SHIPPING

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2621, 31 August 1882, Page 2

SHIPPING

POZt OS LYTTELTON. Weather Retort— August 31. 3 e.m. Weather, cloudy; .Rind, N,W., fresh. Barometer, 30 07 j thermomater, 58. High Water—To-Morrow. Morulcg, 6 7 ; evening, 6 35. Aeeitbd—August SO. Tui, a.a., 55 tons, Pops, from Wellington, via Kaikoura. Passengers Missus Henderson, Sing, Mrs White and child, fiessrs White, Fitzsimmons, Marsden, Btiog.s. Cuff and Qrahan, agents. August 31. Arawata, s.a., 623 tons, Sinclair, from Melbourne, via Southern ports. Passengers— Messrs Barton, Lucy. Union Steamship Company, agents. Hawea, 5.8., 462 tong, Kennedy, from Nelson, Pioton, and Wellington. Passengers—Misses Vallsntine, Harding, Stanwood, Tinne, Mr and Mrs McKee. Mr and Mrs Coster, Messrs Guinness, Taylor, Fletcher, Holworthy, Congreve, Shaw, y oung,Broadhnrst, Crowther, dobbins; four steerage. Union Steamship Company, agents. Lizzie Guy, brigantine, _ 92 tons, Stevens, from Hokiangs. T. H. Keir, agent. Sailed—August 30. Napier, s.s., 48 tons, Fisk, for W llingt;n, via Kaikoura. Cuff and Graham, agents. Mahinapua, s.s., 205 tons, Junes, for Wellington. Passengers— Judge "Richmond and secretary, Mr John Stuart. Union S.S. Co., agents. Sailed—August 31. Catlin, ketch, 46 tons, Norman, for Gatlin’s Elver. Cuff and Graham, agents.^ Adieu, brigantine, 174 tons, Xiice, for Greymonth. Master, agent. Hawea, s.s , 462 tons, Kennedy, for Fort Chalmers, via Akaroa. Union Steamship Company, agents. The Eri.le, barque, Capt. Sutherland, left Newcastle for Lyttelton with 515 tons of coal, OD the 30th inat. Sydney papers state that the ironclad Nelson, which loft Auckland for Sydney a short time Since, was struck astern by a sea when off the coast of New Zealand, which so deluged the ship that had a similar one quickly followed it, H.M.S. Nelson, so think the tars, “ would have gone don n to Davie jonee’locker.” A new style of steamer is being constructed at Washington. D.C., for the New York and Liverpool trade. The proportion of beam to length is one to seven instead of one to ten, or 66ft beam to 450 ft of length. The vessel in question is to he driven by two propellers, not S rejecting astern but inside the stern so to speak, 'our engines, each 4500 h.p., are to drive her 21 knots an hour, with 600 first class and 1000 steerage passengers, 2700 tons of coal, and 550 tons cargo. She is to draw 23ft with her hull two-thirds below the floating line. Forward the narrowest part or ” finest ” is at the floating line, the bows gradually widening downwards towards the keel. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. Wellington, August 30, Arrived —Wanaka, from South ; Hawea, from Nelson and Pioton. Dunedin, August 30. Arrived—Eliza Firth and Martha Eeid, from Grey mouth ; Eingarooma, from the North; barque, Captain Scoullar, from Louden. Only passengers she brings are three Wesleyan ministers. . Bailed —Arawata, for Sydney, via North. Passengers—For Lyttelton Messrs Wheeler and Baker, For Wellington—MrE, J. Harper. For Greymouth—Mr Dickson. For Napier— Mr and Mrs Anderson. Hawea, for South; Goahead, for Napier.