SHIPPING

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2359, 25 October 1881, Page 2

SHIPPING

PORT OP LYTTELTON. ,l£, Wbathbß Report - October 25. Jhf 9 am. - Weather, bine sky, Wind, S.W., fresh bre ze.. Barometer, 29.75; thermometer, 47. • ~'l r 'u .. /: ' High Water—To-morrow. Morning, 5.36 evening, 6.4. Arrived —October 25. Waitaki, s.s., 228 tons. Holme?, from Dsncdiu. Passengers—Mrs Parris, Messrs Edwards, Moss, Buchanan. Union Steamship Company, agents. Maud Graham, schooner, 80 tons, Jorgenson, from Kaipar-v Caff and Graham, agents. Cleared —October 25. Coolecn, barque, 625 tons, Barkley, for Napier. C. W. Turner, agent. Sailed —October 24. Boils, "barque, 311 tons, Burch, for Capetown. Eoyse, Stead and Co., agents. Rotomahan'!, s s , 864 tons, Underwood, for Melbourne, ria South. Passengers Meadatncs Adams, Laing Grey, Hathaway. Misses ;-ead, Doherty, Stunton, Messrs Keith Kamsiy. F. Vennal. Fowler Hannah, Bills, Treverirk, "White, Bi hardson, Duncan, Moore, Whitten McKay, Wilkes. I "nion Steamship Company, agents. Go-Ahead, s.a., 129 tons, Doile, for Timarn. Ooff and Graham, agents, A barqne showing numbers TRVT. the Mary Milfred, of Newcastle, was signalled when onr express left Port. The Union Steamship Company’s s.s. Kotomahana arrived yesterday at II 30 a.m., from Wellington, and left for Port Chalmers, Bluff, and Melbourne at 4 p m. PORT OP KAIAPOI. Sailed —October 24. Tougariro, p a., Aschman, for Lyttelton, in ballast. In river—Jessie. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. Auckland, October 24. Sailed-Taiaroa, for Lovuka; Myrtle, for Samoa. Wellington, October 24. Arrived—Hinemoa, from Opnnake and New Plymouth ; Charles Edward, from Kelson and West Coast; Virginia, barque, from Now York, via Port Chalmers. Sailed—Penguin, for Pioton and Nelson. Port Chalmers, October 24. Sailed—Waitaki. for northern porta. Passengers—For Wellington—4l transfers. For Nelson—Mr Trothens. For Auckland—Mr Deßeer.

THE NOEMAN MACLEOD. A valuable addition to tba shipping owned in Now Zealand in general, and in particular to that owned in Canterbury, was made yesterday by the arrival of the Clyde built barque Norman Macleod from Glasgow. This vessel was recently purchased by Mr 0. VV. Tuner, of this city, whose energy in the working of wooden ▼easels, both coastal, intercolonial and foreign going has contributed so much to the commerce of the port, and whose success has led to the purchasing by him, more recently, of iron bottoms, first of the Eio Loge and Jasper 'lass, and now of such vessels as the one which forms the subject of this notice, iron ships of the highest class built. In the arrival of the Norman Macleod, Canterbury becemes the possessor of as showy a specimen of Glasgow shipbuilding as is to be found in the locally owned shipping throughout the colony. Built in 187 S, by Messrs Murdoch, Murray and Co., of the best possible materials, upon lines which at once ensure exceptionally good sailing capability, combined with unusual carrying capacity, the Norman Macleod forma an acquisition to the mercantile marine of the colony worthy of more than ordinary notice. Some connoisseurs of models who may examine her’s as it is to be seen in tba saloon, on exhibition, may take exception to her hollow bows, and may pronounce her too thick aft. but the shape of her floor and her lines throughout, taken as a whole, should guarantee a speed of no mean order. Her dimensions are 195 ft length, 32ft width, 19ft 3in depth of hold, and her registered tonnage 831. which for a vessel carrying a main skysail at once identifies the fact that she is lofty for that tonnage. There is less top hamper, also, about her deck than is generally met with, a feature which should contribute something to her sailing qualities, while it secures as well a fine roomy deck. Ample accommodation is provided for saloon passengers, and her officers and crow are equally forlunate in a liberal provision of houseroom and comfortable quarters •a board The flatness of her floor may be inferred from the circumstance that on a draught of something leas than seventeen feet she brought a cargo representing dead weight of between 1200 and 1250 tons. From a stevedore’s point of view, looking to despatch, it may be mentioned that the hatches she possesses are for a ship of her tonnage unusually capacious. Indeed, taken throughout, as has been stated, it is seldom that the port has been visited by a more wholesome-looking ship than the one under notice, and her owner may well be congratulated upon this addition to his fleet. Mr Turner, it is stated, has still more recently purchased in the homo market another iron clipper, a barque named the Singalese. Her advent in these waters may, therefore, judging from the praise which was yesterday bestowed upon the Norman Macleod, bo looked forward to with considerable pleasure. Of the voyage just completed by the Norman Macleod, the master, Captain Ure, kindly supplied the following :—The voyage from passing Small’s lighthouse on July 20th right down to 30 S. was one of the most unsatisfactory he ever experienced. The N.E. trades entirely failed, and the equator was not cro-aed until the thirtyninth day out, some ten days of southerly winds having been experienced just before crossing it. Thence to the 30th parallel light head winds prevailed, and the Capo of Good Hope was passed on the 19th September. Some good work was done in running down the easting in 45 to 50 8,, aad the meridian of Cape Lenwin was crossed on October Bth, that of Tasmania on October 14th. Since then thick weather was experienced, three days being spent on this coast since passing Cape Saunders. On the passage the cook, G. W. Griffiths, a native of Barbadoes, died of peritonitis. The vessel will load here as advertised, under charter to Messrs Hoyse, Stead and Co. and Messrs P. Cunningham and Co.