LYTTELTON.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 7587, 22 December 1902, Page 3

LYTTELTON.

ARRIVED. ; Dec. : 21— Dicgad'ee, s.b., 533 tons, Dilner, ttrom Greymouth. C."\V. I'urneT, ag«nt. _ Dec. 22— Wakatu, s.s. 95 ions, WiLs, irom ,W»ipapa,i Kaikouia and Weiling-ton. Kinsey, B«rxw and Co., agents. ' Fa-ssengers— Miss King arid Hie, Bell.

The s.s. Dingadee amved from Greymouth last nigfot. Ssih* is to remain at Lytterton tor hex animal docking and 'overhaul. . The s.s. Wakatu arrived from Wellington, <ria Kaikaur* *nd! Waapapa, *t 1 a.m. 10-ctay. ■ The e.s. Kumar* wart into dock this rnornjng for ci*anizvg and painting. The s.s. Tarawera, on her ißsfc iiin from this {port to Wellington, averaged 14 knote an hour, «. perionxuvn«e which is -toe more creditable as €h« vessel' is twenty years old. The ".New Zealand Gazette" a-nnounces that repairs are about to -bo effoctedi to th« Jight on Burgess Island', Moko Hiaou group, wnd that, to enable ithem to be earned out, *h« flashing light wiU' be discontinued! from the niahtof Monday, Jan. 19, 1803, to^The v eight' at S-unday, Feb. 1, 1903, .'both, of those trigtoa 'being inchidod 1 in. .the period of diseontiauance. During that period! « fixed' white akht, visiible about fifteen miles from » vessel's deck in- clear weather, will be exhibited. * Tie " I* 08 * " announces that notification is riven, by the Wellington Harbour BoaTd that the red buoy which was gazetted aa having been placed 6J cables ■south-sou'ih-eastipf Hope Sio»l 'buoy, has been, •shifted to a. -position; nine cables south of that -buoy. Ik is in. 33ffc of water »t low. -water, and <teep-drau'ght vessels should pass 'half » ca*ble to the westward! of *hi» amfe -of th© H<>pe Shoal' fouoy. The "Wellington {: Post " states that Captain Hull, of i(h« Bakanoa, has been appointed master of the Haupiri duripg the time Captain Baekßtrom is on noliflay ioave.