SHIPPING.

Globe, Volume VII, Issue 713, 2 October 1876, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OP LYTTELTON. Weather Report : October 2—B a.m, wind S.E., light. Barometer , 30.27 ; thermometer, 49. High Water : To-morrow—Morning, 3.19 ; afternoon, 3.40. ARRIVED. October 2—J. B. Taylor, schooner, 64 tons, Smith, from Ketu Bay, Pelorus Sound. October 2—Flirt, brigantine, 100 tons, McKenzie, from Auckland, SAILED. October 2—Colonist, schooner, 43 tons, Bailey, forWaitara. The schooner, Flirt, from Auckland, arrived this morning. She left Auckland on September 23rd, and brings a cargo of timber. THE BRITAIN’S PRIDE. The following is a description of the passengers and crew of the ill-fated brig Britain’s’.Fride, taken from the Hobart Town “ Mercury“; Captain John Linklater, who was in command of the vessel, was an experienced navigator, a native of Scotland, and was about 49 years of age. About ten years ago he was commissioned by the New Zealand (Wanganui) Steam Navigation Company to proceed to Great Britain (Dundee) and superintend the building ot the s.s. Wanganui, which vessel he subsequently brought out. He was well-known and respected in New Zealand, and he leaves a widow. The chief officer, Mr David Clark, was well known in this port. He was a native of Tasmania, and was aged 37 years. He leaves a widow with one child. Ills brother was drowned about two years ago from the brig Prairie, whilst that vessel was engaged in a search for guano deposits in Torres Straits. The boatswain oi the vessel, James Littlcr, was aged 23, and a native of the colony. He was married the day before the ill-fated vessel sailed lor Wellington, and his young widow now remains with her brother-in-law. The remainder of the crew were as folloWß;_Steward, Androse Bassoo, a native of Buenos Ayres, aged 36; A. B. John Littlcr, aged 21, a native of Tasmania; ordinary seamen, Antonio Rose, aged 20, a native of the Azores; and Jose Lopez, aged 20. also ot the Azores. The apprentices were William Henry Littler, aged 16, and James Thomas Dixey, aged 15, both natives of Hobart Town. The passenger list was as follows:—Misses Beck (2), Miss Fairburn, and Master Hatton. Miss Hannah and Ada Beck, aged respectively 11 and 13 years, were on their way to join their mother in Wellington, having been spending some months in this city. Miss Fairburn was a daughter of Mr Fairburn, of Redlands, near New Norfolk; and Master Hatton was the son of people of that name formerly residing on the East Coast, and more recently of the Albion Hotel, Elizabeth street. He was going to his mother at Wellington. The Britain’s Pride was a Jersey built vessel of 179 tons register, and had only recently been purchased by her late owners, Messrs Beck and Tonks, Wellington and Hobart Town.