PORT OF LYTTELTON.
Wat-ana __po_-—December 30.-;. ____.—We-iher, overcast and rainy. "-Hind, 8.W.. fresh. Barometer, 29.70 j theri—nmntrr Ift ■*_,- .- High Water—-his Day. Mo*—->g, 4.89 1 evening, 5.4. Abbtvxb—December 29. Xoranui, s.s., 301 tons, Oliver, from -__■___. New Zealand Grain Agency and __■-cantQe Company, agents. *'" Rotorna, s_-_ 576 tons, .Anderson, .from ____u___n_na Way "Ports. P_3__-__r_-Mi-ana Derwent, Jones, Duncan, Warren, dae-by, Finn (2), Lady Tancred, Mesdames _____red, Hoe, D-inson, Allan, Shannon, -fevers, Nosworthy, Sir W. Tancred, Cross, Messrs Tancred, lunch, Frank, Riley, Renahaw, Coffey, Gibson, Mosw-rUiy, Duncan, Ross, Campbell, Blow, Dalgleiah, Paynter (2), Williams, Gnffiths, Harvey, Shannon, and eight steerage. TJaion Steam-hip Company, agents. December 30. Mahinapua, s.s., 205 tons, Berdech, from Ck-ymoutL Uuion Steamship Company, agents. Wakata, _8_ 78 tons. Wills, from Kaikoura and Wellington. Ki.sey, Ward mmd Co., agents. Grafton, s.s., 242 tons. Hill, from Wet Hagton and West Coast. N.Z. Grain Agemcy and Company, agents. S_i_cd-—December 29. M—r-mion, brigantine, 92 tons, Johnston, Cor Kaipara. Cuff and Graham, agents. Wanganui, ship, 1077 tons, Adams, for ___don. Passenger—Mr Satchnell. N.Z. Shipping Company, agents. Botorua, s_i., 576 tons, Anderson, for Wellington Passengers — Mesdames Hewitt, Donald, Miss Ohrichton, Messrs __—_£_, Gardiner, Lloyd, Heywood, Ranby, Ross, Fleet, Goodwin, Chrichton, Luxford, Morris, Campbell, Howron. Union Steam__up Company, agents. Ezfobts. Per Wanganui—4466 bales wool, 619 sacks -heat, -Fbatos skim, 274 hides, r pkge *__.ples, 7 cases. Shippers—-Lightband, Allan and Co., J. M. Heywood and Co., Kinsey, Ward and Co., J. E. Parker, N.Z. .Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Fletcher, Humphries and Co., Miles and Co.. Frie-lander Bros., Lewis and Gould, __ W-Drin and Co., N.Z. Farmers* Associa-t-on. The s.s. Koranui left on Saturday for Weßi-iton and West Coast. ;' __c b-igantine M__*mion left on Saturday _—r ___i_M_n_> The sj-Wakatu arrived from Kaikoura aid Wellington, and leaves to-day for Boat _B___or. - The brigantine Endeavour came off the slip yesterday. The schooner Mary Ellen went on to be cleaned and painted. __ The Black Diamond lint— Grafton arrived from Wellington yesterday. She leaves for Wellington and West Coast on Wedn -s:f_e s_. Waratea will come out of the dock to-day. _ ... ~. The Union Company. Mahinapua __-*-rtved from Greymouth yesterday, and -eaves to-day for Dunedin. The briga—tine Gleaner left Kenepuru fivLevuka, Fiji, on the 26th instant with SaflOOtt timber. She is under charter to Mr Geoi_e Mackay to make one or two < tripe to Fiji from Lyttelton, -returning about first week in February with a cargo of South Sea Island sugar, coffee and fruit. Hitherto the Fiji products, particularly ■Hie fruit, have either arrived here via Sydney or Auckland, and it is expected that the saving of transhipment expenses __vi freights will go far towards establishin** direct trade. iN.Z. -hipping C-mpany*s ship Wanganui was towed direct to sea on Saturday afternoon for London, with a full cargo of wool and produce and one •_*__.TJnion Conxpany/sTakapunaleaves to-day for Manukau and Way Ports. The steamer Botorua, Captain Anderson, ___tved on Saturday night from Wellington, after a very stormy passage of twenty lujurs. She left same night on the return .Messrs Agar and Roberts have a trial trip of their new boat the Canterbury to-day. The N.Z. Shipping Company on Saturday despatched their fine ship Wanganui for ' Xtondon direct. .The steamship Tongariro leaves the . -*_arf-his afternoon for London, via Rio Janeiro^, Messrs Shaw. SiviUe and Go. and the Albion Shipping Company's steamer ""flcterr -was due last night at Lyttelton from Port Cl__mers, having left the latter jport at 3 am. yesterday.