SHIPPING

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2144, 8 January 1881, Page 2

SHIPPING

POET OP LYTTELTON. WaATHiB Ebpobt—January 8. 9 a.m.—Weather, overcast; wind, N.E., light. Barometer, 30,35 ; thermometer, GB. High Water—To-morrow, Warning, 10.43 ; evening, 11,7. Arrived— January 8. Albion, e.a., 576 tons, Garrard, from Pijis and Northern porta. Passengers—Miss Mills, Mesdamos Towle, West, and Heath, Messrs Hassall, Hyde, and Holmes. Union Steamship Company, agents. _ , . Hawoa, a e., 461 tona, Kennedy, trom Northern ports. Paaaongera—Mrs Denniston, Mr, Nowth, Hon. G. McLean, Kev. D. Ross, Captain Williams, Messrs Andrews, Darby, Welding, Frances, Gibson and servant, Pearson, flaokworth, Lawson, Millward, Austrad, Union Steamship Company, agents. Croydon Loss, schooner, 51 tons, Cursan, from Waitapu. Master, agent. George Thornton, brigantine, 182 tons, McBarney, from Westport. Master, agent. Cleared —January 8. Toroa, schooner, 78 tons, Grundy, for Auck, land. J. B. Way, agent. Sailed— January 6, British Sceptre, ship, 1436 tons, Bichards, for Fort Chalmers. Lewis and Gould, ogents. January 7. Island Lily, brigantine, 122 tons, Cooper, for Chatham Islands. Passengers—Dr. Cooper, Messrs Bridgowoed, Galbraith, Childs, Whstn. Master, agent. _ , May Queen, barque, 733 tons, Colville, for Bluff. Edwards, Bennett and Co., agents. Ocean Danger, schooner, 231 tons, Sconlar, for Cape Town. Passengers—Mrs Sconlar. C. W. Turner, ogent. Sailed— January 8. Bangitiki, ship, 1225 tona, Milman, for London. Passengers—Dr. J. W. Coward, Mrs Coward. Misses Gertrude, Mina, Jessie and Mary Coward, Mrs Bennett, Mr and Mrs J. Alcock, Messrs J. Q. Johnson, W. Dickey, Master Harry Williams. New Zealand Shipping Company, agents. The May Queen, with part original cargo from London, cleared for tho Bluff yesterday. The a.a, Grafton is to leave here to-day for tho West Coast ports on her advertised excursion. . Tho New Zealand Shipping Company s ships Woimato, Otaki and Eangitiki were in the stream together yesterday forenoon, a coincidence not of everyday occurrence in this or any other port in the colony in connection with home trading ships belonging to the same owners. The Eangitiki cleard for London last night and was to sail at daylight this morning. THE WAIMATB. The Now Zealand Shipping Company’s ship Waimate came in yesterday. The ship has always borne a high reputation for smart sailing, but tho passage she finished yesterday eclipses any previous record made by her. The prominent dates of the Waimato’s voyage are that she passed out of sight of Eddystone lighthouse on the 30th of October, and was within sight of tho Snares last Tuesday morning, in just sixtysix days and four hoars afterwards. Between Eddystone and the eqnator her time was eighteen days eight hoars, according to tho log book, and from tho equator to the Cape was made in twenty-one days. The Cape to the meridian of tho Leu win just occupied seventeen days ; Tasmania was passed six days later, and the first of the New Zealand coast seen (tho Snares) five days after passing Tasmania, or from tho Cape 27 days to Now Zealand. Tho reason that the time is particularly taken from tho Eddystone lighthouse is owing to the exceptionally bad weather the vessel encountered in the Channel. She loft Gravesend on October 23rd, bat for no less than seven days she was in the teeth of a severe southerly gale between Gravesend and Soilly, the severity of which may be inferred from tho statement of those on board that subsequent to the southerly gale subsiding, and a fair wind springing up, the sea was so tremendous that for nine hours the ship under canvas ■was within sight of Eddystone. Captain Peek describes tho storm as tho heaviest which he has any recollection of, and this, from so cautions a veteran “ salt ” is strong evidence. Captain Peek, by his splendid seamanship during the hoars of danger, won golden opinions, conveyed to him in a testimonial, in which his intrepidity, skill and self-possession displayed at the critical moment were most flatteringly referred to. The passengers subscribed a purse of sovereigns to accompany tho written testimonial. The summarized report of the voyage, supplied by the master, is -.—Left Gravesend October 23rd, and took departure from Eddystone on October 30th. The N.E. trades were very good, and the Equator was crossed in 28 W. on November 16th. The Cape of Good Pope was passed December 7th in 44 S., and the easting run down between that and 4S S. The Lenwin meridian was crossed on December 21th, Tasmania on the 30th. The Snares sighted on January 4th, Bonks’ Peninsula on January 6th, and tho pilot boarded the ship at the Heads on Thursday night at IX o’clock, making the voyage from Eddystone 68 days and 12 hours, from London 74 days and 12 hours. On Nov. 4th a saloon passenger, a yoang man named J. Connolly, suffering in the last stages of consumption, died, and a sailor named Henry Wood died on January 3rd of effusion of the brain. He had coma on' board in a bad state of health, and foil sick soon after leaving, the form of bis sickness being at one time typhoid fever. From this ha recovered, but subsequently took to bis bed. and died as stated. As a moans of isolation he was placed in one of the boats above the deck, where ha was attended to by Dr. Farrell. Beyond these two cases there appears to have been no sickness of a serious nature. The con - dition of the ship as to cleanliness was highly pleasing, and the apace allowed for both second cabin am 1 steerage passengers in their ’twee n deck cabins most liberal. The officers who have returned are Mr Hnzlewood, chief, late of the Waitara and Piako ; Mr Crang, second, from Messrs Money Wigrama’ employ, and Mr Granfield' third. Tho chief steward, Mr Pickett, completes his fifth voyage to tho colony ns such in tho Waimate. The ship would be entered last nigbt at the Cnstoms, and will come in today to discharge. She is to follow the Otaki, In the company’s line, for London, and will have prompt despatch.