MOVEMENTS OF UNION STEAM SHIP COMPANT'S STEAMERS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 6736, 18 September 1883, Page 2

MOVEMENTS OF UNION STEAM SHIP COMPANT'S STEAMERS.

. ..-.•:* .:'. • Mosdit, Sottbsieer 17. ■ '. Port Chalmers^-Hotorua sailed s.lsp.tn. forAkaroa. Wellington-Haweasailed 15p.m.forPicton. Tarawera sails 3 p.m. fcr L> ttclton. Southern Cross sails ap.m. forNajjicr. . Groymouth—Slahinapua sails ever ing for Nelson. . Manukau—WanakasailedSam forTaranaki.

' The ketch Owake Bello Eail.d for Invcrcargill nith cargo jesterdav moriiing.. The s.B.Kotorua left Port Chalmers for Northern ports ye'sterdav af terneon. ■ Tho.ship Dunedin hns taken 1440 sheep into hor freezing chaitber, and has also 800 bags wheat and 5 : casks tallow.

• There wasan accident at the Poirt Chalmers Dock yesterday forenoon, when by Bomo means or other the top of the large craneuiUched to the steam-hammer broke oft*. . Luckily, none of the workmen were injured. Until the crane is repaired, very little can be done in the way rf repni'B to the Kotomahini. The barque Pelham, from Newcastle, via Sydnoy, arrived oft\'Otngo Ileads on Sunday evening, and was towed up to a berth at the Railway Pier yesterday forenoon. The Pelham is a smart looking little iron burquo of S4O tone, and was built in West Hartlepool in 1866, her dimensions Ucinc as follow: - length, 161 ft 81n; breadth of beam, 22ft 81n; and depth of hold, ISft 7in. She brings a cargo of ££0 toils of coal, and after discharging it is to load for Groyinouth at the Kattray street Wharf. Captain Sullivan reports leaving Sydney on August 19tb, and meeting Etrong southerly winds all across to Capo Farewell, had a ttroig BOiith-east galo in Cook Strait, followed by light airs and calms down to Banks Peninsula, when she encountered a etrong eoutherly galo which lasted '48 hours; thence she hud light a<rs and calms to arrival at Otago Heads on Sunday evening. The barque Embleton is making rather a long paßiage from Glasgow. She is now 110 days out. The s s. Waitaki left Port Chalmers yesterday even.ingforTimatu. The barque Norway will discharge at Dunodiu Wharf. She wag towed up the harbour jesterday afternoon by the 8.8. Plucky. Two barques passed the Hoads on .Sunday, bound North. One of them will probably turn out to bo the Embleton, from Glasgow, a large barque with painted porta having been observed on Sunday evoning standing in towards Mocraki by Captain Sullivan, of the Pelhim. The repairs to the Rotomahana'd bottom being completed, uhe was hnulcd out of the Graving Dock yesterday afternoon. The schooner Jane Anderson sailed tor Auckland yesterday afternoon.