PORT OF LYTTELTON.

Press, Volume L, Issue 8478, 9 May 1893, Page 6

PORT OF LYTTELTON.

Weather Report—Monday, May 8. Wind, S.W.; clear sky. 9 a.m. noon. scm Barometer .- 29.74 29.84 29.99 Thermometer .- 62 61 61 High Water—Tuesday, May 9. Morning, 10.26; evening, 1050. Sun rises, 7.3 a.m. ; sees, 4.49 p.mArrived —May 8. Janet Nicoll, s-s., 779 tons, McLean, from Greymouth. Union Steamship Company, agents. Omapere, s.s, 601 tons, Phillips, from Wellington and Westporc. Passengers— Misses McCall, Harding, Godfrey, Alesdauies Scott, Lusk, Harding, Arthur, Slee, Jack, Messrs Davies, Honghton, Lusk, Hamilton, Jack, Piper, and niue in steerage. Union Steamship Company, agents. Jane Douglas, s.s., 95 tous, VVhitby, from Kaikoura. Culf and Graham, agents. Othello, barque, 314 tons, Peterson, from Bluff. J. B. Way, agent. Cleared—May 8. Clyde, schooner, 87 tons, Gibbons, for Waitara. Master, agent. Sailed —May 8. Crest ot Wave, sch.. 68 tons, Pidgeon, for Greymouth. J. B. Way, agentOmapere, s.s., 601 tous, Phillips, for Dunedin, via way porta. Union Steamship Company, agents. Brunuer, s.s., 540 tons, Waller, for Wellington and Weetport. Union Steamship Company, agents. Imports. Brunner — From Dunedin —20 cases brandy, 52 sks bark, 18 chests tea, .30 boxes soap, 285 bars iron, 190 bdls do, 74 boxes candles, 176 bdls standards, 12 coils wire, 9 cases cheese, 10 bdls wire, 2 bales hair, 96 pkgs. From Tiinaru —1 anchor, 3 pkgs chain. Taieri—From Newcastle—l4oo tons coal. Omapere — From Wellington — 5 pkgs leather, 1 chair, 18 pkgs. Janet Nicoll—From Greymouth—6oo tons coal, 1 piano. Dingadee — From Westport—4oo tons coal, 2 boxes. Exports. Penguin—For Wellington—s4 cases fruit, 87 sks onions, 6 cases gin, 7 pkgß ranges, 226 sks potatoes, 6 do chaff, 80 do flour, 2 pkgs mill, 5 sks wheat, 25 do sharps, 110 pkgs and cases. For Blenheim—7 'pkgs. For Nelson —1 plough, 30 pkgs. For Tologa Bay—ll pkgs. For Wanganui—4o sks oats, 5 pkgs. For Napier—lo pkgs. For Foxtoh —3 pkgs. For Patea—2 pkgs. Omapere—For Akaroa—4o cases oil, 8 pkgs. For Timaru—4o boxes soap, 75 cases oil, 5 drums acid, 67 pkgs. For Oamaru —40 boxes soap, 87 pkgs. For Dunedin —70 sks flour, 57 boxes soap, 65 tins paint, 8 sks seed, 51 oases tea, 5 cases bacon, 8 pkgs leather, 51 pkgs. Brunner—For Wellington—3 cases. For Westport—4 cases bacon, 11 sks potatoes, 19 sks onions, 120 bags flour, 3 sks barley, 17 pkgs. . Wareatea—For Greymouth—6 cases tea, 75 sks onions, 152 sks potatoes, 14 girders, 29 bdls iron, 5 tins rivets, 125 Bk*. chaff, 25 pkgs. For Hokitika—l3 cases tea, 13 sks onions, 20 sks flour, 120 bags do, 20 sks sharps, 30 sks bran, 20 sks wheat, 34 sks potatoes, 5 pkgs. Clyde—For Waitara—3oo sks, 700 bags do, 60 sks bran, 80 sks sharps, 30 sks wheat, 553 sks oats. ■■; ■ Wakatu—For Kaikoura—ll7 sks oats, 43 cases spirits, 109 pkgs sundries. For Wellington—3so sks flour. For Patea—ls cases sundries. For Napier—l 2 cases sundries. For Foxtori—l7 cases sundries. After a long absence from Lyttelton, the barque Othello, Captain Petersen, late of the Gazelle, arrived off the Heads yesterday afternoon. She was taken in tow by the tug and was berthed at the wharf shortly beiore dark. The Othello left the Bluff for Lyttelton on Saturday week, April 29th, and had an uneventful passage up the coast. The ocean steamers' wharf looks decidedly busy at present. On the one side is the New Zealand Shipping Company's direct liner Kaikoura, taking in her cargo and making preparations for sailing on Thursday, while on the other side is the Shaw, Savill and Albion Company's direct liner Doric, putting out her Lyttelton cargo and taking in frozen mutton. Who but Irishmen would build lighthouses that cannot be seen ? Yet that appears to have happened in lighting the entrance to the pott of Belfast, judging from a report by Admiral Sir George Nares, X.C.8., to the Assistant-Secretary of the Board of Trade, dated 2nd February, 1893. The Admiral held an enquiry at Belfast last month into the circumstances attending the destruction of one of the lighthouses (placed in the navigable channel to light vessels into port), resulting in the death of the lightkeeper and one of his sons. It seems that on the 18th November lasc the s.s. Mcd way, a regular trader to the port, was making her way in, early in the morning, and the steamer, having had to alter her course slightly to pass a vessel at anchor, and having then got out of her course was unable to find the lighthouse, which was only lighted on one side, and ran into it and destroyed it. Sir George, in his report, gives utterance to a truism when he says:— "It is unsafe and wrong in principle to establish in a navicable waterway an obstruction that is not lighted on every side on which it can be approached by a vessel under way while navigating in the neighbourhood." In justice to the Belfast harbour authorities it should be stated that they had originally fixed a distinctive light at the back of the house, but by order of the Irish Light Commissioners it was removed some time since.— Fairplay.