SHIPPING.

Globe, Volume VI, Issue 688, 2 September 1876, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OF LYTTELTON. Weather Report : September 2—B a.m, wind, N.W. ; weather, cloudy. Barometer, 29.22; thermometer, 48. High Water : 10-morrow Morning, 3.13; alternoon, 3.36. Monday—Morning, 3.59 ; afternoon, 4.18. ARRIVED. September 2—Taranaki, s.s., 299 tons, Anderson, from Port Chalmers. Passengers —Saloon : Mr and Mrs Doull, Messrs Mitchell, Coates, Dobson, Doull, Logan, Drummond, M. O’Keefe, Wallace, Mayer ; 6 in steerage ; 28 for North. September 2—Volunteer, schooner, 22 tons, Dani, from Kaiapoi. CLEARED. September 2—Edward, schooner, 32 tons, Dalmer, for Leßon’s Bay. September 2—Excelsior, ketch, 35 tons, Payne, for Amuri Bluff. September 2—Margaret, ketch, 21 tons, Neilson, for Little Akaloa, September 2—Antelope, cutter, 17 tons, Malcolmson, for Akaroa. September 2 —Matau, s.s., 104 tons, Urquhart, for Wellington. September 2—Taranaki, s.s, 299 tons, Andrew, for Northern Ports. September 2—Jessie, schooner, 37 tons, Robbie, for Thames. September 2-Saxon, schooner, 58 tons, McKenzie, for Oamaru. September 2 Favourite, schooner, 40 tons, Lane, for Auckland. The s.s. Taranaki, Captain Andrew, arrived from Dunedin this morning at 11.15. She sails north this afternoon. THE FINDING OF THE KETCH CLEMATIS. At 6 a.m. on Thursday morning Messrs Hamilton and McLean proceeded on their third trip in starch of this vessel. On the previous evening they had received a telegram from Mr Seed, Commissioner of Customs, Wellington, informing them that the Taupo had seen a wreck floating twenty-live miles N.N.E. \ E. off the Heads, and so they determined to make another search for the vessel. The Heads were cleared at 6.30 am, the weather being fine, and a course was steered N.N.E. E. for twenty-live miles; the course was then altered to speak the Australian Sovereign, lying becalmed two miles farther in shore; on board the barque they said they had seen nothing of the wreck, and the Akaroa then proceeded five miles farther north, but seeing nothing, steered again towards the land, and when eight miles further to the westward picked up the wreck. It was 11 a.m. when she was taken in tow, the line being made fast on the shackles to the lower gudgeon of the rudder, the weather being calm, with only a slight swell on. About 2 p.m. it came on to blow from the S.W, and no headway was made; held on till the breeze abated. At 4 p.m. the Matau, s.s, came close alongside, and spoke the Akaroa, offering assistance, which was declined. Captain McLean requesting Captain Urquhart to send a steamer to the bays with the mails in the Akaroa’s stead. After stopping alongside twenty minutes, the Matau, s.s, proceeded on her voyage, and the wind falling, at 6 p.m. the Akaroa made progress of at least knots per hour with the wreck in tow. The weather continued calm all night, and at 6 a.m. the Heads were entered, and at nine both vessels were inside the breakwater. The wreck took the ground in about 10ft water, and the Akaroa then cast her off, leaving men in charge to keep her properly secured till the owners or underwriters should take her over. The towing was accomplished with great ease on the whole, not a line parting the whole time. It is fortunate the weather was not boisterous, or the wreck would have been unmanageable. The harbor authorities having given Captain McLean permission, the wreck was made fast to the transporting buoy last night. It is a very good job that the vessel has been brought in, as she is ot hard wood, and any vessel coming into collision with her would sustain a very violent shock. Captain Urquhari never gave Captain McLean’s message on his arrival in Lyttelton, and the first that was known of the Akaroa having found the wreck was when the signals were hoisted early yesterday morning. The Clematis was visited by many persons yesterday.