SHIPPING.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1918, 17 April 1880, Page 2

SHIPPING.

POET OF LYTTELTON. Wbather Report—April 17. 9 a.m. —Weather, overcast and gloomy. Wind, N.E., light. Barometer, 30.46; thermometer, 54.00. High Water —To Marrow. Morning, 10.51 ; evening, 11.14. Arrived —April 17. Taiaroa, s.s., 228 tons, Petersen, from Wellington, N«lson, and Pic.ton. K. Pnflett. agent. Passengers—Mrs Hae, Messrs Beaver, Gardiner, Rose, Simcox, De!o, Cox. Sailed—April 17. Star of India, barque, 1040 tons, Roe, for London. C. W. Turner, agent. Hopeful, barque. 332 tons. Luly. for Oamaru. P Cunningham and Co., agents. The s.s. Taiaroa arrived at 7.45 a.m. from Wellington, Nelson, a:;0. Picton, to return North to-night. The Star of India wa3 towed to the stream yesterday. The pressure of cargo for tho s.s. Penguin, for the North, was so »rfat on Thursday that it was found nrcessary io d»tain the steamer until yesterday, when she left for Wellington. The New Zea atid Shipping Company announce the fine ship Vebo to sail for London on May lsr. The vc:-s:l has admirable accommodation fer passengers. Th* d 8. Taiaroa leaves to-day for Wellington and advertised ports. The totals of shipping for March quarter of 1830 entered and cleared at the Port of Lyttelton wero— 117 vessels, 85 143 registered tonnage : outwards, 429 vessels, S 3 603 registered tonnage Fifteen vessels, of 17.259 registered tonnage, cleared for the United Kingdom during tho quarter ju*t expired, as against ten vessels, of 10,631 tons, for the corresponding quarter of 1879, an inovexs!) of qnita 61 per cent, in the tonnsga dispatched to the old country in first quarter of 18S0 over that of 1879. The barque Especulador and schooners Elizabeth Curie and Onward were yesterday offered at auction by Messrs Matson. and Co. The first was withdrawn at £l5O, and the Onward at £550. There was no offer for the JKlizabeth Curie. Tha ship Salamanca, loaded by the New Zealand Shipping Company, tripped her anchor at 10 a.m. yesterday and towed to eea, on her voyage to London. As a record of fast work in the stevedore line that of the Salamanca is worthy of note. The ship, as was stated yesterday, was berthed on March 26th. She finished loading last Wednesday, and allowing for Sundays, Good Friday, and the deductions for Bhort Saturdays and steppage from wet weather, the result 13 twelve full working days. Not much ghort of 2700 tons of cargo, representing her inward and outward cargo, wore handled in that time, or an average per dsy of 225 tons. News was telephoned from the lookout station at the Lytteltan Heads yesterday that what appeared to be a large mass of wreckage floating in the water, and distant about sixteen miles to the N.N.E. wa3 visible. The Harbor Board's steam tug Lyttelton was immediately upon receipt of the news despatched to the spot indicated, and on her return reported finding a dead whale fully eighty feet bng. The water around wa3 alive with sharks. Until quite close those en board the tug took it to bo a vessel bottom np. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. Bluff, April 17. Sailed—Eotomahana, for Melbourne ; Jasper, for Sydney, with cats; Emily, for Adelaide, with oata. Wellington, AprillG. Arrived—Taiaroa, from Picton and Nelson. Sailed—Taiaroa, for the South. A barque signalled at the Heads, is supposed to be the Portland, from LondoD. Gbeyhouth, April 16. Arrived —Charle3 Edward, from Nelson, with the San Francisco Trail. Sailed—Kennedy, for Nelson;, Charles Edward, for the South. Xltjnedin, April!6. Arrived—Maori, from Timaru; Rotomahana, from Auckland vri the East Coast; Wanaka, s.s., from the Njrth. Sailed—Rotomahana, 5.3., for Melbourne; Beautiful Star, s.g., for Oamaru.