PORT OF TIMARU.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 3423, 17 September 1885, Page 2

PORT OF TIMARU.

The flagstaff at Timara is situated iv 171 deg. 17min. 2GI6C. East longitude ; lidog. 2H mm. Sonth latitude. Sept. 16—9 a.m.: Bar., 29.50; thor., 57; weather, bright and clear ; sea, alight swell. 5 p.m. : Bar., 29.80; ther., 00;' weather, bright aud clear ; sea, calm. Snn risoa, this day, G.I ; seta 5. 18. High water, this day, 9.1 a.m. ; 0.2S p.m. ARRIVED. Nil. WAILED. Sept. I«J— Comet, ketch. 58 tons, Burns, for Napier. EXPORTS. In the Comot, D. Stuart, agent : ;>lO sacks, 530 1001 b bans and 780 501 b bags flonr. Shippers—Royal Flouring Mills. VCSSELS IN "OUT. Inside the Breakwater— Ship — Rangitiki. Brip— Niagara. Steam tug— Titan. EXPECTED AKIUVAI.S. Wanaka s.s.. from Dnucdiu, on Saturday. Ohau, s.s., from the South, on Tuesday. Tanpo, s.s. , from Newcastle, daily. Pelham, 6.9., from the South, to-day . Mahinapua, s.s.. from tho South, to-morrow. Ganymede, barque, from London, ria the Bluff, early. Lochnagar, harqne, from Loudon, early. Annie Bow, barqnentine, from Newcastle, early. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. For Akaroa and Lyttelton— Wanaka, s.s., on Saturday. For Auckland, W«- way ports— Ohau, s.s., on Tnesday. For Northern and West Coast Ports—Pelbam, s.s., to-day. For Northern and West Coast Ports— Mabinapua, s.s., to-morrow. For London— Bangitiki, ship, early. Tho ketch Comet sailed for Napier yesterday afternoon with a cargo of flour shipped by Bruce's Company. Tho Union Company's s.s. Taupois jxpeetod to arrivo late to-night or early to-morrow morning from Newcastle, with a cargo of coals for Mr E. Smith. A brig named the Velocity, while lying at anchor off Hobart, m the river Derwent, sank tinder peculiar cirenmstanecs lately. It is supposed tbat owing to tho opening of her topsides she filled by degrees, nntil eventnally she went down. Wo cive the following extract from the Xew York .Varitii.ic Register for what it ia worth, and without any belief that it has any reference to the now missing ship North American : — " A despatch from Concepcion. Mexico, July 24th, states that the captain of the schooner Annie Marie reports signalling three vessels off Cape Horn completely dismasted, and that a steamer supposed to bo English succeeded m saving one. He is ignorant of tho fato er names of the others." (Bt Telegraph.)