SHIPPING

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XX, Issue 3399, 16 June 1877, Page 2

SHIPPING

HIGH WATER AT THE HEADS

Thia Day— l.s a.m. ... 1.26 p.m. cleared. June 15— T. B. Taylor, sch., 60 tons, Smith, for Kaipara. expected. - Manawatu, from Wellington, to-morrow Stormbird, from "Wellington, to-morrow Wallace, from Nelson, oft Sunday. Colleen Bawn, from Pelorus Sound, early, Waihopai, from Pelorus Sound, daily. Elibank Cast*!"!, from Oamaru, daily. The freshet in the river yesterday was very high. The Stormbird arrived at Wellington yesterday at 11 a.m., and the Manawatu at 11.30 a.m. A ketch crossed the bar yesterday, and came to anchor under the bluff. She is the Wild Duck bound to Patea, and put into this port through rough weather. The St. Kilda returned to port yesterday. She did not come up the river, so that we were unable to ascertain the causo, but feel certain that itr is the prevailing stormy weather which would not allow of her getting further .than Cape Egmont. The " New Zealand Shipping Company's barque Carnatic finished loading for London yesterday morning. She hauled off from tho wharf this afternoon, and sails the first opportunity. Her cargo is a miscellaneous one, and. valued at £27,927. She takes 12 pasB.engers.— Po3t, June 13. The Union Company's s.s. Wakatipu, Captain Cameron, arrived in port at 11.30 a.m. yesterday, after a smart passage from Sydney of four days twenty hours, or, allowing for difference of latitude, four days eighteen and a half hours, which gives her an average rate of steaming of nearly eleven ■ knots an bour ; capital travelling, considering thafc she is -very deeply ladon with 1,200 tons coals and 350 tone general cargo for all ports. —Times, June 13. [As the Manawatu and Stormbird both" left for this port the day after the arrivaliofthe Wakatipu, we were placed in receipt of the^ Sydney Morning Heiald of the. 7th inßtant on Thursday afternoon, only - rfeven days after publication.] --•■--• • .