SHIPPING

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2035, 1 September 1880, Page 2

SHIPPING

PORT OP LYTTELTON. WniTHBB Bit pout —September 1. Ja.m. Weather, clear blue sky ; wind, easterly, fresh breeze. Barometer, 30.30; thermometer, 41.00. Hvh Water—To-morrow. Morning, 2.04; evening:, 2.26. Aksitkd —August 31. Arawata, s.s , 623 tone, Sinclair, from Sydney, ■via North. B. Puflett, agent. Passengers 3lr and Mrs Wigley, Mr and Mrs Battle, Mr and Mrs Stretton. Mr and Mrs Ruth, Mr and Mrs Parfitt, Mrs YonTempski, Misses Halbert, Cameron, Qoodso, and Headings, Mrs Bowen, Messrs Stewart, Bain. Hurst, Murray. Smith, Pyko, Wigley, Mendelson, McLean, Kennedy, Geddes, Muldia, Scott, Whittaker, Walker, Turnbull, Andrews, Fulton, Studholme, Murray, Peacock, Stevens, Tainui, Saunders, Peters, Murray-Aynsley, Gaidar, Colonel Brett, Rev. Mut'eu, Dr. Hucon, Hon. Captain Fraser, and fourteen steerage. Arrived— September 1. Loch Crce. barque, 791 tons, Jones, from Xondon. New Zealand Shipping Company, agents. Passengers—Steerage—George Jordan, William Clayton, William H. Jennings, Frederick W. Summers, Joseph McCsssalan. Jane McCassalau, John McCassalau, Katherine McCassalau, Jane McCassalau, Matilda McCassalau, William McCassalau, Charles McCassalau, Eliza McCassalau, Kliza Hamilton, Mary A. Hamilton, Walter P. Corrick, John Bell, Matilda Bell, Jane Bell, James Bell, Margaret, Bell, Matilda Bell, John Bell, Joseph Bell, Charles Bell, Rnth Bell, and John Cross. Apropos of the now departure about to be taken by the owners of the steamship Hero in sending her to this port from Sydney and along the Bast Coast, it is reported that a steamship owner in Melbourne some time since proposed to pat on “ a fast steamer to run between this port and Wellington.” It is also a matter of authoritative report that recently a gentleman largely interested in steamers in Yictoria, made a proposal to the master of a steamer on this coast to taka charge of such a vessel in the Lyttelton and Wellington trade. Whether the changing of the Hero’s route is in anyway apart of such a venture is not known, but that a stronger competition for the trade with the Union Steamship Company than at the present exists appears from this to be among the immediate probabilities. As far as “fast” steamers are concerned, whoever should make the venture would find the Union Company, to use a homely phrase, “ hard to rub out.” Their resources as regards both speed and accommodation are by no means meagre. Competition, if it comes, will bo most likely to be the strongest in the matter of charges for freight or passage between the two ports, and any reduction or series of reductions in these could no doubt ha borne by the general public without the least inconvenience. THE LOCH CEBE. This ship arrived this morning from London, ninety days out. She brought twenty-five passengers, all of whom arrived in good health. On the passage an apprentice, during a heavy gale, was washed overboard and lost._ The vessel is consigned to the New Zealand Shipping Company.