SHIPPING.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2293, 9 August 1881, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OF LYTTELTON. WsiTHiß Report —August 9. 9 ■ -a.— Weather, overcast and gloomy. Wind, N.W., strong breeze. Barometer, 29.05; thermometer, 43, High Water—To-morrow. Moraine, 3.29 j even ng, 3.57. Arrived —August 8. Jessie, schooner, 58 tons, Benny, from Thames, bound to Kaiapoi, put in wind bound. August 9. Rotomahana, s.s., 864 tons, Underwood, from Auckland, via way ports. Passengers—Misses Briggs, Breen, Mrs Izard and child, Mrs Hodge, Mr and Mrs Dunn and family. Chief Justice Prendergast, Messrs B. Keelo, C. M. Nelson, Dransfield, Godber, Norman, Tinnimoro, Barnard, McDonald, J. Wilson, Price. Eontoul, C. Wesley, Jobberns, Dunk, H. Holder, Tinstone, Caswell, Graham, Morris, Sergeant McGuire, Master Bower; steerage 4. Union •Steamship Company, agents. Bawea, s s., 461 tons, Kennedy, from Port Chalmers, via Akaroa. Passengers—Messrs Boston and Hunter. Union Steamship Company, agents. Cleared —August 9. Odalisk, brigantine. 267 tons, Langlais, for Newcastle. Eoyse, Stead and Co , agents. The Harbormaster received a telegram yesterday at midday from the weather observer at Wellington, to the effect that a very hard S. W. gale would be due hero within a few hours. The glass fell to 28 90 yesterday afternoon. A feat of stevedore smartness in the handling of cargo was reported lately in a Melbourne exchange. A vessel named the Galley of Lome, from Hong Kong, having on board upwards of 1100 tons of tea and miscellaneous Chinese goods, was discharged at the Sandridge Railway Pier in one day. The latest news about the Livadia, the yacht designed by Admiral Fopoff for the late Czar, comes from St. Petersburg. The “ Novosti,” a newspaper published there, says that the vessel will, on its arrival at Sebastopol, if she survives the voyage, be broken up. The Russians have been unfortunate in their floating speculations, the Volunteer Fleet having also been discovered to be a mistake, the vessels being only of use for commercial purposes, for which they will be retained at the cost of a heavy annual subsidy. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. Auckland, August 8. Sailed— Halcione, for London; Rapido, for New York. Wellington, August 8. Sailed —Rotomahana, for Melbourne via the South. Passengers—Miss Briggs. Mesdames Davidson and Hodge, Mr and Mrs Wadloy, Chief Justice Prendergast, Dr. Collins, Messrs Dunn and 2 sons, 'Vyilson, Price, Davidson, Godber, Dawson, Barnard, McDonald, Finnemore and Levinsohn; 10 steerage. Wauaka, for Picton. Grafton, for the Coast. Port Chalmers, Angust 8. _ Arrived —Nightingale, brigantine, from Kaipara. Peter Stnart, ship, from London. Sailed—Hawea, for Northern ports. Passengers for Akaroa—Messrs Macfarlane and Davis. For Lyttelton—Mr Hunter. For Wellington— Mr and Mrs Young and child, Messrs Cochrane, K. Ramsay, A. H. Ross and W. J. M. Larnach. For Nelson—Messrs Wade and Kinahaw.