PORT OF LYTTELTON.

Press, Volume XLVI, Issue 7257, 17 January 1889, Page 4

PORT OF LYTTELTON.

Prasss ov thk Moos Calculated, for New Ttnn 1 Tlfflft 3A3SVAJBX, V. B. M. - - 2 8 38a.m. Firstquarter «. — » 0 11p.m. Fullmoon - —17 5 JpJB. Last quartet — —25 3 27ajn. NewnSST - -31 8 «iun. Apogee—l3d iluuxu; Perigee—29d BhMJau

High Water—Thursday, January 17* Morning,3.s4; evening,s.L_ Sun rises, 4.44 a.m.; seta, 7.37 g.m. Moon rises, Z3B pan.; sets, 4Jo a.m.

Weather Repobt—Wednesday, Jan- Iβ. 9 a.m—Weather fine. Wind, N^. fine, Wind, N.W. Sky overcast.

At The Heads. 0 a.m.— Fresh N.E. breeze. Smooth sea, 9 a.m. noon. 5 p.m. Barometer .- 30.20 SO2O &.14 Thermometer _ 64 66 68

Arrived— January 16. Wakatipu, s.s., 1797 tons, Wheeler, from Dunedin and Timaru. Passengers-Mrs Cowan. Messrs Gen, Cowper. Union Steamship Company, agents. Jane Douglas, s.s., 76 tone, Whitby, from Akaroa. Passengers-Messrs H. Lowry, Malaquin.Hefforl: White, Rhodes, £•»*£*- eonVMcDonald, Adams, Jeffirey,Rickby, and Henderson. Cuff and Graham, agents. , ,_ Clearei>—January Iβ. Castleton, barque, 499 tons, Diore, for Sydney. C. W. Turner, agent. Prinbe Rupert, ketch, 60 tons, Williams, for Timaru. Cuff and Gγ .ham, agents. Sailed —January 16.

Silverhow. barque, 1221 tons, Dougall,for London, New Zealand Shipping Company, agents. Ocean Bird, ketch, 33 tons, Giles, fo* Tongatabo. Fraser and Malcolmson, agents. __ , . Wakatipu, s.s., 1797 tone, Wheeler, for Sydney via Wellington. Passengers—For Wellington—Mrs and Miss Harper, Misses Boyle and Gallagher, and Mr Findlay. For Sydney—Mesdames Silbon, Garrick, Gates, Hoone,and Girard, Misses Kitchenman, Kate and Ida Silbon, Gates, Hon. J. Tomer, Messrs Gates, Bilbon, Daahway, W.andE. Dale, Agrata, W. Silbon, Gee, Moulton, Glrard (2), Phoiles, W. A. Dare, .Ferguson, Toomatb, Montague, Cameron, Turner, McDougall, and Turner. Union Steamship Company, agents. Impokts. Jane Douglas, from Akaroa—l4o bales wool, 1 box drugs, 1 bag bides, 8 bags wool, 4 Jbdlajskins, 40 cheese, 2 pkgs. Exports.

Rotoroa-For WeUington-77 cases tea, S pkes cases coffee, 18 bale skins, 10 sacks seeds, 9 bales twine, 14 bales wool, 11 pkga. For Blenheim—l peg castings, 3 pkge. For Wanganui— 2 pkge harrows. ForT?icton—l parcel. Forltelson—3pkgs. For New Plymouth—2 cases. Wareatea—For Westport—l case paint, 0 pkes sundries. Castkstan—For Sydney—l 942 sks wheat, 2432 do and 160 bales chaff, 13G0 sks oats, 9 &o peas, 220 do flour, 65 do bran, 17 do eharps,l7 do pollard, 19 kegs butter.

Yesterday morning the barque Silverhow, under charter to the New Zealand Shipping Company, was towed oat to sea, and sailed tor London. 'Xhe Union Company's steamer Wakatipu, Captain "Wheeler, arrived at 8 a.m. yesterday from Donedin and Timaru. Her parser reports leaving Dunedin on the 14th, at 3.30 and arrived at Timaru at 7.30 ™- on the 15th. Left again at 7.30 p>xn_ and arrived here as stated above. She steamed for Wellington and Sydney last night. The Prince Bupert cleared for Timaru . yesterday in ballast. At 4 p.m. yesterday the ketch Ocean Bird, which has been chartered by three Christchnrch fruiterers, sailed in ballast for Tongatabn to load for this market wifch oranges, bananas, cocoannta, to. 'The hulk Edwin Fox since arrival In 'port has not been allowed to remain idle- ' long. She commenced taking in mutton 'on Tuesday, and yesterday had 4DOO carcasses stored, part of which is fur tianshipment to the ship Marlborough. Theehip Wellington commencedcooling down her chambers yesterday. On Tuesday evening the achoonerAlert left Napier for this port, with, ■α-fnllcargo of wool-and tallow. . The echosner Maud Graham left the Bluff on Tuesday, with vcargp of timber" .for this port. ' The effect Of the shearing on the Peninsula is already being felt by the traders to and from this port. On Saturday lost the sus. Akaroa brooght up 40 "bales wool, and the Jane Douglas, which arrived in-port at 5 o'clock yesterday evening, was the bearer of 140-bales of the same product. . ' Yesterday the barque Castleton cleared for Sydney with a full load of produce. This vessel made herself famous by her last TOT&gBr being 110 days from Calcutta to this port. It Is to be hoped that Captain Diore will experience more favorable winds in his passage across to Australia which commences to-day. A steam yacht, to run twenty knots an hour, has just been launehedafc Bristol, U.S. She is fitted with quadruple expansion enginesof 800 horse-power. . During the present year it is the intention of the Hobart Marine Board to erect several new lights at various spots along the coast line of Tasmania.

Daring the voyage of the Jane Woodbnrn, barque, frem Hamelln, W.A., to Adelaide, she sprang a, leak, making as ranch as 4J inches an hour. Having a windmill on deck, it was connected with the pumps, and thus "saved the crew that most arduous of all a sailor's work—spells at the pumps. Says an exchange—A close affection moss exist between the barque LochUrr and her captain (J. Murdoch); when seventeen* years ago, she was first pat in commission, he joined as apprentice, steadily -working his way up until, several years since, he obtained command; he has never since first going to sea sailed in any other bottom.

The Torea, schooner, 78 tons, of Auckland, built at Kaipara in 1875, was sold by suction at her port of registry on 19th nit. for £520. The Tores was a well known -vessel in Lyttelton, more-especially for her —.iHT»g qualities, which are of no mean order.

It is probable that the Alfred Graving Bock at Williamstown will shortly be lengthened to 550 ft, so as to accommodate not only existing steamers, but all those likely to be built in the proximate future. The present dimensions of the dock are :— Length on floor, 450 f t; over walls, 475 ft 9in; breadth of entrance, 80ft; depth over side at low water, 24ft; at high water, SBtb On ; spring tides, 28ft. A proposal has been made to the Marine Board, Xaunceston, to construct a new floating dock considerably larger than the present, which is now well on in years and suffering the Tiswtti ailments and weaknesses of old age. This proposal and an alternative one, to construct a dry dock, ■will tit discussed at the next meeting of the Board.

The New York Maritime Register expresses a hope that as the use of compressed gas for lighting buoys is extending, before many years the entrances and channels of all our principal ports will be marked oat by a line of lighted buoys, thereby enabling vessels to enter almost as easily by night as by day. The Australian Auxiliary Squadron is now being "built in England to the order of the Admiralty. The names are as follows :—Cruisers—The Pandora, the Pelorus, the Persian, the Phoenix, and the Psyche. Torpedo Catchers—The Wizard and the Whiting.