SHIPPING

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 987, 24 August 1877, Page 2

SHIPPING

POET OP LYTTELTON.

Weather Report —August 21. 9 a.m.—Wind, N.E., breeze ; weather overcast. Barometer, 29.85; thermometer, 50. High Water —To-Morrow. Morning, 4,36; uight, 4.55.

Arrived — August 23. Elizabeth Curie, schooner, 76 tons, Johnson, from Pictou. Muster, agent. August 24. Bee, schooner, 31 tons. Green, from Amuri Bind. Master, agent. . Tongariro, p.s., 39 tons, Russell, from Raiapoi. Master, agent. Courier, ketch, 31 tons, Sinclair, from I igeou Bay. Master, agent. Rotorua, s.s, 576 tons, Maefarlanc, from Port Chalmers. Miles, Hassal, and Co., agents. Passengers —Saloon: Messrs Peacock, Piucock, McGregor. Steerage: Messrs Malcolm, Williamson, Master Eenuie, and 15 for North. Cleared —August 24. Margaret, ketch. Smith, for Mackintosh Bay. Master, agent. Rotorua, s.s., Macfarlane, for Sydney, via North. Miles, Hassal, and Co., agents. Sailed— August 23. St. Hilda, s.s., Flowerday, for Wellington and Wanganui. Eoyse, Stead and Co., agents. Passengers—Messrs Raiusbottom, Schofield, Schumau, Eosenfeld, Adams, Whitman, Marsdeu. Volunteer, schooner, Marquet, for Leßon’s Bay. Master, agent. The s.s. Rotorua arrived at 7.30 a.m. She sails for Sydney, via North, this afternoon. A telegram reporting the wreck of the Eobina Dunlop, stated that Captain Graham, with surprising generosity, presented the vessel to Reuben, the Maori, by formal deed of gift, in return for the hospitality tliat chief showed on the previous night when he and his crew were cast ashore. This singular transaction, says the Wellington “Post,” loses some of its lustre by the fact that the vessel did not belong to the liberal donor, and it is possible that some considerable complications may ensue. THE LATE CAPTAIN GRIFFITHS. Describing the death and (burial of the late Capt. Griffiths, at Dunedin, the “Times” of Monday says ;—“ The mortal remains of the late Captain Griffiths were interred in the Northern Cemetery on Saturday afternoon, the Rev. Mr Byug officiating at the grave. The funeral cortege numbered between fifty and sixty persons, of whom Captain Lloyd and Mr Stohr, intimate friends of the deceased, were chief mourners. Mi - James Mills (managing director of the Union Company), Mr David Mills, Captain Jones (of the Samson—the only one oftthe company’s vessels in port), and si number of the office employes of the company, were amongst the procession, as was also Captain Thomson, the Harbor Master All the vessels in port carried their colors half-mast during the day. The deceased, John Griffiths, master mariner, had been long and favorably known in the New Zealand steam coasting trade, but chiefly as commander of the steamer Mauawatu, out of Wellington. Indeed, Wellington was virtually his head-quarters, for, although unmarried, he counted many friends and more acquaintances there. It was in the year 1866 that he commenced his career in the intercolonial trade by joining the steamer Taranaki, then in Melbourne. He held a Board of Trade certificate as chief mate, and from the rank of second mate rose through the intermediate grade to that of master, and successively commanded the Lady Bird, Rangatira, and Manawatu, then under the New Zealand Shipping flag, and latterly the Taranaki under the Union Company’s. Ho was a stout and skilful seaman, and a man of powerful frame and iron constitution, and in the very prime of life, for his age, when he died, was only 35. A neglected cold brought on the complication of disease of which he died —viz., congestion of the lungs and rheumatic fever. _ SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. Port Chalmers, August 23. Arrived—Taranaki, from Lyttelton. Sailed— Rotorua, for Lyttelton. Passengers Captain Lloyd, Master Rennie, Messrs Peacock, Malcolm, Fenwick, McGregor. Wellington, August 23. Sailed —Lima, for Lyttelton, at 5 p.m., with original cargo from Greymouth. Tui, for Kaikoura and Lyttelton, at 7 p.m.