POST OF LYTTELTON.

Press, Volume XLV, Issue 7172, 6 October 1888, Page 4

POST OF LYTTELTON.

Phases o* th* Moow Calculated tar New Zealand Mean Tune. OCTOBKB. D. H. M Sewmoon .- ... • f !**•£- Firet quarter 4 59p.m. FuiHrioon 30 8 39 a.m. L*«t quarter 28 1 26 p.m. JPerigee— 7d 6h p-m.; Apogee—23d 9hp.m. Weatbbb RKPORP-October 5. B β-m.—Weather, overcast. Wind,N.W., Uzht. Barometer, 51; thermometer, 67. High Watkr—This Day. Morning, 3.26; evening, 3.51. Arrived —Octofcer 5. Kiwi, 8.5., 133 tons, Campbell, from "Wellington vis Haikoura. Klnsey and Company, agents. Penguin, s.s., 442 tons, AUroan, from l&anukaa and way ports. PassengersMisses Reid and Mnrphy, Mesdames Butts and child, Willie and infant and Auly, Inspector Douglas, Capt. Coelman, Messrs Rimpkins. Foster, Bullock, Slackmore, Neave, Stewart, and four steerage. Union Steamship Company, agents. Clematis, ketch, 67 tons. Green, from Haveiock. Fraser and M&lcomson, agents. Marmion, schooner, 92 tons, Johnston, from Kaipara. J. B. Way, agents. Omapere, sa, 352 tons, Smith, from Westport. Passenger—l steerage. Union Steamship Company, agents. Jane Douglas, β-s.,76tons, Whitby, from Kaikoora. Cutf and Graham, agents. Stii.KTi—October 5. Norman McLeod, barque, 834 tons, ILovett, for London. New Zealand Shipping Company, agents. Penguin, s.s.. 442 tons, Allman, for Wellington- Passengers—Mr and Mrs Perrins, Messrs Johnston and Halley. Union Steamship Company, agents. Akaroa, s.s., 48 tons. Harris, for Akaroa. £insey and Co., agents. Imposts. Clematis—46,oooft timber. Marmion—Gs,oooft timber. Kiwi—2 cks plaster, 115 cks tallow, 3 eases fish, 20,000 ft timber, 11 pkgs. Penguin—l6o bags bark, 14 sire peas, 560 " bags sugar, 11 bales leather, 46 pkgs sundries; Omapere—63o tons coaL Waihora — For Sydney: 10 hhds ale, £5 kegs butter, 1106 eks potatoes, 305 sks oats, 13 do wheat, 14 bags pigs" feet, 13 cases 299 sks bran, 9 cases hams and bacon, H bales hay, 60 pkgs. For Wellington: 8 sks rhubarb. For Cooktown: 4 cases. For Brisbane: 10 cks. Manapoori—For Wellington: 50 sks aats, 2 cases bacon, 30 sks rhubarb, 14 pkgs. Far Napier: 17 pkgs. For Gisborne: 250 sks oats, 1 sk seed, 3 parcels. For Suva: 6 cases bacon. ForLevuka: 1 case bacon. For Auckland: 25 sks potatoes, 100 cases wire, 70 eks malt, 10 boxes nails, 2169 sks wheat, 650 eks and bage floor, 28 pkgs. Akaroa—l bale woolpacks, 48 bags flour, S sks wheat, 173 pkgs sundries. The Union Steamship Company's s.s Omapere, Captain Smith, arrived yesterday afternoon at 3.30 o'clock, fromWestporfe. Mr Martin {purser) reports : —Left Westport at 10.30 p.m. on 3rd inst. for Ly ttelton, arrivics? as above. Experienced strong southerly winds to the Kaikouras, thence to arrival fine weather. The S.S. Kiwi, from Wellington, via Katkoura, arrived in port yesterday morning. After discharging her cargo for this pest she went alongside the ship Waimate to receive salt for Wellington, and will steam hence this afternoon. From Kaikoura the s.s. Jane Douglas arrived in port last night. For Akaroa the s.s, Akaroa left on her usual weekly trip yesterday afternoon. The shipOpawa, now loading for London, had 3900 carcases of mutton on board yesterday. The rfnion Steamship Company's s.s. Peßguin, Captain Allman, arrived yesterday morning at 5.30 o'clock from ManuJean and way ports. Mr Morris (purser) reports:—Left Manukau at 5 p.m. on the Ist, and arrived at Taranaki at 7 a.m. on the 2nd. Left again at 4 p.m. same day, caUed at Nelson, Pieton, and Wellington, leaving the latter port at 2 p.m. on Thursday for Lyttelton, arriving as above. Experienced fine weather throughout the jHsnfe. At 9 p.m., on receipt of the Southern portion of the 'Frisco mail she left for Wellington. The schooner Marmion, timber laden, from Kaipara, arrived yesterday morning. The ketch Clematis arrived yesterday morning with a cargo of timber. The barque Norman McLeod was towed oat to sea yesterday moraine, and sailed for London. The ship Eallochan up to last night had received 1836 sacks of wheat of her homeward cargo. The S.S. and A. Companj's R.M.S.S. Doric is due here to-morrow from Port Chalmers. An alteration will {says the Argus) shortly be made in the lighting of the Cape Otway lighthouse. The apparatus connected with a triple flashing dioptric light has recently arrived in Melbourne from Chance Bros.-, lighthouse engineers, sear Birmingham, as an exhibit at the Centennial Exhibition, and it is the intention of the Government to purchase it for erection at the Cape Otway lighthouse. The light will, in the first instance, be displayed from the dome of the Exhibition Buildings, whence it should be seen a distance of dose upon thirty miles. The present light at Cape Otway is known as the catoptric, and although it possesses many advantages, it is more expensive to maintain than the dioptric, and can only be seen a distance of about twenty-four mites, or a lew mileft less than the light which is to supersede it. The dioptric system also possesses the advantage of requiring only one burner, with a series of ■wicks, whereas under the catoptric system as many as twenty-one lamps are neceseary.