LYTTELTON.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 9322, 24 August 1908, Page 3

LYTTELTON.

AKEIVED. Au»U«. 21, 10.55 a.m.— Bankfields, barque, 159 tons, Douglas, from Maiden Island. A. EL Turnbull and Co., agents. THE BARCJUE BANKFIELDS. The barque which was signalled 1 at Lyttelk>n last .evening, and which- it was hoped night prove the overdue Loch Lomond, rarncd out. as was also supposed, to be kfessrs A. H. Turnbull and .Co.'s vessel, the Sankfields, which left this port on May 30 'or Maiden Island, in o-rder to lead a cargo >f guano for here. • She has made an cxleedingly good passage, only eighty-five days laving elapsed since she left Lyttelton. Ninety days are considered reasonable time for the run from Lytteiton to ilaldeu Islaiid md back, but, it is said?, Captain Douglas, the. naster of the Bankfields, -wagere3 that he. irould do it in eighty-five days, and he kept lis word. The barque entered 1 the Head? at J. 25 a.m. to-day, and as she came, up the harbour she was boarded by the health officer, Dr TTpham, who admitted her to pratique, md "by the Customs- authorities, by whom ihe was cleared inwards. She was taken in ow by the tup Canterbury, brought within fche moles at 10.55 a.m. ar.d berthed fit the Gladstone Pier. Captain Douglas reports that the passage te the island occupied thirty-two days, The vessel remained there or twenty-nin» day*, during which she oacled her cargo of 1300 tons of guano. While she lay at Maiden Is'rand, on July 12. he schooner Alice arrived from the Cook Island? with seventy-five native labourers. She left again on July 16 for Aitutaki. taking rboufc twenty returned labourers. From that island she was to go to "Wanganui. probably Milling at' JRarotonga m route. The Norwegian barque Grasmere was 'at Maiden ]>lard when the Bankfiek'g left, which ehe did on August 1. She came- -by way of the Hast Cape, and. favoured by wind ard weather, maß? the passage in twenty-three- days, exceedingly good time. The whole of her cargo is for Lyttelton, and her movements after discharge haye not yet- been determined.