SHIPPING

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XIX, Issue 3197, 19 October 1876, Page 2

SHIPPING

HIGHWATER AT THE HEADS Thursday — 10.45 a.m. ... 11.5 p.m. ARRIVED. Oct. 18 — Manawatu, p.s., 103 tons, Harvey, from Wellington. Passengera — Misses Peake and Richardson, Mrs Jamieson and child, Mr and Mrs McGovern and child, Messrs Ballance, M.H.R., Hind, Ward, Peake, Wilkins, Tell, Pawson, Meto Kingi, McVoy, Bryson, Murdoch, Walters, Hum, Te Waero, Apcrahama, and 10 in steerage. Oct. 18— Clyde, b.s., 34 tons, Gibbons, from Patea. Oct 18— St Kilda, s.s., 174 ;tons, Flowerday, from Onehunga. CLEARED. Oct. 17 — Theresa, sch., Bissett, for Wellington. Oct. 18— Manawatu, p.s., 103 tons, Harvey, for Wellington. EXPORTS. Per Stormbird— 39 bales wool, 54 cases tallow, 56 cases do., 21 sacks hides, 32 bundles sheepskins, 5 packages machinery. EXPECTED. Stonnbird, from Wellington, to-morrow. Manawatu, from Wellington, to-morrow. Cora, from Dunedin, eavly. Awaroa, from Nelson, to-day. Thames, from Manaroa, daily. Tongariro, from Patea, to-morrow. Mosquito, from Liverpool, early in Dec. The p.s. Manawatu, Captain Harvey, sailed from Wellington on Tuesday, at 4.40 p.m., in company with the s.s. Rangatira and p.s. Charles Edward, passing out of the Heads at 5.30. Experienced fresh, head wind to Mana, and from thence till arrival light variable breeze with fine weather. Crossed the bar at 7.40 yesterday morning, and made fast to the wharf at 8.40. She brought a large general cargo, and sailed for Wellington again at 9 p.m. The master of the Clyde informs us that tho Patea bar is very bad at present. By reference to an advertisement, in our shipping notices it will be observed that the s.s. Rangatira and p.s. Manawatu are for sale by tender, the date of the closing of such lenders terminating on the 15th of next month (November). From the 'N. Z. Times ' we learn that tho Luna will now be laid up, Captain Fairchild having been appointed to the command of the 8.8. Hinemoa, which vessel, after going on the Slip to have her bottom cleaned and painted, will commence the work for which she is intended. The Stonnbird sailed for Wellington on Tuesday night, with, a large cargo and the following passengers ; — Miss Bremner, Drs Ellis and Buncklay, Messrs Mahoney, Skelly, , and several others. The ketch Otaki is again afloat, and is engaged in her regular trading trips between Wellington and Otaki. Says the « N. Z. Times ' -.—The threemasted schooner May should now not be very far away from New Zealand, as she left Honkong 94 days ago, while the St. Leonards, from London, should be drawing close up.