SHIPPING

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2597, 3 August 1882, Page 2

SHIPPING

POST OF LYTTELTON. Whatemb Bmobt—August 3 S ». in.—Weather, blue a icy, passing .blonds ; wind, calm. Barometer, 29 91; thermometer, 47. . - . High Water—To-Mbftoi*. Homing, 7.25; evening. 7.51. Abbived—August 3. Wonaka, s.a. 278 tana. Holmes, from Kelson, Piotma, and Wellington. Passengers—Meadamea Hickson, Beritle and child, Messrs Baddeck, Allan, Morten, and four steerage. Union Steamship Company, agents. Sailed—Augusts. Grafton, g b., 242 tons, Johnston, for Timaru. Hew Zealand Grain Agency and Mercantile Company, agents. Go-Ahead, s s., 129 tons, Doilo, for Wellington, Napier and Wanganui Passengers —Mr and Mrs Williams and 2 children. Cuff and Graham, agents. Sailed—August 3. Emreror, brig, £Bl tons, Cleary, for Q 3 dney. Passengers—Mrs Cleary and family (5), Miss jamais. C W. Turner, agent. i a net Hamsay, schooner. 41 tons, Hanning, for Gatlin's Hirer. T. O. Kelsey and Co, agents. For some time the Huon Bella has, after temporary repairs, been ready to proceed to sea. and on Tuesday, about 7 p.m. the p.s. Tongariro took ker in tow to cross the Kaiapoi bar. They were nearing the break when the steamer seemed to steer badly, and did not succeed in making much headway, whereupon it was decided to return into the river, The steamer slewed, and both vessels came nearly on to a collision in the sea Captain Keyes, cfjthe Huon Bole, hoisted sail to keep his vessel from beading, and so far succeeded also in assisting the steamer into the river, the latter becoming unmanageable and falling to leeward. As the steamer came up (on returning) to the Huon Belle, one of the anchors of the ketch damaged the Tonzariro’s after bulwarks. The vessels were final'y brought up to anchorage inside the bar. where they remain for the present, probably till a survey has been held. -

Captain Burrows, of the steamer Bio Grande (says the “New fork Herald”) has accomplished a feat which seafaring men say is not only brilliant and nnusnsl but unprecedented. When his steamer was discovered to be on fire list Tuesday afternoon at sea, ninety miles beyond the Delaware breakwater, he overhauled on Italian barque, the Beppino A , successfully and safely, and without the slightest panic, transferred his ninety-seven passengers to her, navigated the burning vessel to a shoal near the breakwater, and sank her to the deck beams. This was the only means of putting out the fire, which was in the hold of the ship among 800 bales of cotton. It was impossible to reach the fire on the Bio Grande, or to successfully battle ■with it in the usual way by pouring water through the hatches. To completely submerge all of the steamer below the main dock batches was the only recourse To accomplish this without serious injury to the steamer was no easy task. But Captain Barrows managed it in twenty-seven hours after the conflagration was first discovered; and nut only this, bat in twenty-four hours mare he hod extinguished the flames, pumped oat and raised the ship, and was once again ready to start the engines and steam for New York. At the Delaware Breakwater the Bio Grande again overhauled the Italian barque, ro transferred the passengers to the steamer, end resumed the voyage to New York with the steamer assouudla as dollar, and no other injury except that to the cargo.