PORT OF LYTTELTON.

Press, Volume XLV, Issue 7141, 31 August 1888, Page 4

PORT OF LYTTELTON.

WBATH-ER I___POBT—August 30. 9 a.m.—Weather, overcast. Wind S.W., fresh breeze. Barometer, 30-00; therruo■aeter,4o. Hibh Watkr—This Day. Morning, 11.3; evening, 11.-7. A_ut*T-*D—August 30. Tarawera, a.s., 1289 tons, Sinclair, from Melbourne, via Hobart and South. Passengers—Miss Thompson, Mr and Mrs Monro, Messrs Strickland <2), Drake. Nott, Ingleton, Gray, Colls and twelve steerage. Union Steamship Company, agents. Mawhera, 5.8., 340 tons, Hill, from Greymouth. Union Steamship Company, agents. TPenguin, s.s., 442 tons, Allman, from Wellington. Passengers — Mrs Taylor, Misses Richmond and Galway, Hons. G. McLean and W. H. Reynolds, ttLCa., Messrs A. P. O'Callaghan, R. M. Taylor, R. J. Seddon, T. Duncan, W. D. Stewart, B. J. BL Reeves, and J. McKenzie, M-H-R's., Marshall, Beetham, Wreaks, Davidson, Lipman, Fancourt, Wrighley, and live steerage. Union Steamship Company, agents. (-Xjsarkd—-August 30. Maud Graham, schooner, 80 tons, Fitzgerald, for Stewart's Island. Cuff and Graham, agents. S__d_ed—-August 30. Clematis, ketch, 67 tons, Schenkel, for Havelock. Fraser and Malcolmsott, agents. Kentish Lass, barque, 306 tons, Johnson, lor Auckland. Cuff and Graham, agents. Mimiha, g_ tons, Sinclair, for Havelock. Cuff and Graham, agents. Tarawera, s-s., 1209 tons, Sinclair, for Sydney, via Auckland and way ports. Passengers — For Wellington — Messrs Turkey, Edwards, Octgen, Mesdames Beeves, Keates and Ryan, Meaara Liutoff, Mlllington, Haddon, Wood, Salter, Darker, Stoke, Bowron, Hall, Thompson and Carlton. For Napier—Misses Hawkins and Hopcroft, and Mr McDiarmid. For Gisborne — Mrs Perry and three children, Mr Smith and Master Rees. For Auckland—Messrs Moir and Hdnt. For Sydney — Messrs I__u*ris and McGuire, t-nion Steamship Co., agents. Penguin, 5.8., 442 tons, Allman, for Dunedin. Union Steamship Company, agents. Imports. Mawhera—-520 tons coal. Penguin—l keg lead, 420 bags bar*-- 2 boxes eggs, 2 bales leather, 20 kegs nails, 1 horse, 65 pkgs sundries. Tarawera—From Melbourne—2o bags pepper, 50 do tapioca, 4 do spice, 70 chests tea, 2 cases cigars, 130 do wine, 5 do nutmegs, 133 bags bark, 186 pkgs. From Bluff —1 kit birds. From Dunedin—lo casks oil, 25 cases kerosene, 2 rolls lead, 3 hhds "ale, 47 pkgs. Ex Tainui, from London— 916 pkgs and eases merchandise. Expobts. Penguin—For Dunedin —46 cases tea, 125 sacks potatoes, 59 do onions, 112 do carrots, 11 empty hhds, 71 pkgs. For Port Chalmers—s6 empty casks. For Oamaru —fi quarter-casks whiskey, 20 bags barley, 80 pkgs sundries. Grafton—For Timaru—-86 cases tea, 80 j begs sugar, 6 sacks barley, 223 pkgs. For j Akaroa—7 cases. Far Oamaru—B cases .cheese. For Dunedin—6o sacks potatoes, 18 bags onions, 13 cases nails, 2 do meats,, Kawatiri — For Greymouth — 6 boxes cakes, 15 cases tea, 12 kegs butter, 14 sacks onions, 50 sacks seed, 60 do potatoes, 78 do chaff, 10 do bran, 2 do beans, 50 sacks flour, 1 case fish, 116 pieces machinery, 2 'cases eggs, 106 pkgs. For Hokitika—2 cases biscuits, 16 sacks onions, 120 do potatoes, 100 oats, 55 do wheat, 1 case. The" Union Steamship Company's s.s. Tarawera, Captain Sinclair, arrived yesterday morning at nine o'clock from Melbourne, via Hobart and 'South. Mr Munro (purser) reports ■— Left Melhourne at 1.15 p.m. on 21st inst., called at Hobart,, and arrived at the Bluff at 3 pan. on 26th inst.; left again at R. 15 p.m. on 27th, and arrived at Dunedin at 8 a.m. on 28th inst.; left again at 5 p.m. on 29th inst, for Lyttelton, arriving as above. Experienced strong ■westerly gale, with heavy seas, to the Bluff; thence to arrival fine weather. She steamed for Wellington, Napier, Auckland, and Sydney last night. The Union Steamship Company's s.s. Mawhera, Captain Hill, arrived yesterday rooming at an early hour from GreyH-outh. Mr Morley, purser, reports leaving Greymouth at 2 a.m. on 28th inst. for Lyttelton, arriving as above. Experienced strong westerly gales to Cape -Jurewell, thence to arrival fine weather. The Union Steamship Company's a.s. Penguin, Captain Allman, from Nelson, Picton, and Wellington arrived yesterday morning at six o'clock. Mr Morris (purser) reports:—-Left Nelson at 1 p.m. on 28th inst., called at Picton and WeDington, leaving the latter port at 2 p.m. on Wednesday for Lyttelton, arriving as above. Experienced tine weather throughout the trip. At 3.30 p.m. she steamed for Dunedin. ' The ketch Clematis, in ballast, for Havelock, sailed yesterday morning. The barque Kentish Lass, with a full cargo of produce, sailed for Auckland yesterday morning. The schooner Mimiha, in ballast, for Havelock, sailed yesterday morning. As the s-s. Jane Douglas was coming alongside the screw pile jetty yesterday afternoon a squall struck her and canted ter bow against the piles, carrying away the bobstay and smashing the jibboom. The schooner Orpheus loads produce at this port for Auckland. Ih ballast, for Stewart's Island, the schooner Maud Graham cleared at the Customs yesterday. The Colonial Union Company's s.s, Bayiey goes alongside the ship Lady to-day to receive frozen mutton, aome 8000 carcases, which have been stored on that vessel. The N.Z.S. Company's RJULS. Ruapehu from Port Chalmers is due here this morning. Mr G. H, Humphries, who for sometime has been purser of the s.s. Tarawera, was, the last trip of the steamer, left at Melbourne for treatment. He is suffering from a severe cold. Mr Munro, of the E.S. Mawhera, has taken his place. The rjarque Lutterworth, which arrived -at Port Chalmers on August 28th, met wish some bad weather after rounding the Cape of Good Hope on July 28th, in lat. 43 S., when she met a succe«-sion of furious gales from W.N.W. toS.&W., with terrific seas, which continued until August 9th, her decks being continually n*-*oded. On August Bth, whilst running before a furious W.S.W. gale, a tremendous sea .broke over the ship, carrying away three of her boats, skids, Hooding her cabin, smashing pooprail, after hatch, also the only remaining boat, and doing other damage about the decks. From August 9th to the 20th, she had more moderate weather, although she met occasional heavy Iv.E. gales. Crossed the meridian of Cape Leuwin on Au_-ust ICth, in lat. 49 S., and when in lat. 52 S., long. 140 E., heavy N.W. and S.W. gales set in, wita very high sea; passed the island of Tasmania on 'August 22nd; strong N.W. and E.W. gales continued until she made her -first land fall (the Snares) on the 25th Inst, The New Zealand Shipping Company's Ship Opawa, now discharging at the Gladstone Pier, will, on completion, be docked. We hear much about fast cruisers of her Majesty's Navy, and many of us get away with the idea that they are as plentiful as grasshoppers in Kansas. Well, since ISSO some 50 warships have been built for four millions of soys, and not one of them has attained a measured mile speed of 14 toots. What do you think of that now f Thirty-two fell short of 13 knots, and one half fell short of 12 knots, while some went down to 9J knots per hour. Several have been condemned as useless, and not much wonder. A "fast cruiser" of 9} knots carrying the proud flag of Old England I Bah I—Shipping Guide.