LYTTELTON.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6847, 8 May 1890, Page 2

LYTTELTON.

ARRIVED. 1 May 7 — Jubilee, s.b., 1058 tons, "Brothers, from Dunedin xia Timaru. Xin B ey and Co., agents. Paßßenßora :B or - Sydney— Misses Farat, Locldey, Hamilton, Smith, Messrs Hanby, B. Brown, Smith, Sanders, Dornwell, Pearcc, Anderson, Beia, ¥ojc, Mr and Mrs Nicoll and Uo children, Mra Maitland and five children, and thirty- c bit Bteerage; for Lyttelton — Mibmb A. ■ Jones and Coombs, Hes B r3 Wagataff, Symond, Sibald, and seven steerage; tor ■Wellington— Miss Banfield. Mr Brown, and eight steerage; for Melbourne-Misa ; and Mrs Peters, Mr and Mrs Gech, aud • aiine Bteeragc. . , \ May 7 — Jane Douglas, s.s., 76 tons, Whitby, from Akaroa. Cuff and Graham, j sgentß. BAILED. May 7 — Dingadee, s.s., 460 tons, Stuart, for Westport. Union Steamship Company, agents. Tbe Ellis liner Jubilee arrived from Dunedin and Timaru hi9fc night. An English shipping exchange observes that a new maritime risk hi»B been introduced—namely, the rkk of fire originating, not on board a ship, but upon the eurFace of the water surrounding a ship. On March 8, the petroleum-carrying s.s. Wild Flower was in the Wear; Ehe had discharged her .cargo, and water was being pumped overboard from the bilges. It would seem that a considerable quantity of petroleum had found its way into the bilges, and the result was a throwing of oil upon the -watera at a time and place unsuited Jo that operation. From a steamer near oy, on ■which some boiler-riveting wa3 going on, a red-hot rivet was dropped, or thrown, into the river, when the oil at once took £re. -For some time an extraordinary spectacle was presented, and tho whole population turned out to see the Wear on fire. Several vessels were damaged; one -tag reported destroyed. A survey has been held on tbe various vessels injured by the fire, and the damage is estimated at .£IO,OOO. SHIPPING TELE -BAMS. Auckland, May 7. Arrived — Wainui, from Lyttelton. Tarawera, from Sydney; passengers—Mesdames Wilson, Polley aud child, G. Childs, Gubbinu and child, Carmichael, Messrs .Jarvis, Bowden, Gardner, Bower, Wood, Arundel, Steel, Harrison, Smith, Ehott, "Wilson, Gilbert, Moffatt, Hassell, Polley, Oubbins, Asten, Holmes, Harris, Ogden (2), and twenty-eight steerage. Sailed — Kautilua, for the Gambler <sroup.