Shipping.

Western Star, Issue 406, 1 January 1881, Page 2

Shipping.

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High water At Riverton Jetty fall -and channe l o’clock New Zealand mean time. High water on Riverton bench one hour >e«rlier than at the jetty ; and oa the bar half ;an hour earlier.

Poet op Rivbexon,

AitEITBD. Dec. 30—Eliza M'Phee, 40 tons, Campbell, "master, from Dunedin. The ketch Eliza M'Phee left Olage Heads •at 8 a.m. oa 23rd inst., and got down to near Ruapuke on th» 2irh, when a strong W by . N gale sprung up which forced her back .to >4,he Nuggets for shelter. Lay there until :27th inst., when she again set sail. She met '-with a strong gale same night, which split "'her stay sail, and she ran into Tautuko Bay. ‘The weather moderating the following morn>ing, she proceeded on her way, and arrived in v the bay on 29th. Since the MThoe was in Riverton last, she has changed hands, Mr J. 'Campbell haring become her owner, and he : intends to placs-her in the trade between iDunedin and Riverton. (The.catter JauO, from Stewart Island, rc- ; pprts. .whalers in Halfmoon Bay, the Baphire, £tia, and Aladdin. ,/Ihe .two first ■ have caught a whale each, and tried out in all twenty-drie tuns ; the latter vessel made fast, but the weather coming on thick and squally, she had lo out away front" it. The master of tho Asia report* whales very plentiful. Bering only five weeks out from Hobart Town, lie has secured two fish, which stowed down twenty-three tuns ; during the last catch whales ware so numerous that bombs had to -be'fired to scare the fish away, ao as to gel : the dead! oner alongside the ship as quietly as i posible, as the glass was tumbling down, and vevery Vindication of a storm close at hand. Tho Sapphire? has titty-three tans of.oil, and * expect* soon to be a , full ship, and then homeward bound. —“ Southland News.”

1 Jan. | a.ru. | p.m 'Saturday 1 1 I 1. 0 | 1.25 i Sunday 1 2 1 1.50 1 2.15 Aloud n" r 3. i 2.40 | 3. 5 “Tn*fad»i7 | 4 ! 3.30 | 3.55