SHIPPING.

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 958, 20 July 1877, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OF LYTTELTON. Weather Report. July 20-9 a.m., wind, N.E., fresh breeze ; weather, clear. Barometer, 30.08; thermometer, 47. High Water To-Morrow. Morning, 00.17; night, 00.45. Arrive n —July 19. St. Kilka, a. 8., 174 tons, Flowerday, from Port Chalmers and Timaru. July 20. Ellerton, three-masted schooner, 87 tons, Keane, from Kaiapara. Especulador, barque, 262 tons, Powell, from .Newcastle. Cleared.—July 19. Sarah and Mary, ketch, Featherston, for Amuri Bluff, in ballast. July 20. Rio Loge, brig, Mathews, for Freemantle. Courier, ketch, 31 tons, Sinclair, for Pigeon Bay. Sailed—July 20. St. Kilda, 8.5., 174 tons, FJowerday, for Wellington. Passengers—Messrs J. Dyer, Mclntre, and Dobby. The s.s. St. Kilda sailed at 11.30 a.m. for Wellington. Thd schooner Ellerton, from Kaipara, arrived this morning after a tweive days' passage. The Especulador arrived from Newcastle 6 as morning. The Wanganui was hauled into the stream this morning. !D,The N.Z.S. Co.'s Wanganui completed her oading last night, clears, and goes into the Btream to-day, and sails on Saturday. She has met with very great despatch, and Messrs Cameron Bros., the stevedores, deserve credit for the way they have performed their part of the work. The Wanganui was moored alongside the Gladstone Pier on Thursday, July sth, and has since that time discharged 1i560 tons inward cargo, and loaded 1450 outward. The time really occupied was eleven days, as out of the fourteen during which the ship was at the wharf, there were two Sundays and the railway stopped her from working one other day.

THE OCEAN RACE FROM LYTTELTOK

We have received a copy of the daily log of the ship Crusader and her passage from Lyttelton to London. It is, doubtless, interesting to nautical men, but its publication might scarcely be appreciated by the ordinary reader, since the daily distances run are not given. Briefly it may be stated that the total distance run was 13,597 knots in sixty-six days from Banks' Peninsula to the Isle of Wight, giving an average of 200 knots per day. To Cape Horn the time was twenty-one days, the daily average being 220 knots, and within the tropics sixteen days, the daily average being 199 knots. We have also received what appears to be an extract from "The Graphic," giving an account of the Crusader's passage, and which has apparently been accompanied by a picture of the vessel. In that description it is said:—A long distance match by sea has just been decided, which cannot fail to interest a great number of our readers in New Zealand. On the 10th of March last two iron clipper ships left Lyttelton Harbor, Canterbury, New Zealand, bound for London, the Crusader, Captain JDavies, and the Rangitikei, Captain Scotland. Both vessels being about the same tonnage, and both having the reputation for fast sailing, heavy bets were laid on their respective performances on the passage home. _ In feet, their start caused in the comparatively limited community of Canterbury almost as muuh excitement as does the Derby at home. Each coasting steamer captain as he came into port forwarded to the local papers a report of the two ships' progress as far as they were sighted, viz., at dusk 12th March off Banks' Peninsula, up to which time they were well together, and betting was about even on them, each ship having its own enthusiastic partisans. The race has terminated in one of the most remarkable runs ever made by a sailing vessel from the Antipodes, the Crusader, Captain Davies, having reached the English Channel within sixty-five days of her leaving Lyttelton harbor. This passage is an unprecedented one, and worthy of record, being in fact little if at all in excess of what a steamer's run would be over the same course. The Crusader is a fine looking craft of 1058 tons register, and is one of Messrs Shaw, Savill and Co.'s Passenger Line of Packets. The Eangitikei has not yet put in an appearance, although the Crusader has been ia London over a fortnight.