POST OF LYTTELTON.

Press, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5361, 30 November 1882, Page 2

POST OF LYTTELTON.

Weather ». _ 9__nu—Weather, blue sky. Wind,N,L. fresh breeze. Barometer, 30.33 i ther mometer, 65. . _. High Water—This Day. Morning, 7.37; evening, 8.1.

ABSTTTO-November 28. G. M. Tucker, barque, 519 tons, Oliver, from Newcastle. Wood, Sinclair, and Co. ; Agents. Ocean Bird, ketch, S3 tons, Williams, from Foxton. Cuff and Graham, agents. November 29.

Fawn, brig, 216 tons, Dillner, from Newcastle. R.Wood, agent. Grafton, ,8.9., 242 tons, Johnson, from Wellington. Passengers—Messrs Archer/ Osborne, Batlin, Thompson. New Zealand Grain Agency and Mercantile Company, City of Nankin, ship, from Newcastle. New Zealand Grain Agency, agents. Sailed —November 22.

Onward, schooner, 69 tons,_fcConv_le, for Greymouth. Cuff and Graham, agents. E. U. Cameron, 41 tons, Aschman, for Hickory. Master, agent. Imposts.

Per Grafton—From Wellington: 520 telegraph poles, 1506 sleepers, 98 pkgs sundries. From Greymouth.: 4 qr-caski wme, 24 sks pelts. Consignees—Cuff and Graham,.A. Stenhouse, Schwartz, A. R. Preston, _f. Millar, Good, Lightband, Allan and Co. Per Ocean Bird—2o23ft timber, 272 cases sLingle3,l24o bundles laths. Consignee— C. C. AiVman.

Per G. M. Tucker—74o tons coal. Consignees—Wood, Sinclair and Co. Fer Fawn—From Brisbane: 497 pkgs sugar. From Newcastle: 315 tons coal. Co—signadto order. Exports.

Per Wanaka—For Picton : 1 case soda. For Foxton: 6 kegs soda. For Wanganui: 18 pkgs. For Wellington: 59 sks potatoes, 8 pkgs, 17 sks rhubarb, 1 horse. For New Plymouth-. Bpkgs. For Manukau: 1 case leather. For Nelson s S pkgß. For Hokitika: 12 kegs butter. Shippers--Blake, Lightband, Allan and Co., Isitt, Kaiapoi Woouen Factory, Mason, Struthers and Co., Whitcombe and Tombs, I. Wilson, Harris and Son, Blackweli, Union Steamship Co.

The 5.3. Graftony for Weßingtoh and the West Coast ports, leaves to-day. The s.s.Taiaroa,for Akaroa; Timaru, and Dunedin, leaves to-day, and the s.s. Southern Cross, for Manukau, to-morrow. The ship City of Nankin, reported by the steamer Grafton, has arrived from Newcastle. She is consigned to tho New Zealand Grain Agency. The holiday season tickets for the Union Company's steamers come into vogue tomorrow. The first boat from this port carrying excursion ticket holderswillbethe fine steamship Manapouri, which leaves here for the North to-morrow. The tickets are available for return up to the end of March next. » Messrs Cuff and Graham report the sale of the well-known schooner Spray to Mr Hayes, timber merchant at Timaru, and the vesselwiUbeputinthet-adebetweenTimaru and Sfewartrs Island. The. Spray was formerly owned by Captain Buxton, who sailed her, and earned for her an enviable name among the coasting vessels which trade to tiais port. She is a smart little schooner, of which her new port of registry need not be ashamed.

Regulations for the examination of engineers under the Shipping and Seamens Act, 1877, and which regulations will come into force on the Ist day of December next, appear in a recent " Gazette." The follow.ing is the rule in reference to " failure ":— *' If the applicant fails in the viva voce or practical part of the examination he may not present himself for re-examination -until he can produce proofs of three months' further service at sea as engineer from the date of failure. If he fails in arithmetic or drawing only, he may come up again at any time. ' - ' -