SHIPPING.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1914, 13 April 1880, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OF LYTTELTON. Wsatese Report—April 13. 9 a.m. Weather, overcast and gloomy. Wind, S.W., fresh breeze. Barometer, 2i.93; ’thermometer, 51, High Water—To-morrow. Mcming, 7.33 ; evening, 8.03. Arrived—April 13. Hnwea, s.s.. 462 tons, Kennedy, from Dunedin. B. Fuflctt, agent. St. Kilda, s.s., 174 tons, Flowcrday, from Dunedin. Royse, Stead and Co., agents. A brigantine, the Defiance, was launched from, the yards of Messrs Mackay and Sons, Auckland, on the 30th ult., after being two years and a-half on the stocks. She is of -08 registered tonnage; length of keel, 99ft; overall. 112 ft; beam, 21feet ; depth ot hold, 12ft lin ; and possesses good accommodation for passer gers. .... ~ . The complication of shipping matters at Auckland resulting from the rapid silting up of the harbor, would appear from the following, taken from the “ N.Z Herald,” to be very greet:—“ The inconvenience of having to move from berth to berth to keep afloat is great. Goods have frequently to bo twice shifted, and goods going to different parts are apt to get mixed up, passengers board the wrong steamers, and endless confusion arises. All this Captain Farquhar {master of a local 'steamer), has to jndare; he does not put himself to all this trouble and inconvenience to prove any preconceived theory or to find an argument against the Harbor Board.”