SHIPPING.

Globe, Volume II, Issue 170, 22 December 1874, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OF LYTTELTON. ... . ARRIVED. Dec 22—Albion, s.s., 591 tons, Underwood, from Melbourne, via Dunedin. Passengers —saloon: Mr and Mrs Coster, Mrs Mason, Messrs A. Duncan, J. Carter, B. Stoke, and thirty for north. Dec 22—Clyde, s.s., 27 tons, McConville, from Salt Water Creek. > Dec 22—Peerless, schooner, 78 tons, Lewis, from Auckland, with timber. ■. SAILED. Dec,22—Hopeful, barque, 332, tons, Luly, for Newcastle, in ballast. Dec 22—Sarah and Mary, ketch, 40 tons, Grubb, for Hokitika, with produce. The schooner Peerless, Captain Lewis, from Auckland, arrived early this morning, nine days out. The barque Hopeful, for Newcastle, and ketch Sarah and Mary, for Hokitika, took their departure this morning. THE SOUTH-WEST GALE. The S.W. gale has done considerable damage in Lyttelton. The wind was very strong, and although at the time we publish this it has abated somewhat, there is still a strong breeze. The most important casuality happened to the Isle of France. That barque got underweigh at 8.30 p.m. yesterday, intending to proceed to sea. She canted to port under jib arid foretopmast-staysail and filled head sails. Whilst crossing the bow Of the Waitara the captain ordered the man at the helm to port his helm in order to pass ahead of the Waitara, instead of which he kept the helm to starboard, and consequently fell across the Waitara's bow, carrying away her figure head and jib-boom. Cleared her, and let go anchor, and paid away cable as quickly as possible under the circumstances, but fouled the John Nicholson carrying away her jib-boom also, at the same time the jiband foretopmast of the Isle of France was carried away. She was then brought up with two anchors, and a hawser made fast to the ship John Nicholson. The James Harinel drove three-quarters of a mile; She had. the westernmost berth of airy vessel in the harbour. She was brought up close on the breakwater (a few Jrards off), and is still laying there. She has sustained no damage. The Wild' Duck, a fisherman's boat, moored near the breakwater, broke her moorings and went ashore, and was smashed to pieces against the sea wall. She belonged to a man named Weston. Another fisherman's boat, named the Kaka, was swamped. The fish came on shore and were scrambled for. Off Peacock's Wharf the Margaret and Pearl both drifted into the Maiden City, carrying away part of her bulwarks and her head gear. In«town the S.W. gale of last night did some damage, the sudden downfall of rain causing the water to flow on the surface, which filled up most of the drains with sediment. The cellar' of the Empire Hotel had, we hear, two or three feet of water in it. The footpath over a drain opposite the Gaol was undersecured and fell m ; two houses near the top of Oxford street which 'have been lately lifted some twelve feet to bring them on a level with the street, as now made with the clay excavated by the prisoners, were in some danger of toppling pverj in consequence of the surface water ■percolating through the newlyformed ground. The attention of the chairman of the works conimittee was called to the matter at an early hour this morning, and he at once communicated with his colleagues, who took steps to Becure the safety of the place.