SHIPPING.

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 810, 26 January 1877, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OF LYTTELTON. Weather Report : January 26—Wind, N.E., light breeze; weather clear, blue sky. Barometer, 29.74 ; thermometer, 62, High AVater ; To-morrow—Morning, 1.13 ; night, 2.35, ARRIVED. Jan 26 —Tar-irna, s.s, 563 tons, Sinclair, from Sydney, via West Coast and Welling ton. Passengers—Saloon, from Sydney : Air and Mrs Baker, Misses Lee, Rouse, and Paget. From R'oast: Mrs Sharp and chiid, Messrs Hadder, Lightband, and 10 in steerage Jan 26—Taranaki, s.s, 327 tons, Andrews, from Northern Ports. Passengers : Mesdames Coker, Allen, Packard, and Harris, Misses Mackett and Hughes, Messrs Richards, Hedfield, Campbell, Hobbs, Sharpies, Owen, Kilder, Cooke, Hawkins, Williams, Thorpe, Smith (2), Triggar, AVhite, Trumbell, Simpson, Barker, O’Connell, Anderson, Brown, AVallis, Bethel, AVorth, Stoneham, Hitching, AVarwick. Steerage: Mrs McCracker, Miss Saunders, Messrs Bauch, Basson, Short, Hansou, Tillson, Robertson, and 84 emigrants. CLEARED. Jan 26—Courier, ketch, 31 tons, Sinclair, for Pigeon Bay. Jan 26—Taranaki, s.s, 327 tons, Andrew, for Port Chalmers. Jan 26—Tararua, s.s, 563 tons, Sinclair, for Melbourne and Hobart Town, via South. SAILED. Jan 26—Josephine, barquentine, 59S tons, Stahl, for Wellington. Jan 26—Wild Wave, schooner, 39 tons, Morland, for Akaroa. Jan 26—Adelphoi, barque, 349 tons, Gregory, for Newcastle. Jan 26 Langstone, ship, 746 tons, Parker, for London. Passengers—Mesdames Grant and Atkinson, Miss Fyfe, Messrs H. AVheeler, J. Ayrton, J. Folly, J. Johnson. The s.s. Tararua, from Sydney via West Coast and Wellington, arrived in harbor this morning at 10 30 a.m. She sails for Melbourne and Hobart Town via South this afternoon. The s.s. Taranaki, Captain Andrew, from Northern Ports, arrived this morning at 11 a.m. She sails for Port Chalmers this afterboon. The American barquentine Josephine and the schooner AVild Wave sailed for AVellington and Akaroa respectively this morning. CLEARANCE OP THE LANGSTONE. This handsome little ship cleared the Customs yesterday morning for London with seven passengers and a cargo valued at about £82,000. She has met with quick dispatch since she commenced to load, and going at this season, ought to have a quick and fine passage home. No ship ever left Lyttelton in better trim than the Langstone, both alow and aloft she is In splendid order, testifying to the care and ability of Mr Patterson, the chief Officer. Captain Parker has made many friends here who will regret his absence, and who will be glad to welcome both him and his officers on iheir return. She was towed into the stream yesterday morning by the p s. Titan, aud sails lir.-t fair wind. We append the following valuation of her cargo:— 3951 bales wool aud skins £79,020 64 casks tallow 2,580 66 bags bones 50 1 case 20 Total value £31,630 She got underweigh with a fair breeze this morning, at 11 a.m. ARRIVAL OP THE PLEIADES. " A painted port ship, with jack flying, and standing In for the Heads,” was the signal flashed from the Talaroa Head station late yesterday afternoon Her name was not given then nor afterwards, and It was not until the Geelong had fetched her up to the powder ground that she was ascertained to be Messrs Shaw. Savill and Go’s Pleiades. A smart looking little ship she is, and one that although on her first visit here is no stranger to New Zealand waters, having voyaged before to Wellington aud Lyttelton. She is a thousand ton ship, commanded hy Captain Setteu, and has acquitted herself v. .11 in 1 making the passage from London in 87 days, whilst d from land to 1r...d her time is 83 days, as la the I case "1 everv ship that lias arrived here lately the j Pleiades had indifferent winds north of the j Equator, aud hence lost time. Her passage was ' uneventful, excepting in one particular, aud that » tragical, loss of life having occurred As it was 1 late when the press representatives boarded her last f night, she was o' icees-ity hurriedly reported, audit S ■was not discovered until too late to rectify the otnls- P Bionthen, the written account of the occurrence s,.p- 5 piled by the captain containing no date. It, how: li ever, appears tiiat a Mr White was working his j passage out, and was last seen on the topgallant j lorcastle. Shortly afterwards his cap was found i between the jib guys, and as the ship was tearing | through the water at the time and rolling heavily, | it was surmised that he lost his footing and fell E overboard. I The Pleiades left Gravesend October 26th, passed \ the Downs next day, and discharged ihepilcK off f the Start on the 28th, had fine leading winds down I channel, and took a departure from the Lizard on j the 29 th. Steady leading breeze carried her to 5 Madeira, where she encountered a succession of !j severe gales from west to S.W, and was under j lower topsails most of the time. Then she was J bothered with light variables to the 20th parallel, " when the N.E. trade caught her, but proved a very jj light uncertain affair, and finally worked round and 9 merged into the S.E. trade, November 29tn, and e latitude 2 deg north. She crossed the Equator on k the 29th, longitude 27 deg W. Stood across the \ South Atlantic with a capital trade, and lost It on | December 4th, latitude 16 deg. It gave place to | light easterly and variable winds, which continued s until the 20th, when the westerlies caught her, and j It was all plain Sealing afterwords. On that date she crossed 1 he meridian of Greenwich, and I he meridian of the Cape on the 25th. Strong steady west erlies carried her across the Southern Ocean on a mean parallel of 47.30, aud on the morning of the 2lstinst she righted Stewart’s Island, rounded it and stood down jefore a fine southerly breeze. That night it freshened to a very heavy gale, during which her fore-sail blew away. She made the Heads yesterday afternoon and was towed in in due course. No lea was Righted, aud land only once, when Trinidad was passed on December 6th. The Pleiades brings about 1600 tons oi cargo, weight and measurement, including 30 tons of gunpowder. The following vessels were communicated with-.—December 6th, lat 20 5.,10n 29 W„ the New Zealand Shipping Co’s ship Otaki, from London to Otago ; December 9th, lat 76.20 S., lon 26 W., American ship Phineas Pendleton, from Cardiff to Point deGalle, December 6th, lat 23 £>., lou 29 W., Italian barque Angela, from Genoa to Point do Galle; January 18th, lat 48 S., lon 150 E„ New Zealand Shipping Co’s ship Waipa, from Plymouth to Lyttelton, with immigrants. all well; the captain asked to be reported. The Waipa was sighted again on Sunday morning off Stewart’s Island.—" Otago Daily Times.’’ I