SHIPPING.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1582, 15 March 1879, Page 2

SHIPPING.

POET OF LYTTELTON. WBATHES Ekpoet—March 15. 9 a.m.—Weather, clear, bine shy; wind, i .E. breeze. Barometer, 30.30; thermometer, 60. Hieh Water—To-morrow. Morning, 11.00; evening, 11.2(5. Arrived—March 15. Hawca s.s.. 462 tons. Kennedy, from Auckland, via East Coast ports. R. Puflet, agent. Passengers —Mr and Mrs Fisher, Mcsdames Hughes and child, MeEaehren and two children, James; Mess Ashcroft Proctor, Feld wick. Mason. Wylie, Bale, Lad brook, Bucbok, Reid (2), Litch fieldt Mam, Gillon, Williams, Bostick. Jose, Fai low Kiucr. Perrier, Smoer, McLean, » Ponongliuo, Father Heuneberry, Hon MacauMcGUEvray from Port Messrs Dearsley and Barker. _ T , Cleared—-March 15. Unity, ketch, 43 tons, Thompson, for Wellington. K, Puflet, agent. Tlio s.s. Hawea, arrived this morning at nine o’clock "from Auckland and the East Coast ports. She leaves for Port Chalmers, via Akaroa, tomorrow (Sunday) morning, at ten o’clock. The s.s, Wanaka, from Port Chalmers via Akaroa, arrived at noon to-day. She is announced to leave for Auckland, via East Const ports, to-night. The s.s. Tails announced hy her agents, Messrs Cnlf and Graham, to leave to-day for Wanganui, via Kaikonra, Wellington, and Poxton. The departure of the Hydaspes on Thursday night afforded the Harhor Board’s tug boat Lyttelton a fair chance to exhibit its power, Ibo ship was taken in tow at eight o’clock by the steamer , a strong N.E. wind blowing at the time, and the speed attained going out of the harbor against an equally strong flood tide was 3i knots. Outside the beads tins speed was increased to 4 knots, the ship having her lower topsails loosed and aback, and against a heavy sea. The Lyttelton took her out seven miles from the beads, when suddenly the 12-inch hawser snapped close to the ship, so great was the strain upon it. The broken Bowser was hauled on board the steamer, and the ship loosed her sails, and proceeded on her voyage.