PORT OF KAIAPOL.

Press, Volume XVIII, Issue 2668, 18 November 1871, Page 2

PORT OF KAIAPOL.

SAILED. i.HNbv. 17—Novelty, p.s., : for Lyttelton. ■ SNov. 17—Linnet, ketch) Schenkel, for Leßon's Bay, in ballast. . ! ketch, Simmonds, for -Jjyttelton. * . ; :; 11 expobts. -- Per Novelty—l2oo bushels wheats. ; A Per volunteer —28 bales wool, 2 tons tain and sharps, 400 bushels wheat, 1 ton β-potatoes. •

**" ''When crossing the bar, a heavy sea being at the time, on Friday morning, the mainmast of the ketch Liuuet weut overboard by the deck. Iv this etate she had to ■lie-to outside, and the pilot bad to telegraph tr. Lvttelton for a; steamer to; be sent to the crew's assistance, if possible With reference to the above our Lyttelton correspondent vntes :—Captain Gibson, Port officer, Lyttelton, received a telegram from the pilot at Kaiapoi (Mr Petersen), to the effJet that the ketch Linnet, in crossing the bar, lost her mainmast; a message was sent back asking if she" required, assistance, the reply was better send a steamer, the p.s. Novelty arrivsoon after this: message, reported that sjgaii had been got on the vessel, and such " being the case, it was consided not necessary, __asl the wind;was off shore,..to Bend any assistance to the vessel. ;.