SHIPPING.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1540, 24 January 1879, Page 2

SHIPPING.

POET OP LYTTELTON. Weather Report—January 24. 9 a,m.~ Weather, clear bine sky; wind, N.E., light. Baroincier, 30.50; thermometer, GO. Hi?n Water—To-morrow. ■ Morning, 6.00; evening. 6.22, ARHm»—January 23. Tni s.s., fit tons, Wills, from Wollington, Kaikonra', and Boat Harbour. Cuff and Graham, agents. Passengers—Mrs Norton, Mr Goodwin, and two natives. Steerage, 3. January 24. Nightingale, brigantine, 220 tons, McCouvillo, from Timaru, Cuff and Graham, agents. Passenvers—Mrs Convillo and child. Courier ketch, 20 tons, Sinclair, from Pigeon Bav. Waster, agent. , _ Dover, brig, 175 tons, Stephens, from Bluff. Master, agent. Passengers-Mrs Stephens and child. Cleared —January 24. Sarah and Mary, ketch, 40 tons, Payne, for Amnn Bluff. Master, agent. _ . n re Tui, s.s,, 64 tons, Wills, for Boat Harbour, Cuff and Graham, agents. ~ , , Reward, schooner, 40 tons, Westlake, for Motunau. Master, agent. The steamer Tui arrived last night from Wellington via Kaikouva. She goes hence to the Boat Harbor this evening. i The Dover, brig, and the brigantine Nightingale arrived this morning, tho former from tho Bluff and the brigantine from Timaru. Tho LT.S S. Co.’s s.s. Wanaka leaves for Akaroa and Port Chalmers to-morrow at 1 o’clock p.m. The hrigautine Nightingale is expected from Timaru by Messrs Cuff and Graham. The schooner Alert, owned by this linn, is loading at Havelock, having been unable to reach Wellington in time to enter the regatta there. . The ship Waikato and the barque Helen Angior were berthed by the p.s. Titan yesterday, the former at the Gladstone Pier and the latter at the Tunnel “Wharf. The s.s. Southern Cross left Wellington for Lyttelton at 2 p.m. yesterday. She is announced to lea ve for Auckland, via Wellington and East Coast, to-morrow. . ~ ~ ... The barque Islam! City, from Newcastle, with coal, is expected by Messrs P. Cunningham and Co. It is said that Captain Thompson, late master of the brig Derwent, has been appointed to tho command of Mr C. W. Turner’s barque Sunbeam. The Island Lily sails to-day for the Chatham Islands. Two steam cranes (says the Dunedin Herald ) for the Harbor Board have arrived from Britain. One of them is to be placed immediately on the Cross Wharf, near the old jetty. One of the cranes on the rocky wall breastwork is being taken down, and will he sent to Port Chalmers. There is now a reasonable prospect that the delays for which the port of Dunedin has become so notorious will shortly be a thing of the past. . Captain Heath, E.N., Port Master at Brisbane, has issued the following notice to mariners:— "Vessel to round Venus Bank Spit with leading lights open to northward, and give buoy a wide berth.” In the London “ Times” of a late date appears a letter to tho Editor, questioning the validity of a mate’s receipt, which is replied to subsequently in the following letter, also addressed to the Editor:— •• Sir,—Your correspondent seems to be quite right In his suspicion of the invalidity of a mate’s receipt. It was decided in Chancery in 1873 (Hathesiugv Laing, Law Rep. 17, Equity 92) that the holder for value of hills of lading signed by the master in favor of the shipper, has a better right than the endorsee of a mate’s receipt. In this same case, a custom alleged to exist at Bombay, by which the mate s receipts are negotiable instruments like bills of lading, was rejected as being, even if properly proved to exist, inoperative against the master’s and owner’s. Such seems to be the law upon the subject; its expediency or inexpediency will be best estimated by commercial men.” SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. Auckland, January 23. Arrived—Oamaru, from Lyttelton. Sailed—Amaranth, for Lyttelton, with 45,000 ft. Last advices from Kaipara state that the barque Camille had arrived from Lyttelton. The Derwent and Fawn were loading for Lyttelton. The Taupo arrived from the East Coast at 6.30 p.m. to-day. The schooner of 50 tons register, named Madonna, launched by Sims and Brown to-day, has been chartered by Captain W. Lombard for a cruise to tho Islands. Foxton, January 23. The ship Hydrabad floated yesterday afternoon, and was hauled 150 yards further seaward. There is every probability now of her being got off. Timaru, January 23, Arrived—Florinda, from Lyttelton. Sailed—Janet Ramsay and Beautiful Star, for Dunedin. Port Chalmers, January 23. The ship Euterpe sails for London on Saturday with 4351 bales wool, 14 skins, and 3398 bags wheat, valued at £90,853. Bluff, January 23. Sailed—Ringarooma, for Melbourne.