SHIPPING.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CIII, Issue 12158, 23 March 1900, Page 4

SHIPPING.

-LYTTELTON.. ta*Wton Is situated in hd. 43.37 south, J*ng. 173.44 east; and the difference of «mu between Lyttelton and Christohurcn. is 20sao. The tlme-baU is dropped every week day at 1 p.m., New Zealand moan time, which is to 18.30 Greenwich mean turns of the previous day, being calculated, for l/2deg. tymto east long., and llhrs 80mia east ox Greenwich mean time.

weathlb report, etc. Sigh Water, its Day Qh, afternoon- 9.85. Bnn * l3e * m 6.5 p.m, Moon rises 9.53 p.m., sets 0.38 p. • THURSDAY, MARCH 22. 9 a.m. 6 p.m. Thermometer m ! « m w Barometer , . 4 . - S O - 07 ■ WIJO Calm. THE .WEATHER IN AUSTRALIA. The following weather reports were received (com Australian stations yesterday: Albany, March 21— Wind, north-east \ barometer 20.30; fine. Hobart, March 21—Wand, west; barometer, 29.80; cloudy. _ in . , Sydney, March. 23—Wind, south-west; barometer 80.30; fine. THE WEATHER IN. NEW ZEALAND. The following weather reports wore received from New Zealand stations at 5. p.m. jesterHeads—Wand, south west, fresh; ,barometer 30.28, ithormometor 75; fine; sea moderate. „ , ir , , ■Nlew Plymouth—Wind, south-west, light, ■barometer 30.04, thermometer 74; fine; isci Bjjiooth. Oastkpohrt—Wind, north-east, light; barometer 29.92, thermometer 70; fine; sea modelWteHingbon—Wind, norih-we&t, fresjx; baremeter 29.93, thermometer 68; gloomy. Westport~-Wind, south-west, light; barpmetem 29.97, thermometer 65; gloomy; sea smootn. Oamaru—Wind, north-east, light; barometer 29,80, thermometer 64; fine; sea smooth. Bluff—-Wind, north-west, breeze; barometer 29.74, thermometer 67; cloudy. Captain Edwin reports; At Albany the pressure has decreased a little, and a furtnor Ml will take place, but at Sydney and- Hobart it has increased steadily. A low pressure from the west will pass eastward pf the meridian of South Cape late to-morrow, and one from the same direction about March 28.

WEATHER FORECAST. The following-weather forecast was telegraphea from Wellington yesterday‘Wind moderate to strong from the westward at all places northward of Napier and Cape Egmont, and moderate from the northward thence south to ®m«ru and Hokitika, hut inoreasing to a gale •ifte* twelve hours, and a westerly gale elsewhere. The barometer will fall everywhere. The «ea will be heavy after sixteen hours on (both coasts south of Napier and New Plymouth, and moderate elsewhere, The tides iwill he high on. all the western coast, and also on;, the east coast south of Castle ‘Point, and moderate thence northward. Rain is probable in .all parts of the South Island. Warning flignale for a northerly gale are exhibited at Capes Campbell, Farewell Spit and Foulwini, Synopsis of the last twenty-four hours:—There has been very little change of pressure northward of Napier and New Plymouth, hut it has fallen slowly, in. all other parts of the country. A. low pressure from the west, probably with heavy gales from the tomorrow, will pass eastward of the meridian of [East Capa on Saturday. ARRIVED. ’ ‘March 21 —Bakanoa, s.s., 1393 tons, M'Don,tdd, from Newcastle. Union Steamship Commanv, agents, ’ . , March 22—'Manchester, ..dredge. Morns, from Liverpool. March Rotomaiana,, s.s., 901 tons, Manning, from Wellington. Union: iSteamship Company, agents. Passengers—Misses Daley, DBonnyman, Bennett, Wreaks, Banks, Ross, Hart, Parsons, Sorensen (3), Hutchinson, Newcomb a and Anderson, Mesdames Newtou-rgj-ng and two children, Bennett, Matheson, Collier, Ross, Bacon, Pollvell, Hayward, Hawttkome, Taylor, Tulloch and child, and ’Mac!ka.y and!, infant, Rev Thomas, Captains Clark, Kirtan and Stephen, .Messrs Carpenter,' King, Salmon, Newton-King, M’Clusky, Dalgleish (2),. Ross, Limn, Chadwick, Mason, M’Perran, Bacon, Borthwipk', Triokeit, Randrup, Pollock, iWitla Hayward, 'lA.bexcrombie, Maunaell (2), Norman, Hjorring, M’Phee, Daniel and party, G»stl e, Postin, and fifty-five steerage. , J March 22—Tutanekai, New Zealand! Government s.s., 411 tons, Post, from Wellington. Passengers—Mesdames Seddon, Bean and Dyer, Miss Seddon, Bight Hon R. J. Seddon and secretaries, Hon W. 0. Walker.’ and secretary, and Lieutenant Beddbn. March 22—Janet Nicoll, s.s., 496 tons, Ryan, from Westport. Union ’Steamship Company, agents. March 22—Jessie Nicqll, schooner, 93 tons, Johnson, from Thames. -Cook Bros., agents. SAILED. March, 22—Gymeric, s.s., 2598 tons, ThomBonj for Dunedin. Kinsey, 'Bams and Co., JdDarcli Kew Zealamcl ment s.s., 411 tons. Post, for Dunedin. March 22—Wakatu, s.s., 95 tons, Wills, for Cheviot, Kaikoura and Wellington. Kinsey, Barns and Co-, agents. March 22—Eotomahana, s.s., ,901 tons, Manning, for Wellington. Union Steamship Company, agents; passengers—Misses Rout, Baker, Percy, Alcorn, ‘O’Farrcll and Hamilton, Mesdames Armour, Blackburn and two children, Grant, Turner, Wylie, Breed and child, and Craig, Messrs Armour, Rule, Pearson, Garland, Jones, Atkinson, Quin, Cantwell, Bidmeade, Whittaker, M’Caskill, Whitcombe, Chapman, Archer,- Walker (2), Garlick, Wood, ‘Rice, Pertain, Weir, M’Leod, Qtiaine, Hogrv, Fothergill, Brown, Leary, Tennent, Sanderson, <Heard and Gilbert. IMPORTS. Rotomohana: From Wellington—2.bicycles,, 675 sheep, 2 horses, 38 sacks pelts, 87 hides,’ 1 S'ity staves, 5 casks ends, 1 horse-box, timber, 300 feed-boxes, 181 sheepskins, 6 parcels, 13 cases, 23 pkgs, 2 crates, 5 rolls; from Onehtmga—4 cycles; from New —1 'trunk, 1 pkg, 2 empty gas-tubes, 1 case, 4 oases empty tins. EXPORTS. Te Ap.au:! For Dunedin—B ca-ses and 6 hhds empty returned, 25 cases whisky, 2 chests tea, 6 aaoka bacon, 70 sacks and 103 gunnies onions, 4 sacks malt, 26 pkgs samples, 4 boxes and 2 sacks dead poultry, 2 rolled joists, 1 case fruit, 6 trusses leather,"s drums dip, 36 cases and pkgs sundries. Wakatu: For Cheviot—7 cases confectionery, 67 pieces timber, 1 drum oil, 10 sacks coal, 4 cases, chairs, 2 sacks grass seed, 33 bags sugar, 74 pkgs sundries; for Kaikoura—l bicycle, 2 Backs grass seed, 1 box bams, 10 pkgs samples, 87 rams, 2 boats, 20 bd'ls standards, 19 pkgs sundries. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. ’ From London —Whakataue, duo Wellington March 3L Gothic; duo Wellington April 2. Kumara, due colony April 12, From Dublin —Woodville, barque, 714 tons, Trinick, R.M.R.H. From Algoa Bay—Pehr Ugland, barque, 1230 tons, Iversen, H.T.P.M. From Rio—Ema, barque, 1069 tons. Brave, tf.(LL.F. VESSELS HOMEWARD, BOUND. Days out. Jlala (Captain Davis) 11l Dudhope (Captain Low) 87 Thetis (Captain Oliver) , . , ■ , 69 Thessalus (Captain Weaterberg) « •' • 45 Oban Bay (Captain Wakely) . . , . 31 iZealandia (Captain Bate) . . .... 20 Sheila (Captain Oowlishaw) 15 SHE UNION STEAMSHIP COMPANY'S FLEET. ; FRIDAY. —Taiuno arrives from Melbourne, ’via Southj and leaves for Sydney ,via Wellington. Waikato arrives from Sydney, via Weland leaves for Melbourne, via south. ’. The Union Steamship Company’s s.s. Rakanoa arrived from Newcastle during Wednesday night, and was sent into quarantine at Camp Say, where she is to remain until Monday next. The Government s.s. Tutanekai arrived from (Wellington with the Premier and party at 10.30 a.m. yesterday, and, after landing her passengers, left for Dunedin. ■ ‘ THE DREDGE MANCHESTER. ; The long voyage of the dredge Manchester to an end at a quarter past eight o’clock yesterday morning, when she entered the moles at Lyttelton, and was berthed at No. 3 wharf. As she left Liverpool on Feb. her passage occupied 403 days, 197 of which are recorded as days of detention, during which she was in one port or another undergoing repairs. She appears in good order, on the whole. A considerable number of persons went to the wharf during the morning to inspect her. The passage from Wellington occupied twenty-six hour?, and on it the Manchester, as, indeed, during the whole of her long voyage, showed ’•!hers»lf an exceedingly good sea boat. She is, lip. technical language, a double .twin-screw hop--1 par dredger, 175 ft long and 40ft in beam, aijd with engines of the triple expansion typo, of about. 1600 horse-power indicated. She is fitted with compound engines for hoisting, and with ! another .similar set for traversing the! Sadder. ‘She can dredge with cither set of her joain .to a depth of 33ft, at the rate

of about 400. tons per hour. The is an after dredge, fitted witheight hoppers amidships, which hold altogether about 800 tons. She can also discharge ovexsides mm hoppers lying alongside. She is electric light throughout ,and her installation includes three deck lights of 500 candle power each, intended specially for working by night. The dredger is a perfect mass of machinery, as may he judged from the fact that when »ne i« in full operation she has no fewer than twenty-six steam cylinders working. The quarters for her company are aft, those of the officers and engineers being onr the starboard, and those of the crew on the p.ort side. The company which brought her out to the colony consists of twenty-seven, all told, her officers being Captain J. Morris; Mr T. Galgey, chief officer; Mr T. Pttrvis, second officer; Mr T. Napier, chief engineer; Mr H. Raymond, ‘Second engineer; and Mr D. Kelleher. Mr Raymond: has been in the Manchester as chief and ‘Second engineer for five years, having joined her when she was at woiii :a the Manchester Ship Canal in 1893. He was out of her for two years, during which she was laid up. He is to take charge of the dredge, as chief engineer, under the Lyttelton Harixmr Board. It is estimated' that it will tako about a month to rsfit her in. order to make her ready for work.

TELEGRAPH NOTICE BOARD. ARRIVALS.—March. 22: Wellington, 4.50 a.m. ,Mokoia, from Sydney; Wellington, 5.20 p.m., Mohawk, from Sydney. DEPARTURES.—March 22: Blufi, 2.30 a.m., Yarrowdale, for Melbourne; Greymouth, 2.30 p.m., Pareora, for Lyttelton; Wellington, 3.10 p.m., Indnaghiri, for Lyttelton; Wellington, 4.30 p.m., Waikare, for Lyttelton; Port Chalmers, 5 p.m., Tolune, for Lyttelton; Gisborne, 10 p.m., Indramayo, for Napier,

SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. POUTO, March 22. Arrived—Remu, s.s., from New Plymouth. 'Sailed—Huia, schooner, for Lyttelton. AUCKLAND, March 22.

■Arrived—Wenona, from Newcastle. Sailed—H.M.S. Ringdove, for Sydney. Taieri, for Westport. Mapourika, for New Plymouth and Wellington. WELLINGTON, March 22.

Arrived, Mokoia, from Sydney; passengers;’ For Lyttelton—Mesdames Thomson, White and infant, Misses Mapp (2), Captain Kennedy, Messrs Thomson and Denny; for Dunedin— Mrs Kelly, Misses Kelly (3), Mr Beach. She has gone into quarantine. Sailed—lndraghiri, for Lyttelton. Rotoiti, for New Plymouth and Onehunga. Waikare, for Melbourne, via the south and’ Hobart; passengers—Misses Fenton, Quick, Dunlap, &t Hill (2), Smith Brown (2), Thompson, Moore and Johnston, Mesdames Somerville, Kelling and children, Hobson, Collins, Walshe, Adams, Preston, Wake and throe children, Wiffen, Penton, Salmon, Abraham, Bishop Mules, Major .Somerville, Captain Clark, Rev Morley, Messrs Preston, Wake, Blundell, Wiffen, Rotterham, Cullen, Game, Abraham, Stace, Blackey, Wall, Light, Bryant, Sheridan, Keiling, Todd, Bennett, Smith, Vine, Davies, Mogridge, Edgar, Bray, Callender, Turner, Hull, Garret, Ferguson, Fraser, Moore and Turner, Masters Salmon and Light. The Marnari left London for Wellington and Lyttelton ,on March 17. BLUFF, March 22. Sailed —Yarrowdale, steamer, for the Cape, via Melbourne, with a cargo of 33,909 sacks of oats. AUSTRALIAN SHIPPING. MELBOURNE, March 22. Sailed, yesterday—Tarawera, for the Bluff. SYDNEY, March. 22. Arrived—Zealandia, from Wellington.

PHASES OF THE MOON., MA$CH, A V -m. Now Moon . Il»i Quarter Full Moon 3#st Quartet New Moon 1 . . 1 10 65 p.m. 1 r \ 8 5 4 p.m. . . 16 % 43 p.m. i , , 24 5 1 P-m. 1, f 31 6 1 a.m.