SHIPPING.

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 940, 29 June 1877, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OF LYTTELTON. Weather Report. June 29 - 9 a.m., wind, N.K., breeze; weatner, bright, barometer, 29 95 ; ther moineter, 45. High Water To-Morrow. Morning, 7.17; afternoon, 7.38. Arrived —June 2S. Courier, keth, 31 tons, Sinclair, from Pigeon Bay. Hawea, s.s , 462 tons, Wheeler, from Northern Ports. Passengers Mr and Mrs Bidmeade, Mesdames Munro and l.h-on, Miss Haslam, Messrs C. A. Calve t. S. Smith, Atkinson, Aitken, Wood, Kempthorne, Stick, Robinson, Coutts, Horler, Captain Dunsford, and 4 in steerage. June 29. Kenilwrrth, schooner, 113 tons, M'Donald, from Whaugajjoa Stella, s.s., 2GS tons, Bendall, from Wellington. ivotorua, s.s., Macfariauc, from Port Chalmers. Passengers --■ saloon: Mrs Clarke, 2 children, aad servant, Mr Ryson, Mrs Blain. steerage Messrs Campbell, Grouche, and M'Vitchic, 23 for North. Cleared. —June 28. Fairlie, barqueutiue, IN orris, for Auckland. Minnie, ketch, Bani, for Macintosh Bay. June 29. Pobycito, barque, 432 tons, Condy, for N3\vcastle, in ballast. Margaret, ketch, 31 tons, Bennett, for Little Akaloa. Rotorua, s.s., 570' tons, Macfarlane, for Sydney, via Wellington and [feast Coast. Sailed —June 28. Tui, s.s., 64 tons, Wills, for Wellington and Foxton, via Kaikouras. Clematis, ketch, for Tirnaru. Hawea, s.s., for Port Chalmers. Passen-gers-Messrs Trumble, Hogg, Smith, Short, Ivess, M'Leod, and Ives, The s s. Rotorua arrived to-day at 10 a.m. She sails North with outward Frisco mail this afternoon. The Government s.s. Stella arrivedthis morning. She brings stores for the Lighthouse. Proceeds from here to Lhmedin. The schooner Kenilworth arrived this morning from Whangapoa with timber. She has made thj passage in nine days.

THE WEECK OF THE KAIKOUEA.

Sergeant Moller, of the "Westland Police, who proceeded to the place where wreckage was washed ashore to the north of Greymouth, made the following report, which too clearly proves that the ketch Kaikoura was the vessel which had been j os t : —The vessel is lying on the starboard side, with her keel towards the sea, and the bow pointing towards the north; the port, or upper side., is almost intact, and has the name " Eaikoura " painted in yellow letters on the bow. The starboard, or lower side, has been smashed in at both ends, and the paint is worn off; a portion of the masts and rigging is still hanging on to the wreck. On the beach, between Point Elizabeth and ltazorback, a number of pieces of boards, water casks, &c, have been picked up, and they evidently all belong to this craft, as they are all quite new and painted the same color, i.e., black outside and white inside, and the paint looks quite fresh and new. The dimensions of the various pieces also correspond with that of the wreck, which has on the main hatch the following inscription :—" Tons—3l-03; No. 70345." On the beam of the forecastle is painted in tar " Kaikoura, J. Anderson." There can be but little doubt that this vessel foundered at sea on Sunday last, somewhere to west of Point Elizabeth, as a small sailing craft -was seen in that direction, apparently in distress, by a man named Palmer, living at the Fourteen Mile Beach; the same man saw the wreck coming ashore from south-west and bump on the rocks of the Fourteen Mile Bluff, on "Wednesday afternoon, and he gave word to Patrick Warren, who brought in the report the following day. The wreck itself is perfectly valueless where she lies, as even if she were taken to pieces there is no possibility of getting the timber anywhere, as the bluffs at each end of the Fourteen Mile Beach are so bad that a horse can barely scramble over them with a rider or light load. There are neither anchor nor chains hanging to the wreck. There was no sign of any dead bodies, and the residents have promised if any should wash up to send word immediately.

DUCKHAM'S PATENT TXLtEDGING MACHINE.

Mi' Gillies, Secretary to the Dunedin Harbour Board, having received some private information in regard to Duckliara's patent pneumatic dredger, placed tlio same before the Board at its last meeting. The Times makes the following extracts from the letter, which was from Mr John Darling, Engineer, formerly of Dunedin:—"l went again this morning to see Duckham's dredger at work. I find that it has been constantly at work since my last visit, and fully confirms in practice the opinion I then formed of it as being well-adapted for discharging large quantities of matter over retaining walls, and to a considerable distance from the machine. There can be no doubt about the economy, and there need be no fear about a failure, if nothing too big to go through the discharger is allowed to go into the tank. This has been a trouble at Millwall through lumps of coal comingup,butliasbeenciired lately through adding a screen, which traps anything too big to go out. The whole thing is 80 simple and inexpensive, and I believe could be cheaper made in Dunedin than sent out from here." The following is a brief description of the invention alluded to : —"The debris is conducted from the dredging buckets by means of shoots or spouts into capacious iron-receivers, either on board the dredging-muchine or in attendant hopper barges. When laden, the receiving apertures are closed by air-tight doors, and the vessels removed to the place of discharge. Air is forced into the tanks, and the spoil either expelled into the sea, to the shore, or over banks or other obstructions of any height usually met with, and through pipes and troughs to almost any required distance, it being found that the friction of ordinary dredged debris in the discharge-pipes does not much exceed that of water. The operation is assisted by the formation of the tank, and the violent ebullition created by a special arrangement of the air inlets. The outlet-pipe may be a length of canvas hose thrown over the river bank. The patent apparatus for providing the pneumatic pressure may, in some cases, be more conveniently placed on land at tho discharging station." SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. Poet Chalmers, June 28. Arrived —Wellington, s.s., from Onehunga. Sailed—Rotorua, for Lyttelton. PassengersMessrs Gouche, Croskerry, Clark and family. Albion, for the Bluff.