SHIPPING

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2480, 18 March 1882, Page 2

SHIPPING

POET OF LYTTELTON. Weathkb Report— March 18. 9 ».a.—Weather, bine sky and passing clouds. Wind, N.W., light. Barometer, 29.85 ; thermometer, 80. High Water—To-morrow. Kerning, 2,56 ; evening, 3.23. Aesited— March 17. Euterpe, ship, 1197 tons, Phillips, from Wellington. New Zealand Grain Agency and Mer•aanti'.e Co., agents. Fleetwing, schooner, 55 tons, McKenzie, from Hokianga. Cuff and Graham, agents. March 18. Penguin, a s., 412 tons, Anderson, from Mannkan. via way ports. Passengers—Misses Clarke, Olso, Mosdames Withers, Laurence, Moore, Mr and Mrs Pitt, Mr and Mrs Williams, Hev, Merton, Major Lean, Messrs Rowe, Hollow, Stuart, Eodgers (2), Inglis, Porter, Skelton, Hose, Robinson, Frahm. Colt, Daugherty, Kelly, Irons, Slocomhe, Baker, Gardner, Drayton, Rowland, La Cren, Meek. Steerage, 12. U.S.S. Co., agents. Cleared— March 18. Clio, schooner, 81 tons, Kirk, for Waitapu. Master, agent. Reward, schooner, 41 tons, Andrews, for Waitapu. Cuff and Graham, agents. Sailed— March 18. Woatherfield, ship, 1051 tons. Sherries, for Cork or Falmouth. New Zealand Shif ping Co., agents. Two thousand and thirty-nine actual shipwrecks occurred throughout the world last year, and the estimated value of the property lost was JE230.000.000, this sum including British property owned in the United Kingdom and the colonies, valued at .£180,000,000. As compared with the previous year, there was an increase of 350 in the number of wrecks, and an increase of about ,£ 100,000,000 in the value of property lost, the last year having been an exceptional one for gales and storms, and for the loss of vessels of largo tonnage with valuable cargoes. British owned sailing vessels and steamers aggregated 1043, the number of steamers being 191, foreign steamers fifty-six. Off the coast of England, Scotland and Ireland 826 ships were actually lost. British-owned vessels forming three-parts of this total. One hundred of all flags sank through collision, and 4134 persons perished. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. Bluff, March 18. Sailed—Tonjoy, for London, on account of the New Zealand Shipping Company, with a cargo of wool and grain. Electra, for Timarn, in ballast. Sarah and Mary and Annie Hill, for Lyttelton. Pawn, for Sydney, with cargo of grain. ____