SHIPPING.

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 909, 24 May 1877, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OP LYTTELTON

Weather Report.

May 24 9 a.m., Wind S.W. light; ■weather clear. Barometer, 29.62; thermometer, 47.

High Water. fflTo -morrow—Morning, 1.52; night, 2.17.

Arrived. —May 23. Hawea, s.s., 426 tons, Wheeler, from Northern ports. Mile", Hassal and Co. agents. Passengers—saloon : Mr and Mrs Jones, Mrs P. H. Harper, Misses Royle, Mackay, Cameron, Sheath, James, Moore, Messrs Selwyn Smith, S. Dean, Goodman, Painter, Dunkley, Hughes, Hawse, Richards, Harper, Boyle, Longley, Bishop, Wiggins, Wright, Pooley, Baker, Isaacs, Hadfield, and 3 in steerage. May 24. Margaret, ketch, 21 tons, Bennett, from Port Levy. Catherine, ketch, 13 tons, Ware, from Le Eon’s Bay. Cleared. —May 23. Wave of Life, schooner, for Aucklond. Sailed. —May 21. Ann Gambles, barque, for London, via Auckland.

May 23. Fasby, s.s., for Dunedin. Passengersaloon : Mr Farquharson, Hawea, s.s., for Dunedin. Passengers saloon ; Misses Jackson, Griffiths (2). Linnet, ketch, 17 tons, Molyneux, for Pigeon Bay,

May 24. Wakatipu, ss, 1158 tons, Cameron, for Sydney via Wellington. Passengers for Sydney—Misses Rouse (2), Lee. Messrs Walker, Fidler, Petherbridge, Allan, McMullen, Brown, Smith, Heywood, and 34 original. Mary Miller, barque, 262 tons, Valentine, for Brisbane. Columbia, schooner, Conway, for Napier. The brigantine Sarah and Mary was towed in from the stream yesterday. The brig Jane was berthed at the Tunnel W hart to discharge yesterday. The Seabird was shifted into the berth made vacant by the Mary Miller at Peacock’s M hart. The Young Dick will be berthed to discharge at the Tunnel Wharf.

The barque Queensland, Captain Arnold, left Newcastle for this port on May 9th, with a cargo of 468 tons coal. The Sea Spray and Woodbine are loading at Newcastle for Lyttelton. According to a telegram in the Aew Zealand Herald of the 15th instant, the brigantine Sarah Pile, of the safety of which some doubts were entertained, was “still wind bound at Kaipara Heads” on the 14th instant. The telegram stated further that she had to take the bar or go ashore. The Albion Co.’s ship Wellington was towed into the stream yesterday. She will complete her loading by Friday and clear same day, proceeding to sea on Saturday nest. The s.s. Hawea,having the inward San Francisco mail aboard, arrived at 3 p.m. yesterday from Northern ports. She was berthed at the No 1 Wharf, and having discharged four tons of cargo and t aken in about seven tons, sailed for Dunedin at 5.15 p.m. last night. We append her report, for which and for files we are indebted to her purser, Mr Dougherty. Left Manakau on the 21st instant at 1.50 p.m.; reached Taranaki 6 a.m. following morning, leaving for Nelson at 10.30 a.m.; arrived at midnight and left at 5 a.m. on the 22nd; reached Picton at 0.30 p.m. same day, sailing for Wellington an hour later; arrived at 6.30 p.m. and left for Lyttelton at 10 p.m., arriving as above. Experienced fine weather to Wellington, thence strong S. gale and high seas to arrival. The brigantine Sarah and Mary, Captain Stevens, left the Thames at noon on Saturday, May 12th, with a southerly breeze, which changed next day to westerly. Passed Cape Colville on Monday, May 14th, “and was off East Cape following' morning, when the wind changed to southerly and blew a gale on Friday morning, followed by a light northerly breeze which wan held till off Portland Island on Saturday night; thence north-easterly winds till off the Heads, followed by southerly till arrival at 3 p.m. on Tuesday, May 22nd. The s.s. Easby left Sydney at 10 a.m. on the 18th instant, after being detained twenty hours by a heavy S.E. gale. Experienced strong S.E. winds and lieavy head sea until 16th, thence strong winds and much rain veering from E.S.E. to N.E. Had thick weather on making Cape Farewell on the 19th, also through the Straits, the vessel being obliged to heave to for eight 'hours, ilapiti Island was made on the 20th, and the steamer arrived in Wellington at noon same day, discharged 250 tons cargo and sailed at 5.30 p.m. on 21st, experienced a very heavy S.W. gale off Capo Campbell with high seas for six hours, thence to arrival strong S.W. winds and hearty swell. The Easby arrived at 9.30 p.m. on Monday, and sailed yesterday shortly after 1 p.m. We thank Captain Anderson for report and Sydney exchanges. /