PORT OF TIMARU.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 3446, 14 October 1885, Page 2

PORT OF TIMARU.

The flagstaff at Tim&rn is situated In 171 Aeg. 17min. 20seo. East longitude ; 44deg. 23 Bin. Sonth latitude. Oot. 13-9 a.m. : Bar., 29.78; thor., 53; weather bright and olear ; sea calm. 5 p.m.: Bar., 29.49; ther., 58; wind, S.E., light ; weather, overcast and gloomy ; sea, moderate swell. Sun rises, this day, 5.11 : seta 6.21. High water, this d»y. 6.57 a.m. j 7.21 p.m. ABBIVXD. Oct. 13— Taiaroa, s.s., 228 tons, Thomson, from Akaroa and Lyttelton. SAILSD. Oct. 18-^-Taiaro*, ».»., 228 tons, Thomson, for Dunedin. IMPORTS. In the Taiaroa, N.M. and A. Company, agents: 12 tons general merchandise. Con-signees-MoGmnness; Kernohan, MoCahon and Co. ; J. H. Taylor ; Boyd ; Qneloh and Co ; Priest and Holdgate ; Webster ; Station Master ; Bowie ; Canterbury Farmers Association ; Hibbard ; Anderson and Co. ; Kitts ; J Hill and Co. ; Phoanix Brewing Company ; Lowe ; Williamson ; N.Z. Express Company. BrPOBTS. In the Taiaroa, N.M. and A. Company, agents : 1000 caa«s preserved meat, 46 bales wool, 136 hides, 150 sacks seeda, 55 sacks and 820 501 b bags flonr, 50 saoks potatoes, 3 cases poultry. Shippers — N.Z.M.P. Company ; WooUoombe and Clolee; N.Z.L. and M.A. Company ; Agenta ; Royal Flouring Mills ; J. Anderson and Co. ; B. Gould. The Union Company's a.s. Taiaroa, arrived from Lyttelton and Akaroa yesterday morning, with a small cargo of general merchandise, and took up a berth at the outer wharf. She sailed m tho evening for Dunodin, with a large qnantity of produce. The Brnnner Coal Company's s.s. Pelham la advertised to leave for Lyttelton, Wellington, Nelson and West Coast ports to-day. Mr William Evans is the local agent, from whom particulars aa to freight or passage can be obtained. The Union Steamship Company announoe m our advertising colnmns this morning that the b.b. Wakatipu, 1797 tons, will leave for Sydney, tim Lyttelton and Wellington, on or about Wednesday, the 21st inst. Information as to space or passage can be had on application to the National Mortgage and Agency Company. Owing to several casualties to vessels having occurred m the vicinity of East Cape, the Marine Department at Wellington call the attention of masters of vessels to the undermentioned directions m the New Zealand Pilot, vii. :— " There is a ohannel nearly one mile wide between the cape and the islet, but as the winds here are liable to die away suddenly, leaving a vessel at the mercy of the tides and swell, it cannot be recommended. There are several shoal patches off East Cape, whioh, together with the strong tides, make the passage between the cape and the islet not a desirable one. A shoal patch, with 31 fathoms water on it, on whioh the sea would break m heavy weather, lies off the north-east point of the cape, about two-thirds of a mile ; this is the hne of breakers reported by H.M.S. Eclipse m 1861. There is another patch, nearly a mile S.E. } S. of the former, with 2} fathoms water on it, at the entrance to the passage between East Cape and the islet." Masters are advised to avoid the passage between the islet and the mainland as unsafe. (By Tsxioraph.)