SHIPPING

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2083, 27 October 1880, Page 2

SHIPPING

POST OP LYTTELTON,

Wsathbb Ebpobt— October 27. 9 a.m.—Weather, clear, blue sky; wind, «alm. Barometer. 30.03 ; thermometer, 47. High Water —To-Morrow. Homing, 11.40; evening, GO.OO. Aueived —October 28 Hoa, brig, 218 tons, Meyer, from Dunedin. Master, agent. Herald, schooner, 63 tons, Chambers, from Pelorua Sound. Master, agent. Sailed—September 26. Taiaroa, b.s., 228 tons. Malcolm, for Manu3cau and way ports. Union Steamship Co., agents. Island City, barque, 421 tons, McDonald, for Newcastle. Passengers Mrs McDonald, Messrs Wilson, Mathews, and Gordon. W. H. Hargreaves, agent. Edith Eeid, schooner, 71 tons, McConviUe, for Greymouth. Cuff and Graham, agents. Oreti, s.s., 117 tons, Eras T, for Manukau, •ria way ports. J. M. Heywood and Co., agents. Grafton, s a., 242 tons, Johnson, for Wellmtrton and West Coast. Passengers—For Weilington—Mrs Graham, and two steerage. P. Cunningham and Co., agents. Sailed —October 27. Kenilworth, brigantine, 113 tons, Bioketts. for Timarn. Cuff and Graham, agents.

The brigantine Kenilworth Captain Bioketts, sailed this morning for Timarn. _ The schooner Herald, Captain Chambers, arrived in harbor yesterday afternoon from Pelorua Sound, whence she left on Saturday at noon, and had light N.B. winds till the evening; thence N.W. to Amuri Bluff on Monday, when the wind veered round to the south, ■which lasted to arrival. The barque Gemma, for Falmouth, from this port via Oamaru, put into Valparaiso on Sept. 13th, with part damaged cargo and damaged bulwarks. , .. ~, The s.s. Penguin, for some time laid up in Dunedin, has bean lately cleaned and repainted preparatory to resuming service in the Union Company’s fleet on the coast. The ketches Prince Bnpert and Isabella, from Gatlin’s Biver, arrived yesterday with cargoes at timber, consigned to Mr F. Jenkins. The schooner tlibauk Castle, Capt. Graham, was loading timber at Gatlin’s Biver yesterday The schooners Spec and Star of the Sea left Pelorns Sound on the 23rd inst. for here. The Haloione has about 20 tons to take in, and the Waitangi is all but ready. Both ships -will leave as advertised. . The brigantine Sarah and Mary, Captain London, arrived in harbor yesterday from Bluff with a cargo of timber.

THE OPAWA.

The immigrants by this vessel were landed yesterday, and the ship will he berthed to-day. As was stated in yesterday’s it sue the immigrants are chiefly single girls. The exact number is 149, and it is no exaggeration to stato fiat a more desirable body of passengers have not arrived in this port. Their nationality is given as fo lows 61 English, 11 Scotch, and 133 Irish. The surgeon-superintendent. Dr. G. S, Eadson, now upon his eleventh voyage to the colonies, speaks of the passage as a particularly favorable one from a medical point of view, and his opinion in this respect may be applied equally to the voyage in a nautical sense. The «aly serious sickness during the passage was to m infant named Elizabeth Leckcndy, who succumbed on October 20th to the disease known as tubercular meningitis. Dr. -Eadson reports that the highest thermometrical reading in the ’tween decks during the entire voyage was 88dag., nnl the lowest 46deg., thus showing that a very reasonable mean temperature was maintained. Captain Friston, who brings with him this voyage as last, his worthy chief, Mr -Crnickshank, reports meeting in the channel on leaving Plymouth what proved to be a grand sight. In his own words, “ they looked like a plantation of trees in the distance, and not having had an opportunity for a ‘ sight’ for a day or two previous, were sufficiently startling to make me think they were part of the groves on the coast of Portugal. As we approached them, however, this incredible supposition was quickly dispelled, their fsrest of masts soon showing them to be connected with eleven monstrous hulls, well fortified, and representing a portion of the Channel Fleet out on a cruise.” As the Opawa passed them and pulled up her flag the eleven five-masted cruisers (three of which were .flying Admirals’ flags) sainted, signalling the flagship “Minotaur.” They were all under sail and in perfect line, and a more magnificent sight Captain Friston says he never beheld. The Opawa crossed the Equator on September 3rd, in 23 W., passed the meridian of the Cape on September 25th, and sighted the Snares on October 21st, since which strong northerly weather has prevailed. The ship is to be berthed to-day at the Gladstone Pier, and will be despatched for London by her agents, the New Zealand Shipping Company, on her advertised date.

SHIPPING TELEGRAMS.

Auckland, October 26. Sailed—Dargot, French 'war ship, for Yalpar&iso; Hawea, s.s., for the South. Passengers—For Nelson : Mrs G. E. Field and three children, Master W. Miller, Mrs Goodison. For Pioton : Thos. Hill Baxter. For Wellington—Mr Glasgow, Mr and Mrs Corley and four children, Messrs Campbell, Macpheraon, G. Sandster, T. Smith, Simpkins. For Lyttelton : Rev. B. Gibbons, E. J. Gibbons, Miss Mooming. Poet Chalmees, October 26. Arrived—Eotomahana, from Lyttelton.