SHIPPING.

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 1052, 10 November 1877, Page 2

SHIPPING.

POET OF LYTTELTON. Weather Report— November 10. 9 a.m.—Wind, S.W. light; weather, clear and bine sky. Barometer, 29.81; thermometer, 60. High Water— To-morrow. Morning, 8.35; night, 9.03, Arrived— November 9. Eangitiki, ship, 1225 tons, iMillman, from London. N.Z.S. 00., agents. Passengers—Saloon: Mr and Mrs Clough, Miss Hncon, Messrs J. Sheat, Bailv, Senior, and 277 Government immigrants. Lucy Jane, ketch, 28 tons, Clarkson, from Pigeon ay. F. Jenkins, agent. Australian Sovereign, barque, 353 tons, Berrj, from Newcastle. C, W. Turner, agent. Antelope, cutter, 17 tons, Malcolmson, from Akaroa. Master, agent. Arrived —November 10. Jannett, ketch, 41 tons, McDonald, from Okam s Bay. Master, agent. .Linnet, ketch, 17 tons, Molyneaux, from Pigeon Bay. Master, agent. . , Blackwall, ketch, 26 tons, Green, from Okam s Bay. Master, agent. Acadia, schooner, 53 tons, McDonald, from Auckland. P. Cunningham and Co., agents. Volunteer, schooner, 22 tons, Marq.net, from Le Don’s Bay. Master, agent. Eotorua, s.s., 576 tons, Kennedy, from Sydney, via Wellington. Miles, Hassal and Co., agents. Passengers : Saloon, from Sydney Messrs Fletcher, Tooth, Street; from Coast—Mesdames Turner, Von der Heyde, Hodge, Plimmer, Misses Bobinsou (5) and four servants, Messrs Kobinsou and J. E. Brown, M.H.E., Hodge, Edwards, Ballin, Tistou, Booth, Bnckridge, Lysaght, Eastar, Martin, Higginson, Murigner; 12 in the steerage, and 34 for South. Cleared —November 10. Eotorua, s.s., 576 tons, Kennedy, for Port Chalmers. Miles, Hassal and Co., agents. Minnie, ketch, 17 tons, Bennett, for Little Akaloa. Master, agent. Kate McGregor, schooner, 65 tons, Morgan, for Kaiparn. P. Cunningham and Co., agents. Sailed—November 9. Kestrel, ketch, 20 tons, Semb, for Akaroa. via Le Bou’s Bay. Master, agent. A brigantine was signalled from the North when our express left Port. The s.s. Eotorua arrived this morning at 11, from Sydney, via Wellington. She sails South this afternoon. The s.s. Taupo was signalled when our express left, outside the Heads.

ARRIVAL OF THE N.Z. SHIPPING COM-

PANY’S SHIP EANGITIKI. This favorite ship was signalled early yesterday morning, and favored by the N.E. breeze, speedily came to an anchorage oil Diamond Harbor. At 11 a.m. the Health Officer, directors of the Company, reporters, and others, went off in the Customs launch and the p.s. Titan, and the ship was soon cleared, there being no illness during the trip out. Captain Millman, who made the famous trip home in the Otaki, is in command, and Dr C. H. Gibson, who brought out the immigrants in the Waipa in such admirable health and cleanliness, is the surgeon superintendent, the chief officer being Mr anise, who was here in the Desdemona. The Eangitiki is in good trim, and brings a large and valuable cargo consigned to the New Zealand Shipping Company, and several saloon passengers, besides immigrants. The following is the captain’s report August 12th, sailed from Plymouth with 278 immigrants, equal to 219} statute adults, 6 saloon passengers, and 46 crew; total, 330 souls. Took a final departure from the Eddystone at 4 p.m., wind fresh, easterly; next day the wind changed to sou’ west, and remained steady from that point, at times blowing heavy squalls till the 25th; caught N.E. trades on 27th in lat. 29 N. ; they were light throughout, and failed in 15 north; southerly and son’-west winds were then experienced till the S.E. trades were met with in 2 North on September 12th; crossed the Equator on the following day in long. 26.30 W, thirty-two days out. The S.E. trades were moderate, with fine weather, and were lost in 20,17 S. on September 22nd. Light variable winds prevailed from this date till the westerlies were fallen in with in lat. 31.10 S. On September 27th the meridian of the Cape was passed on October Bth, fifty-seven days out. Ean down easting in lat. 45 and 46 S, experiencing as far as Tasmania fair westerlies, with an unusual amount of fog and incessant min. When off Tasmania on November Ist, the barometer fell to 28.70, and a cyclone was experienced, but do damage was done to the vessel. A succession of calm variable winds and unsettled weather then ensued, with no rise in the barometer till November sth, when the breeze sprang up fresh from the westward, and the glass rose to 29.20, the weather being fine. On November 7th sighted the Snares, and at 11 p.m. sawthe Nugget Light. Cape Saunders was passed at 7 a.m. on the Bth, and Akaroa Heads at 7 p.m. Coming up the coast experienced fresh S.W. wind, with squally weather and much rain. Off the Peninsula the breeze died away into a very light air, and the weateer cleared. Were off the Heads on the night of the Bth, and early yesterday morning a fresh breeze from the N.E. sprang up, before which the ship ran into harbor, arriving at an anchorage off the breakwater at 10 a.m. yesterday. The southern part of the passage has been remarable for the continual rain that has fallen, scarcely a day passing without heavy showers.