PORT OF LYTTELTON.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 9944, 25 January 1898, Page 6

PORT OF LYTTELTON.

W-tATHER FORECAST.

Wkathrr Rrport—Monday, January 24. Wind, N.E., clear. 9 a.m. Noon. 5 p.m. Barometer ... 30.02 30.03 30.03 Thermometer ... 60 61 60 High Watrr—Tuesday, January 25. Morning, 6.27 a.m. ; evening, p.m. 6.51 Sun rises, 4.54 a.m.; sets, 7.30 p.m. Moon rises, 8.3 a.m. ; sets, 8.59 p.m.

Captain Edwin telegraphed yesterday ss follows :—" Wind between north and west and south-wesb ab all places northward of Napier and New Plymouth and southward of Port Chalmers and Queensbown, and between north-east and north and west elsewhere. Barometer—Very little movement northward of Easb Cape, Taupo and Tauranga; fall everywhere else. Sea heavy on all western coasb, and on Easb Coast south of Napier; tides high on all western coast, and on East Coast south of C&stlepoiut. Strong westerly winds are probable northward of Napier and New Plymouth, and northerly gales, probably with rain, from thence southward."

Sailkd—January 24. Ohau, 8.8., 766 tops, Brewer, for Westpore. Union Steamship Company, agents. Imports. Rotorua —F. om Dunedin —55 cases whiskey, 7 crates vines, 24 bales kapok, 70 cases claret, 15 cases vestas, 10 eks bark, 42 cases acid, 14 casks pelts, 7 sks seed, 139 bales wool, 69 pkgs. Exports. • Rotorua—For Auckland—s42 sks wheat, 13 sks cheese, 1 case bacon, 70 sks'flour, 38 eks potatoes, 1 pulley, 1 pkg. Fffr Napior— 3 cylinders, 30 rams, 1 bar steel, 2 pkgs. For Gisborne—2 crates rjine, 20 i »ks seed, 1 case boots. Penguin—For Wellington—4 cases ale, 5 aks seed, 3 crates poultry, 62 empty casks, 80 bales wool, 60 sks flour, 60 do pollard, 80 do seed, 26 do onions, 2 gunnies do, 16 bales hay, 7 sks seed, 6 cases eggs, 34 bales twine, 1 case cheese, 20 bars steel, 3 bales canvas, 67 pkgs. For Foxton —9 pkgs. For Wanganui—l cylinder, 24 pkgs. For Blenheim—l dray. For Nelson—l 7 bales twine, 1 cycle, 6 pkgs. For Westport—l2 castings. For Greymouth —1 octave cider, 1 pkge. For Hokitika —2 cases lemons, 1 pkgs. Waihora — For Dunedin —39 gunnies onions, 1 machine, 12 bags coal, 50 pkgs, 7 empty kilderkins, 5 empty kegs. Banffshire—For London—79o bales wool, 616 csks tallow and pelts, 169 bales leather and basils, 45,099 carcases mutton, 290 boxes kidneys. Otarama — For London—4B,46o carcases mutton, 330 boxes kidneys and sweetbreads, 738 bales wool and skins, 105 bales basils and leather, 500 cases meats, 132 sks grass seed.

Yesterday was a decidedly off day at Port, the only movement among the shipping being the sailing of the Ohau for Westport. We are advised by the Union Steamship Company that bheir s.s. Rakanoa, from Calcutta, passed Albany on 19th inst., and is due at Bluff, her first port of call In bhe colony, about 30th inst. An unprecedented week's work in frozsn meat was done in Lyttelton last week by bhe New Zealand Shipping Company, 94,194 carcases having been pub into the steamers Otorama and Banffshire. Owing bo bhe prevailing beab, most of the meat was shipped early in the morning and late at night.