FOG AT LYTTELTON.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1635, 30 December 1912, Page 4

FOG AT LYTTELTON.

COASTAL SHIPPING DELAYED. (By Telegraph.—Pies* Association,) Christchurch, December 23. Fog has been more or less prevalent oA Lyttelton during the past two days. The warm weather and the absence of strong winds probably accounting for its presence., The steamers arriving at Lyttelton this morning were considerably delayed by fog along the coast, and it wa6 after 8 o'clock before the first vessol reached port. At 3 a.m. to-day the weather was fine and clear insido the Heads, but later on a dense fog crept in from the sea, and at 7 o'clock the harbour and town were wrapped in on impenetrable blanket of thick, warm fog. The whistles of three steamers which wcro groping their way up the harbour could be heard sounding frequent blasts, and the deep notes of the Maori's and! Moeraki's horns -were plainly distinguishable, although no sign of the vessels could lie discerned from the wharves. The fog signal at Godley Head had been set going when the fog came in from the sea, and afforded a guidance for steamers making the Heads.

. At 8.10 a.m. the Maori backed: in through the breakwater, as the fog show, cd signs of clearing, and she was followed at intervals of five minutes by the Hinemoa and Moeraki. The Maori was over an hour behind her usual time, while the Hinemoa had been about 20 hours and the Moeraki nearly fifteen hours on the journey from Wellington. Shortly after these vessels were berthed the fog cleared away, and the 6Un shone out with great warath.