LYTTELTON.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 9113, 19 December 1907, Page 3

LYTTELTON.

ABBIYED. !D*cen.>!E»r 19, 4."30 a.m.^7M)Qeraki, 8.3., 2714 •tons, fiom Melbourne, via southern, ports. Unjjpn Steamship Company, agents*. 'Pas^en-: Kersr-Missea Minchin, Finlay, Walls, Burn, St'^regor, Ferral, Jakins, Thornton and Siedeberff, and Sister of Mercy, Mesdames Minchin, Suyjlair, Fethard, Hbskins -and two children. Jakins, Simpson and Bilbeck, Messrs Adams, Msfißhall, Wilde, Day, Boberts, Marston, ■Minchin., Prestley, Baker, Walker, Lukey, Hoskins, Marriss, Pethard, Martens, Cortes, Wardell, Neltleford, Emssell, Simpson, Goyih,. Scott.. Beuseler, M'Lellan, Jakins, Eilbeck and Bimint. December Ift 5.50. a.m.— Maori, s.s.. 1432 tonsj 'Manning, "from Wellington. Union Steamship Company, agents. Passengers — KO excuisionists. \ „ y SAILED. December 19, 4.1*5 a.m.— Hawea. s.s., ,1114, tons, Tate, for Westport. Union Steamshipi Company, agents. December 19, 7 ».m.— Lily, .schooner, Qi tons, Bloom, for Kaipara. Pitcaithly and' Co., *X*ents. The projected departures to-day are: — Canopus, s.s., for Dunedin j Petone, s.s., for Greymouth. M oer *"* k i. »•»•_ for Sydney, via Wellington^. Maori, s.s., for Wellington; Cyg-affc, s,B>, for Kaikoura; Toroa, $.s., for Oamaru. The" following vessel? were in port this morning : ---Steamers— Turaikina., b.s., lonio, $.s., Cornwall, s.s., Lord Stanley, s.s., Waituna, s.s., Canopus, s.s., Koonya, s.e., Toroa, jf.s., Maori, s.s., Moeraki, s.s., Petone, s.s., ■Cygnet, s.s., Nimrod, Antarctic carrying Vessel; Sailers — schooners, If&Icon, Morning! Light. Joseph Sims, Eliza Firth. , The Moeraki, from Melbourne, to-day, brought the following cargo for Lyttelton:— 800 bags tapioca, 375 cases pines, 1156 ■bundles palings, 213 pieces timber. 80 sacks rice, 600 v sacks super, ; 70 cases' ginger, 493 sacks bottles, 31 sacks onions, 63 bundles casting, 50 boxes dates, 30 cases salmon, 96 cases wine, 65 sacks bark, 110 bales pipes, 16 pieces oak, 20 sacks horse shoes and quantity sundries. Transhipments ex Metrojpolis, Dilwn, Lopng^np,, It^uru, £anowna, India and Runic. '"■'',' The English Shipping Company, which is thinking- of opening the new service between Sasmauia, and England) has requested to be Bupplied "VfithTphaits, and all ij-ior motion , available concerning Tasmania. It is thought ' throughout Tasmania that the service will commence 'early next year. The Whakatane is to leave Wellington today for Dunedip. After loading there she "will conic to Lyttelton, ant}, should; leave ihere pn December 24 for London. .' . . 'Ho mark the position of the Inner Reef aad Stony Point, near the entrance to Newcastle, a thirty-day Wigham sector fixed red light bas been erected on the outer edge of the reef, in 2j_ fathoms. The height oi the light above low water Springs is 27ft lOin, end it is 400 ft distant from the fairway, Nobbys bearing S. 77deg E. The arc of illumination is 162deg* 45min from N. 39deg* 45min E. to S. 67deg*7W,; light obscured from,!"!. 39deg 45mih E. round by east to South 57deg W-