SHIPPING.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1864, 13 February 1880, Page 2

SHIPPING.

£?iFOET OF LYTTELTON,

Weather Report —February 13. 9 a.m. —Weather, overcast. Wind, N.E., light. Barometer, 30.23 ; thermometer, 65. High Water—To-morrow. Morning, 7.03 ; evening, 7.30.

Arbited —February 13. Saucy lass, schooner, 39 tons, Callow, from Havelock. Cuff and Graham, agents. Cleared —February 13. Aratapu, 122 tons, McDonald, for Kaipara. Master agent. Sailed —February 13. Glimpse, ketch, 38 tons, Featherstone, for Port Chalmers. Master, agent. Magellan Cloud, brigantine, 99 tons, Bowers, from Eaipara. Master, agent.

The Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Co.’s s.s. Kangaroo, 1101 tons, 260 horsepower, Captain Seymour, which is now engaged in laving the third cable across Cook’s Straits, loft London on the 13'h November, proceeded to Aden via the Sura Canal, and laid a portion of the cable from thereto Zanzibar, being part of the scheme for establishing telegraph communication between Sonth Africa and the rest of the world. Her work was accomplished without iatch. From Zanzibar she proceeded to the Mauritius to coal, arriving there on the sth January ; she left on the 7th, and arrived at Hobart Town on tho 29th ; proceeded again on the Ist inst., and arrived at Wellington last Saturday. It is staled that the light dues at present paid to the Customs by coasting vessels will oease to he charged after tho Ist of April *ext.

The Hobart Town barque Southern Cross, ■which was wrecked some time since, was tho subject of an ofHcial inquiry recently, and tho following decision reached : — 11 The Court are of opinion that the barque Southern Cross was wrecked fonr miles west of Cape Douglas, on the morning of the Bth ult., through the vessel being eighteen miles north of her course, and the Penguin Island light having been mistaken for that of Cape Northumberland. They are also of opinion that there was gross neglect on the part of the boatswain and watch on deck in not having kept a proper look-out, and that the boatswain is also greatly to blame in having allowed so young a boy to be on the look-out.” Captain Alexander Eamsay was master of the vessel.

SHIPPING TELEGRAMS,

Auckland. February 12. Sailed —Ringarooma for the South. The ship British Empire was admitted to pratique this afternoon. The ship Minister of Marine, -which gained an unenviable notoriety in this port some months ago, arrived at San Francisco from Auckland on December 29th, after a passage of 58 days.