SHIPPING

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2452, 14 February 1882, Page 2

SHIPPING

FOET OF LYTTELTON.

WaATHBB Report—February 14. 9 a.m.—Weather, passing clouds. Wind, calm. Barometer, 30.03 ; thermometer, 61. High Water—To-morrow. Morning, 0.26 ; evening, 0.56.

Arrived—February 14. Bingarooma, g.s., 6i3 tons, Chatfield, from Auckland, via 'm?% Ooaat ports. Passengers— Mlhsos Forrest, Foster, Bogers, Brandon (2), Mersoa, Mesdiraca Wood, Penny and family, Birch, Hirst, Eose and two cMldren, Temper* ton. Eobinson. McKee, Treadwell, Hart and ohild, Mockidge, Lamb, Messrs Gordon, Pinnock, JMcCallani, Dodj, Mcintosh, Moiley, Allan. Yonns, Lamb, Anthony, Neill, White, Jones', May, Co?, Whifcmoro (2), Cotterill. Hickins, Sidoy, Sinivh, Wood, Cu mingham, Penny. Miller, Hirst, Lishtband, Major, Campbell" Elliott, Laird, Eobinson, Bluudell, Hartndge, Faterson, Brandon, Ogg, Speight, Bell, McKee, Bhodes, Hose and son, Hart, Barren, Oswald, Messenger, and twenty-four Bteerage. Union Steamship Company, agents. Prince Alfred, barquentino, 161 tons, Schentel, from Peloru3 Saund. Master, agent. iiichard and Mary, schooner, 44 ton?, Hamilton, from Wellington. Cuff and Graham, agents. Failed—February 13. Eocamw, kotcb, 69 tons, Grnbb, for Greymouth. Caff sua Graham, agent 3. Tui, s.s., 55 tonß, Pope, for Boat Harbor and Kaikoura. Cuff and Graham, agents. Saucy Las?, schooner, 39 tons, Callow, for Wellington. Cuff and Graham, agents. Edith Keid, schooner, 7i tons, McConville, for Greymouth. Cuff nud Graham, agents. Zior, schooner, 63 tons, Botham, fer Waikato. Omaha, brigantine, 133 tons, Meikleham, for Chatham Man:s. Master, ngent. Clio, schooner, 81 tons, Kirk, for Waifcapu. Master, agent. Comet, ketch, 58 tons, Short, for Pelorna Sound. Cuff and Graham, agents. As an iiluntratiin of the great activity displayed in the shipbuilding trade of Groat Britain, the " Liverpool Journal of Commerco " says that there are now in course of construction nearly ono million tons of shipping, which is almost unprecedented. Captain Delon, of the s.s. Belgrano, has drawn up a new method of dividing the points and degrees of the compass, the effect bring to omit the old partition into points and half. nointß, and only to conserve the eight to name the wind, that is, N., 3., E., W., N.E., N W., S.S., S.W., as corresponding with the whole number of degrees. He afterwards divides each octant by every five degrees, with points well marked, and still makes tha points by every fifteen degrees a little larger than usual. The Chinese have commenced to trade direst to London in vessels owned by themselves, the steamer Meifoo. whhh arrived in the Thames early in December, being the first of a regular line of steamers under the Chinese flag which it 13 contemplated to establish for the purpose of carrying on a direct export and import trade between England and China. She has on board as pa33enger3 Messrs Lun-shi-ting and Liang Sing Un, who are appointed managers of tha new association, the headquarters of which are to be established in London. The undertaking, it U stated, is to be commenced with a capital of JE150.000, and will count among its shareholders some of the merchants and capitalists of the highest standing in Chiaa. The Meifoo has on board 3000 ton 3 of tea, and she is said to be the first Chinese trading steamer to deliver a ca-go of tea at the London Bocks. She was formerly the iron barque Benclutha, which was stranded ou the Shantung Promontory, and afterwords got off and taken to Bhanghae in July, 1879. SHIPPING TELEGEAMS. Auckland, February 13. Arrived Arnold Von Bjpper, from New lork, 101 days out. Bailed—Marion, for Noumea; Eoman Empire, for Lyttelton. Wellington, February 13. J Arrived —Loch Byan, ship, from Sydney. Sailed —TUngarooma, for Melbourne, via the South. Pa3sougers Misse3 Dyer, Pierson, Flannagau, Lambert, Rose, and Wrae; Me3dame 3 Morrison, Hirst, MacDougall, Blacklock, Birch, and Eose; Messrs MacDougall, Bowen, Bell, Turner, Hirst, Blundell, Oswald, Meßßenger, )t oirison, Lightband, Laird, Bhides, Tread well, Bobertson, and Allan; Eev. Messrs Ogg, Eaitsom, and Tread well, and the Opera Company (35); 28 stearage. Wanaka, for Picton and Nelson; Grafton, for Nelson and West Coast. Wkstpoet, February 13. The St. Kilda, when coming over the Greymonth bar, bumped and knocked a hole in its bottom. It put in here on Sunday morning to repair the damage, which was under the cabin floor, and proceeded on it 3 voyage this afternoon. Dunedin, February 13. Arrived—Loch Linne, ship, Pettendrigh, from London, eighty-nine days; all well.