PORT OF LYTTELTON.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 10262, 3 February 1899, Page 6

PORT OF LYTTELTON.

WEATHER REPORT—Thursday, Feb. 2. j Wind, N.E., light; blue sky, 9 a.m. Noon. 5 p.m. Barometer .. .... 30.25 3U.13 30.16 Thermometer ..67 73 66 HIGH WATER—Friday, February 3. j Morning, 9.19; evening, 9.44. , Sun rises, 5.5 a.m.; sets, 7.22 pan. iioon rises, 10.11 p.m.; sets, 12.20 p.m. ARRlVED—February 2. j s.s., 1750 tons, Abram, from the south. Union Steamship Company, agents. Waikato, s.s., 4766 tons, YVeston, from Timaru. Jfew Zealand Shipping Company, agents. Jttotomahana, s.s., 1763 tons, Manning, from Wellington. Passengers^—Misses Horton, Wood, Whitburn, Evans, Matson, Barnett, Meikle, Jacobsen, Cook, Farley, Gossett, Knight, Robertahaw, Paaiey, Rutnerfora (2), M'Govern, Dixon, Godber, and Birch, Mesdames Davidson, Howard, Parker, Cockburn-Hood, Strang, and Taylor and infant, Captain Cameron, Messrs Morton, Craig, Hampton, Wood , , Beilby, Gilfillan, Kennedy, x»uchanan, Farley (2), Watson, Garford, Paterson, Davidson, Ibbetson, Ames, Arrowamith, Howard, Stringer (2), Cunningham, Cockburn-Hood, Shatz (,2). Pynsent, Robinson, Benjamin, Strang (2), Southey-Baker and Clive-Smith, and 45 steerage. Union Steamship Company, agents. Rock Lily, ketch, 82 tons, Johnson, from Kaiapoi. Pitcaithly, Wallace and Co., agents. SAlLED—February 2. Rosamond, s.s., 721 tons, Sutherland, for Greymouth. Passengers—Misses Forman, Ennis, Kebblewaite, McXeish, Parkerson, Clarke, Withers, Starkise, Ffrost, Palmer, Namiax; Blair, Day, Russell, Monson, Kitson, Yates, Mathewson, Anderson, Tendall, Read, and Fin-, His, Mesdames Withers, Bailey, Ffrost, Davidson, Palmer and child, Kelly, McLeod, Jennings, McLean, Davies, Neave, Baker, Seatrice, and Anderson, Messrs Davidson, McLeod, Jennings, Cavanagh, Palmer, Thompson, Christesoa, Joynt, Eades, Greenslade, Read, Sellac, Norrish, Lowe, Sullivan, Mcßride, Gudgeon, McLean, Neave, McPherson, Haig, Donald, and Kennedy. Union Steamship Company, agents. , IMPORTS. Rotomahana—From Onehunga: 39 cases fruit. From Wellington: 15 cases tea,. 500 boxes candles, 3 bicycles, 1 portmanteau, 6. casks pelts, 20 sks hides, 49 pkgs effects, 390 sheep, 12 polo poniee, 14 pkgs stores, 5 casks, 4 balo3, 7 trusses, 10 pkgs, 18 coils, 12 boxes, 1 cskj 1 pel.

An exciting incident on the Rotomahana on Weanesd*/ moaning was tne bursting of the wincii steam pipe ua she was coming up the harbour vsays vie Wellington "Post"). Oaptuin Mauuing could not stop her progress luisome time, v.3 the engine-room was hlied with bteaai, ana tne engineers were driven out. Xhe services ot the tender Uuuo had to be enlisted for the berthing ot the steumer. A new pipe was supplied to-day, and on her return irooi Lyi/teuon on Friday the Itotomahana will he attained ior a coupie oi aays lor general overhaul. Xhe "Westland, which arrived at Wellington on Wednesday, is still in command of Captuin ]£elly, who naa made in her the excellent passage of 88 days from Liverpool. Xhe Rotomahuna arrived, yesterday too late for htr passengers and mails to catch the express train for the south. She did not leave VVellingtoii till a p.m. on Wednesday in cohof one of her boiler pipes bursting as sne was getting into Wellington, and her having to wait for the necessary repairs to ttfe made. The ilotomahana left ior ;Welliugton last' night. Xho Rosamond sailed for Greymouth. yesterday afternoon. The Hawea arrived from the south yesterday morning. , , The Waikato arrived from Timaru yesterday morning. A steel steamer with insulated space for the carriage of 100,000 carcases mutton has just bsen launched from the Clydebank Engineering Co.'s yards, Clydebank, for the New .Zealand cargo trade. She ia named the Nairaeh.re, and haa been constructed to the order of Messr3 Turnbull, Martin and Co. for the Shire line. . The iiock Lily arrived from Kaiapoi yesterday afternoon. __ ~ • The Morning Light, from Waitapu, was signalled from the sTeads last evening.