SHIPPING

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2334, 26 September 1881, Page 2

SHIPPING

POST OV LYTTELi^Pfi.' WaATHBB Ebpobt—September 26. 9 a.m.—Weather, bine sky and cloudy. Wind, Calm. Barometer. 30.02 ; thennometer/49. High Wakar—To-morrow, Homing, 5.54 j etautaif, 6.19,* if mm 'J/ ABRivED-rSptember 24. Edith Beid, schooner, "79 tons, McConville, from Wellington. . Hally Bayley, bngantrae, lid tons, Urone, from Dnnedin. Grafton, s.s., 242 tons, Johnston, from Wellington. Passengers—Mr and Mrs Jones, Mr aad Mrs Smith and family, Mr Wing, Lieut. Webb, Inspector Coleman. P. Canning- j ham and Co., agenta. Hero, cutter, 29 tons, Tointon, from Welling- I Huon Belle, ketch, 42 tons, from Stewart's Island. Catlin, ketch, 46 tons, Matheson, from Catlin's River. Ci.ba.bed—September 26. Seabird, brigantine, 155 tons, Smith, for nckland. Cuff and Graham, agents. Sailed—September 24. Wanaka, s.s., 27S tons. McGillivray, for Wellington. Passengers—Misses Leaf, Atkinson, Bell, Mnrielle, Johns, Andrews, Wyatt, Ward (4), Morley, Mason ; Mesdames Wolf, Brown, Powell, Morley ; Dr. Lemon; Messrs Sinclair, Franklin, Jeffrey, Henderson, Allpress, Robertson, Porter, Grant, Surrey, rfaunders, Mosley, Olliver, Lsaant, Andrews, Norton, Atkins, Murray, Hayes, Griffin, Briggs, Marshall, Notts, Kellen, Carey Troupe (39). Union Steamship Company, agents. Lillie Denham, s.s., 26 tons, for Timaru. A ketch, named the Recannia, of 68 tons register, ha 3 been purchased for the timber trade on this coa3t by Messrs Cook Bros., of Lyttelton. The vessel is at present at Hobart, where Bho was built four years_ since. She is expected to arrive here in about six weeks or two months time. The German Admiralty has decided upon the construction of a number of gun vessels of an improved type. The will be armour-plated, and armed with one large gun and six machine guns, and two ports for discharging fish-torpedoes. The tonnage is to be 950, with indicated horsepower of 1400 horses, which, it is calculated, will give a speed of over 14 knots. ~,,.. The Allan mail steamer Parisian, which left Quebec on thd 2nd July, at half-past 2 a.m., arrived at Liverpool on Sunday, the 10th, having made the fastest passage on record. This is the first instance in which passengers have been landed in Liverpool on the eighth day after leaving Quebec , Thursday Island, Torres Straits, which the Imperial Government have requested Colonel Scratchley to viait and report on as to its fitness for a fortified coal station, is a small island, one mile and a-half long, in about'lo.33 S. latitude, 143.10 E. longitude, off the extreme northern coast of the colony (Queensland), centrally situated between Prince of Wales, Horn, Hammond, Friday, Wednesday, and Goode Islands, between one and two miles from each. It has been selected on account of its advantageous position, being in the track of all vessels sailing through the inner channel, a harbor of refuse, and much used by the pearl fishing fleet. It is also within easy distance of New Guinea. Messrs Elder, of Glasgow, launched on July 13th the steamer Alaska, for the Guion Company, Liverpool. The Alaska, which will trade between Liverpool and New York, is 520 ft long, of 8000 tons gross burthen, and has engines of 10,500 indicated horse-power. She has five decks, and is magnificently fitted up. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. Wellington, September 24. Arrived —Grafton, from Nelson and West Coast. Sailed—Grafton, for Lyttelton; Stella, for Picfcoa and Nelson. Port Chalmers, September 24. Arrived —Hawea, from the North.