SHIPPING.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2592, 27 April 1869, Page 2

SHIPPING.

LYTTELTON. ABBIVBS. April 26 —Glengary, schooner, put in hrough stress of weather, bound for Kaiapoi. April 16—Enterprise, ketch, from Westort. April 26 —Nora, schooner. Black, from Picton, with timber. April 26—Margaret, barge, 25 tons, Munro, from Saltwater Creek. April 26—Aspasia, schooner, 44 tons, Tonge, from Kaipara. CLEARED. April 26—Annie, ketch, 16 tons, Clarke, for Kaiapoi. April 26 —Antelope, cutter, 17 tons, Malcolmson, for Akaroa. SAILED. April 26—Wild Ware, schooner, for Greymouth. April 26—Glengary, schooner, for Kaiapoi. IMPORTS. In the Aspasia, Master, agent: 26,000 feet timber, Order. In the Margaret, Master, agent: 15 bales wool, Miles and Co. ; 19 do, Dalgety and Co. ; 36 do, Matheson’s Agency. In the Nora, Master, agent: 22,230 feet timber, Order. EXPORTS. In the Antelope, Master, agent: 1 keg powder, 4 bags shot, 5000 caps, H. Hawkins; 4 kegs spirits, 1 case brandy, 2 boxes cigars, Drausfleld ; 1 hhd beer, Fielder ; 1 ton wire, 40 bags flour, 28 do sharps, 1 case sundries, j bags salt, 11 do sugar, 1 cask do, 1 qr-cask vinegar, 1 bag hops, 1 pair scales, Hawkins ; 82 camp ovens, Woledge; 11 pkgs, G. Tayler; 1 case boots, 3 do beer, Reed and Carder ; 25 bags wheat, Munroe; 1 coil rope, Forbes. In tha Annie, Woledge and Co, agents : Ex Warehouse—3B gunnies sugar, J. M. Heywood. Free and duty paid—l J-tierce tobacco, 1 bale blankets, 1 case drapery, 2 half-chests tea, 2 kegs, Davis ; 20 tons coals, James. VESSELS IN HARBOUR. Rangitoto, s.s. Halcyon, s.s. Comerang, p.s. Matoaka, ship. Celoeno, ship. Collingwood, barque John Knox, barque. Southern Cross, barque. Crishna, barque. Annie Brown, brigantine. Swallow, schooner. Cleopatra, schoooner. E. U. Cameron, schooner. Mount McLaren, schooner. Aurora, schooner Jane Ann, schooner. Excelsior, schooner Jupiter, ketch. Margaret, ketch. Gipsy, ketch. Esse and Agnes, ketch. Annie, ketch. High Water—4.36 a.m., 5.04 p.m. The schooner Aspasia arrived in harbour on Sunday evening, with a cargo of timber. The schooners Wild Wave, Canterbury, Spray, and Elisabeth, sailed yesterday morning. The schooner Nora, Capt. Black, arrived in harbour on Sunday evening, from Picton ; left that port on Friday, and experienced ■trong gales from N.W. The s.s. Halcyon is advertised to take the place of the p.s. Betsy Douglas. The Halcyon uan excellent vessel, and well adapted for the Bay trade, having capital accommodation for passengers, and being provided with a separate cabin for ladies. Captain McLean intends running excursions during the summer months to Akaroa, leaving on Saturday, and returning on Monday morning. SALTWATER CREEK Sailed.—April 26, Margaret, ketch, Monroe, for Lyttelton, with 36 bales wool, Matheson’s Agency ; 19 do, Dalgety and Co; 8 do, Morrison, Sclanders and Co ; 7 do, Miles and Co ; 3 pkgs luggage, Henry. TELEGRAMS. Port Chalmers. —April 26, 12.20 p.m., H.M.S. Blanche from Lyttelton (coming up); 7.30 a.m, Wainui, for Lyttelton ; Mindora, from London ; Phoebe, for Bluff ; Keera, for Lyttelton. Napier.—April 26, 11.15 a.m., Ahnriri, from Auckland j 25th, 4 a.m, St. Kilda, for Wairoa. Wellington.—April 26, 8.20 p.m., Wanganui from Wanganui; 2.30p.m., William Ackers, for Newcastle.

Amongst the arrivals in port yesterday were two French barques, both sugar laden —the Lucie, from Batavia via Samarang; and the Marie Gabrielle, from Reunion. The former is consigned to the Victoria Sugar Company, but it was undecided yesterday forenoon whether she should discharge here or proceed on to Sydney. The barque from Reunion is consigned to Messrs R. Lauratet, Le Roy, and Co., and she was berthed yesday at the railway pier, Sandridge, to land her cargo.— Argus, April 14. Messrs M‘Median, Blackwood and Co. have placed the fine steamer Claud Hamilton, lately belonging to the Panama Company, on the berth for Fiji, to sail on the Ist prox. A number of excursionists intend to avail themselves of this opportunity for a pleasant tropical trip of a few weeks’ duration. At this time there will be an additional attraction in the visit of Prince Alfred in the Galatea, with Her M jesty’s Pacific Squadron, under the command of Commodore Lambert.— Argus, April 12. The b.s. Investigator, the arrival of which has been looked for here for some days past, anchored in the bay yesterday about noon. Seeing that she is freighted with the submarine telegraph cable for connecting this colony with Tasmania, a special interest attaches to her safe arrival in these waters, and it will be gratifying to the promoters of the project for joining the two colonies to know that although the voyage from London to Port Phillip has been rather tedious, yet the weather throughout has been singularly fine, too fine indeed for the making of a rapid passage, but by no means too fine for the safe conveyance of the cable during so long a voyage. The vessel herself is not without some record of an historic character, and it will be recollected that when quite a new craft she was purchased by thehome Government during the time of the Crimean war, to convey railway plant to the scene of operations in the Crimea. The Investigator is a smart-looking iron clipper of 700 tons gross, and 569 tons register. She was built on the Tyne, at Mitchell and Co.’s yard, and is of exceedingly strong proportions, her ribs being only 2oin apart, She is propelled by a screw, and her engines, which are on the inverted double-acting principle, were made ami fitted by T. D. Marshall, of Shields. They are of 150 horse power nominal, and in moderate weather the speed attained by the vessel is between seven and eight knots. A greater rate of speed could be accomplished but for the insuificient boiler accommodation. She is also tilted up with steam apparatus for condensing water at the rate of t2OO gallons per diem. In length the Investigator measures go t feet, with twenty-eight feet beam, and a deptif of hold of sixteen feet. She was ptiivlused some time ago by the Telegraph t on-traction and Maintenance Company, and mi' come out here under their auspices : a id aiter accomplishing her mis-

non with rccar i w> the submarine cable, it is believed ilru n<> reasonable offer will be refused for br >hu.ild a purchaser offer. The Investigator commanded by Captain D. Cruiksliank. a brother of the late Mr mdrew Bose Cniiksu.mwell known in commercial circles here a- one of the promoters of the National 15a. ■ k ; u 1 a partner in the then firm of Dalgety, Crn.kshank and Co. Captain Cruiksliank ba- leou identified with the Investigator r loss since she was launched, and it is the; i re with pardonable pride that he speaks « . il of the vessel. The delay which has v irred on the voyage out is attributable in no small degree to the light winds and calms which prevailed throughout,

but more especially from the channel to lat. 43deg. S. Add to this that she left London with some 950 tons of deadweight on board, while her gross tonnage is only 700 tons, and it will be seen that a rapid passage was altogether out of the question. In addition to the submarine cable plant, which is some 220 miles in length, and weighs about 460 tons, the steamer had also about 500 tons of coal on board, besides her stores, and on leaving the Thames she was loaded almost to the water ■ edge. The Investigator left Greenhithe on January 8, and met with light winds and calms to St. Vincent, where she put m for a supply of coals, and remained for three days. After leaving the island, light winds continued to the line, which was crossed on 6th February, in lon. 14 deg. W. The same provoking light weather, with frequent calms, was experienced to lat. 43 deg. S., in which parallel the meridian of the Cape of Good Hope was passed on 3rd March. From the pitch of the t ape until about 100 miles west of Cape Otway, the Investigator had to depend solely on her canvas, and when a slant of favourable wind was obtained she was equal to ten knots, and that too with the encumbrances of the screw propeller dragging through the water. The voyage, in fact, may be summed up in a few words, fine weather and calms being the almost daily record. So fine, indeed, was the weather that the barometer, except on three occasions, never ranged under 3oin. The arrangements on board for the safe conveyance of the cable are complete. After necessary consultation with all parties immediately concerned, the Investigator will proceed to Western Port to commence the laying of the cable. — Argus , April 13.