SHIPPING.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CI, Issue 11885, 8 May 1899, Page 4

SHIPPING.

LYTTELTON,

Lyttelton is situated in .lat 43.37 south, 172 44 east; and the difference of time between Lyttelton and Christchurch is 20see. The time-ball is dropped every week day at 1 p.m.. New Zealand mean time, winch, is equivalent to 13.30 Greenwich mean tune of tlio previous day, being caJ ciliated lor 172deg* BOmin wst long., and llhra 86mm east of Greenwich mean time.

PHASES OF THE MOON. May.

WEATHER REPORT, ETC. High Water, This Day (Monday); Mom- ■ jpg 2.17, afternoon 2.42. Sun rises 7.2 a.nn, sets 4.50 p.m. Moon rises 5.5 a.m., sets 3.41 ff ' m ’ SUNDAY, MAY 7. 9 a.m. 5 p.m. ' Thermometer ... 58 60 Barometer . . » « {29.83 29.83 ARRIVED. May. 6—Flora, 8.5., 838 tons, Fleming, from Dunedin. Union Steamship Company, agents. Passengers— Miss Oliver, Mesdaanea Shaman, Pounder and child and Davidson, ill Kennedy. May 6—Rotomahana, s.s, 901 tons, Manning, from Wellington. Union Steamship Company, agents. Passengers—Misses Gibson, Currie, Tompkins, Lamb, Garforth, O’Connor, Eichelbaum, Moling and Pago, Mesdames Geddea, Maling, ■ Everett, Hobbs, Wood, M’Donald and child, Rule, Empson and two children and Eichelbaum, Messrs Spcedwiil, Armstrong, Wilson, Taylor (2), Goodwin, Piper, .Geddea, M’Donald, Hobbs, Wood, Wakefield, Logan, Dickson, Rothschild, Eichelbaum and Empson, Dr Neill and twenty-eight steerage. May 6 s.s., 1675 tons. Waller, from Sydney, via Auckland and way ports. ■Kinsey, Barns and Co., agents. Passengers— Misses Broomfield, Nelson, Clark and Lane, Mesdames Banks, Fletcher and Matheson and child, Messrs Wilson, Fisher, White, Mathe- ' son, Johnston, Plowman, Mitcholson, Rev Coates and eighteen steerage. ; May 6.—Ohaa, s.s., 410! tons, Brewer,j from' southern ports. Union Steamship Company, agents. ' May 6—Jana Douglas, as., 76 tons, Murray, from Akaroa, via Hays. Pitcaithly, .’Wallace and Co., agents. May 7—Poherua, s.a„ 749 tons, Adams, from .Westport. 1 ■ Union Steamship Company, . agents. ■ May 7—Rotorua, as., 576 tons, Spence, from Wellington. Union Steamship Company, agents.', SAILED. May 6—Flora, s.s., 838 tons, Fleming, for Wellington. Union Steamship Company, agents. Passengers—Miss Sidey, Messrs Decraea and. M’Kmnon. May 6—Rotomahana, as., SOI tons. Manning, for Wellington. Union Steamship Company, agents- Passengers—Misses Vickey, Porter, Staples,. Pratt (2) and Gilxnour, Mes- , dames Gardiner,, Smith and Gelding, Messrs • Leitham, Johnson, Salmon, Neill, Crawford, Christianson, Wiltion, Munro, BuJlen, Irvine, ‘ Alexander, Gouldtidge,' Baker and Gelding, • Master Alexander. May 6-i-Ohau, as., ’ 410 tons, Brewer, for Wellington. Union Steamship Company, ; agents. May 6—Elingamite, s.s., 1675 tons, Waller, for Dunedin.—Kinsey, Bams and Co., agents. Passengers—Misses Kennedy, Nunn, Wilson, Lambert and Ralph, Mosdames Nottingham, Newell and Smith, Messrs Nottingham,'* Gee , and Butcher, Sergeant-Major Hnrbury. ' May 6—Ruahine, RJm.S.B., 3926 tons, Mayoss, for Wellington. New Zealand Shipping. Company, agents. , , May 6—Ri-bston, s.s., 2185 tons L Robertson, for Wellington. New* Zealand Shipping Company, agents. . May 6—Waiwera, a.s., 4025 tons, Stuart, lor Wellington. Dalgoty and Company, ***■ IMPOETS. Flora: 1 From? Dunedin—Bo boxes candles, '4 bags leather, 10 hhds ale, 43 sacks hides, '2 tierces beef, 12 barrels ale, 1 horse, 5 bars ' iron, 76 pkgs, ... Rotomahana: From ,Wellington—8 bdls iron, 10 boxes butter, 9 cases iron,, 30 casks pelts, ’9 casks ends, 550 sheep, quantity fetaves, 44 pkga. , ' Chau: From Dunedin —45 cases jams, 21 cases meats, 20 cases starch, 2 cases blue, 1 16 pkgs; from Oa-maru —3 bales ■woollens, 4 : sacks hides, 5 bills. EXPORTS.

• Taltme; For Brisbane—l4o gunnies onions, 297 sacks potatoes; for Noumea —1 case; for Rockhampton—lo sacks oatmeal; .or Townsville—ss sacks potatoes; for Wellington—2 cases ale, 10 pkgs samples, 10 sacks peas, 44 bdls willows, 30 sacks pollard, 2 cases eggs, '■ 26 pkgs; for Sydney—l2lo sacks potatoes, 566 Backs onions, 267 sacks oats, 41 sacks peas, 6 (iases hams, 50 sacks seed, 60 cases cheese, , 12 cases, 36 pkgs. ■ Monowai: For Adelaide —170 sacks, potatoes; for Bluff—l2 pkgs; for Dunedin—l pkg; for FrenlsnUo—ll66 sacks-, potatoes, 39 cases ■ cheese, 202 sacks oats; for Melbourne—3oo flacks oats, 20 sacks seed, 225 pkgs. Eiingomite: For Dunedin—s2 cases acid, 125 boxes candles, 40 bags soap, 8 trusses leather, 48 casks, 38 coses pickles, 7 cases anpies, 11 sacks peas, 13 cases meats, 76 „ .Dkgs. •. EXPECTED AEPvIYALS. From. London—Waimate, due Auckland May 9. Eimutaka, duo colony May 14. 1 Tekoa, ■ due colony May 24. Matatua, due Port Chalmers May 21, Lyttelton May 28. From Cape Town—Allohby, barque, 1400 : tons, Kerry. W.P.E.L. . From Liverpool—Manchester, dredge, sailed • Feb. 8 (put into Waterford)^ From Liverpool, via Wellington—Silverhowj, (hip, 1177 tons, Marshall, Q.L.T.K PROJECTED DEPARTURES,. For London—Loch Torridon, Blenheim, Conway, Lizzie Bell, Orari, lonic, Wakanui, , . Tokomaru and Waimate. , . VESSELS HOMEWARD BOUND. v ‘ ■ ■. ' Days out. Elbe (Captain Pox) . 66 Canterbury (Captain Collingwood) . . 55 r Wellington (Captain Thomas) ... 14 Norman M’Leod (Captain Caber o) . . 10 Westland (Captain Kelly) . . . . 4 Lake Superior .(Captain Panton) . . 3 Nelson, (Captain Pehiam) . . , -3, THE UNION STEAMSHIP COMPANY S . FLEET. MONDAY.—Rotorua leaves for Wellington. Corinna leaves for Wellington and Westport. 1 . VESSELS iiT THE WHARVES. 1. Blenheim (Captain Colville), Conway (Captain Hume),» Loch Torridon (Captain Patman), Loch Linnho* (Captain Pihlinanl, .Lake Erie (Captain Stannard), Edward (Captain Bergman). / 2. Rotorua (Captain Spence). V '3. Poherua (Captain Adams). 5. Clyde (Captain Gibbons), Falcon (Captain Green), Joseph Sims (Captain Berg), Morning Light (Captain Anderson). •6. Lizzie Bell (Captain Gronpw), Orari (Captain Fowler). .7. Tokomaru (Captain Maxwell), Kestrel (Captain Taylor). . In dock, Wakanui (Captain Jaggard).' On slip, Sir Henry (Captain Quneron).

Tii- sh-amer Wakanui, of the New Zealand Shipping Company’s fleet, one of the largest .■.-ocean -ateamprs visiting the-port, was placed in ihe graving dock’on Saturday. The blocks ou thu floor of the dock had to be specially raised to enablo the huge direct liner to b-s docked without her bilge touching the Side of the-clock. During the day a large number of people visited the dock. A glance at the vessel from the floor of the dock at once showed where the modem "ocean tramp” gets her immense parrying capacity. The floor pf the vessel appears to extend almost her extreme length, and runs into the almost perpendicular sides at a very acute angle. The barque John Gambles,. which bumped at Timaru on" Saturday, will come on to Lyttelton, and go into the graving dock. The vessel is tinder charter to Messrs 'Kaye ans Carter, to load grain for the United Kingdom. The New Zealand 'Shipping Company’s steamer Wakanui Was placed in the graving dock on Saturday afternoon for the purpose of undergoing an examination to her hull below water lino. The vessel had been leaking slightly in No. 3 hold, owing to a few' loose rivets. These will be tightened up, and the vessel will probably come out of dock to-morrow. On Saturday the departure of the steamer? Rotomahana, Flora, Ghau, Ribston, Runtime and Waiwera, and the shifting of the Wakanui into , the graving dock, left the berthage space comparatively empty. The direct liner lonic, due at Wellington yesterday, has some 500 tons of merchandise ■ for this port. . The steamer Poherua arrived vesteniay morning from Westport with a full load cf coal. , Reports by mail from New York, via Loni don, have been received stating that Messrs Cramp and Sons, of Philadelphia, who were .awarded the contract of building the three new steamers for the Sydney-Sau Francisco service, had laid the keel of the first of tie

trio. The steamers are to have a guaranteed speed of 17 knots and to be of GOOO it-no gross measurement each.' Tho Mariposa and , Alameda, at present running, wore built by Cramp and Sons in 1883, and have done splendid service. They are classed as iHJcnot steamers and of 3168 tons ■ register, so that'the new ships will have two knots more speed and ho nearly double tho size of tho ■ vessels now performing tho service—important . inferences' in expediting the delivery of the nails. ’sS■ -!! : iij■,i;^ts'i '-■■■■■:'i'i'■

Mr C. H. Humphries, purser of the Miowera, retires from the service on the arrival of the' vessel at Vancouver. Ha has for twenty-two years been associated with Australasian shipping, fourteen years of which were under the flag of the Union Company. He proposes to settle down in England. . The grain ’ships in port are filling up slowly, the Loch Torridon, loading on account of the New Zealand Shipping Company, being, perhaps, the most forward af the fleet. It is stated that'three or four other ships are chartered to arrive shortly, but their names have not yet transpired. . The New Zealand Shipping Company’s steamer Ruahino left port on Saturday evening for Wellington. She loaded a large quantity of frozen meat at this, port, and ■ completes her loading at Wellington, leaving .for. London on Thursday next. TELEGRAPH NOTICE BOARD. ARRIVALS.—May 7; Auckland, 2.30 p.m., Mararpa (with Brindisi mail), from Sydney, Port Chalmers, 11 a-m-,' Mamari, from Qamaru. ' ~ , DEPARTURES.— May 7: Auckland, no,on, ■.Tutanekai, for Dargaville. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. AUCKLAND, May 6. Sailed—To Anau, for the south; passengers—Misses Filley, Kennedy, Randall and Lynn, Mesdames Filley and Samuel, Messrs Gaunt, Hollo-way, Kosie, Tippets, Filley, KenSplra and Blythe. ■ May 7. Arrived—Mararoa, from Sydney; passengers for Lyttelton—Mrs and Mias Richardson; for Dunedin—Mesdames Hogg and child. Lore and Reid (2), Messrs Easton and Reid. Sailed—Gairlooh,' for New Plymouth. WELLINGTON, May 6. Arrived—Takapuna, from Onehunga. Ta-, lung, from Lyttelton. Hinexnoa, from' Port Chalmers. Sailed—Rotorua, for Lyttelton. Talune, for ***' " May 7. Arrived—Flora, Ribston, Ruahine, Eotomahana and Ohau, from the south. Sailed—Janet Nicoll, for Kaipara. Takanuna, for'Nelson, Taranaki and Onehunga. PORT CHALMERS, May 6. Arrived —Monowai, from Lyttelton. May 7. Arrived —Mamari, from Lyttelton. AUSTRALIAN SHIPPING. SYDNEY, May 6. Arrived—Lady St Aubyn, from , Kaipara. . Sailed—'Waikare, for New Zealand. NEWCASTLE, May 6. Sailed—Neptunei. for Auckland. TOWNSVILLE, May 6. Arrived—Zephyr, from New Zealand. ALBANY, May 6. Arrived—Orizaba, from London; passengers for New Zealand—Mesdames Firth and Snelling, Mr Watoliffe.;

m H. M. Last Quarter , , , < 3 6 17 lam. Kew Mooa , K . .10 5 9 a.m. First Quarter . . . . 18 4 43 a.m. Full Moon. . ». • 6 • . 25 6 19 p^n.