SHIPPING.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1627, 8 May 1879, Page 2

SHIPPING.

POET OF LYTTELTON Whathbb Bkport— May 8. 9 a.m.—Weather, overcast. Wind, N,E„ light. Barometer, 29.70; thermometer, 55. Hijrh Water—To-morrow. Morning, 6.38; evening, 7.09. Sailed —May 7. Wakatipn, 8.8., 1156 tons, Wheeler, for Wellington and Syrtnoy. R. Pnflett, a;*ent. Passengers— For Wellington—Mrs Moorehonse, Mr and Mrs Butter, Misses McKullar (2), Misses Moorehouse, Munneriug, Inglia, Messrs Twentyman. Sargeant, Hill. For Nelson—Mr Jacobsen. For Tarauaki— Mr Tisch. For Sydney—Messrs Pitcairn, Tooth, Hillhouso, Ashby, Mr and Mrs Kerry ; and 24 in steerage. , _. . Huia, s.s., 100 tons, Wills, for Kaikonra and Wellington. Cuff and Graham, agents. The s.s. Huia, Captain Wills, arrived on Tuesday night from Kaikonra and Wellington, and left last night on a return trip to the same porta. The s.s. Wakatipn, Captain Wheeler, from Port Chalmers, arrived hero at 11 a.m. yesterday, and loft at 6 p.m. for Wellington and Sydney. The Hinemoa, New Zealand Government steamer, Captain Fairchild, came in yesterday morning from Wellington, and steamed alongside the Screw Pile Jetty, landed some mail bags, and went off outside the breakwater, where she anchored. Capt. Fairchild reports meeting with a dense fog last night, which he did not get clear of until he was inside the Lyttolton Heada. The barques Orient, Especulador, Mathien, and Elizabeth, are expected daily from Newcastle. The three first are twenty-one days out to-day, and the Elizabeth twenty days. In a letter to the "ISaturday Advertiser," Dunedin, is the following :—" Owing to the recent loss of two of their coasting steamers, the one following immediately after the other, the Union Steamship Company have taken prompt steps to augment their fleet. They have not only forestalled the two steamers building on the Clyde, by closing for tho purchase of a vessel at home, in every respect equal to the Taupo, and which they expect in the colony by the end of July, but they are also in treaty for a fourth, of a still better class. By next spring the company look forward I < having at their command steamers possessing speed and accommodation far excelling any hitherto plying in these waters, either intercolonially or on the seaboard of New Zealand." The steamer referred to as having been purchased at home is the Penguin, to be named on her arrival the Tarawera. She ia said to be a 13-knot boat, about tho size of the Hawoa.