SHIPPING

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2142, 6 January 1881, Page 2

SHIPPING

PORT OP LYTTELTON. Weather Report— January 6. 9 n.m.—Weather, clear ; blue sky ; wind, N.E., light. Barometer, 30.22; thermometer, SO. High Water—To-Morrow. Morning, 9.10 ; evening, 9 31. ' Arrived— January 5. Wave of Life, brigantine, 70 tons, Herbert, from Kaiptvra. Master,. agent. Otaki, ship, 1014 tons, Devitt, from London. Passengers Misses Ann Kobbell. W. K. Kobbell, Alice Brown, Susy Brown, Mrs Neary, Messrs Francis Kobhell, Mark Kobbell, E. O. Turner, T. E. Armitage, F. R. W. Malet, Charlotte Leahy, Elizabeth Palmer, J. E. Palmer and G. P. Palmer, William Bissiker Longson. Biiza Longson, S. W. Neale, Hamlet and Elizabeth Low, Charles, Eliza. Ada, Louisa, Kate, Minnie, Frederick and Sydney Harrow, O Mo Lough.Daniel and John Mcfclonry, Harriet Dr.gi.’loby, May C. Clarke, A. McLelland, David Tonby, William. Matilda and Eliza Humphrey, George Thomas, David Wilkie. Richard Marfoll. New Zealand Shipping Co , agents. Cleared —January 6. Clematis, ketch, 67 tons, Johnson, for D’ ‘'rviilo’s Island Master, agent. Island Lily, brigantine, 122 tons, Cooper, for Chatham Islands, Passengers —Dr. Cooper, Messrs Bridge.woed, Galbraith, Childs, Whutu. Muster, agent. Railed —January 5. T. B. Taylor, schooner, 54 tons, Russell, for Timaru. P. Cunningham and Co., agents. Tni, s.s., 04 tons, Wills, for Wellington. Cnff and Graham, agents. ‘ To Anau, s.s., 1028 tons, Carey, for Dunedin. Passengers—For Port Chalmers : Miss ant Master Jones, Messrs Matheson, Coombs, Gillon, Newby. For Bluff: Miss Gillon. For Melbourne: Misses Walsh, Mesdames Frisk, Wagner, Mr and Mrs Benjamin, Messrs Cottel. sou, Dombrain, Good, Tait, Pope, Smith, Jones For Adelaide: Mr Hyera. Union Steamship Co , agents. , , Cleopatra, brigantine, 88 tons, Clarkson, for Qroymonth. C. W. Turner, agent. The brig Fawn, from Newcastle, and the schooner Flootwing, from Timarn, were making towards the Heads at noon to - day. The N.Z.S. Co.’s ship Bangitiki will finish loading to-day for London, and on Saturday will take her departure. She takes about 5200 bales of wool. The schooner Wave of Life, Captain Herbert, arrived yesterday from Kaipara, with a cargo of timber. She loft there on December 24th. _ The Mary King, schooner, was at _ Kaipara Heads on December 24th, loaded for this port. THE OTAKI. The Now Zealand Shipping Company’s ship Otaki arrived yesterday from London. She left there on September 22nd, and had a fine weather passage up to within a few days since, or on December 26th, when a very heavy S.W. gale was met with. The ship was in the neighborhood of Tasmania at the time, and, judging from the wrecked state of the saloon, into which the aoa broke, the storm must have been an unusually severe one. Ths captain and his chief officer and the carpenter barely escaped being washed overboard, and both the and carpenter are still suffering from the injuries they received. On the 10th of December a passenger named David Griffiths died of consumption, and the second steward, Jas. Howe, died from the same cause soon after the ship anchored in port. Tha report of _ the passage, supplied by Mr Findlay, the chief officer, is, that the ship towed as far as tha Isle of Wight on September 24th, and crossed the Bay of Biscay with fine weather. The N.E. trades completely failed, aad after passing Madeira nothing but light southerly winds and calms were met with to the Equator, crossed in 31 W• on November 7th, the ship being then 45 days out. SB. trades of moderate strength were carried thence to 19 S., made Nov. l7tb, and northerly winds very light to 38 51 S., on Nov. 23rd. The meridian of the Cape of Good Hope was crossed on December 4th, in 43.19 S-, after which some good work was dono_ with the westerly winds, and the Leuwin meridian crossed December 22nd. The galo above referred to occurred when in 47.19 S. and 142.12 B. _ It came up from the S.W., and during the night of the 26th ult. blow with fearful force. At 1 ii.m. on tho 27th a sea struck the ship on tho starboard quarter and broke aboard. The boat on that side was knocked almost into splinters, and the sea stove in tho starboard side entrance door to tho salron, and inundated the cabin to the depth of throe or four feet. At 4 n.m. n tremendous sea rushed aboard, going down the after hatchway and washing overboard everything moveable about the deok._ An apprentice, forward at the time, was carried by its force right on to tho poop dock, where the chief officer, who was than hanging half over tho taffrail, caught him, and both their lives were saved almost miraculously. Tho captain was thrown with great violence against the rail, and the carpenter of the ship had his head ent seriously in hie precipitate passage towards the 100 scuppers. Everything perishable in the captain’s cabin was destroyed, and all the passengers’ apparel shared in the wholesale deluge. An idea of tha power of tho water shipped may be taken from the effect it had upon tno heavy iron davits on the quarter. One of them was torn clean away, and the other twisted and bent as though it had been lead instead of iron six inches in diameter. The storm moderated on the 28th, and a steady southerly wind was carried to Stewart’s Island, which was sighted on January 2nd at 8 a.m. Since then variable winds were experienced. On November 21st the ship Piako was spoken in lat. 24.34 S. and 25.14 W., and was sighted off and on until the 24th. She reported “ All well.’’ Tho New Zealand Shipping Company made the entry of the vessel at tho Customs yesterday afternoon, and she will be berthed at the pier this morning.