PORT OF LYTTELTON.

Press, Volume XLVI, Issue 7266, 28 January 1889, Page 4

PORT OF LYTTELTON.

pBAttS Ot T_d- Mo<wr falrnlw*" tnt- tfaw Zealand Mean Time. JANUARY. t>. H. y. New moon 2 8 aim. Firs* quarter ... ... » 0 11 pan. Full moon 17 5 <P*nLaatquarter 25 3 27**«}Kevmoon .. -81 8 40 p.m. Apogee-1-d 4h a.m-; Perlg_e--3d 6h a.m W__—f_r» i-BPOBi— Saturday, Jan. 26. 9 aun.*>-Weatber fine, aky dear; wind, W„ light. _ At rut Heads. 6 «___.—Light W g smooth sea. «*«___. .__6-* m noon . 5 p.m. Barometer _~ 29.99 29*» ™<*> _*h«r__ometer ... 70 <*- '** Wkather Report—Sunday, Jan. 27. 9 a_m —Weather fine, sky clear; wind H-G. fresh. At thk Heads. 9 a.n_,—Fresh NA breeze. 9 a.m. noon. 5 p.m. BMomete. ... *»*•» 30.20 30.20 Thermometer ... Gd tl *1 High Water— Monday, January 28. Morning, a 4 2; evening, Lll. Son rises, 458 ajm.; sets, 7-27 p.m. Moon rises, 1.11 a.m.; _ets, 4.31 p.m. Arrived— January 28. Akaroa, s.s., 48 tons, Harris, from AV-jM-*.. Kinsey and Co-, agents. January 27. Grafton, s.s., 548 tons, Nordstrum, from Dunedin via Timaruand Akaroa, Passengers Misses Duncan, Cooke, Denham, Eraser. Lindsay, Messrs Denham, Parsons, and McGi*«ar; one steerage. Union Steamship Company, agents. _ Ohau, aTs., 766 tons, Stott, from Dunedin Via Oamaru. Union Steamship Company,

B.Sj, 115 tons, Wills, from Wellington and Kaikoura. Kinsey and Co., Sailed —January 28. Clematis, ketch, 67 tons, Green, for Havelock. Fraser and Malcolmson, agents. Alert, schooner, 45 tons, Balllle, for fisvelock. Cuff and Graham, agents. Croydon Lass, schooner, 51 tons, Moore, for Waitapu. Coif and Graham, agents. _ Qio, schooner, 81 tons, Kirk, for Waitapu. Cuff and Graham, agents. Exports. WafeAtea, for Westport—2 cases cheese, aotorua—For Wellington—2 bales twine, 1 cue drapery, 50 sacks oats, 4 pkgsrwindHim, 20 boxes nails, 2 cases boots, 73 pkgs sundries. For Napier—ls pkgs sundries. For Wanganui—l sack seed, 385 bags salt, 14 ba_eshay,l case sundries. For Blenheim —l&cases.tea, 1 coil wire rope. For Nelson—lo cases tea, 28 pkgs samples, 2 bdls timber, 22 pkgs sundries.

The 8.8. Wakatipu is due from Newcastle In a few days with coal for 6. M'Clatchie and Co. __ . At 1.15 p.__., yesterday, the. union Stea_o_hip Company's s.s. Grafton arrived from Dunedin, which port she left last Friday, and called at Timaru on Saturday and Akaroa on Sunday morning, having tUEp-rienced fine weather on the coast. Lite Ohau, from Dunedin and Oamaru, arrived in Port early yesterday morning «nd was berthed at the Screw Pile Jetty. T?_o__ Wellington and Kaikoura, the «._. Wak-ttn arrived in Port yesterday morn•On Saturday evening, the s.s. Akaroa Carte ih Port from Akaroa. The ketch Clematis and schooners Alert, C-roydon Lass and Clio sailed on Saturday, tha two former for Havelock and the latter tiro for Waitapu, all in ballast. The New Zealand Shipping Company's -bartered barque Hampshire is now tteArly a full ship, and next Wednesday atebuld see her ready for SeaGood progress has been made with the loading of the barque Zuleika, and she is now gradually getting down in the water. Produce for the barque Lavinia is 6-_iL_g to hand freely, and she will have quick Hespatch for Sydney. A large quantity of frozen meat haa already been received by the ship Wellington, and her loading is being carried on briskly. On Wednesday nest the B.M. s.s. Kaikoura may be expected to arrive in port _ from Port Chalmers, her first New Zealand place of call. H.SLS. Rapid was yesterday thrown open fo visitors, a_td a' __rge number •railed themselves of looking over this fine vessel of war. Everything of interest W&s shown to them, and all who went off _____ed to have benefited by the trip. Chinese shipping enterprise has of late been extending at Rangoon* A steamer owned by a native firm in China will in future run between that port and Amo/. Ah e_xJ_ange says:—"The vessel, called the (O-tean Ghean, is said to answer in acoommodatlon, but to be weak as to the en- . KjU-BS, a point of not mud. consequence in the eyes of Chinese owners. They study , cheapness in everything, and make money "where people of other nationalities can hardly make a living. Chinese shipowners manage to work vessels at such low charges that they have in many cases little difficulty in success?oily competing ' with foreign rivals. Sometimes Europeans with a large capital at command ten rttn off Chinese liners. With Chinese owned steamer, overloading and undermanning come into play when profit bulks largely in prospect. The mischief done to the kauri timbers tt-kLer the main wharf by the limnoria (s4y~ the Timaru Herald) must be seen to ' be believed. They have chewed away the wood in a way that resembles nothing so much as the sucking of a sugar stick by a sweet-toothed infant. The ends appear to be nibbled at more rapidly than the side «a__fco*B, though in places at least _ln of . Wood have been taken off a side. The creatures seem to burrow in shifts. The first sinks into the wood as closely as they pAn stand, and when they have got in abou* _\n, a second shift works away what - had 1 ben left by the first, so that nowhere , dattfeburrowersgetfar in from the surface, as this is regularly loweredjaf ter them. The tunber is quite sound beyond the bnrrows, *bufc the wood the bummers leave b-hin.4 is discolored as If decaying. Mr . Marctfu-t is haying the damaged timbers -taken Ant. , A remarkable specimen of the modern _tyle of American shipbuilding arrived on the 6tn inst. in Sydney, in the shape of the fow masted fore-and-aft schooner W. F. Winman, from Port Town-end, with tfonberi The four masts are exactly of the same height, and though the vessel was 86 pflod up on deck with timber, carrying as she does half of her cargo in this manner, _Be was not seen to advantage in her present trim, yet there was enough to msAtty the report of her master that she j* a handsome craft. She is 449 tons register, is but 18 months old, and was built "• at Eureka, Humboldt Bay. She left Port Townsend, on November 3rd, and though meeting with rough weather made the run to Sydney in 6_ days.