LATE SHIPPING.

New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 8521, 30 October 1888, Page 4

LATE SHIPPING.

High Waterat Wharf.—lo.49am; 12,30 pm. Sun.—Pises, 4.46 am ; sets, 6.24 pm.

MRTEOROLOOICA I.—YESTERDAY. Noon,— Barometer, 29.70; thermometer, G 5. 6 um.—Barometer, 29.80; thermometer, 59. siidnight.— Barometer, 29.79 ; therm., 59. Wind—N.W., very strong. Weather—Fine; boisterous. arrived. Tuesday, October 16. Charles Edward, ss, 154 tons, Whitwell, from Nelson. Turnbull and Co, agents. Kahn, ss, 93 tons, Romeril, from East Coast. Johnston and Co, agents. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. London— Orari, left 4th August ; Invercargill, left 25th August; Turakina, left (about) 15th October. Glasgow.—Margaret Galbraith, left 14th July for Wellington, via Port Chalmers, Plymouth. —Aorangi, left 22nd September, for Port Chalmers and Wellington; lonic, left Gtb October. BY TELEGRAPH. (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.! Westpop.t, October 29. Arrived— Manawatu, from Wanganui, and Moa, from Foxton (cattle laden, for Greymouth), put in here through stress of weather. The Manawatu lost six head, and eight others are shaky ; the Moa’s cargo are all safe.

Oamabu, October 29.

Sailed {on Saturday evening)—Trimera, barque, for United Kingdom, with 8000 Backs wheat. Arrived (last night) —Opawa, ship, from Lyttelton, to load frozen mutton and wool for London

Lyttelton, October 29. Arrived, 7.30 am—Mahinapua, from Wellington. To sail, 9 pm—Grafton, for Wellington, Havelock, October 20. Arrived, early—Waitapu, from Welling ton,

Picton, October 29. Arrived, 6.10 pm—Penguin, from Wellington, To sail, 8 pm —Penguin, for Nelson. Bluff, October 29. Arrived, G am—Hotomahana, with an English mail. She left Williamstown at 5.50 pm on the 23rd inst, and reached Hobart at 10 am on tho 25th ; sailed again at 4.30 pm, breasted the Solanders at 7 last evening, and slowed down; experienced variable winds till yesterday morning, when a strong north-east gala set in. Saloon passengers, for Wellington—Mesdames Higginbotham, Thompson, and Haldane, Rev Dr West, Messrs Higginbotham, Thompson, Haldane, Sleigh, Prince, Underwood, Woodham, Von Dadelszen, Scoullar and Halcroft, Sailed Owake Bell, for Kaiapoi, with 31,000 ft of timber, CHEONOMETER-RATING NOTICE, A galvanometer signal for rating chronometers will be given from the Colonial Observatory at noon to-day at the Museum, the Telegraph-office, and the establishments of Messrs Littlejohn and Son, G. L. Jenness, and H. J. Freeman. The true Greenwich time of the signal will bo 12hr 30min. Any difference on this shown by a chronometer will bo the error, plus or minus, of the chronometer. RAILWAY PASSENGERS. The following were through passengers yesterday on the Wellington-Manawatu railway Mias Leary, Mesdames Calvert, Brown, Forden, Messrs Abrahams, Scott, Gill, Calvert, Preece, Coates, Steward, and 50 second-class. South —Misses Carr and Hume, Mesdames Thompson, Yu lie, Messrs Russell, Cameron, Brian, Fitzherbert, Hawthorne. Young, and 25 second-class.