SHIPPING

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2478, 16 March 1882, Page 2

SHIPPING

POET OF LYTTELTON. Weathee E* poet— March 16. 9 ».a.—Weather, overcast and gloomy. Wind. N.E., light breeze. Barometer, 30.10 j thermometer, 65. High Water—To-Morrow, learning, 1.5 j evening, 1.33. Aerived— March 15. Guy Mannering, barque, 807 tons, McLaren, from Newcastle. Blade and Parson, agents. M roh 16. Mind G r aham, schoontr, 80 tons, Jorgenson, from Wellington. Caff and Graham, agents. Te Anau, s.s., 1028 tons, Carey, from Melbourne via Southern ports. Union Steamship Co., agents. Kangaroo, bs, 185 tons, Campbell, from Westport. Cuff and Graham, agents. Southern Cross, s.a , ! 58 tons, from Port Chalmers. Union Steamship Co., agents. Edward, schooner 41 tons, Andrews, from Waitapn. Cnff and Graham, agents. Hawea, s a., 462 tons, Kennedy, from Kelson, Piston, and Wellington. Passengers—Mias Brocas, Mrs Grant and child. Me and Mrs Booth. Mr and Mrs Evans, Messrs Ellison, Litchfield, Barker, Malcolm, Hamilton. Steerage 3. Union Steamship Co., agents. Creased —March 16. Pelican, brigantine, 69 tons. Brown, for Peloraa Sound. J. Waller and Co., agents. Nelson, schooner, 56 tons, Johnson, for Piston. Cuff and Graham, agents. Sailed —March 16. Iris, barque, 340 tons, McDonald, for Sydney. Passengers Mrs McDonald, Messrs Cameron, Dixon. Black and Parson, agents. Envrea, s s , 462 tons, Kennedy, for Port Chalmers. Union Steamship Co , agents. The Doris Brodersen, that cleared the other day for Cork or Falmonth, re cleared this morning for Dunkirk ... The s.a. Te Aaan, from South, arrived at 12.40 p m. to-day, and the Hawea at 7 a.m. The German Admiralty is taking steps to effect the easy transformation of the transatlantic steamers sailing under German flags into cruisers, and as a preliminary step, has ordered a great number of revolving guns with the view of preventing the fleet being approached by hostile gunboats. An exchange says :—”Some British shipowners have begun to man their vessels with negro seamen exclusively, the officars alone being white men. They take them at the same wages as ordinary English or foreign seamen. Those who have tried the experiment state that they find colored men as good sailors as Europeans, and that they are more docile and leas inclined to run away than our own men.’’ . A new lighthouse, in which the electric light is to be u s ed, has lately been completed at Marseilles. The cost of the light is seven times less than the cost of that which it will replace. The new lighthouse will be one of the finest on the French coasts. The light, which will be equal to 3500 gas jets, will be vuiblo at a distance of twenty-seven miles. The circumstance of the barque Wigtonshire having left Lyttelton for London twelve months prior to the date she arrived hero would not appear to be anything specially remarkable, seeing that it is not uncommon nowadays for the round trip home and back to be made in something under eight months. The coincidence of the arrival here of the vessel upon the J4th March of the present year, corresponding exactly with the time of her departure in 1881, is perhaps a little strange, bat it should be stated that the Wigtonshire, during the intervening twelve months, visited London, Glasgow, Brisbane, and Newcastle, and came thence to Lyttelton. SHIPPING TELEGEAMS. New Plymouth, March 15. The steamer Penguin sailed for Nelson and the Southern ports at eleven o’clock. Passengers—Mrs Medland, Mrs Lovell. Mrs Paynter, Misses Oelison, Q -inn, and Carter, Messrs Painter, Midland, Everett, Porter, Tesohemaker, Patton, Gillon, Stuart, Courtney. Wellington, March 15. Arrived—Hawea, from Picton and Nelson ; Hauraki, from Opunake. Sailed—Hawea, for the South ; Herald, schooner, for Kaipara. Entered outwards—Aspasia, schooner, for Greymouth; Saucy Lass, schooner, for Lyttelton. Sailed, at 1.5 —Hawea for the South. Passengers—Misses Buckley and Kennedy, Messrs Evans, Barker, Ellison, Carpenter, and Malcolm, Three in the steerage. Dunedin, March 15. Arrived—St. Kilda and Arawata, from the North.