SHIPPING.

Temuka Leader, Issue 188, 21 October 1879, Page 2

SHIPPING.

WELLINGTON.

X :;c :-''.!j.v Zealandia arrived at Wellingti n ;■ , -.liiy with R-i i" Covermnent immigrants. j.'in;-- '■', iwo ca-:-es of a mild form of chicken .-.. ihe .-hip lnu- not. yet been cleared. '■l-r- h-.vpie iilesa "arrived at Wellington \v-:!f!\i:-v from Foo Clioo. Capfain Roberts :-::.r,-s :;!;: r._ on t,he 17th Sept", he sighted "K.':v:i';;';- T'iand, when a wjue with natives ; ti'iir- <>iV\ but they were timid and would not b-xnd. Xhcy were quite nude.

LYTT ELTON.

AHKIVED

1 L'lia, brig, 173 tons, Ycel, from O eh, s.s., 117 tons, M'Artlmr, lr Oaniaruand Timaru. ] u -naka, s.s., 273 tons, M-Gilli-P< J ; Chalmers. ■ -P nguin, s.s., 142 tons, Maleoline, •> -* and, via East Const. V nijanui; s.s., 175 tons, Rsyldon t v ''<•(" and Wellington. 1 -lo ea, schooner, 73 tons, Grundy, r a CLEAEHD. ] —T c bella Anderson, schooner, 70 r-cn, from Oamaru. SAILED. ~> * P'eione, ship, 1092 tons, Kenaut, CI^JO. --- V uthem Cross, barque, 324 tons, , f eih'n^ton. —" -naka", s.s., 278 tons, M'Gilli- '■' igton, East Coast ports and —r„i guin, s.s., 442 tons, Malcomn, a -—Oreti, s.s., 117 tons, MArthur, ngton, Wanganui, and Manukau.

PORT CHALMERS,

The Maggie Paterson sailed for Foxton yesterd;?v morning. P3:e barque Nonpariel Bailed for Newcastle ~c=A ,:.'-daT morning. 'J'Jio f.'s. Star of the South left the Bluff or. Tlr. r;..'.lay, arriving at Port Chalmers on Sat-in-Ja .. Capt. Fraser sighted the ship Electra the Bluff. ■XL;"- Jlist change of wind should bring up one •:.;• more of the following vessels :—The Ej: ! ; ..'U'da, from New York, 112 days out, or t: c : =rorgietta, from same port, 110 days out. We (.■>'.]>. ict the ship* Timaru, from London, SO dv.- ..- ■.;:;, with 350 ppssengeis. The N.Z.S.S C-.-.V Wuipa left the same dcy. Thv: Beautiful Star arrived on Monday 2rom Oai!;;i.ru, and berthed at the Railway Pier.

ARRIVAL OF THE CALYPSO.

The clipper ship Calpso, which arrived off the Heads at 5.30 p.m., on October 14ih, was • owed across the bar at 0.39 a.m. on the I Oil;,, and anchored in the powder ground v.t ] XX' p.m. She was boarded early in the morning uy the Health Officer and Customs Dor■• -ding Officer, and the health of all on b'-,! I being good, the vessel was at once rfeareJ in. The Calypso comes into port in r:■:'-• d:ent condition, and has again made a fi.-pv-ela-ss run out, the passage from jo.t to port only having occupied S 4, and from land to land 79 days. She is under the command of Captain Bird, her former chief officer, wLoui we congratulate on his well meiited promotion. He brings Mr Gordon (formerly second officer) as chief officer, Mr Hoskins as second, and Mr Hotelier as third. Dr Young •come? surgeon, while Mr and Mrs Pollock are ,:tiil in their old positions a 3 steward and stewardess. She brings • 1200 tons of cargo, of which 700 tons are light goods, and the rema hide:* dead weight. She had 19 saloon, oG second cabin, and 96 steerage passengers, who one and all express their satisfaction bct.h with the ship and her commander, and and have presented Captain Bird with a tesiir.ionial to that effect. "VYe thank him for the following abstract from his journal of the re eel's p.ir--:-age out: —She left London on th:iy 22nd; had light westerly winds down the channel, and put into Falmouth on the 2t:--)j. After embarking passengers she left au jin on the same day, and took her departs iv- from the Lizard on July 27th; expe•lav.ced light southerly winds across the Bay t'.'J' iiiscay, and took the north-east trades on /vigust 7th, in latatude 30 N.; the trades v-ore light, and gave out in latitude 11 N. ( on August 16th; they were succeeded by light --•-.'utherly winds and squally weather, and on august 23rd, in latitude 5*N., she picked up the south-cast trades, and crossed the equator in longitude 25 TV., on • August 25th ; the trade* were v/ell to the southward, and were carried to latitude 25 south., longitude 3G

V»; • on September 4th she took a light easterly breeze, which held for four days, and ♦ hence hauled to north and north-cast, settiing into the westward on the 11th August ; she crossed the meridian of Greenwich three days later, in latitude 41.8., and rounded the (.'ape of Good Hope on August 18th, m latitude 43 S. ; the passage ■ winds were steady, t;nd attended with p,easant weather all across •ne Southern Ocean, the meredian of Cape Leuwin being crossed on October sth ; thence she 'nad fresh breezes from S.W. to E.W. ; passed the island of Tasmania on October and still keeping favorable winds made our first landfall off the Snares at 5.30 p.m. the 13th October; had light S.E. winds along the coast, and made Otago Heads on the 4th at 5.30 p.m.; took Pilot "Kelly ons Board, and crossed the bar as above. The Calypso will discharge at the Railway Pier.