SHIPPING.

Globe, Volume VII, Issue 759, 25 November 1876, Page 2

SHIPPING.

* PORT OF LYTTELTON. High Water: To-morrow Morning, 11.23; night, 11 43 Monday-Morning, 00.00; night, 00.06, ARRIVED. Nov 25—Courier, ketch, 31 tons, Sinclair, from Motonau. Nov 25--Kestrel, ketch, 20 tons, Wyman, from Little Akaloa. Nov 25—Minnie, ketch, 17 tons, Marquet, from Heathcote. -Nov 25—Maud Graham, schooner, 80 tons, Jorgenson, from Greymouth. CLEARED. Nov 25—Kestrel, ketch, 20 tons, Wyman, for Mclntosh Bay. Nov 25—Peri, schooner. 69 tons, Mazittella, for Havelock, in ballast. Nov 25 -Mary Ann Anmson, barque, 297 tons, Hughes, for Newcastle, in ballast. The Maud Graham arrived from Greymouth this morning, after a six days passage. ARRIVAL of the barque norham CASTLE. Yesterday morning the signal of a barque from the South was made, and on the number being run up at the masthead, it proved to be the Norham Castle from London, under charter to Messrs Shaw, Saville and Co, with a full cargo of general Merchandise, consigned to Messrs Dalgety, Nichols and Co Her passenger accommodation was good. About i. 20 turn she brought up off the breakwater, and was speedily passed by the Health Officer. The Norham Castle has proved herself a remarkably smart vessel, having accomplished the trip from the Downs, to arrival in eighty-eight days, and only seventv-mne from land to laud. She is a composite craft, and belongs to Messrs Thomas Skinner and Co of London and Glasgow, who have employed her chiefly in the China trade, where she was noted for being a good seaboat and fast sailer. The following is Captain Hinks report of the passage :-Left Gravesend on August 27th, and towed down to the Chapman; passed Deal next dav and experienced strong head winds down the channel; landed the pilot off the Start on August 3ist and took final departure from that port; had fine weather and variable winds across the Bay, the N E trades being met with in 28deg N. on September 13th; passed in sight of the island of San Antonio on September 17th ; lost the trades, which were not strong, in Isdeg north Had variable weather to the equator, which* was crossed on September 25th in long 25.49 \V • caught S.E, trades in 4deg south; they proved very fresh, lasting until the vessel reached 20deg S. on October 3rd ; thence to 30dcg S. had moderate N E winds and fine weather, passing the meridian of the Cape of Good Hope on October 20th, in 45deg S A succession of westerly gales were then encountered, the Grozots being sighted and passed on October 26tb, the weather being very stormy, with heavy squalls and snow; when in the meridian of lOOdeg S a terrific hurricane from the W.N.W. was experienced, which lasted for twenty hours, the barometer standing at 28.23 and a tremendous sea runniiw It was. however, determined to run the vessel before it, and she showed what a seaworthy and smart vessel she was, for during the twenty hours the hurricane lasted the barque ran 290 miles. After this had moderate westerly gales until reaching the meridian of Tasmania on November 15th, when easterly winds were met with, lasting for five days and being succeeded by strong southerly winds and squally weather, which continued till November 19th, when the Snares were made. Up the coast had light variable, and baffling winds and calms were experienced, Otago light being passed on Wednesday night and Banks’ Peninsula made at 3 4iln yesterday. Was off the Heads at 11 a.m, when the pilot boarded the vessel and ran up the harbor, anchoring as above. Spoke the barque True Briton, bound from Plymouth to Melbourne on September, 22nd, twenty days out, in lat Bdeg 54min N, and 36deg 4min W,