SHIPPING.

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 1062, 22 November 1877, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OF LYTTELTON. Weather Report—November 22. 9 a.m. —Wind, N.E., litriit ; weather, clear and blue sky. Barometer, 29.72 ; thermometer, 57. High Water—To-morrow. Morning, 5.35; night, (1.05. Arrive d —November 22. Wakatipn, s.s., 115 s tony, Cameron, from Sydney, via Wellington. Miles, Hassal and Co, agents. Passengers—Saloon, from Sydney: Mrs Ingram, familv and child. Mrs Fillet and child. Mess is Johnston, 11. O’Meurs. J. H. Brown. From Wellington: Mr and Mrs Henderson, Mesdame.s McGowan, Maunders, Garrard, Misses Smith (2.1, Messrs Davis, Williamson, McWilliams, Healo, Bishop, Redwood, Goodall, and 1.3 in the steerage. Minnie, ketch, 17 tons, Bennett, from Little Akaloa. Master, agent. Linnett, ketch, 17 tons, Molyneaux, from 1 igeon Bay. Master, agent. . ~ Tongariro, p.s., 39 tons, Clarke, irom Akaroa. Master, agent. . Jannett, ketch, II tons, McDonald, from Chains Bay. Master, agent. Cleared —November 21. B. IJ. Cameron, schooner, 41 tons. Green, tor Leßon’s Bay. Master, ’agent. . Torea, schooner, 78 tons, Grnudy, tor Kaipara. J. B. Way, agent. Cleared—November 22. Wakatipn, s.s., 1158 tons, Cameron, tor Port Chalmers. Miles, Hassal and Co, agents. Spray, schooner, 50 tons, Rnxtou, for Wellington. Cnif and Graham, agents. Italy, barque, 286 tons, Gourlay. tor Newcastle, m ballast. W. 11. Hargreaves, agent. Sailed —November 21. Waiunite, ship, 1124 tons. Peek, for London. New Zealand Shipping Company, agents. Passengers—Saloon : Miss E. Knight, Mrs Todhnnter, Family, and servant, Mrs Barber, Rev. H. L. Carlyou, Messrs G. W. Watson. J. Watson, and Bemascone, Dr. Gibson, Miss Kirkland and two Misses Shaw. Second Class: Mr William Lanscome. Steerage: Mrs Worgau and family, Mr Butler, Master Schultz, Mr and Mrs Boyd, two children, and infant. Sailed —.November 22. Margaret, ketch, 26 tons, Johnson, for Leßou's Bay. Master, agent. Bee, schooner, 31 tons, Shepherd, for Ainnn Bluff. Master, agent. E. U. Cameron, schooner, 41 tons, Green, tor Le Sons Bay. Master, agent. The s.s. Wakatipn arrived from Sydney, via Wellington, at 9.30 this morning, and sails South this afternoon. The Easby was not signalled when our express left port. SAILING OF THE N.Z S. CO.’S SHIP WAIMATE. The passengers by this ship arrived by the 2.30 p Hi. train from Christchurch, and proceeded on hoard :in the steam launch Lyttelton. A great many friends accompanied them, the being crowded. The wind was fresh N.E. at 4.15 p.m. when the p.s. Titan took the ship in tow and steamed for the Heads, but she did her work well, and no doubt by the time these lines are printed the Waimate is well clear of the laud and fast decreasing her distance from the Horn. As before stated she takes a most valuable cargo. Friends wish Capt. Peek and all aboard a speedy and prosperous passage home. WRECK OF THE MAY QUEEN. Captain Savory, of the schooner Energy, informs the Auckland “ Herald” that when he was cruising among the Friendly Group ho met the Rev. Mr Watkin, at Haahai, who informed him he had received word from one of the native ministers that a new boat and a life-buoy had been picked up on the shore at Ongea—one of the weathermost ot the windward Fiji Group. The May Queen, while at Yavau, had a new boat built, and from the dimensions and description given of that found it is nearly certain that this is the same. It was uninjured in any way, and, apparently, had not been used A life-buoy which corresponds with one known to have been on board the May Queen, was also picked up, as well as a quantity of wreckage. THE STEAMERS CUZCO AND HANKOW. By’ the arrival of the Cuzco at Adelaide the feasibility of running ocean steamers which should make the passage from England to Australia in forty days, via the Cape of Good Hope, has been again demonstrated. The Cuzco is undoubtedly a splendid vessel, and fully maintains the reputation of the steamers of her fleet. She lias also a marked family resemblance to the Lusitania and China, borazo, which have preceded her. Let it suffice to state that the Cuzco is now seven years old. having been built iu 1870 at the well known establishment of Messrs John Elder and Co., Glasgow, at a cost of close on £94,000, and to give some idea ot her size it may be mentioneo. that her length between perpendiculars is 370 ft., and her beam 41ft., the depth of hold being 35ft., giving a gross measuremeat of 38-15 tons, or, less engine room and other space, of 3443 tons. The draught displacement at 20ft. is 4996 tons, and the capacity of the hold is 137,850 ft., while the bunker space for coal is equal to 48,805 ft, The main draught of water by the is in excess of th&fc of the Chimborazo, being* 22ft. 6iu. She is fitted with equally massive and TKegkly finished engines, and their indicated power is equal to that of 3000 horses. No better test of the efficiency of the machinery can be furnished than the fact of its having been iu disuse for three yeayn, and yet when suddenly called on for close and continuous action, extending over a period of about six weeks, in which nearly 12,000 miles of ocean were traversed, it performs the work most efficiently, and at the close of the voyage is quite equal to a repetition of the performance without special overhaul The Cuzco is commanded by Captain George Nugent Conlan, who has had considerable experience in the Pacific Company s and other services. The steamer, with a large general cargo and sioaie 380 passengers of all classes for Adelaide, 'Melbourne, and Sydney, left Plymouth at twenty minutes past 3 p.m. on September 27th, and arrived off Glenelg at sixteen minutes to 9 a.m. on November 7th, the duration of the passage being thus forty days seventeen hours twenty- four minutes over all Allowing nine hours and thirty-one minutes, however, for difference in equation of time in longitude, the total of the time taken up on the voyage inclusive of all detentions, has been forty days seven hours and fifty-three minutes. and if from this is deducted a detention of thirty-one hours forty-one minutes by the call in at ot. Vincent, and for opportunities taken to screw up, it will be seen that the actual steaming time at sea has been only twelve minutes over thirty-nine days. The s.s. Hankow has not had so many opportunities of distinguishing herself in the Cape route to Australia as her sister ships the St. Osyth and Whampoa, but the present performance fully demonstrated that her steaming capabilities are of a Hugh order, and quite equal to those of either ot the TMsele mentioned. Although the voyage has occupied forty-three days sixteen hours (less dillerenfie for equation of time) from Plymouth to Port Philip, it should be mentioned, in justice to Capt. Symington and his steamer, that, iu consequence of there being a number of naval men for the Australian squadron among the passengers, he was limited by the- Admiralty regulations to a parallel in which to cros? the Southern Ocean. Thelatitude fixed by the Roya? naval authorities is 40deg. S., and as this necessitated an extension of the voyage by some 600 miles, or two’ days good steaming, an important addition is made’ t° its duration, and then there are also the Cape ncuT.mts to b« encountered. The distance voyage all,"‘"ether by the Hankow was 11,889 miles, giving an average ot something like 270 miles »d ay, ora fraction over eleven knots an hour. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. Nelson, November 21, A ship signalled is supposed to he the Waitara, Sro-tn Loudon. , T i oi Pour Chalmers, November 21. Sailed—Arawata, for the Bluff. NELfvGK, November 22. Arrived N.Z.S. Co.’s ship Waitara, 89days from Plymouth, with 275 immigrants and live saloon passengers. "There has been no sickness, hud do births or dcat&N i Wellington, November 22. Arrived—Reward, from Lyttelton, yesterday.