SHIPPING.

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 944, 4 July 1877, Page 2

SHIPPING.

FORT OF LYTTELTON. Weathek Report. July 4-9 a.m., wind, calm ; weather, cloudy. Barometer, 30.17; thermometer, 32. High Water To-Mohbow. Morning, 10.43 ; afternoon, 11.07. Arrivfu.—July 3. Minnie, ketch, 17 tons, I?ani, from Macintosh Bay. July 4 Maori, s.s., 118 tons, Berniche, from West Coast, via Nelson. Passengers—Saloon —Mr and Mrs Adams and two children, Mr and Mrs Scott, Messrs Wells, Adams, Murray, Barhman, Howell, and eight for South. Taranaki, s.s., 327 tons, Griffiths, from Northern Ports. Passengers —Saloon—Mr and Mrs Bennett, Mr and Mrs Wiggins, Mesdames Wells and Hobson, Misses Lemon, Black, Coupe, Cotterill, Ollivier, Messrs Chichester, Rowe, Robertshaw, Ford, Owen, Bennett, and Levien. Steerage—Messrs Guise, Troy, Henry, and Wallace. Wild Wave, s hooner, 39 tons, Moreland, from Akaroa. Maiden City, schooner, 27 tons, Huntley, from Pigeon Bay. E, U. Cameron, ketch, 41 tons, Aschmau, from Leßon’s Bay. Cleared —July 4. Taranaki, s.s., 327 tons, Griffiths, for Dunedin. Sailed —July 4. Maori, s.s., 118 tons, Berniche, for Dune* din, via Akaroa. Passengers, for Akaroa — Mr and Mrs John Low. Antelope, cutter, 17 tons, Malcolmson, for Akaroa. Annie, ketch, 17 tons, Foster, for Heathcote River. The s. s. Maori arrived from another round trip at 8.30 this morning. She sailed for Port Chalmers at 11.30 a.m. The s.s. Taranaki arrived at 9 last night, after a stormy passage from Wellington of twenty-nine hours. She sails south at 3 this afternoon The barque Woodbine cleared yesterday afternoon, and was towed into the stream by the p.s. Titan ready for sea. The brig Moa, -vith. a full cargo of coal from Newcastle, has arrived at Timaru. A telegram to Timaru states that the schooner Crest of the Wave, after leaving Greymouth, had to return to port, -caking at the rate of 17 inches per hour. It was expected that she would have to discharge to be repaired. The schooners Pelican and Isabella Anderson have made very equal passages from Oamaru to Hokitika and back. They left Oamaru together, and Arrived at Hokitika —the Pelican on the 9th, the Isabella Anderson on the 11th. They left the latter port together, kept company all the way, going south about, and arrived at Oamaru together. THE WRECK OP THE OCEAN MAIL. Mr Beamish, a resident at Waitangi, Chatham Islands, writes thus to the “N.Z. Times” regarding the wreck of the ship Ocean Mail; — “ I find that both Captain Watson and Mr Johnstone, the chief mate, deposed ‘that on the Sunday,’ the day before the sale, there was ‘ haavy surf rolling on the beach.’ This is utterly untrue, as myself and several more rode along that very beach. It was perfectly smooth, so much so that any landsman could have launched a boat without any difficulty. The captain also states ; ‘ Saturday, 24th—Called a survey on the ship; managed to get off. Ship pronounced by surveyors to be a total wreck, and strongly advised to "be sold for the benefit of all concerned.’ Who strongly advised the immediate sale ? Probably the surveyor who purchased her for nimself and bia partner. Naturally such would be bis advice, more particularly as he was fully aware of her value, and that there was a quantity of dry wool on beard, which he alone had an opportunity of knowing when he was surveying her. X might also appropriately remark that the nautical assessor, and the two surveyors were in the employment of Mr Ritchie and arc so now. Circumstances made it appear as if there was quite a pre-arranged scheme that the vessel should be sold m two lots —the hull and boats first, so that the purchaser might ‘ bluff’ any one else from buying the cargo, which was ten times as valuable. Mr Akerley did most effectually do this by stating at the sale 1 that the vessel was now his property, and no one should board her to get the cargo oft’ without his permission.” THE BRITANNIA SHIELD. A Mr P. P. De La Sala, a Spanish gentleman, has invented what he terms the Britannia shield, for preventing collisions at sea, and also an impromptu boat apparatus. The shield consists of a pair of stout metal pectoral fins fastened to the bow of a vessel. When not required they are folded flat hack above the water line, but when wanted they are instantaneously canted athwart ships at right angles to the keel, and by their own gravity drop immediately in that position below the surface, offering such enormous resistance that a steamer going at full speed is brought up stationary in one and a half times her own length. By dropping only one fin it acts like a bow rudder at right angles to the keel, and a ship at full speed, in less than her own length would turn in the same direction at right angles to her previous course. The other invention enables a fairlyefiicient boat to be improvised by means of a few tanks, some planks, some canvas, twine, and a palm and needle. Strips of a plank and cork of suitable length and width are sewn side by side with short lengths, of an angular form at either end. There is a seam between each two planks, which are quilted into the fabric. The sides tilt up, and the ends pucker together with a piece or two of loose canvas here and there, and what was apparently a long flat mat, becomes a serviceable boat in an emergency. They lie fiat on deck, and can be pitched overboard so as to right themselves. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. Nelson, July 3. Amved—Early, Ringarooma, from Wellington. Port Chalmers, July 3. Arrived —Estelle, from Melbourne. Sailed—Stella, for South.