SHIPPING.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2721, 29 December 1882, Page 2

SHIPPING.

POET OP LYTTELTON. Weather Report —December 29. 9 a.m.—Weather, cloudy, passing showers. Wind, S.W., light breeze. Barometer, 29.84 ; thermometer, 55. High Water —To-morrow. Morning, 7.44 ; evening, 8.5. Arrived —Decendber 28. Maud Graham, 80 tons, Jorgensen, from Timaru, in ballast. Cuff and Graham, agents. Arrived —December 29. Taiaroa, e.s., 228 tons, Hansby, from Nelson. Pictou, and Wellington. Passengers—Miss Bucholy, Mrs Garlick, Mr and Mrs Hearsman and five children, Mr and Mrs Anderson and infant, Messrs McCallum, Kathbone, Kebble, Booth, Hasselton, Danks, Alexander, Cordy, Bennett, Whitcombe ;30 steerage. Union Steamship Company, agents. Wairarapa, 5.5.,1023 tons, Chatfield, from Melbourne via Hobart and Southern ports. Passengers—Miss Livingstone, Mrs Bamberger, Mr and Mrs Horder, Eev. C. Hardy, ‘ Dr. Singleton, Messrs Franks, Wilkinson, Patterson, Bamberger, Livingstone, Blanchfield. Master Sinclair. Hnion Steamship Company, agents. Cleared —December 29. Island Lily, brigantine, 123 tons. Cooper, for Chatham Islands. Passengers—Mrs Wilson, Mrs Houi Hari, Messrs Fisher and Lyon. Cuff and Graham, agents. Sailed —December 29. Taiaroa, s.s., 228 tons, Hansby, for Akaroa and Dunedin. Hnion Steamship Company, agents. The steamer Taiaroa arrived at 1.30 a.m. after a terribly stormy passage from Wellington of twenty-nine hours. She was kept steaming against the gale the whole time. The three-masted schooner Jasper, belonging to the “ T ’’ line sailing out of Lyttelton, arrived at Port Chalmers on Christmas Day from Mauritius. Captain Stannard sends the following report:—Left Timaru on August 6th for Capetown, and on September 6th a sea struck the vessel and carried away three stanchions and part of the mainrail. From the 16th of September to the 23rd, passed large quantities of floe ice and a number of icebergs, some fully SOOffc high. Arrived at Capetown, fifty-six days out, on October Ist, and left on the 10th for Mauritius. Was twenty-one days going up to Port Louis, and there had the vessel cleaned and part of a new deck laid. She commenced to load on November 14th, and left on November 17th with 420 tons sugar. On the twenty-first day out a fearfully heavy sea broke on board, sweeping the decks, starting the main hatches, and washing away the long boat and everything movable. Arrived at Port Chalmers after a smart run of thirty-eight days. GALE AT LYTTELTON. On Wednesday night a hard sou’wester set in rtifch rain and continued to increase ‘ in strength during the early part of yesterday morning. At four o’clock yesterday t morning it reached its height, and its violence was such as has not been known for many years. There were ten large ships lying at the Gladstone pier and the breastwork, and twenty others at the various jetties in the inner harbor, besides “ small fry,” so that the advantages the port possesses with respect to security or safety as a port for shipping were well demonstrated. At about 6 a.m. the tide was at its highest, and what sea there was running into the harbor between the moles was consequently alt its worst. That there was a considerable range brought up by the heavy gale cannot be .denied, but its effect upon the shipping was nothing more than that of its being inconvenient and disagreeable, with one exception, namely, to the barque Lurline. The Ludine, a fine iron barque was berthed some days since opposite the new large shed on the breastwork in the northeast part of the harbor. She had taken in about a couple of hundred tons .©£ ballast to “ stiffen" her. In the berth she occupied she was exposed to the full strength of the S.W, gale and the full force of the sea, and in her “ tender ” condition it is not surprising that she chafed at her moorings. About the time of high water she had smashed up the iron bark fenders put out to protect her sides from the wharf pileaj and it is believed that one of the ends of these fenders, with the iron band upon it>. became jammed between one of the piles jand the ship’s side. Whether that was so or no, one of her plates was cracked clear through in two places, and so much so as to admit the water. As the plate was three or _ four feet above the water level it was only ’' when she heeled over to the wind that any water came through, fortunately. Several of her plates were dented _ or w. pressure they bore against the fenders. Captain Adair does not think, however, that any serious damage has been done, excepting to the plate, which was cracked, and which must of course be repaired at once. When it was found that his vessel was in danger of being dashed against the wharf assistance was promptly offered Captain Adair by the other shipmasters at hand, whose kindness be desires to thankfully acknowledge. The harbor-master was of course on the alert to render all the assistance possible, and the Harbor Board steam tug got out two kedges from the weather side of the Lurline, by which means she was hedged out sufficiently to relieve her from colliding with the wharf, and thus out of further danger of injury. All the other vessels ■'‘"kept in their berths in the greatest of safety and no damage resulted to any of them. On shore the gale is not reported to have done any damage beyond that to trees and here and there to the slate roofs or the shingled roofs of dwellings. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. Auckland, December 28. Sailed —Te Anau, for the South. Pas-sengers—-For Gisborne —Miss Winchqombe, Miss E. Kempthome, Miss Kempthorne, Mr and Miss P. Smith, Mr Larchin. For Napier—H. Mason, Miss McDonald, Messrs Morrison (2), For Lyttelton—Mr Worthington, Mr Carbines, J. E. Adams, Mr and Mrs O’Brien and family, W. N. Eustbrook. For Port Chalmers —Mr and Mrs Robertson. For Melbourne—Miss Crowther, E. Wheeler, Mrs McCovey and infant. Gbbvmouth, December 28. The Augusta and Annie are outside, and be towed in to-morrow. Dunedin, December 28. VHwiiled —Eotomahana, for Melbourne, via the Bluff; Wairarapa, for the North. Passengers—Mr and Mrs Horder, Mrs and Miss Livingston, Mr Blanchard. For Wellington —Mrs Turnbull, Mrs Mason, Messrs S. Hislop, F. J. Wilson, Wilkinson, Goudie, Carey, Master Rollison. For Pictou —Mr A. Dickson. For Napier—Mrs Garner, Messrs Craig (2), C. E. George. For Auckland—Messrs H. Titchener and J. Bennett.