SHIPPING

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2123, 13 December 1880, Page 2

SHIPPING

POET OP LYTTELTON. Wbathbe Bipost—December 13. 9 a.m.—Weather, blue sky; wind. S.W. ireshbreeio, light. Barometer, 29.71; thermometer, 64. High Water —Tomorrow. Uorning, 2.01; evening, 2.25. Abeited —December 12. Catlin, ketch, 44 tons, Matheaon, from CatJin’a River. Master, agent. Palace, barque, 339 tons, Horne, from Newcastle. Passengers—Mrs Horne, Miss Dind. Harvey Hawkins and Co., agents. Wanaka, a.a., - 278 tons, MeQikivray,' from 'Wellington. Passengers—Mesdames Jaoobseni Thompson and child. Brinafield, Sheard, Messrs Garland, Gibson, Brake, Richards, Harold, Grantham, Jacobsen, Percival, Southern, (Manning, Senior, Benjamin, Bevitt, Bettany, Nan--oarrow, Donald, Captain Hume. Onion Steamchip Company, agents. St. Kilda, s.s., 174 tons. Flowerday, from Oamaru and -Dunedin. Eoyse, Stead and Co., agents. Abeited —December 13. City of Tanjore barque, 799 tons. Dow, Trom Calcntta. P. Cunningham and Co., agents. Thurso, barque, 490 tons, Eaddon, from Calcutta. C. W. Turner, agent. Planter, barque, 231 tons,. Read; from Port Esparauce. West Biding, barque, 913 tons, Thomas, from Glasgow. C. W. Turner, agent. Advance, schooner, .59 tons. Burr, from Thames. Master, agent. . Borealis, schooner, 130 tons, McKensie, from Wellington. Cuff and Graham, agents. Clhaked—December 11. Dnrham, s.s., 1638 tons, Anderson, for London. Passengers—Saloon: Mr and Mrs J. L. CUro and family. Mr W. M. Conway. Second Cabin : Mr Walter Harboro, Miss Fanny Harboro, Mr Alerander Pollard. Steerage: Mr and Mrs James Northrop and family, Mr and Mrs John Ivey and family, Mr and Mrs E. Spear and child, Mrs J. Nash, Misses J. L. Bates, A. Horrigan.lCooper, Messrs E. Ransom, A. Franklin, W. D. Dawkins, 1 James Kay, M. Mason, J. Heaton, W. H. Banett, W. W. Conway, P. Jepaon, W. Thomas. Dalgety and Co., agents. • Sailed —December 12. Elibank Castle, schooner,- 64 tons, Falconer, for Oamam. Black, Davies and Co., agents. Lois, barque, 380 tons, Lewis, for Newcastle. Wood, Shand and Co., agents. Sailed —December 11. St. Kilda, s.s., 174 tons, Flowerday, for ’Wanganui. Eoyse, Stead and Go.,.agents. Lyttelton, p.s., 39 tons, Clark, for Wellington. Lyttelton Harbor Board, agents. December 12. Cleopatra, brigantine, 68 tons, Clarkson, for Greymonth. C. W. Turner, agent. Wanaka, s.s., 278 tons, McGillivray, for Wellington. Passengers Misses Meilson, Brown, Mesdames Fife, Davidson, Fountain, McLean, Messrs Fife, Davidson, McLean, Davis, Young, Parker, Heighten, Halcombe, Marshall, Ewing. Taylor, McKay, McAllister, Cnllen. Union Steamship Company, agents. The agents of the steamship Durham, Messrs Dalgety and Co., are to bo complimented upon the despatch accorded that vessel since her arrival in port. Though a few days delayed on arriving here, she will be away to-day sharp to her advertised time. Particulars of her clearance at the Customs will be found elsewhere. The vessels at the wharves last evening were : —At No. I : May Qneen, Eangitiki, Lutterworth,- Prince Alfred, Dido. Clematis, Esther. No. 2: Akaroa (s). No. 3: Herald, I. W. Parker. No. 4 : Durham (s). Comet. No. 5. Edwin Basset, Bells, Pet, Emperor. No. 6 : Donedin, Ocean Hanger, Elibank Castle, Malay. No. 7 : Clio, Croydon Lass, Omaha, Reward. Graving Dock Jetty : Sea Gull. The barque Palace, t.aptain Horne, arrived yesterday from Newcastle, with a cargo of pijea and. timber for Messrs Hawkins and Martindale’s breastwork contract. The barque made a good trip of ten days, and reports that the Spa sdwell would follow bar a few days later. The yacht built specially by T. Niool at Auckland to compete at the Melbourne regatta measures 38 tons. Her length over all is 64ft, «n the water line 55ft, beam 13ft draught, aft 10ft, forward 6ft. She carries 11 tons of lead, including what is in the keel and inside. She was named the Tanewha. The Tanewha is a mythical sea-dragon or monster, supposed to inhabit lonely caves and cliffs on the coast or Islands, and the Maoris—at least of the old school—have an awfnl dread of him. In bygone days, whenever a place likely to he one of hia numerous homes was approached, an invocation, appropriate to the occasion, was chanted, with a view to averting disaster at his hands. ARRIVALS FROM POEEIGN POETS. The barque Thurso, with a cargo of cornsacks and woolpacks for her owner, arrived thia morning from Calcutta, and the City of Taujore, with a like cargo, for Messrs Eoyse, Stead, and Co., and Messrs P. Cunningham and Co. The barque West Riding, from Glasgow, Mr C. W. Turner, agent, arrived this morning, and the barque Planter, from Port Esperance. A brigantine, from the South, was signalled as our. express left Port to-day. ARRIVAL OF THE SAN PEANCISCO MAIL. Auckland, December 13, The Australia has arrived from San Francisco with the. mail. She left San Francisco wharf at 2.50 pm. of November 21st. Passengers— Fop New,', Zealand Messrs Hayes, Pnlleine, Mills and wife, Laroche, Gregory, Cnatin, Williams, Pearson, Paul, Brownlie (Dunedin), and fifteen steerage. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. Bluff, December 13. The Ringarooma left Melbourne at 3 p.m. on the 7th. She arrived at the Bluff at 10.30 a.m. She experienced strong southerly winds and equally weather. She sails for Dunedin at S p.m. Saloon.passengers—For Bluff—Messrs Anderson, EUis, Turner, Williams, Weston, Matheson, Simpson, McKellar, and nine steerage. For Dunedin—Mr, Mrs, and Miss Evans, Mr and Mrs Brown, Misses Ewing, Mowatt, Messrs.Keast, Burns, Gault, Forsyth, Smith, Shaw, ; Coates, Kirkland, Maokay, Hart, Armstrong, Huddon, Carpenter, Spence, Skitoh, Marshall, Smith, Leeren and party, Short, Gardner, Mesdames Gardner, Short, Dowse. Graham, Jones, and ten steerage. For Lyttelton Messrs * Wallace, Ward, Gordon, Ingram, Taylor, Smith, Britain, and five stcer■age. For Wellington—Mesdames Montague, Brown, Oldham. Messrs Robertson, Rawlings, Harrison, Brookfield, Oldham, Brown, and ■three steerage. For Napier—Miss Cook and Master Stewart. For Auckland—Messrs Hatfield, McCall, Sinclair, Stewart, Bannister, Crisp, Yantight. For Lyttelton—From Hobart Town —Misses McCormick. For Wellington— Messrs Kennedy, Barnett, .and Mrs Mabell. For Auckland—Mr and Mrs Harrison, Sir Arthur Stepney, and two, steerage.