SHIPPING.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXX, Issue 10099, 26 July 1893, Page 4

SHIPPING.

LYTTELTON. Tho tima-ballia dropped every week day at 1 p.m.. New Zealand mean time, which is equivalent to 18.80 Greenwich mean time of the previous day, being calculated for the 172 deg 30min east long., and llhrs 30mm fast of Greenwich mean time. Lyttelton is situated m lat. 4.5 37 Bouth, long. 172*440a5t, and the deference of time between Lyttelton and Chnatohuroh is 20*80. WEATHER REPORT. Ac. Hiah Water, This Day (Wedleaday) Morning, 1.39; afternoon,2.6. Sunrises 7.23 j sets, 4.51, Moon rises 1.53 p.m., seta 5.35 a.m. Tuesday, July 25. 9 a.at. 6 P.M. Barometer... • 29‘78 29-71 Thermometer ... 65 m Yesterday afternoon Captain Clark received the following weather forecast from Captain Edwin :—“Noith to west and south-west heavy gale, with heavy ram and high tides, within ten hours from now; glass fall.” ARRIVED. July 25—Nautilus, Spanish naval trainimr ship. 800 tons. Commander Don Fernando Villaamil, from Wellington. July 25—Rotorua, s.s., 576 tons, Cameron, from Dunedin. Union Steamship Company, agents. Passengers— Misses Hughes and O’Conor, Mesdames Rodgers and child. Brew and child, Messrs Barrow, Woodward, Brut, Bountroll, Thompson, Robinson and Wise. July 25—Tarawera, s.a., 1269 tons, Sinclair, from Auckland, Gisborne, Napier and Wellington. Union Steamship Company, agents. Pasoengers-Misses Blackwood (2), Morley, Lodge, Pullen, Swanston and Reece, Mesdames Lowin, Scott, Blackwood, Clifton and child, Messrs Morgan, Austin, Scott, Carter, Eowo, Duthie, Daore, Do Zulutea, Holmes, Black, M’Gain, Bannister, Brandon, E. Von Tremoradorf, Lance, Powell, Everest, Duncan (2), Myers, Carmichael, Atkinson, Marks, Maokay, Davis, Blackwood, Bram-. well. Felton, Lowin, Ngata, Prestor;, McConnell, Smith, Cuneen; thirty-sevem stOQrftflfQt ' July 25 Wareatea. b.b., 288 tons, Dowme, from Greymouth. Union Ste;*mship Company, agents. July 25—Herald, s.s., 356 tons, Jones, from Greymouth, Union Steamship Company, agents. SAILED. July 25—Taupo, s.s. 680 tons, Todd, for Westport. Union Steamship Cwnpany, agents. , July 25—Jane Douglas, s.b„ 76 tons. Whitby, for Akatoa, via the Bays. Cuff and Graham, agents. July 25—Tarawera, s.s., 1268 tons, Sinclair, for Dunedin. Union Steamship Company, agents. Passengers Misses Beck, Longford, Mrs Hialop, Colonel Thompson, Messrs Shean, Roberts (2) and Wheedon. July 25—Wakatn, s.s., 115 tons. Wills, for Wellington, viA Kuikouia. Kinsey and Co., agents. , July 25 Rotorua, s.s.. 576 tons, Cameron, for Wellington. Union Steamship Company, agents. Passengers Mieses Brett, Turnbull, Pollock, Busher, Mesdames Nesbitt, Brown, Little, Mackenzie, Hon Captain Morris, Dr Watchman Messrs Mackenzie, Knowles, Brett, Pressman. Mills, M’Lean. Shaw, Donald, Ewen, Whitcombe, Kaye, Peaka, Blake, Kingstone, Peter, Quartermain, Lonsdale, Delamain, Smith and Trent. July 25—Kahu, s.s., 97 tons, Eomenl, for Timaru, Oamaru and Napier. Kinsey and Co., agents. S) IMPORTS. Herald: Prom Greymouth—l6 Backs, quantity timber, 208 bags coke, 350 tons coal. Wareatea: Prom Greymouth—4so tons coal, 2 casks. Tarawera: Prom Auckland—l6l6 bags sugar, 123 cases fruit, 3 hoses bullion, 44 pkgs; from Wellington—lo cases whiskey, 1 horse, 18 pkgs ; from Gisborne—2 boxes, 1 horse; from Napier—2 pkgs; from

Waipiro—l box. Eotorua: From Dunedin—23 oases felt, 21 cases whiskey, 32 cases matches, 10 coils rope, 50 boxes candles, 4 cases marble. 20 cases tea, 4 cases chairs, 14 bags flour, 50 cases oil, 12 baskets, 158 pkgs. Kahu: From Napier—3s4 sacks grass seed, 6 cratss; 1 case, 21 sacks hides. Wafcatu s From Kaikoura and Wellington—ll.6ooft timber. 5 pkgs, 63 pkgs stares, 3 cases, 212 sheep. EXPORTS. Tarawera: For Dunedin—2 girders. 8 bdla ironwork, 41 plates, 80 sacks seed, 6 sacks onions, 5 pkgs. Taupo: For Westport—so sacks malt, 3 pkgs ranges, 50 sacks bran, 6 pkgs. Kahu: For Oamarn—6 cases; for Napier—l 32 sacks potatoes, 25 sacks onions, 15 orates, 15 pkgs ranges. Wakatu : For Kaikoura—3l sacks oats, 11 sacks peas, 2 sacks bran, 40 bags flour, 86 pkgs sundries; for Wellington—lso sacks oats, 40 sacks grass seed, 80 sacks potatoes, 26 sacks wheat; for Foxton—l29 sacks wheat. expected abbivals. From London—Ruahine, E.M.S.S., due Colony August 12. From New York. —Mary Hasbrook, barque, 772 tons, sailed April 10, for Port Chalmers. Essex, barque, via Dunedin. From Adelaide—Lady Elizabeth, barque, 1155 tons, J.F.Q.B. ' VESSELS HOMEWARD BOUND. SAILING VESSELS. Days Oat. Willowbank (Walker), Channel ... 128 Cordillera (Morrish), Channel ... 125 Beeohdale (Parsich), Channel ... 109 Deo (Pope), London 106 Woodville (Leggat), Channel ... 103 Windsor Park (Boldchild), London 102 Pleiades (Morton), London 86 Robert Scraf ton (Lessesson), Channel 86 Opawa (Martin), Liverpool 84 Leucadia (Holmes), Channel ... 83 Lintrathen (Alexander), London ... 71 +North (Fish), Channel 69 Parsee (Bailey), Channel 66 Pendragon (Bond), London... ... 66 Lurlino (Laws), Channel ... ... 58 Arnold (Beenke), Channel 54 Lough Weagh (Skimin), Channel... 43 Alastor (Glazebrook), London ... 35 Weser (Bielow), Channel 28 Earl Granville (Carr), Channel ... 25 Edward Pembroke (Jeffrey) London 21 fput into Valparaiso, July 15, dismasted.

The barque 80110 Isle was shifted to the Gladstone Pier yesterday afternoon, where she will be dismantled and converted into a coal hulk for the Union Steamship Company. The Union Steamship Company’s steamer Tarawera arrived in Port yesterday morning. She left Auckland on July 20, Gisborne on July 21, Napier on July 22, and Wellington at 3.15 p.m. on July 24, Pine weather, with light winds, was experienced along the coast. THE SPANISH TRAINING SHIP. Early yesterday morning the Spanish training ship Nautilus was signalled aa approaching the port, and during the forenoon she anchored in the outer harbour, but weighed anchor again and by noon waa snugly moored at the buoys set apart for mooring men of war. When the mooring operations were completed, the vessel was boarded by Mr Arenas, Spanish ViceConsul ; Mr F. H. Waymouth, Chairman, and Mr C. H. Williams, Secretary of the Harbour Board; Mr J. T. Brice, Mayor of Lyttelton j Captain Clark, Harbourmaster; Mr Bellhouse, Secretary of toe Reception Committee j and the representatives of the Press. The party was met by the Commander, Don Fernando Villaamil, and conducted to his quarters, which are situated right ait, where a moat enjoyable half*hour was spent. The Commander speaks a little English, and with the assistance of Mr Arenas, who, when necessary, acted aa interpreter, the conversation was kept going briskly enough. After the formal introductions were over, end Mr Arenas had welcomed the visiters to the port, the conversation about the ship and those on board became general. It was

[gathered that tho vessel 'which was pur- ; chased in London some uefran years ago by her present commander, .acting on behalf of bis Government, was 'being used as a school for instructing a number Of cadets and fitting them to occupy positions in the Spanish navy. There is a crew all told of some one hundred and eighty-two souls ; of these fifty are son?/ df gentlemen under- , going the course o'i .instruction of whioh mention has been tuado. Many of them were to be seen on deck wrapped up in great-coats, evidently feeling the cold. r The vessel, it appears, had taken her departure from Perrol on Deo. 7, and called at the Canary Inlands, Bahia and other .ports on the American coast, then on to Capetown, whena she remained fourteen days. Prom C apetown she proceeded to South Australis, and arrived at Adelaide during the first; week in April, and after a stay there Melbourne, Sydney and Newcastle were visited, three or four weeks being spent iu both the Victorian and New South Wales capitals. Prom Sydney to Wellington was the next movement, and her stay in the northern port extended over three w*eeks. The Commander saw a good deal of the North Island, and was most enthusiastic in his praises of the country and its people. Indeed he said that what Tao had seen of the North Island led him to think that New Zealand was the' best country under the cun, while he was equally complimentary in his remarks of the people. Ho liked the Colonial Englishman decidedly better than bhe English Englishman. He ex-, pressed admiration of the port of Wellington, umd was equally well pleased with Lyttelton, as the spot where the ship was moored, ho observed, was handy to the port and well sheltered. His time is fully occupied, for besides giving the cadets dail y instruction in navigation, &c., he hol'ia periodical examinations, and was arranging to hold one of these at the time of the visit. After some further conversation, the party, which had been most hospitably entertained, took their leave. Commander Don Fernando Villaamil, ’who has charge of the ship, occupies a high position in his profession—the fact that he is entrusted with the responsibility of instructing the great number of cadets under his charge is sufficient proof of that fact. He was for five years commander of the royal yacht of his country, and previous to that was in command of a training ship or “ school." The Nautilus is the only sailing vessel attached to the Spanish navy in commission as a training ship, but there are two or three steamers, on hoard which the cadets are instructed in gunnery, torpedo work and submarine mining. She is one of the famous old China tea clippers—the Garrick Castle—and this fact once told is all that need be said with reference to her speed and general sea-going qualities. Anyone who professes to know anything of the history of shipping knows that the old tea clippers ns a class were the fastest ships afloat, and from the fact that the vessel now in Lyttelton made the journey from Melbourne to Sydney in thirty-four hours proves that she has lost none of her speed. She is not a man-of-war in the sense of the word with which we are familiar, and is supplied with only four small guns, two six-pounder rapid-firing guns made iu Spain of the Nordenfeldt pattern, and two Hotchkiss guns of a similar calibre. Like all her class she is composite built, and sheeted with real copper, which, as the handsome clipper lay in the bay yesterday, looking the picture of neatness on deck and aloft, glittered in the sun like a mirror. As she came to her moorings she was decorated with the Spanish standard at peak and each masthead, in honour of one of tho saints of the country to which she now belongs, and the general appearance was one that is seldom met with nowadays, for she is a representative of a noble and rapidly vanishing type. Her stay at this port is expected to extend over three or four weeks, and from here she goes direct to Callao, on the coast of Peru, thence to Valparaiso, where she will be due about December. The homeward journey will then be continued, the vessel going through tho Straits of Magellan—a very dangerous routs for a sailing ship. The following is a list of the officers: —Captain, Don Fernando Villaamil; Second Commander, Don Joaquin Barriers Pocez; Lieutenant, Don Claudio Alvargonzalef. y Zarracina; officers, Don Jos6 Nunez Quijano, Don Manuel Somoza Hartley, Don Mateo Garcia de loa Reyez, Don Jose Miranda Cadrolo, Don Alvaro Guitiau Delgado; Doctor, Don Salvador Guinea Alzate; Paymaster, Don Joaquin Coello Pardo; Priest,Don Joee Gonzalez.

TELEGRAPH NOTICE BOARD. Arrivals. —July 25: Spit, 2 a.m., Celtic King, from Auckland; Wellington, 7 a.m., Omapete, from Lyttelton; Timaru, 8 a.m., Brunner, from Lyttelton. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. Auckland, July 25. Sailed—Waihora, for Sydney. Southern Cross, for the East Coast. Wellington, July 25. Arrived Manaia, from Eangitikei. Omapero, from the south. Takapuna, from Onehunga and Taranaki. Wamui, from Nelson and West Coast. Sailed—Omapero, for Nelson and West Coast. Australia, for Auckland, vid East Coast, AUSTRALIAN SHIPPING. Melbourne, July 25. Arrived—Taliine.