SHIPPING

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2610, 18 August 1882, Page 2

SHIPPING

PORT OF LYTTELTON. Whathsb Repost—August 18. 0 a.m.—Weather, blue sky; wind, calm. Borameier, 30.14; thermometer, 42. t High Water—To-Morrow. Morning. 7.2; arening, 7.24. Abeitbd— August 17. Penguin, s.s., 413 tons. Anderson, from Wellington. Union eteamship Company, agents. Abbxtbd— August 18. Wakatipn, s.s.. 1158 tons, Wheeler, from Port Chalmers. Passengers —M’»se« Royse, Bpence. Messrs Scott, Spence. Union Steamfihip Company, agents. Cleaeed -August 18. Conference, barque, 399 tons, Lusher, lor Sydney. Passengers—Mrs Haywood and two diildren, Mrs O’Brien and five children, Messrs Catbuct, Down ton. Wilkinson, Dennis, Gcodsell, Yanten. National Mortgage and Agency Co., aft9Btß ' Bailed —August 17. Penguin, s s., 443 tons, Anderson, for Akaron and Dunedin. Passengers—Mesdames Dymock, McMillan, Fergus, Gardiner, Judge Richmond, Messrs Thomson, Waltergraves, Shanks, Rose, Gardener, Capper, Palmer, Brown. Union Steamship Company, agents. Rotomahana, s s , 864 tons, Underwood, for Wellington. Passengers—Mesdames White and familyf Edwards, Williamson, Misses White, Miller. Mitotasll, Brook, Mcllwraith, Captain Barclay, Messrs Beavon, Dickens, Lance, Dilworth, Jones, Oram, Perry, Webb, Creswcll, Comber, Troupe, Hart. Hockley, Hayes, Brown, True. Cliaaold (3), Masters White, Hutchinson, Pearce, Mcllwraith, Ccopar. Steerage, nxteen. Union Steamship Company, agents. Sailbd-August 18. Lmcy James, ketch, 38 tons, Holst, for Jelorus Bound. Master, agent. The barqna Jubilee, 759 tons, Captain Dow, has been purchased lately by a Sydney firm, and is expected here from Newcastle. , . , The rumors about the Clematis being lost at Waitara, with all hands, like many other dreadful kerbstone reports, proves utterly unreliable when sifted. Word has come to hand that the vessel lately left Waitara for Pioton, where she arrived in due course and was loading timber. Captain Fenwick, of the British coohe steamer Strathairly, appeared in the United States District Court last month to answer to vte charge of carrying an excess of 326 passengers to to Francisco. The defendant pleaded guilty to-nn excess of 223 passengers, which plea was _ac. copied, and the defendant fined 11,150 depart Whittle, of the s.s. Tamsui, Statoi tiiat on passing Now Ireland on Jaly took observations, and he is strongly of opimoi that the position assigned to the island on tn< latest Admiralty chart is too far to the ©astwarc by about fifteen miles ; that is, on* a rougl estimate. A Euaaian naval officer has invented -an app* ntua for ascertaining the depth of the_aea. Thi instrument consists of a piece of lead, a smal wheel with a contrivance for registering number of revolutions, and a fioat. ’While th< apparatus sinks the wheel revolves, and thi registered revolutions indicate tnO'deptn. Whei the bottom is reached the lead becomes detached tha float begins to act, and the machine shoot; up to the surface, where it can be fished up b; the not, and the register read be. No line i used. Tha China Steam Navigation Company ha ten steamers trading on the coast of China an( on the rivers. Business appears to be flourish ing, aa the company has four large steamer building, principally intended ' for the Chini colonial trade, and two smaller thicteen-kno vessels for coasting. Tha Tamsui has jaa arrived at Melbourne with tea She a vesse of 919 tons register, and steams ten knots oi fifteen tons of coal per day. Her saloon is af in a deckhouse, and the whole of the ’twee] decks is fitted for steerage passengers. Immense side ports for the passage of cargo in and on are provided, so that 1600 tons of cargo ha been passed out in the almost incredibly ehor space of twelve hours. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. Auckland, August 17. Arrived —Sarah Pile, from Lyttelton. Sailed Rotorua, for Melbourne and th Southern ports. Passengers—Miss Solomon Miss Moffat, Mr Voi, Mr and Mrs Brown Messrs Carr, St. John, and Reid. "Wellington, August 17. Soiled Hawea, for the North. Wellington, August 18. contain Williams, of the barque G. SI "Tucker, arrived at the heads from Newoastl r this morning with a cargo of coals, but we ordered to proceed on to Lyttelton, which si did. The vessel, supposed to be the City of Tai jore, from London to Wellington, was eeen o the Heads this morning, but has since bee blown off. Tha John Gamble, from London to Welling tea, was passed off Capa Campbell this morning —A fresh N.W. gale is blowing. Tha ship Crusader will sail for London v. morrow with a fall cargo. Gkettbouth. August 17. Sailed —Adieu, for Lyttelton ; Eliza Firth, ft Timaru.

TnrAEtr, August 17. Arrived—Oceola, from Newcastle. Sailed —Edith Eeid, for Dunedin. Dtihbdin, August 17. Arrived—Clifton, from Newcastle; Mana. pouri, from the North.