S. W. wind. She brings no passengers. Speakings:—ln 32 N. 20 W. spoke a large German ship with immigrants hound to New Zealand; in 22 S. and3l W. spoke the ship Duchess of Edinburgh, bound from London to Melbourne, 39 days out. Oh the 3rd of July, William Baker, an appren - tice, while shaking the reefs out ofjthe topsail, fell overboard, the ship at the time going from 8 to 9 knots through the water The ship was brought to the wind, and the malnyard backed. The boat was made ready but was not lowered, as the lad could not be seen, aud the heavy sea made it dangerous to send down the boat. No one saw the lad fall, but the captain, who was on the poop at the time, heard a dull thud as if some heavy body had struck the side. Ho conjectured some accident had happened, and immediately looked np to the yard where Baker had been working. He was not there, and Captain Thomas then ran the port quarter, and looked over the side, when he saw the poor lad for a moment. He was on his back, and apparently dead. The captain had just time to see that he had a fearful gash on his head, and the next moment he was carried from view. Baker was a well conducted lad about seventeen, and was generally liked on board. It was his third trip In the ship.—“ Auckland Star,” sth.