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Press, Volume LV, Issue 10042, 21 May 1898, Page 9

Captain Edwin telegraphed to Captain Clark yesterday as follows:—" Wind, gale with rain between north and west and south-west at all places northward of Thames and Marmkau, and from between north-east and north and west, from thence southward to Blenheim and Nelson ; gale with rain from between north and east and south-east at all other places after from eight to twelve hours. Barometer rise at places northward of Thames and Manukau ; further fall everywhere else, but rising after twelve hours. Sea heavy on West Coast north ot Greymouth, and on east coast north of East Cape and southward of Napier. Tides high on west coast north of Hokitika, and on east coast of South Island. Good elsewhere. Arrived—May 20. i Clematis, ketch, 67 tons, Petersen, from Havelock. T. H. Ker, agent. Janet Nicoll, 779 tons, Ryan, from Westport. Union Steamship Company, agents. ; Brunner, s.s., 540 tons, Millman, from Westport. Passengers—Mrs Harris and two children. Union Steamship Company, agents. ! Sailed—May 20. Jane Douglas, e.s., 96 tons, Whitby, for Akaroa. Pitcaithly, Wallace and Co., agents. _,' IiIPOW3. Emma Sims, from iCaiapoi, 200 sacks potatoes. ' Exports. Rotoniahana — For Wellington — 20 bed plates, 45 cases, 1 box, 1 bale, 1 truss, 21 pkgs, 10 crates, 40 boxes and 171 cases fruit, 217 sks potatoes, 52 do chicory, 10 do oatina, 18 cases and 4 hhds ale, 10 pkgs ranges, 2 magazines, 4 bags ammonia, 3 trusses leather, 220 sks and 120 bags flour, 30 sks bran, 95 do pollard, 10 do meal, 21 lengths pipe, 1 tank, 4 pkge roller, 1 drill, 2 cases eggs. For Patea—B pkgs ranges. For Blenheim—2 pkgs. For Foxton—l cask, 1 truss. For Hokitika—l case. For Nelson—l case, 1 truss. For Wanganui—3 cases ale, 2 pkgs tanges, 8 bales hay, 11 boxes soap. Rotokino—For Sydney—l 4 cases, 80 sks seed, 1 truss, 1 bale plants, 13 sks hides, 264 sks and 455 gunnies onions, 8 sks tares, 31 do peas, 34 cases oranges, 5893 sks potatoes. For Brisbane—22o gunnies and 208 sks onions, 534 sks potatoes. For Newcastle —100 sks onions, 957 do potatoes. For Rockhampton—s6 gunnies onions. The New Zealand Shipping Company's R.M.S. Kaikoura will probably arrive*in Lyttelton to-morrow, and her stay here is likely to last over a week. The barque Golden Gate, with part of her cargo from New York, arrives from Dunedin to-day. She is consigned to Messrs Fletcher, Humphreys and Co. The wharves at Lyttelton yesterday were phenomenally dull, in consequence of the fact that not a single passenger steamer of the Union Company arrived or departed. The Brunner and Janet Nicol arrived from Westport yesterday afternoon. Tke international conference held in Norway recently thinks that the terms right and left should be adopted instead of starboard and port. Steurboard and backboard in German, and tribord and babofd in French, are used in the same sense-as the corresponding English terms. But on French and German warships the words equivalent to right and left are used, and when the order "right" is given to a steersman he turns the ship'? head to the right, or, as we should say, "port his helm." Steurboard is used on Dutch ships in just the same way -as "starboard" on British ships, but on Belgian vessels the same word conveys exactly the opposite order to a steersman. A decision of importance to the shipping community was delivered recently by the Victorian Vice-Admiralty Court, in the Liddesdale fcase. The action was brought by the Forman and Co. Proprietary, Limited, against the .oritish steamship Liddesdale, to recover £15,567 and interest, for the supply of material, work, and labour done, and money supplied in effecting repairs to the vessel, which ran on a reef off the coast of West Australia towards the close of the year 1896. Plaintiff company's tender to carry out certain, repairs to the ship for £5995 10s was accepted. That was a lump sum contract, and plaintiffs sued to recover that amount, as well as £9557 for work done, &c, at schedule rates, and money due in respect of other items. At the time that the contract was made the owners of the vessel were -Messrs Robert Mackill and Co., of Glasgow, and ;on thedr behalf a sum of £4786 was paid into court as sufficient to satisfy plaintiff's claims. Among other defences raised, it was contended that the work was not done according to specifications. Sir John Madden, in delivering his reserved judgment, thought that the contract of 11th December, 1896, was duly made under the express authority of the defendants. In the present case the master's implied authority was displaced as to everything comprised in the contract, because it was made under the express authority of the owners, limited strictly, as plaintiffs well knew. It was, consequently, clear that Captain Clarke could not lawfully use this implied authority as master to vary a vested contract of defendants, which he had made in pursuance of their express authority. In his opinion, plaintiffs were entitled to recover in all £1731. Mr Box said there .was one item of £30 6s which bis Honour had omitted to deduct from the amount of plaintiff's judgment. Sir John Madden—People who liad got about £10,000 of work for nothing should not be so anxious about so small a matter. This sum of £30 6s is admitted, however, and accordingly the amount which. I award plaintiffs will be £1700 18s lid.