LYTTELTON.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6048, 8 December 1897, Page 2

LYTTELTON.

WEATHEE FORECAST. Captain Edwin sent the following weatberrcrecast to Captain Clark yesterday afternoon -.—"Wind between south-east and north-east at all places. Barometer generally rise. Sea heavy \>n eastern coast-. Tides high. Mockrate to fresh easterly winds are to be eipected in all parft ot the country." SULSD. Dec 7— Botomahana, s.s., 864 to« 3, Maiming, for Wellington. Union Steamship Company, osvnts. Passengers— Misses ■Grady, Cooch. %nd Kent, Mesdames Ferguson, Cooch, Burjtess and ttfOboys, Hartland, Lindsay und child, K^ht, Fox ' Mid two children, Herries, M'Lean, Payae, Wheleu. Miles and child, Sir George Clifford, Hon Dowme : Stewart, M.L.C*, Messrs Stericter, Jordun, Turner* Baxter, Williamson, Willis, H*ynes, Buddie. Black, Walker, Bowman, Menelaus, Purdte, Schaefta:, 'Hartland, Veiteh, Payne and Ttt'Lean. Dec. 7 — COrinna, s.s., &20 tons, Spence, for "Wellington. Union Steamekip Conijtay, agents. Dec. 7 —Herald, s.So 356 tons, Coulson, for Wellington and Greymotth. Ura<m Steamship Company,JEgents. • . Dec. 7 — Jane Douglas, 5:9.,'7G tons. Wlut&y, for Akarta, via Bays. PitcaitWy, Wallace ana Co., agents. Dec. 3? _ Brunnex, -a^., 332 tons, Bolls, for Akaroa,^Timara and s)unedin. Union Steamship Compaaty, agents. Dec. 7— Annie Hiß,>schooiieti 121 tons, A»ierson, for Btcwart Island. Pitcaithiy, Wallace and Co., "■^ ihmak PesTuin: For Wellington— ls cases i»ckles, S TjataT wool, 97T»h« wool, 1 hn11,37 pkgs ? for Warganui—lo caaes piskles, 7 drums sodium, 1 cask ; for/tologa Bay— 4 sacks seed ; far Nelson— lo casos piokle3, t> pkga Tacges, 9 firebricks, 20 -sacks flow, 90 bag 3 flour, 9 -aacka wheatmeil, 21 pkes ; for Picton— l hull, 3<cases ; for Blenheim— 7 l>kgs. Corinna : ForWeatpfort— 4o boxes soap, 60 bugs floor, 1 cycle, X) cases stout, 3 bows butter, 7U pfcga ; for Wellio^ton — t sacks mc»l. Herald : For -'New Plymouth— so stcks oats, 3 sacks seed, eWbags 1 flour, 30 sacks flour, 12 sacks meal, 13 hkds and cases ale, 5 Mis laths, 1 chatfcutter, 4 wheels, I pair shafts, 36 pikes ; for Wel»Jingtop — i cylinders, 2 boilers, 140 sacks chaffs for •Greymouth— s43 sacks chaff, 59 sacks potatoes, 50 sacks flour, 83 sacks oats, 8 sacks wheat, 4 bales Tiay, 53 pkgs; for Hokitika— 2Bo sacks chstf, 14 empty hhds,2oo bags flour, 27 pigs. • - Depabtukes. — iJec. 7: Auckland, 5 p.m. F Waihora, for Sydney ; Wellington, 7 p-m., Te Anau, for Lyttelton ; Port Chalmers, 3.45 a.m., Westralia, ' for Sydney.. Mr A. T. Norton, second officer of the barque Lurline, jeassed his eramination on Wednesday last for a certificate of competency as first mate. Mr Norton had been studying *t the Navigation School, Devonia, Lyttelton. TheXJuion Steamship Company have received advice that the s.s. Wanakalett biogapore on Monday, for New Zealand, Auckland bedng her iiTst port of call. The Kakanoa is expected to leave Calcutta ; for New Zealand about the end of December. The TSew Zealand shipping Company's B.M.S.S. Kaikoura, Captain Forbes, arrived in Port yester- ' day morning, from Wellington. She :"ecings some 950 tons cf general merchaodise from London for this port, and leaves here on Tuesday next for Waitara. From Waitara she proceeds to Wellington, and leaves that port for London on Dec. 23. The crew of the steamer Botoinabana did their monthly fire aud boat drill at Lyttelton yesterday afternoon. The water was on, aud the "boats ready to lower away, a very short time after the alarm was sounded.