SHIPPING

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2680, 8 November 1882, Page 2

SHIPPING

POET OP LYTTELTON. Weather Eeport—November 8. 9 a.m. —Weather, overcast, drizzling rain. “Wind, S.W. fresh breeze. Barometer, 29.85; thermometer, 43. High Water —To-morrow. Morning, 1.39; evening, 2.1. Arrived—November 7. Wanaka, s.s., 278 tons. Holmes, from Port Chalmers via Akaroa. Passengers— Miss Carmichael, Mrs Carmichael, Messrs Greenup:'Murdio and two children, Caldwell, Morton, Cane, Black. Steerage— Pour. Union Steamship Company, agents. Welcome, brigantine, 112 tons. Pry, from Haipara. Cuff and Graham, agents. November 8. Wakatipu, s.s., 1158 tons, Wheeler, from Port Chalmers. Passengers—Messrs Morrison, Hudson, Provse, and fifty-two for forward ports. Union Steamship Company, agents. . Cutty Sark, schooner, 52 tons. Ware, from Thames. Cuff and Graha u, agents. ' Sailed —November 7. Manapouri, s.s., 1020 tons, Logan,, for Port Chalmers. Passengers—Mrs Slater, Mr Eosewald. Union Steamship Company, agents. Wanaka, s.s., 278 tons, ■ Holmes, for Wellington. Union Steamship Company, agents. Wakatu, s.s., 78 tons. Wills, for Kaihoura and Wellington. Kinsey, Ward and Co., agents. Sailed —November 8. Hero, cutter, 29 tons, Jensen, for Nelson. Cuff and Graham, agents. Hannah Barratt, schooner, 57 tons, Benner, for Foxton. Cuff and Graham, agents. Onyx, barque, 403 tons, Salmon, for Newcastle. P assengers—Mr and Mrs Garth, New Zealand Grain Agency and Mercantile Company, agents. Forest Queen, ketch, 51 tons, McDonald, 3or Foxton. Cliff and Graham, agents.

The following passengers left for the North in the steamer Wanaka last night:— Miss Arthur, Mr and Mrs Habens, Messrs Seaton, Baxter, Mountfort, Pearson, M.H.E., Probeting, Thomson. The Bertha, a small experimental boat constructed of cork and canvas, and containing five persons, has arrived at Scilly. She was put overboard from the mail steamer Essequibo, bound to the West Indies, when the latter vessel was 400 miles ■west of Scilly. A novelty in the way of boa-s has been introduced on the Thames. By means of an ingenious joint in the oars the rowers sit with their faces to the head, and while pulling in the ordinary fashion the boat moves forward.

According 1 to returns furnished by the Board of Trade and Lloyd’s Register of Shipping, the total value of the merchant shipping of the United Kingdom may be estimated at .£126,000,000 of which J 690,000,000 represents steamers having a net tonnage of 1 3,003,988 tons, and .£36,000,000 sailing vessels of 3,688,008 tons. Dr. Siemens, president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, predicts that before many years have elapsed we shad find in’our factories and on board our ships engines with a fuel consumption not exceeding 11b of coal per effective horse power per hour, in which the gas producer takes the place of the somewhat complex and dangerous steam boiler. The advent of such an engine and of the' dynamo machine must mark a new era of material progress at least equal to that produced by the introduction of steam power in the early pdrt of our century. Wave of Life left here on Friday, 3rd inst. She arrived at Hokianga on Monday, the 6th, after a smart passage of three days. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. Auckland, November 8. ' Arrived Barques Coromandel, Loch Fleet, and Loch Urr from London. The Wanganui, bound for Wellington, was spoken in latitude 36.47, longitude 145.46. The last apprentice, named Pearce, fell from the rigging of the Loch Urr, and was drowned. Dunedin, November 8. Arrived Wandering Chief,. barque. Brown, from New York. Wellington, November 7. Captain Mosey, of the ship Mercia, reports that on the voyage from London, when 150 miles off Pernambuco in 8.25 south, 31.42 west, he sighted the barque Llama, of Liverpool, homeward bound, and then in a sinking condition. He offered assistance, but the captain of the Llama declined, saying he had done all that was possible, and the crew refused to work any more. He had Bft of water in the hold, and the vessel was sinking. His crew had the boats out, and everything was ready to leave. The captain said he intended remaining by his vessel until she settled, down, and then with the boats would head for Pernambuco. The weather was then fine and calm. The Llama was an iron barque of small tonnage, apparently twenty-five years’ old. On assistance beiug declined, the Mercia stood on her way. Greymouth, November 7. On and after the 21st inst. the towage at Greymouth for ballast vessels without cargo will be two shillings per ton register. Charles Edward does not leave till tomorrow.

Dunedin, November 7. Arrived —Wairarapa, from Melbourne via the Bluff.

Sailed —Wakatipu. for Sydney via the North ; Star of the South, for Westport.