PORT OF LYTTELTON.

Press, Volume XLVI, Issue 7345, 25 June 1889, Page 4

PORT OF LYTTELTON.

Weather Beport—Monday, Jane 24. 9a.m. —Weather, thickly overcast; a aeavy fog enveloping the harbor. Wind, salm. 9 p.m.—Sky clear; wind calm; freezing 0 a.m. noon. sp.tn.9p.mBarometer... 29.80 29.80 29.80 29.85 Sherxnometer 46 50 48 36 High Watbb—Tuesday, June 25. Mornfng, L 2 2; evening, 1.4-4. Sub rises, 7.37 a.m.; sets, 4.27 p.m. Moon rises, 4.13 a.m.; sets, 2.35 p.m. Arrived—June 24. Wanaka, s.s., 493 tons, lleadee, from Dnehunga, via Taranaki and Wellington. Passengers—Messrs Wiffen, Tozer, and Eiby, and one steerage. Union Steamship Company, agents. Bosamond, s.s., 721 tons. Manning, from Westport. Union Steamship Company, agents. Cleared—June 24. Clio, schooner, 81 tons, Burns, for Waitapu. Cuff and Graham, agents. Sailed—June 24. ■Hahinapua, s.s., 423 tons, Todd, for Wellington, Nelson, and Westport. Union Steamship Company, agents. Wanaka, s.s., 493 tons, Meades, for Wellington. Passengers—Mrs Kirk, Messrs H. S. Fish, A. toughrey, J. McKenzie, M.H.B.'s, Burrows. Union Steamship Company, agents. Imports. Boaamond—From Westport, 370 tons coals. Exports. Clio—For Waitapn—6sks wheat, 20 bags Wit, 40 bags flour, 1 pkg sundries. Mawhera —For Dunedin —15 bags pelts, 3 bales skins, 50 eks potatoes, 15 do peas, 21 pkgs sundries. Takapuna—For Wellington —3a cases tea, 2 ploughs, 39 bales wool, 4 pkgs harrows, 6 axlearms, 32 sheets steel, 13 plates, 43 pkgs sundries. For Foxton— I pkg sundries. For Wanganui—s7 sks potatoes, 6 pkgs eundries. For Picton— 7 pkKs eundries. For Blenheim—ls pkgs eundriea. For Nelson—s cases tea, 7 coils wire, 2 cases bacon, 11 pkgs lundries. Mahinapna —For Wellington—3 cases "Shicory, o cases pears, 48 bdls trees, 2 ike oysters, 100 sks flour, 40 sks wheat, II eks beans, 1 sk barley, 5 pkgs sundries. For Blenheim—lo bars iron. For Nelson—l sk oysters. For Westport--6 eases cheese, 8 cases bacon, 2 crates biseuite, 25 sks bran, 25 sks wheat, 2 pkgs •undries. For Manukau, for transhipment at Wellington—lß9 bdls trees, 1 pkg sundries.

'At 4 p.m. yesterdaythe s.s. Rosamond UTivedlu port from Westport. __e"B.s. Mahinapua steamed for Wellington, Nelson, and Weatport at 3.45 a.m. yesterday. "The agents of the barqne Olive advertise tor all claims against that vessel to be rendered at once. She ls to proceed for Howland Island at the latter end of this (reek.

The barque Oaklands is taking in cargo Ibr Newcastle, and should get away to tea at the latter end of this week. The ketches Kestrel and Owake Belle are still in the harbor, awaiting a chance at • the weather. The schooners Annie Wilson and Clio are ready for sea, and will get away on the first opportunity. Captain Nidas, of the American ship Wandering Jew, which arrived at Melbourne, from New York, on June 7th, reports that on February 26th, the day after leaving New York, he fell in with a vessel floating bottom up. She was as near as possible a vessel of about 500 tons, and the bull, according to appearance, looked as though it had been fresh coppered. There was no clue to the vessel's name. Its position when passed was lat. 35.42 N., i-_r.S_W. A monster crane—the largest ever con-tracted-—has just been completed in H.M. lockyard, at Chatham; It measures 134 ft froni the end of the jib to the ground, and Is capable of lifting a weight of 250 tons. The steamer Bothweil Castle is expected to leave for Sydney on Wednesday night late;

The schooner Clio cleared for Waitapu yesterday. " At 8 p.m. yesterday the Union Steamship Company's s.s. Wanaka, Captain Meades, arrived Inport from Onehunga, 'via ports of calL She left the Manukau _t € o'clock on Saturday afternoon, and —died at Taranaki at 8.30 a.m. on Sunday, reaching Wellington at 2 o'clock yesterday adorning. After a stay of 45 minutes she —ft for Lyttelton, arriving as above, saving experienced fine weather throughaut. At Onehunga she received 192 bags mails, ex the Oceanic Company's s.s. "Mariposa, 8 of which were for Taranaki, 'tti&7aß for Wellington, the balance of 98 aeirig for Canterbury and Otago. After ——ting the s.a. Wanaka steamed on her return trip last night. ■ _ne Shaw, Savlll and Albion Company's tplendid steamer Arawa (says a Home .paper of May 17th) has made another 'remarkably fast run from New Zealand, thd beaten, the record. On this voyage the has excelled herself by 4 hours 16 mm., 'her-net steaming time being 34 days 23 hours 18 mm., and the elapsed time, including stoppages at Rio and Teneriffe, W_y 86 days 11 hours 48 mm. A Home paper understands that Mr Benjamin Goodfellow, engineer, of Hyde, Manchester, has closed through Mr P. 'Gardiner, his representative in London, a contract to supply and fit up two large Sid air machines for the Colonial Union »mpany. Limited, for their New Zealand trade. These machines are to be erected Si board the two latest additions to essrs Corry's Star Line of steamers, chartered by the above-named Company. Each of the steamers will be insulated to sarry 40,000 carcases of frozen mutton. -The 5.3. Bayiey, owned by Mr Barton, Billiter street, has just completed an extraordinary piece of steaming for a cargo vessel, namely, outwards, from St. Vincent to Sydney, and homewards from Wellington, New Zealand, to Las Palmas, without having once eased or stopped the Engines. This is attributed to the constant •Buptdy of fresh water from a Kirkaldy pompactum, with which the vessel is fitted. The owner is now having a compactum of Increased size put into the ship, partly to get an extra supply for the refrigerating engines. This steamer made the round, London, Sydney (where she was detained twelve days), three ports in New Zealand, and back to London in four months and twenty days on a consumption of 18J tons Welsh, wit— an average speed of IQJ. — Tofrptay.