SHIPPING.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 4985, 18 April 1889, Page 2

SHIPPING.

POET OF TIMAEU. The flagstaff of Timaru is situated in 171 deg. 17.20 min. East longitude ; and 44deg. 23min. South latitude. ARRIVED. Nil. SAILED. Nil. EXPORTS. In the Omapere, N.M. and A. Company agents, 2260 sacks flour, 10 do oats, 102 do oatmeal, 60 do sharps, 455 do wheat. Shippers—Loan Co., Timaru Milling Co., Stead, Euans and Co., Allen. VESSELS HOMEWARD BOUND. Vessel. Days out. Eangitiki (Capt. Taylor) 79 Loweswater (Capt. Fletcher) ... 75 Ganymede (Capt. Alleson) 61 Paula (Capt. Breymann) .. ... 37 Mathilde Hennings (Capt. Dade) ... 31 There were no arrivals at or departures from this port to-day. , At tho Moody wharf, the Kinclune is taking in wool and grain, and the Spray is discharging her cargo of timber for Mr John Jackson. Another vast wet dock is to be constructed at the “ World’s port ” of London. These new docks will be called “ the Imperial docks of London.” Many shipmasters have a firm belief that tho Island of Tristan d’Acunha is powerfully magnetic, and that all vessels coming within a certain distance of its shores have their' compasses more or less affected. The once famous ship Marco Polo, in her first round trip from Liverpool to Melbourne and back, did it in five months and three days. Daring the early part of last month the machinery that causes the lighting apparatus at the Althorpe Lighthouse to revolve went wrong, and the unfortunate attendants had to set to work and push it round and round the livelong night until repairs were carried out.