SHIPPING.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1421, 4 September 1878, Page 2

SHIPPING.

POET OP LYTTELTON. Weather "Report— September 4. 9 a.m.—Wind. N.E., light; weather, overcast. Barometer, 29.86. Thermometer, 42.00. High Water —To-morrow. Morning, 10.57 ; night, 10.27. Arrived— September 3. Spray, schooner, 50 tons, Huston, from Picton. Cuff and Graham, agents. Onward, schooner, 69 tons, Rac, from Picton. P. Jenkins, agent. Arrived —September 4, Wanaka, s.s., 279 tons, McGillivray, from Port Chalmers. D. Mills, agent. Passengers—Saloon: Miss Murray and Mr W. Morrison. Maori, s.s., 117 lons, liernich, from Port Chalmers, via South, West Coast, and Nelson. D. Mills, agent. Passengers—Saloon : Mrs Grew and children, Mrs Muir and child, Messrs Stearns, Lyon, Radelli, Dunn, James Jansen, A. Jansen, P. Henderson, B. Lynn, and Mr aud Mrs Poglo. Luna, p.s., 247 tons, Bascand, from Wellington. P. Cunningham and Co., agents. H.M.S. Nymphe, 9 guns, from Wellington. Cleared— September 4. Wanaka, s.s., 279 tons, McGillivray, for Auckland, via Wellington and East Coast. W. Mills, agent. Maori, s.s., 117 tons, Bornicbe, for Oamaru. W. Mills, agent. Spec, schooner, 32 tons. Turner, for Pelorus Sound. G. Mackay, agent. Swordfish, brigantine, 11 tons, Black, for Sydney. Cuff and Graham, agents. Sailed— September 3. Tongariro, p.s., 37 tons, Marqnet, for Le Bon’s Bay. Master, agent. Alert, schooner, 44 tons, Morlaud, for Picton, Cnff and Graham, agents. St. Kilda, s.s., 174 tons, Flowerday, for Dunedin, Eoyso, Stead and Co, agents. Sailed— September 4. Kestrel, ketch, 20 tons, Mortimer, for Pigeon Bay. Master, agent. The s.s. Wanaka, Captain McGillivray, arrived in harbor from Port Chalmers at 8.30 this morning. She sails for Auckland, via East Coast and Wellington, at 3 p.m. The p.s. Luna, Captain Bascand, arrived in harbor from Wellington, at 1.15 p.m. to-day. She sails for Wellington, Westport, and Greymonth on Friday. . . , . The s.s. Maori, Captain Bemiche, arrived in harbor from Port Chalmers, via South, West Coast, and Nelson, at 11 a.m. She sails for Oamaru this afternoon. . ARRIVAL OF THE BARQUE ARES, FROM CALCUTTA. The flue iron barque Ares, Captain Thomson, with a miscellaneous cargo from Calcutta, arrived yesterday morning. She is a handsome vessel of 613 tons (nearly new) being on her second trip. She was built by C. Connell, of Glasgow, and is owned in that city. Her passage has been rather a long one, owing to unfavorable winds having occupied 74 days from the Sand Heads to the Peninsula. Her master reports leaving Calcutta on June 16th, and the Sand Heads on the 18th. Had bad weather in the Bay of Bengal, crossing the equator 28 days out. The trades were exceedingly light, and when they left the vessel a succession of southerly breezes was encountered. When in 47 S. on August 18th, experienced unusually heavy S.W. gale, and from that time had fresh ■winds to thelSnares,(Which were made last Tuesday. Strong westerlies prevailed up tho coast, the Peninsula being'made on Friday. An unfavorable breeze, however,'drove the vessel to the northward, and it was Monday night before the barque neared tho Heads, and the pilot came aboard. She ran up the harbor to an anchorage off Stoddart’s Point yesterday morning. She comes consigned to Messrs Miles, Haasal and Co.