SHIPPING.

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 849, 14 March 1877, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OP LYTTELTON. Weather Report. March 14-Wind, S.W., light; weather, overcast. Barometer, 30.25 ; thermometer, 52. High Water. To-morrow —Morning, 3.55; night, 4,16. ARRIVED. March 14—Nil. CLEARED. March 14—Catherine, ketch, 13 tons, Ware, for Okain’s Bay. March 14 Emerald, ketch, 40 tons, Whitby, for Wellington. March 14 -E. U. ''ameron, schooner, 4 L tons, Aschman, for Akaroa. March 14 -Antelope, cutter, 17 tons, Malcolmson, for Akaroa. SAILED. March 14—Linuett, ketch, 17 tons, Molyneaux, for Pigeon Bay. The ketch Emerald, Captain Whitby, cleared the Customs this morning for Wellington, and sails if possible to night. The s.s. Hatvea had not been signalled when our express left port this afternoon.

THE WHITE SfAlt STEAMER BRITANNIC. The “ Liverpool Courier” of December 28th. 1876, states that '• the passengers who embarked on this remarkable vessel in New York harbor on the morning of Saturday, the 16th December, although doubtless aware of her speed, hardly reckoned upon being landed at Liverpool on Sunday evening, the eighth day out. But such was the ca«e. Averaging 382 nautical miles per day, the Britannic steamed along her Maury track, which, swerving to the south-west, occupies a longer time, but takes the ship out of the way of outward-bound vessels, and touched at Queenstown shortly after midnight on Saturday last, (or the purpose of lauding mails and some passengers. After a brief delay ofl the harbor, the Britannic continued her course up Channel, crossing the bar at the entrance to the Mersey at 5.55 p m. on Sunday, and landed her passengers shortly afterwards, thus enabling them to catch the Sunday evening trains, and spend Christmas with their families, with lively tidings of satisfaction and thankfulness because of the heavy gales through which they had passed, and which appear to be still raging. The Britannic’s passage to Queenstown was 7 days 12 hours 41 minutes, and to Liverpool (including all detentions) 8 days 5 hours 15 minutes, performances, we need scarcely add, never belore equalled. The Britannic’s average passage this year is—Outwards, 7 days 18 hours 26 minutes; and homewards—7 days 20 hours 56 minutes.”