SHIPPING

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2370, 7 November 1881, Page 2

SHIPPING

POET OP LYTTELTON. Weather Report -November 7. 9 a.ra. Weather, bine sky and passing clouds. Wind. N.E., light, Barometer, 29.79 ; thermometer, 71. High Water—To-morrow. Morning, 4.46 j evening, 5.13. Arrived —November 5. St. Hilda. 8.5., 174 tons, Flowerday, from Oamaru. Koyau, stead and Co., agents. Esther, brigantine, 47 tons, Davis, from Polorua Sound. Master, agent. November 6. Hero, cutter, 29 tons, Tointon, from Wellington. Arrived —November 7. Albion, s s., 596 tons, Webster, from Melbourne via Hobart and South. Passengers— From Melbourne : Mrs Lewis. From Hobart : Mrs Hutchison, Low. From Dunedin : Misses Waite, Graham, Mrs Hunt, Mi and Mrs George McLean, Drs. Gordon and McGayze, Messrs Duthie, Krnd, Perkins, Brown, Draper, Nicholson, McLeod, Armstrong. Cmwshaw, Brock, Royse, Fagen, tmith. Steerage, 25. Union Steamship Company, agents Mary King, schooner, 73 tons, Rao, from Havelock. Forest Queen, ketch, 51 tons, Anderson, from Napier. Master, agent. Cleared —November 7. Lucy James, ketch, 38 tons, for Wellington. Master, agent. Jannett, ke ch, 41 tons, Bailey, for Belarus Sound. Master, agent. Sailed— November 5. Waitaki, s.s., 228 tons, Holmes, for Wellington, Picton, and Nelson. Passengers For Wellington: Misses Rowe, King, Doran, Mesdames King, Dalgleish, Messrs Lidbotter, King, Dalgleish, Bead, Bent, Fredericks, Ball, Williams, McSweeney, Heywood, Rowley. Hngo (2), Dixon, Maxwell, Bachelder, Parker, Cowie, Quick, Mahar, Seymour, Mclntosh, Martin, Firth, Bowling. Moore. James, Bishop of Waiapn. For Nelson: Mrs Kinsey and child, Mrs Pratt, Messrs Collier, Aitken, Pratt. For Taranaki: Misses Walker, Pimm. For Picton : Mr Gudgeon. For Auckland : Miss Waller, Mr and Mrs Mann and child, Messrs W. B. Allwright, Lamb, Mearos, Herdmau, Broomball, Mills, Dixon, O’Hara, Seymour. Union Steamship Company, agents. November 6. Thames, ketch, 23 tons, Jensen, for Pelorns Hound. Master, agent. Clio, schooner, 81 tons, Kirk, for Waitapn. Master, agent. Star of the Sea, schooner. 38 tons. Smith, for Wellington. Master, agent. Saucy Lass, schooner, 39 tons. Callow, for Wellington. Cuff and Graham, agents. Sailed —November 7. Annie Bow, barquentine, 250 tons, Paterson, for Timnrn. Master, agent. St. Kilda, a s., 174 tons, Flowerday, for Wellington. Royse, Stead, and Co., agents. The Union Steamship Company’s s.s. Waitaki arrived on Saturday morning from Northern porta, and left at 9 30 p.m. for Wellington. The Lake Ontario, bound to Calais, France, got away on Saturday morning with her cargo v>f grain. The master of her was put to groat straits for a crew, as much as .£SO for the run being asked by sailors. Several days’ delay resulted to bis ship, and ultimately he managed to get his complement of men together by paying £7 per month per man. During the recent cruise of the Reserve Squadron, a sea messenger, invented by Mr Julius Yandenburgh, of Portsmouth, was tried, by order of the Duke of Edinburgh, Admiral Superintendent of Naval Reserve. The “ messenger ” consists of a vessel, pointed at each end, 3ft 6in in length, made of copper, and lined with cork and composition to resist external pressure. The inner case will carry a weight of -601 b. The messenger was thrown over from the 'Hercules flagship in lat. 56 49 N., long. 42 E. on July 24th. It was picked up on August 18th by a fisherman, off Hanstholmen, Jutland, and although it had been twenty-five dais in the water, and had travelled about 1420 miles, it was quite uninjured. It was taken to the British Yica-Consol, and on being opened, was fonnd to contain a number of letters for England, which were at once posted, together with the following message, bearing the signature of the Dnke of Edinburgh This message is put overboard from her Majesty’s ship HeronLs, flagship of First Reserve Squadron, bound from Kiel to Leith, as an experiment, at the request of the inventor, and not on account of any accident or disaster. Messenger lanncbed at 11.30 p.m.; all well, weather fine, sea smooth, wind S.S.W., force 3. The finder is requested to deliver the messenger and paper to Lloyd’s agent or the British Consul, and to note the date picked np, and the latitude and longitude of the place where found. — Alfred, Rear-Admiral.” SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. Westport, November 7. IlCapt. Williams’ new s.s. Westport arrived hero from Cardiff, at 10.3 this morning, after a 26 days’ passage. She brings 10 passengers, all well. She sails for Wellington to-morrow morning. Auckland, November G. Arrived—Southern Cross, from Napier. Wellington, November 6. Arrived Waitaki, from Lyttelton. The Wanaka, with the San Francisco mail, sailed north at 6 p.m.