TIME BALL LYTTELTON.

Press, Volume XLVII, Issue 7731, 10 December 1890, Page 4

TIME BALL LYTTELTON.

The time ball is dropped daily, $undays and holidays excepted, at 1 o clock p.m. New Zealand mean time, which is equivalent to 13.30 Greenwich mean time of the previous day, being calculated for the 17a* aff Bast .Longitude, and llhr dOmia last of Greenwich mean time. The ball will be raised at about 2mln to Ip.m., and will be at the top about_ imin to 1 p.«_. fc i * ' When taking the time be careful to aote the ex_e& moment the ball leaves the Sou of the mast. Should the ball not drop at the proper Mxne, it wiU be kept at the top for at leaai* ajko minutes, aud then lowered siowly. Wkathsr B_po-T—Tuesday, Dec. 9. Wind, N.E., fresh; Weather, fine. 9 a.m. noon, 5 p.ra. Barometer ... 30.30 3025 30.22 Thermometer ... as /a to High Water— Wednesday, December 10. Morning.l.s2; e.ve.nine. 2.16. Sunrise,4.lo _.«»*.; sets, 7.30 p.m % Mo->-- rtr*e*, 2.39 a.»-.; *«>. 5.13 p.m.- *' Thermometer in the sun, 112. ■■■■■* Akbivbd—December 9. Nettie, brigantine, 478 tons, Lowry, from Brisbane. _. W. Turner, agent. Kotorua, &,_., 828 tons, Stott, from Dunedin. Passengers—Mls-ies Stickelberger, Benuie, McConnell, Messrs Con-, ningham, Shiel and McGonviUe, and two steerage. Union Steamship Company, 5.8., 1988 tons, Neville, from. Sydney via Wellington. Passengers— MUses Coxton, Ball, Andrews, Gyelmets, fiesdames Dowing, Field wick, Parker, Blundelland servant, Dr. Barnett, Captain SUghman, Messrs Buckland, Whitcombe. Wilson, Hume, .French, Greig, Brown, KettleweU, Schlade, Arundel, Maskell, T-atford, French, Murgatroyd, Best, Cohen, Kichmond, Dodgshun, and sixteen steerage. Union Steamship Company,) - H_otorua, 5.8., 926 tons, Stott, from Port Chalmers. Passengers—Misses Binnie, Btickelberger, McConnell, Messrs Cunningham, McConvllie and Sheil, and 4 steerage. Union Steamship Company, s.s., 423 tons, Richardson, from Westport. Union Steamship Com* *oany, agents. Sai_j_d—December 8. Hinemoa, C.G.S., 542 tons, Fairchild, for " Wellington. Passengers—Miss Bell, Mr Richmond Beetham, Warders Beli and Crook in charge of fourteen prisoners. From Duuedin—Fourteen from Lyttelton .far Milford Sound, aud one prisoner on >cenafer to Wellington. S-J-ED—-December 9. - Clio, schooner, 81tons, Waif tSpn. Cuff and Graham, agents. Louie, schooner, 92 tons, Svenden, for Auckland, via Thames. Kaye and Carter, igents. s " Rotorua, 5.8., 926 tons, -Stott, for Wellington. . Union Steamship Company, agents. Mahinapua, s.s., 423 tons, Richardson, for Timaru. Union Steamship Company, agents. .--.,. ' Jane Douglas, s.s., 05 tons,"Whitby, for tkaroa. Cuff and Graham, agents. Imports. *" Hauroto—From Nelson—2B kegs bntter, I pkg,'3-bales wool. From Wellington— 40 pkgs sundries. From Sydney—9** cases fruit, 33 do currants, 340 bo*es soap, 74 - p-fcti sundries. From Newcastle—loo tons coal, 1 pkg. Rotorua — From Dunedin — 140 bdls Bf-uidards,' 94 cases currants, 20 boxes ' soap, 340 sks bark, 94 pkgs sundries. ' Jft&hiu&pua—From W escort —320 tons . seal. ' Nettle—From Brisbane—642 tons coal. - 'Exports. Olio—For Waitapu—4o bags flour, 30 aks ■ Aaff, 38 do coal, 20 pkgs. • For Auckland—9So sks wheat, 50 sases ale,-8 do bacon. For Thames —-22 bags flour, 360 aks do, 10 do bran.

fiotonia;•'■«.&,' -arrived/in Jport at 12.15 >.m. yesterday _rom Port Chalmers. She elt Port Chalmers at 5 p.m. on the Bth, and irrived here as stated above. Experienced , tight N.E. winds and smooth sea. She left for Wellington at 10 p.m_ yesterday. ~: The passage of the ship Gretna, from v London to San Francisco;'is a very rema_kable one; the particulars received by C recent"American advices are as follows :-*- ---. '* $«<* British ship Gretna, 1705 tons, Cap- " Webster, arrived. In port after an .' tventfui voyage ol 202 days from London. She had almost been given up for lost, as ihe had not been heard ot since Apiil :, LBt_, when she was spoken' in lat. 15 S, ~_)ng._4W. Her log is a remarkable rejora of mishaps. She left London March '~ Ith, and the next day, lost ah anchor &hb\ ; .* jdx fathoms of cable off,.tbe,3Sb.re. She bad weather to August 21at, when . ihe was thrown on her beam ends in lati. j i"-T4B S. and long. 7W. In May she en- j wintered heavy storms again off the ( oaouth of the Biver Platte, with considerable damaKe to her sails and her decks ; _com the tremendous seas which broke! her. Iv June she .again met .-'with very stormy weather and terribly; Jieavy squalls, attended with' sleet and I Sail atbrros aad a very high cross sea, ' wjtuchkept the ship almost entirely under "water bom the seas that broke over her, w -mashing two of the boats and damaging the others. On June llth, from the bad j .Appearance of the weather, with no sign | ■ *f Improvement, and having lost so much j canvas, the ship being badly damaged, two of the boats lost and the others in ' bad condition, Captain Webster determined to abaudon all hopes of rounding : the Horn, and to put about and make for :■■ San Francisco by way of the Cape of Good '-Hope'and Australia, instead of putting' '< Into the Falkland Islands to refit. After ; inbre or less bad weather, the south coast of Tasmania was sighted on July 27th. From there on the voyage out was with- ' out startling incident, and the Gretna arrived after sailing 26,076! miles from London to San Francisco, or about as great a distance as if she had encircled the globe." '