PORT OF LYTTELTON.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 11006, 2 July 1901, Page 6

PORT OF LYTTELTON.

ARRIVED— July 1. Te Anau, s.s., 1653 tons, Beaumont, . from Duncd-n Passengers-Miss Bowron, Mrs DawsonSdcMd, Messrs Ford, Blactonore, Bswcs, and Williams, and 4 steerage. Union Steam - s aE °7 r -l"tons ( Sutherland, from Gr^moutb * U-ion St C «_ Ship Company, ag Jcss ß ie Niccol, schooner, 93 tons, Brown, Irom Kaipara. Pitcaithly and Co., agents. SAILED— July 1. , __ , -Rotorua. s s.. 926 tons, Macarthur, for Weill,, Wellington: Misses l___yffi_StSi_-- t |aßs _^'_-_7__s_st_a_s--__owe _nd ___*Us, Messrs Duff, Herbert, Mefhuish? Kidlon, a_d-J. Houlker. Union Steam Ship Company, agents- . . Te A-su. s.s., 1632 tons, Beaumont, for AucK land ria East Coast. Wol__So_? Misses Badbam, Culling. Barker, Scott Barron and Cameron, Mesdames Parr _-dbhiM Barter, Donald. Scott, Davidson, _"__ Dearic'g.& McNewif, _. Mackenrie, Donald, -Lu»»*f 'tJ? Mut Bc»t, J. Cook »!**■.» Young Hee Rose, Neale, R. Meredith, M.H.K.,vv. Hoban-Bentbam, Ritchie,Parr, Barclay Uenh_m, Armstrong, Duff, Bell, Herbert, -Austai, _nd Montyvech. For Napier: Mis-.es Watts, Sherwood, and Williams (2) Messrs Ponton and Bishop. For pwborne Misses Ward and Boylan. For Auckland. Miss Bell, Mrs Cochrane and two children. Unios Steam Ship Company, agents. Petone, s.s.. .703 tons, L __,ristian, for Greymouth. C. W. Turner, agent. BfPQRTS. Janet Nicoll—From Oamaru: 20 caseß.1 ammonia, 80 oases acid, 16 pkgs stores, ches£ 5 cases. From Tima.ru: 9 bag' hides. Te Anau—From Dunedm: 40 half-chests tea, 83 hhds ale, 90 boxes soap, 30 cases jam, 10 bales sheep skins, 10 bales wool, 1 magazine gelignite. 1 bale, 75 cases, 1 orate, _ ranges, 4o -pkes, 3 brls, 3 hhds. Rosamond—From Greymouth: 3hampers, 3 trunks. 4 crates empty tins, 1289,359 ft timber. From Hokitika: 16 bdla skms. ' " Rotorua—From Onehunga: 1 box. From New Plymouth: 30 boxes butter. 5 sks seed, 1 ck runners. From Nelson: 13 rails, 8 switches, _ bdls blocks, 4 crossings, 1 bdl rods, 4 bales hops, 3 boxes fish, 5 bdls, 3 boxes, 20 cases From Pieton: Quantity contractors plant, 72 lengths timber, 5 sks hides. From Wellington: 8 cks pelts, 1 tank, 10 cases turps, 100 boxes soap, 10 cases matches, 2 bdls spring*. 12 boxes butter, 30 kegs nails, 57 cases, 30 octaves, 11 rolls, 10 qrcks, 15 pkgs. EXPORTS.

Tarawera—For Wellington: 140 sks chicory, 15 bdls galvanised hardware, 1 galvanised sinlc, 2 bdls trees, 3 kilderkins and 3 cases ale, 7 crates and 2 cases biscuits and confectionery, 4 cases oaking powder, 4 cases samples, 1 crate perambulators, 40 okgs ranges, 1 bale cloth, 379 sks potatoes, 46, sks flour, 2 bales binder twine, 20 sks wheat, 4 nk„s iotfrows, 2 bdls discs, 2 plough wheels, 1 tree. 1 truss leather, 3 bicycles, 13 sks Tolled oats, 51 gunnies onions, ■ 4 ska bacon, 1 wiro mattress, 2 coops fowls, 1 case fruit, 1 sk tools, 1 bag plants, 64 bags lime 1 chaficutter and horsegear, 2 chairs, 136 oases _nd pkgs. For Blenheim: 5 pkgs machinery. For Nelson: 2 cra*e3 perambulators, 2 portmanteaux, 1 box. For Pieton: 1 bdl fruit trees. For New Plymouth: 1 pianoforte. For Patea: 6 bids and 2 cases ale, 1 mattress, 1 sofa, 1 chair, 3 pkgs -ranges, 14 cases, 1 box. For "Wanganui: 2 crates biscuits, 26 cases and pkgs. For Foxton: 9 crates I and 2 cases, biscuits and confoctionery, 11 j cases ale, 2 cases sulphuric acid, 1 plough, 1 tree, 12 cases and pkgs. Rakaia—For London: 212 cks tallow and

pelts, 44,075 c_rc_s«-« mutton, 311 sks grass seed, 3376 bales wool and akins, 17 pkgs sundries, 43 bales btuals and leather.

The Rosamond arrived from Greymouth during Sunday night. --._.-_. 'fhe Te Anau am-*BCorc_m Dugedra »* 8 -,-*° aim. yesterday, and via tha East Coast.last night. Iho Janet Nicoll icit for Westport and Greymouth via Wellington yesterday. The Petone left for Greymouth at 3.40 p.m. yesterday. - ■ The Rotorua left for Pieton and Nelson via Wellington at 4.10 p.m. yesterday. ■The Whangape leaves for Newcastle aireot to-day. ' , Th. barque Aldebaran, no*- on nor way Irom Hobart to Lyttelton, will load produce here for Auckland, and then go to the Thames, where she win load timber lor Melbourne. The New York "Mail and Express claims that it has good authority fox stating that tho managers of the Cunard and-Whito Star lines have been in conference at .Liverpool, and have arranged a schemo whereby the two lines will work in co-operation to compote for the trade with the United States via the English Channel. The vessels of either line will in future land pasaengorß at Plymouth or Southampton, alternately with Liverpool. The steamer Anglo Austr_ia_ has been chartered to take produce from Now Zealand to South Africa. The Delnhio is expected to leave Lyttelton for London about 'Inursday next. The Jiirklee, which was reported to havo been chartered from Sydney to Lyttelton, has loaded coal for Tjiltajap, Japan. _A newspaper clipoing which the New South Wales Minister for Agrioultnre has recently received goes to show that Russia is coming into competition with Australia in the English markets. It is stated that the Russian Government 'has chartered three large vesels from Messrs Wilson, shipowners, of Hull, for tho purpose of carrying agricultural produce to London. These steamers are fitted .up with the latest improvements in freezing chambers, with a special' hold for the storage of eggs. They will bear Russian namos, fly tho Russian flag, and be manned by. Russian sailors. Tho object of this move on the part of the Russians, according to the newspaper clipping, is' to develop the Siberian agricultural resources.

The s.s. Herald arrived at Tuwaru on Sunday. She landed yesterday 290 tons coal and 23,000 feet -timber, and loaded 60 tons of produce, leaving for Grey_louth direct last evening.' The Corinna arrived at Timiaru yesterday to dischargo 400 tons Westport coal and 13,000 feet, of timber. She loaded nothing at Timaru, but loft at midnight for'Oamaru. The s.s. Magd—l_ finished landing at Timaru yesterday. She waa to have completed onfaaturday, but about 4 s-.n_ on that da. she was compelled to leave tho wh-arf owing to the heavy swell. The captain decided to, put out to the roadstead, and tho vessel lay there till Sunday afternoon. The Magdala'a Timaru cargo was 36,426' sacks \801b) of oats, and ehe complete- her cargo at Lyttelton, for which port sho sailed at 4 p.m. yesterday. The directors of. the North Coast Steam Navigation Company, Sydney, have appointed Mr Robert A. Bell to the position of manager of tho company. For nearly a ouarter of a century Mr Bell has been a trusted officer in the service of tho Union Steam Ship Company of New Zoaland, and originally joined their employ at the head office m Dunedin. Sales, -of shipping since laat reports, are the steel steamer Ap-u-, 2342 tons gross, 'built in 1899 ,to Greeks, for £17,000; steel oil tank steamer Luoigen,' 3416 tons gross, built in 1893, to tha AjQglo-Amerioan Oil Company, for nearly £50,000; the iron steamer Catalonia, 4841 '. tons,, built in ISBI, to Italians, for £10,350; a steel steamer of 6600 tons dead weight ,now bidding at Sunderland, to an Antwerp firm, for about _60,00p; the steel steamer Christine, I 2293 tons gross, built in 1890, to the AngloAmerican Oil Company, and renamed the I Tioga. Hamburg- buyer.--, at £25.000, have secured the steel steamer Milos, 2706 tons gross, ' and renamed her the Hans Meuzil; Frenchmen have bought the steamer Silesia, 602 tons, built in 1882, and Norwegians arrs criven ss the new owners of the steameri Heligoland, 557 tons, built in 1890. • ■

The ''Australasian .Shipping News' " correspondent at Port Pirie, • writing on the 18th June, says:—Tlie ship Lydgate has been detained here for the last ten days waiting for sailors. The master is now trying to get the wharf hands to take his ship around at the long figure of £3 10s for the run, but to date has not been successful in securing any. He wants thirteen hands.

A report from London states that the" Australasian United Steam 1 Navigation Co., Limitodi London, has contracted with Clyde ship builders for the construction of a passenger sftampr of about 335 feet in length, also for thf> building of a small steamer. A passenger and cargo boat for the German-Auutralion Steamship Company was launched at Flensbiirg in May, and named: the Laeisz.: Her dimensions rre 403 feet 8 inches by 47 feet 8 inches by 32 feet, Two other steamers for the same company, and of larger dimensions, are nearly ready for launching. The Beaccn Rock is still in the stream, bcin*r detained on account of a lawsuit at Home. Tha Buteshire leaves for Wellington to-day.