SHIPPING.

Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1692, 23 July 1879, Page 2

SHIPPING.

POST OF LYTTELTON. Wjcatheb Bepoet—Jnly 23. 9 a.ra— 'Weather, clear, hlno sky ; wind, calm. Barometer, 25.C9 ; thermometer. 35. Hi ah Water— I To-morrow. Morning, 7.11 j evening, 8.03. Anmvup—July 23. Arawata, 8.a., 623 tons, Sinclair, from Melbourne, Bluff, and Port Chalmers. K. Puflet, agent. Paaaongors—From Melbonvne—Messrs A. F. Thomas, George Maddens, M. Mo'.‘Dwell, and C. F. Money; from Coast—Mrs Tajlor and family (■->). Messrs Lees and Stranger. Steerage. 12. Cleareo —.Inly 23. Arawnta, s.s.. C 23 tons, Sinclair, for Wellington, E. Pullett, agent. Tlio s.s. Arawata arrived this morning from Melbourne, via Soutli, and will leave for Wellington this afternoon. .... , , In yesterday's issne. a ndiculons miscalculation of the percentage of ships lost on their voyages to and from these colonies was published. Instead of the percentages being struck from the totals, those for the whole of the colonies were added together, giving the absurd result that over four per cent, of the outward hound and over live per cent, of the homeward bound ships were lost. The percentage of lose among vessels bound ts tho colonies should have been stated as .87, and the losses amongst English bound ships as .67. Tho Union Steamship Company's s.s. llawea. Captain Kennedy, arrived at midnight of Monday, from Wellington. The steamer left Wellington oil Sunday at 2 p.m., and had been three hours and a half at sea, steaming against an unusually heavy aeft, and very heavy pale from tho southward, when Captain Kennedy determined to put into Worser Bay. There she remained until Monday at 6a■ m-. having boon twelve hours at anchor. Fine weather, with a light northerly wind, was met with after leaving, though there was still considerable head sea. The steamer reached the wharf a few minutes teforo twelve o’clock. The Kawea sailed for Port Chalmers at 2 p.m. _ . . The barque Espocnlador, Captain Powell, arrived yesterday afternoon from Newcastle, coal laden. She loft there Juno 28th. A southerly gale, continuing for four days, was experienced before making Capo Farewell; through the Straits had a N.W. breeze, and so to Kaikoura ; was there blown away in a souther’y gale, and ran for shelter to Capo Campbell; remained there two days, and at Port Underwood for two days ; left Port Underwood with a N.W. wind and got to Waipapa Point when another southerly gale carried the vessel hack; N.W. weather followed, and the Kaikouras were again made on last Saturday, when a heavy sea and strong S.W. wind wore encountered j this continued until Monday, when tho wind veered to tho N.W., and the harbor was made about 3 p.m. The vessel was brought in and berthed at Peacock a Wharf.