PORT OF TIMARU.

Timaru Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 2841, 31 October 1883, Page 2

PORT OF TIMARU.

The flagstaff at Timaru is situated in 171 dog. 17min. 20sec. Ea3t longitude ; 44dog. 23 min. South latitude. Oct. 30—9 a.m. : Bar., 20.47 ; ther., C2 ; wind, S.E., light ; weather, bright ; sea, calm. 5 p.m. : Bar., 29.59 ; thor., 62; wind, S.h., strong breeze , overcast and gloomy ; sea, slight Bwell. „, , „ , „„ High Water— This day, October 31st: -.1--8.m., and 2.34 p.m. ARRIVED. Oct. 30— Waitaki, 8.3., 228 tons, White, from Dunedin. Oct. 30— Ada C. Owen, brigantine, 183 tons, Cooper, from Newcastle. SAILED. Oct. 30— Waitaki, a.a., 228 tons, White, for Dunedin, via Oamaru. IMPORTS. In the Waitakd, N.M. and A. Company, aganta : 50 tons of general merchandise. Cousigneos : Shepherd ; Bowio ; Hibbard ; Anderson and Co. ; Morri* and Gall ; Canterbury Farmers' Association ; Taylor ; Geaney ; Blyth ; Clouaton ; Nicholl Broa ; Henry and Findlay ; Siogert and Fauvel ; Hurt ; Queleh ; Priest and Holdgate ; Healey ; McKeown ; Williamson ; Miles, Archer and Co. ; Exloy ; Reid and Gray ; Ogilvie and Byers ; Hooper Bros ; Gilmour ; Brown ; Davies and Mnrphy ; Kernohan, McCahon and Co. ; Cornish ; N.Z.L. and M.A. Company ; Vclvin ; Morris ; Owers ; McKibbon. In the Ada C. Owen, W. Evans, agent and consignee : 228 tons of coal. Tho bngantine Ada C. Owen arrived from Newcastle about three o'clock yosterday afternoon after a pussago of 15 days. She dropped anchor in the bay, and will most likely come alongsido the wharf this morning-. Tho Union Company's s.s. Wnitaki made her usual Tuesday trip to this Port yesterday, bringing a quantity of general cargo. After discharging she left for Dnnedin, via Oamara, abont 11 o'clock. The barque Seatoller took in the first of her Honi9 cargo yesterday. Tho briffantino D'Arcy Pratt is expected to finish loading produce for Auckland to-day. The barqua Mary Ann Annison took m a large quantity of wheat, oats, etc., yesterday. Tho schooner Mary King left Port Chalmers for Timaru yesterday. The schooner Young Dick is shortly expected from Hobart with a cargo of timber for her owner, Mr John Jackson. The Lighthouse Department, New York, are instituting a series «f experiments with tho object of ascertaining practically whother electricity can bo usefnlly employed for lighthouse illumination. ... , Early in tho morning of July 2bth a large steamor on the Volga, which was i carrying 680,0001b of naptha, was struck by hghtmng, and was at onco wrapped in flame. It burned tho whole day and uight, it being found impossible to extinguish tho fire. Several men who were on board at the time and had no means of saving themselves perished. The Scotsman, of August 25th saya :— " Messrs T. B. Seath and Co. launched on the Clyde on Wednesday a screw steamship for Mr John Hay-, of New Zealand, and intended for the New Zealand coasting trade. Mrs Ashley, of London, named the vessel the Mecinderry. The dimensions of the ship are 120ft by 20ft and 9ft, and the engines aro of 50-horse power nominal." (By Telegraph.)