SHIPPING.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXIV, Issue 13891, 27 October 1905, Page 4

SHIPPING.

j :■:' LYTTELTON. ".« ,• The time-ball ia dropped every weak-Say at ■ "-J' j».m., New Zealand mean, time, which is 7 t<juivalen.t to 13.30 Greenwich mean time of rvtha previous day, beings calculated for 172 deg ~< BOmirt east long., and llhrs oOmin. cast of .'.fixeeawich mean time. - i i,' ' PHASES OE THE MOON. V: r '.--■■ \ OCTOBER.

■ WEATHER REPORT, ETC. &"Bioih""Water, This Dfcy (Friday): Morning afternoon! 2.57 p.m. Sam rises 4.52 oai9iv"J»M Moon ri&es 4.15 a.m.,

MAGNETIC OBSERVATORY, CHRISTCHURCH. Meteorologioal observations taken at 9.30 -■ira. ihasrsday, October £6i—- ' 'Barometer—29.Boo. • jjaxrorura temperature during' preceding 34 Jfcoars-* 3 - 2 - ? ' . • < Jtbaaum temperature during preceding,24 '.Jours—^-8-■V'-SBinpera'hu'e at 0.30 a.m.—Dry bulb 45.2, Vjpet bulb 47.9. ■;" ;Huroidity per cent—3B. *.. 3foT 1 ' Tr ' Ilm temperature in sun—72.o. ">, Minimum thermometer on grass—42.6. Direction of -wind—-S.Y/. * Ootid (0-10)—10. . Rainfall during • the previous 24 hours—- ' C.634m. { Tendency ot barometer—-Eailing rapidly. THE WEATHER IK NEW ZEALAND. The following weather reports were received from New Zealand stations at 5 p.m. yesterday:— I Mamxkau Heads—Wind, N.W., light; baro•jneter 29.68, thermometer 60'; showery, bar Smooth. Ne-.v Plymouth—Wind, N.E., light; barometer 23.66, thermometer 60; gloomy, sea Wellington—Wind, S., light; barometer thermometer 60; gloomy. Kaikonra—Wind, S.W., breeze; baTomcter ' "19.59, thermometer 67; fine, sea moderate. > Bluff—Wind, E., fresh; barometer 29.90, - -Jhermonieter 50; gloomy, 1' ARRIVED. ; y October 26—Priestfieldv s.s., 2612 tons, Day, >' Jirom Newcastle. Kaye and Cartel, agents. « ' - October 25—Wakatu, s.s., 95 tons, Wills', •'.Srom' Akaxca and the Bays. Kinsey, Bam3 >i&md Co., agents. '1 October 26—Ngairtt, scow, 66 tans, Fletcher, \ jjjfom Pelorus Sound Pitoaithlj and Co., r t digenta. Ootobea 28—Mararoa, s.s., 13S1 tons, Watl»on, from Wellington. "Union Steamship Co., Passengers Misses Hargxeaves, J Rutherford, Symes, Nicholas, Rule, .{Drake (3), Burks, M'Namara., Brandon, M'Ar--*'dlq, Cunningham and M'Giegor, Mesdamos * 'payers, Lewis, Robinson ■ arid child, Ruther"V«foid, Symes, Kinney, Koster, Carrey, MoorV\fcous» and infant, Plato, Walker, Nantes, * ODennehy and Worthington and 3 children, Y Cbptain Bonei, Messrs Todd, Edde. Hitohings, ,' 'jfiohoMs, Brown, Balton, Craw, Caldwell, \ tj£ida, Smith, Nicholson, Sayers, Lewis (2), 'Arnold, Maynard, M'Kieaxney, Ormerod, Wood, « *kxtland, Robmsan-, Sise, Griffin, Elavell, Plofoolls, Hastie, Woodham, ;»zlett, Wiokea, Rutherford,- Thomson,, Ellison, Garrey, A. L, Herdman, M.H.E., Walker, Moorhouso, Penha-li Wiffiarnsoni, Howe, Cooper, Barba and Schaefer, and 34 steerage. October 26—Storm, s.b., 186 tons, Wood, horn, AMteo. A. H.iTtmibull and Co., agsnte. SAILED.' * October 28—Mararoa, s.s, 1381 t°r», "WaltJon,' fox Wellington. Union. Stearasha'p! Com§«ny," «gent 3. Passengers—Misses O-'Neill, Sbadbolit, Anderson, M'Laren; Wait, FitzJlerbert, Allen, Bloodgood, Train, Simpson, Waste3an and Marbuiy, . Mesdames Millen, feepbucrn, Sraellie, ShadboJt, Mtubihews, Bowler, Eairbrother, Pugh, Wendelborn, Sykea , ■ fcrai two infants, Fitzherbert and Tracy, Hon H. Gonrley, Messrs Robson. Sheehan, Sands, XdcMeld, Stewart Millen, Hepburn, Smellia, Sow, Foley, E. G. Allen, M.S.R., Ookden, pasber, AsMnjan, Leigh, Willis, Glendmrjmg, PzoenadL Meiivale, Livingstone, Coope, Overtoni, Bktoy, Nodin, Dedrickson Majerond,, Alioroay, feßeth, Rodger, Rew, Morris, Rylamd, 'Wiigiht, S'hipman, Parker, Wilson. 'Shodbollf!, Berkeley, Dull'ebt, Asioli, Bayo, Blylaaid, Ballaratyne and Monro. ' October 26—Cygnet, s.s., 66 tons, Murray, for •Kadkonrft and Wellington. FitcaatHy md ■ )00., agents.' • ■ , * * Ootobea 26—Eliza Fisth, eohooner, 143 fiPlatyrei, for Eaiptaira. C. Ferrier &nd Co., tgeatfa. IMS UNION STEAMSHIP COMPANY'S FLEET. FRtDAT/—Monowai arrives from Melbourne, via southern, ports, and leaves for 'Bydney, via Wellington. "Warrimoo arrives from Sydney, via Wellington, and leaves for Melbourne, via, southern .ports. Bateena ariromi Wellins ton > on lebuih trip. > i Tha filhaw, Sivill and Albion Corapamy's s.s. tG-othio left Cape Town, in con<tirjuatiom of Jner voyage from London to New Zealand, on October 4. .... „ . \ The Shaw, SaviU and Albion Company's svs. •IA-tbenio arrived at Plymouth on Mondiay last 'after a passage of tOmrty-nine days from WedSington.' , . ■ The Italian barque Caterma, 908 tons,\ has chartered to load a cargo of tiles at 'Marseilles for Dunedin," Lyttelton and Wellington. '.-,.• -rrr ... , The s.s. Mararoa arrived from Wellington • at 9 o,hl, and the s.s. Wakatu from Akaroa at i 0.25 a.m. yesterday. . _ _ v It is expeoted that the bngantme Cann, ' loading produce for Auoldand, will leave Lyt- ' telton about Monday next. From Auckland ■ ,sho is to go to Kopu, on iho Thames, to load timber for Melbourne. „,.'., , The scow Ngaru, with a load of railway -•leepers, arrived from Pelorus Sound early Yesterday morning. . The s.s. Rotomahana, now being over- ' at Port Chalmers, is to go from there -to Wellington in time to resume her running fa the "ferry" service this week, leaving .Wellington for Lyttelton on Saturday night. 'Captain Manning, who has returned from \ia holiday, relieves Captain Watson m the Command of the s.s. Mararoa at Wellington, iorday. Captain Watson, who was to lave lefs for London _ fay the s.s_. Tur-ar " Idna to bring out the Union Steamship Com- " Zany's new s.s. Atua, will, it is understood, leave for Home by the s.s. Kumara on November 9 for that purpose. The completion -3>f the Atua was delayed by strikes. . Owing to the unfavourable weather on tho coast yesterday, tho departure of tho s.s. Wakatu for Kaikonra and Wellington has s>een postnoncd until this evening. The schooner Eliza Firth cleared for Kaijpara, with a load of produce, yesterday afternoon. t It is extracted that the barque Fl.eur de 'Lis will leave for Auckland. about the end 'of next week. ;. On account, of the heavy ram yesterday, "the working of cargo at Lyttelton wa3 prac,tioally at a-standstill for the greater part *»f the day. It is hoped that the s.s. Kaituna, for Westpert, and ihe s.s. Taieri, for Gieymouth, will 'leave here to-morrow. ,' ■ The New Zealand Shipping ' Company s e.s. ,Eakaia is to leave Lvttelton early this morn'Sng for the Bluff. " ' . , The schooner Eliza Firth sailed ror Kai,para, with produce, at 5.10 p.m. yesterd-iy. . The s-s. Storm arrived yesterday from AM{■ioo at 5.35 p.m. • The Mftraroa left for Wellington at 6.15 'p.m., and the Cygnet for Akaroa and xfington at 8.35 p.m. yesterday. The New Zealand and African Company's tg',9. Kent, now loading for South African and ,W«st of England ports, is expeoted to arrive at Lyttelton from Timani to-morrow. It fa "hoped that she will be able to take in her Ly&fceltoß cargo in time, to leave to-morrow «vening for Wellington, whence she is to leave on Monday for Sydney, Fremantle, South Africa arid the West of England. The s.s, Priestfield, a stranger to this port, arrived in the stream at 11.15 a.m. yesterday from Newcastle, after a seven days' passage, f having left there on Thursday, October 19. 6he*iß 'a steel single screw steamer of 4033 tons gross and 2612 tons net register, and is " 345 4ft in length, 47.9 ft in beam and 19.4 ft in depth of bold. Her on tho triple prinoiple, aro of 314 horse-power nominal. The diameter of tho cylinders is sespeotively 25. 41 and 67 inche3, and the length of stroke 45 inches. The Priestfield as a vessel four, years old, having been ' launched in 1901 by Irvine's Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, Limited, at West Hartlepool. Her owners ore the Priestfield Steamship Company (Messrs Beekingham and •Co., managers), of Newcastle-on-Tyne. Sho is commanded by Captain J. Day. The steamer come to Lyttelton in ballast, and is to load produce for South African ports. The Priestfield, which is a roomy cargo _ carrier, was inspected and admitted to uraiiaue by tho Health Officer, Dr Upham, brought within the moles at 1 p.m., and berthed at No. 6 jetty for loading. The_ report of tha voyage is to the effect thai the Bteamer, after discharging Calcutta cargo at Melbonrno and Sydney, called at Newcastle for bunker coal, of which Bhe took 1300 tons. After leaving: Newoastle on October 19, tho vrssel experienced strong south and south-oast winds ?i"ri heavy seas to Farewell Spit. She mwocl i Stephens Island at 6 p.m. on Tuesday lust, ; ' von. had strong- easterly and south-easterly u winds and thick weather till arrival. Sho •'•'righted Lyttelton Heads on Wednesday evenin*, but sa the weather was very thick, Cap-->|r 5j T>«,y 4e«aediiV" prudenfc to stand of?

until the morning., It is expected that the Priestfield will also take cargo ftt limaru, and will leave Lyttelton to-mopow. . The Union Company's new ew»m tendei for Gisborno (says tho ','Post") was brought down from Auckland) by Captain Hawko, who will toko the position of chief ofhoer until tho endi of the year, when Captain Neale, who ia to have command of the Teaider, retires from the service. Captain Hawko will then be given comma,r.d. Mr Anderson, late of tho Mokoia, is chief engineer, and in MLemnan, Ue of the. Navua, second. • ,_..., Mr J. of the steianMir Wniho, Has pa-seoa the-examination of the Board of Trade for a master's certificate. The""Otago Daily Times" sa^ys:-We notice in the manifest of the Steirt. Swill Mid Albion Company's eteamslhdp Rangatim, which is due here on Sunday mex* from London, and is bringing the consignments, of M»te» te acclimatisation purposes at the fish hatcheries that th'ere is also a consignment of iaiglieh coal, which looks lite sending coal to Mewcastlo-at any rate, a great mauy years hava elapsed sinco cargo of ibis J™d has arrived from tho MWther Country at Port dial- , Great activity is prevailing ]ust now at Ocean Island, °™ °* to Solomto group, with its phosphate trade, in which quaw a fl«et of steamships a<re at present engaged. The weall& of th'o island consists of a, sul> stenoe known as phosphates It resembles thick coral in its /whitish colour and_ hardness although it would appear as if xB haa been deposited in layers by a sedimentary deposit similar to that of the stratum of Suva soapstone. It is heavier, however than soapstone, end a grea't deal more brittle Uhaa coral. To look at it few persons would: conceive that it pcwossefll a comm'eroial vaJue,but that it does is well in evidence. In the handa of tho manufacturing chemiis'b tho substance is converted- into superphosphates by the agency of sulphurio a-cid, and rendMecl soluble- in water, and is mostly utilised ais a manure. Ocean Island!, or Paanopa, is srtuajted. it roiav be interesting to state, in tot. 0.53 S., and long. 169.32 E., and belongs! to Great Britain. TELEGRAPH NOTICE BOARD. LYTTiELTON, October 26. Arrived, 9 a.m., Mararoa, from Wellington-; 10.25 fli.ni., W'aba'tu, from Akaroa; 11.15 a.m., (in stream), Priestfield, from Newcastle; 5.45 p.m., Sterni, from Giebozne (via coast). Sailed 1 , 6.10.p.m., Mararoa, for Wellington.WELLINGTON, October 23. Arrived, 7 a.m., M'aiauka, from Lyttelton; 1 7 40 c..rn., Pateena, from Lyttelton. - Sailed, 410 p.m., Paparoa, for London; 5.40 p.m.,.'Maarukai, for Niapion; 4.55 p.m., Warrimoo, for Lyttelton; 8 p.m., Pateena, for Lyttelton. „>,,,„,, PORT. CHALMERS, Octobar 26. Arrived 1 , 10.30 a.m., Mouxa, from Lyttel*on; 12.15 p.m., Tairawera, from Lyttelton; 2.45 p.ro., Loch G'arve, from Wellingion. Sailed, 3 p.m., Monowai, for Lyttelton; 2.15 p.m., Kumaxa, for Auckland; 2.45 p.m., Mirniro, for Napier. , AUCKLAND, October 26. Arrived, 3.40 p.m., Taviuni, fromßaratonga; 2.45 p.m., Vienr.su, from Fiji. AKAROA, October 26. Sailed, 2 a.m., Wakatu, for Lyttelton. Cape Maria Van , Dieffien reports , that on Ootober 28 tho Rua-pehu passed east' at 8 a.m. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. KAIPARA, Oo'Jobeor 26. Arrived—iPetone, frorjx Wellington. AUCKLANIJ, Octpbor 26. Arrived—Vienna, from Fiji. Tuvmni, from Eastern Pacific. Taluno, from tho south. WELLINGTON, October 26, ■ Sailed—Paparoa, for London. Pateena, for Lyttelton; passengers—Miss Harrington. Mesdames Berrv, Chase and Morris, Messrs Thompson, Polio, Butts, Jones, Pressor, Hellivan, Burnley, Holmes, Carter, Dc Costa and M'Morran. AYarrimoo, for Lyttelton, Dunedin, Bluff, H'obart p.nd Melbourne; passengers for Lyttelton—Misses Barton, Youngman, Scott, Smith, M'Callum, Fisher, Westbrook, Walsh (2) and Stewart, Mesdamos Hoar and child, Barratt, Nicholson and two children, Ell and four children, . Green, Bourne and Watt, Messrs Hoar, Barratt, Ell, Morrin, Anderson, Butcher, Morgan, Woolf, Martyn, Congrovo, Watt and Stewart; for Dunedin —Misses Hoglind and Wilson,. Mrs Adams, Mr Hailenstein; for Melbourne—: Misses George and Wilson, Mesdamos Walker and Guild, Messrs Walker, Guild, Morton and Ellis, and thirty-one steerage for all P ° rS ' PORT CHALMERS, October 26. Arrived—Moura and Tarawera, from Lyttelton. . BLUFF, October 26. Sailed—Wanaka, for Auckland. ISLAND SHIPPING. SUVA, October .26. Arrived—Calabria. Italian warship. Sailed—John William 3, missfon steamer, for Sydney. Champiory tug-boat, with disabled French barque Beaumanoir in tow, for m i[ro--M „ I _.\»_„^,.„ m „ M

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I a .'"I aSUKSDAY, OCTOBER 26. 9 a.m. Noon. 5 p.m. arome-teT , £3.33 29.75 2S.&3 hgrjnoraotcr 48 50 63 ffj iid, s.w.