PORT OF LYTTELTON.

Press, Volume XLVIII, Issue 7863, 14 May 1891, Page 4

PORT OF LYTTELTON.

"Weather Report—Wedneeday,*May 18. Wind, S.W., fresh, weather Bloomy.

9 a.m. noon. 5 p.m. barometer ... 30.64 30.65 30.60 thermometer ... 12 54 62 High Water— Thursday, May 14. Morning, 9.5; evening. 9.30. Sunrises, 7.8 a.m.; aecs, 4.42 p.m. Moonriaes, 0.35 p.m.; sets, 8.46 a.m. ARBnrKD— May 18. Ohan, 5.9., 706 tone, Richardson, from Timaru. Union Steamship Company, Hill, schooner, 121 tons, J. Smith, from Invercargill, via Stewart Island. Kaye and Carter,.agents. Jane Douglas, s.e., 96 tons, Whitby, from Akaroa. Cuff and Graham, accents. Cleared —May 13. Croydon Lass, schooner, 51 tons, Moore, tor Waitapu. Master, agent. Falcon, brieantine, 95 tone, Green, for Timaru. T« H. Ker, a^ent. Sailed—May 13. Herald, s.s., 573 tons, Jones, for Wellington and Greymouth. Union SteamBhip Company, agents. Ohau, s.s,, 760 tons, Richardson, for Napier, Giaborne, and Auckland. Union Steamship Company, agents. Imports. Annie Hill—From the Bluff—Bo,ooofb timber.

EXPORT 3. Croydon Lass—For Waitapa—s tons 4oal, 2 sacks oatmeal, 2 cheese. Rotorua—For Wellington—4 cases ale, 2 do liquors, 10 kegs staples, 1 case Soultry, 1 do wine, 6 do cheese, 2 do fruit, do glass, 1 box birds, 50 eks flour, 160 bags do, 32 cases, 2 trusses, 14 pkRS. For Nelson—l case, Ido bacon, 2 trusses, 1 pkg woollen Roods. For Foxton—l case. For Wanganui—l case, 1 truss, 2 cases tongues. For New Plymouth—l pkg. Rotomahana—For Dunedia—7s cases tea, 200 bags rice, 5 cases tomatoes, 3 pkgs. For Melbourne—loo sacks potatoes, 150 do seed. 60 cases tongues, 13 boxes butter, B do lard, 1 do ,plante, 1 box. For Aaelalde—lo cases. Botokino — For Sydney — 1567 sacks potatoes, 572 do wheat, 319 do bran, 107 do peae»436do pollard, 500 do malt, 1009 do oats, 11 pkge harrowa, 38jpkgs. For NeWcaetle—62 sacks bran. For Brisbane—lo cases bacon. For Dunedin—4 bales. For Timaru—so cases currants. Herald—For Wellington—3 kegs, 1 pkg. For # elson—l pkgr. For Westport—l pkg. For Wanganui—l pkg. For Greymouch— 60 bags flour, 5 sacks do, 23 do onions, 60 do malt, 2 kegs, 4 bales, IB blocks castings, 6 crates biscuits, 3 boxes, 1 coil, 1 cask oil, 1 ckaffcatter, 36 cases, 6 sacks, 14 pkgs. For Hokttika—l4o bags flour, 42 sacks do, 100 do wheat, 8 cases bacon, 1 do trait, 9 cases.

Gleneida, barque, will commence to take In her stiffening to-day. She is to load for London. Alert, schooner, loads produce for New Plymouth. • Akaroa, s.s., leaves for Akaroa tomorrow afternoon. Salon, schooner, loads for Auckland. Manapouri, s.s.. is due in port this ttiorning from Dunedin, and leaves this evening for Northern ports. Takap'-ma, s.s., arrives from Wellington this morning, and at 4 p.m is to sail for Wellington, Taranaki, and the Manukau. _ Hudson, Shaw, Savill and Albion Company's ship, is to sail for London on Saturday. She is now nearly loaded. Annie Hill, schooner, from Invercargill, Tia Steward island, arrived in pore yesterday afternoon. She is timber laden, and ■when clear of her inward cargo loads back lor Invercargill a cargo of wheat on account of Messrs Kaye and Carter. Jane Douglas, e.s., arrived back from Akaroa last night. Tainui, s.s., ia due here this morning from Wellington. Ohau, 5.8., arrived in port from Timaru yesterday morning. She took in a quantity of cargo and sailed last night for Napier, U isbom c, and Auckland. Herald, s.s., sailed for Greymouth, via .Wellington, at 1.30 p.m. yesterday. Piako, ship, is loading ia London for Auckland.

Duke of Buckingham, 8.8., leaves for Oamaru to-morrow.

H.M.S. Curagoa is due In port at 11 a.m. to-day from Akaroa. Wairoa, shin, left London on March 85th for Port Chalmers. She is forty-nine days Out to-day. Margaret Qalbraith, ship, left London on March 11th for Wellington, and is sixty-three days out to-day. Helen Denny, barque, is bound to Auckland. She left London on March 6th, and Is sixty-eight days out. Falcon, brigaatine, cleared for Timaru yesterday afternoon. She leaves to-day. Croydon Lass, schooner, cleared for "Waitapu yesterday afternoon. Hinsraoa, a four-masted ship, while on a voyage from London, met with two miahaps. On January 6th, while towing through the Downs, the tow rope parted iv a gale, and she had to anchor ■with a 100 fathoms of chain out; the windlass carried away during the night, but tbe cable was secured with stoppers, and she hung on till the following morning, when a couple of tugs went out and towed her back to Gravesend, where the windlass was repaired, and she made another start, and on the 2nd March, when in lat. 41 South, long. 83 Bast, she met with heavy gale, and had one of tbe boats on the skids smashed and tha deck bouse stove in and flooded. J. W. Gilderaeister, ship, while on a voyage from Newcastle to Hong Kong, was driven ashore and wrecked at the' New Hebrides, in a hurricane, on March 6th. The crew were taken on by a passing vessel to Port Sandwich, thence to Noumea and Sydney. The wreck was sold for £5.