SHIPPING.
PORT OP LYTTELTON. Wfathfr Effort —November 25. 9 ’a.m.—Weather, clear, blue sky ; wind, N.E, breeze. Barometer, 29.98; thermometer, 57. Hitrh Water —To-morrow, Morning, 5.16 ; evening, 5.16. Arrived— November 23. Lcttcrfonrie, barque, 339 tons, Geddes, from Manukau. P. Cunningham and Co., agents, November 24. Kestrel, ketch, 20 tons, Mortimer, from Pigeon Bay. Master, agent. jannette, ketch, 41 tons. Green, from Okain’s Bay. Master, agent. Volunteer, schooner, 22 tons, Larsen, from Le Bon’s Bay. Master, agent. Catherine, ketch. It tons, Weir, from the Bays. Master, agent. Hawea, s.s. tons, Kennedy, from Port Chalmers via Akaroa. D. Mills, agent. Passengers— Messrs Baker, Sharp, Black, Brough, Wood, Beechey, Guttlebert, Warne, Sheene, Cowan, Minraut, Bell, Mrs Wood and family, Mrs Brough. Arrived —November 25. Eingarooma, s.s., 623 tons. Clark, from Wellington. Dalgoty, Nichols and Co, agents. Passengers—Saloon—Messrs Teschomakor, Pitman, Edwards, Ede, Duncan, Thompson, Crone, Kcmpthorne, Pierce, French, Mrs French, Mrs Steele. Twelve saloon tor south, Hobart Town, and Mel. bourne. Steerage—9 for Lyttelton, 6 for Hobart Town and Melbourne, Courier, ketch, 31 tons, Sinclair, from Pigeon Bay. Master, agent. Cleared —November 23. Southminstor, ship, 1249 tons, McFee, for Wellington. Dalgoty, Nichols and Co., agents. Cleared —November 25. Eingarooma, s.s., 623 tons, Clarke, for Melbourne, via South. Dalgety, Nichols and Co., agents. Minnie, ketch, 17 tons, Morris, for Pigeon Bay. Master, agent. Eagle, ketch, 15 tons, Messervy, for Pigeon Bay. Master, agent. Especulador, barque, 262 tons, Powell, for BlnrE. F. Jenkins, agent. Sailed— November 23. Star, brigantine, 407 tons. Day, for Newcsstlo. Cuff and Graham, agents. Lnrline, barque, 762 tons, Adair, for London. C. W. Turner, agent. Mary Millar, barque, 262 tons, Valentine, for Newcastle. P. Lanrio, agent. The Eingarooma, s.s., arrived at 8.30 a.m. She sails for Melbourne, via South, this afternoon. The Especulador cleared for the Bluff this morning. The Lettorfouric, barque, with a load of 25,000 ft. timber from the Manukau, arrived at the Heads on Saturday evening, and ran up the harbor yesterday morning, anchoring off the Breakwater. An iron barque of 546 tons, named the Gleu Hnutly, commanded by Captain J. Bidwell, arrived from Hobart Town on Saturday morning. She brings a load of Hobart Town produce, consigned to Mr W. H. Hargreaves. Captain Bidwell reports leaving Hobart Town on November 13th, and having strong westerly winds and variables to making the Solaudors on Monday morning. Thence had variable weather with occasional heavy gales to making the Peninsula, on Friday morning, entered the Heads on Saturday morning, and arrived at anchorage off Breakwater at 8 a.m. same day. The Gazelle during the greater part of her absence from Lyttelton was detained in Port Underwood owing to the prevalence of northerly winds. It is found that ns at present rigged she does not work well, and probably some alteration will be made before she again sails. DEPAETUEE OF THE LUELINE. Messrs C. W. Turner and Co.’s handsome barque Lnrline, Captain James Adair, sailed for London on Saturday afternoon. She cleared the Customs on the morning of the same day with a cargo of wool and wheat valued at £13,550. There was a fresh S.W. wind blowing, and after once towing the barqne clear of the Breakwater, the Titan had easy work of it. Sail was soon made on the barque, which, before dark had made a good offing. AEEIVAL OF THE CIECE FEOM BATAVIA. Mr C. W. Turner’s handsome brigantine Circe, commanded by Captain Alexander, arrived in harbor on Saturday morning, after an absence of five months. She is last from Batavia, and brings a full cargo of sugar, coffee, rice, spices, &e. The Circe is well down in the water, but she is no disgrace to the house flag that she flies, being as clean as a new pin on deck and almost perfection aloft, with her masts stayed saucily and her sails furled as neatly as a first-class frigate. The run from Batavia has occupied forty-two days—a grand run—in fact, the vessel was anchored before the letters which Captain Alexander had written announcing his intended departure on following day were delivered here, for they only arrived a few hour earlier in the s.s. Taiaroa Captain Alexander reports leaving Batavia on October 12th, passing through Straits of Snnda same evening, and taking departure from Princess Island on October 13tb. The vessel at once canght the S.E. trades, which were good, and held to 28 S. Had variables whilst steering south, but in 37 S. lat. and 109 E. long., canght the westerly winds. Passed the parallel of Cape Leeuwin on November 22nd, the westerlies being strong and veering from N. W. to S.W. The meridian of Tasmania was passed on November 12th, in 45 S., and the Snares on the 17th, but the weather being hazy they were not sighted. Northerly winds then prevailed, and the New Zealand coast was not sighted till the 20th inst., near Cape Saunders. That same evening got a sudden shift of wind from the southward, and arrived off Banks’ Peninsula on the 21st, when the wind veered to the westward, with heavy squalls. On the 22nd and 23rd had light variable and S.W. winds, and on the latter day beat up the harbor against it, anchoring off the Breakwater at 10 a.m, ENGLISH SHIPPING [From the “Home News,” October 10.] ARRIVALS AT HOME. The Malacca arrived at Deal September 13th, and the Western Monarch at Prawle Point September 16th. The Waikato reached Gravesend October 3rd, and the Himalaya passed the Lizard October 4th. SAILINGS FOR CANTERBURY. The N.Z.S. Co.’s Hnrunni, Captain McKelvie, sailed from Gravesend on September 10th, and was off the Start on the 13th. She brings the following passengers;—Mr and Mrs Snmuer, Mr and Mrs Ching, two children, and servant, Capt. H. H. Eden, Messrs E. Sharlnnd and E. Moate and Dr Houeyman, Mrs Ward, Miss Wolf, Messrs Malcolm and Dense, and thirty steerage passengers. The Marlborough, ship, 1124 tons, left Gravesend November 19th, the “Home Nows” of Oct. 10th says: The Marlborough, Captain Anderson, chartered by the Now Zealand Government, was despatched from Plymouth last week with emigrants for that colony. She had altogether on hoard 336 souls, or 303 j statnte adults, whoso destination was Canterbury, New Zealand. The Jasper, Captain Smith, sailed from Glasgow, for Lyttelton, on October 2nd. The “ Times ” 682 tons. Captain Novie, sailed from Gravesend October 4th, and passed Deal same day. SHIPPING TELEGEAMS. Bluff, November 24. The Ann Gambles was completely broken up last night by the heavy southerly sea. Port Chalmers, November 24. Sailed—Hawea. Passengers for Lyttelton—Mrs Warne, Messrs Isaacs, Meilworth. Arrived—Taiaroa, from Lyttelton. Wellington, November 23. Arrived—Olustee, from Lyttelton, Wellington, November 25. Arrived—Emerald, from Lyttelton. Nelson, November 25. Arrived—Schooner Madcap, 42 days from Mauritius with 300 tons sugar, for Sclanders and Co., and Edwards and Co.
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Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1490, 25 November 1878, Page 2
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