SHIPPING

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2668, 25 October 1882, Page 2

SHIPPING

POET OP LYTTELTON.

Wiathbr BwoBV"* October 25. 8 ».m.—Weather, overoast and gloomy; ■wind, S.W., fresh breeze. Barometer, 29.83; tfcsrnoaeter, 44. High Water—To-Morrow. Morning, 2.28; evening, 9.56. Abbivsd—October 25. Taiaroa, as., 228 tons, Hansby, from Port Ghalmern via Timara and Akaroa. Passengers —&iaa Smart, Messrs Wallace, Wilkinson, Vincent, Kitch, Matthews. Union Steamship Company, agonta. Tui, as., 55 tons, Pope, from Wellington via Kaikonra. Passengers—Misses Kerr. MiiMahon, Mr MoLaron, two,ateerage. .Cuff and Graham, •gSRiV" "•■""' Prince Bnpert, kefch, 60 tons, Mathsson, from Catlin'a Eiver Cuff and Graham, agents. Bailed —October 24. Botorua, s.s., 67d tons, Tozer, for South. Paaoetigeta—Messrs Mowat, Gow, Graham, Beson. Union Steamship Co., agents. Sailed—October 25, Spray, schooner, 50 tons, Buxton, for D'UrvUlo'b island. Cnff and Graham, agents. The ship Waik&to is fully dao at Port Chalmers, being 101 days out to-day. The Wandering Chief, from Now York for the same port, is 112 days out. The Waimate, with sixty-six passengers from Xondon, is out eighty-eight days to-day, and the Marlborough eighty-three days, with forty-fcur patsengers, The Jessie Burrill, from New Tork for Shanghai, with 50,000 cases of oil, caught fire «ff Jong y ing island on the night of August 3rd. The vessel was destroyed, and the captain, wife, etewardesß, and orew, took refuge on the island, and were subsequently taken on by a passing vessel to Shanghai. The Torea was loaded at Kaipara for this port on the 17th instant. The schooners Annie Wilson, Mary King, and Enterprise, were re ported as lying at the loading ground. The Island Lily was also there windbound. The Kawatiro, an iron screw steamer of 750 tons, built to the order of the Westport ColEery Company, of New Zealand, was recently launched by Messrs H. Motntyre and Co., Paisley. This is the first of three the builders fcave on hard tor the same owners. The third steamer is the hundredth contract Messrs H. Ifelntyre and Co. have concluded since commencing business a little over five years ago, ■ad the Kawatiro is tha ninetieth vessel touched. A short time ago one of the Bev. 13. Ij. Berthen's experimental collapsible boats was dropped into the sea 400 miles from the Sci ly Minds, having six persons on board. She beat .about in heavy weather and mads the shore in six days. She then left Soilly in the teeth of a gale, going up Channel, and reached the Needles in thirty-five hours' travelling sometimes at ten knots per hour. The feature of such a craft is that she can carry seventy persons, with stores for a fortnight, and that when she is folded np and stowed away on the ship's Bide she measures hat two feet in width by about nine feet in lonfrth, and can be made ready for sea in one annate, with all necessary gear and her water beakers filled.

SHIPPING TEIiEQEAMS. Kiw Plymouth, October 25. Tha steamer Hawea left for Nelson and Southern Porta at eleven o'o'ock. Passengers— Mrs Scott, Meaars Hoakins, Loader, Kelly and Whittle/. The barque Port Glasgow, having discharged -outgo, will sail for Wellington to morrow. WaiiMNOTON, Ootober 24. Arrived—Sea Toller, barque, Curry, from licadon. 403 day a ; Wallace, from Nelson. Bailed—Wallace, for i\ekon and the West Gbast. DusrJsuiN, Ootober 24. Arrived—Bingarooma, from Melbourne, via 4ha Bluff. The weather all day has been very squally and bitterly cold with occasional hail akowera. TimabtJ, October 24. Arrived—Beautiful Star and Taiazoa, from Omedin.

Bailed— Taiaroa, for Lyttelton and Wei liagton; Beautiful fctar, for the South.