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Evening Star, Volume VII, Issue 1941, 26 July 1869, Page 2

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PORT CHALMERS OBSERVATORY, Latitude, 45.48.55 south ; longitude, llh. 28 m. 36sec. east. . Time Ball drops daily (Sundays excepted) at 1 p.m. Port Chalmers mean time, or Ih. 37m. 3 sec. a.ra, Greenwich mean time. CUSTOM HOUSE.—DUNEDIN. This Dat. ENTERED INWARDS. Onehunga, GI tons, Walker, from Oamaru. Master, agent. Excelsior, 34 tons, Bell, from Charleston. K. Ramsay, agent. Wallace, 56 tons, Malcolm, from Oamaru. J. Jones and Co., agents. Wainui, 87 tons, Leys, from Lyttelton. R. B. Martin and Co., agents. Kaiuma, 39 tons, Maule, from Picton. J. M, Fisher, agent. CLEARED OUTWARDS. Nil. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Prom London.—Ethiopian, April 10; Robert Ritson, April 25 ; Asterope ; Memento. From Liverpool—Robert Ritson ; Advance, May 15. From Melbourne.—Gothenburg, Alhambra, Tararua. From Newcastle.—Ann and Jane. From Glasgow.—William Davie. PROJECTED DEPARTURES, Hydra, for Newcastle, 27th inst. Mary Van Every, for Invercargill, early. Gothenburg, for Melbourne, 28th inst. Crest of the Wave, for Hokitika, early Rangatira, s.s, for Northern Ports, early. Alhambra, for Melbourne, Gth August Tararua, for Melbourne, 3rd August Rangitoto, for Melbourne, 17th August Omeo, for Melbourne, 17th August Margaret, for Hokitika, early Flying Squirrel, for Chathams, 28th inst. Wallace, for Oamaru, 27th inst. SVainui, for Lyttelton, 29th inst. VESSELS IN PORT. Cora, from Oamaru. Challenger, from London. Duke of Edinburgh, from Newcastle Flying Squirrel, from Chatham Islands, Foam, from Poloms Sound Geelong, p.s, from Oamaru Hydra, from Newcastle. Lizzie, f om Boston Undaunted, from London. Emerald, from Lyttelton. Huon Belle, from Gatlin’s River Agnes Muir, from Glasgow. Crest of the Wave, from Picton, Margaret, from Rakiura. Elizabeth Curie, from Hokitika, Isabella Jackson, from Kaiapoi, Kaiuma, from Queen Charlotte’s Sound. Excelsior, from Charleston. Wainui, from Lyttelton. Onehunga, from Coast.

An enquiry into the wreck of the p.s. Bruce has been held before the Collector of Customs, at Greymouth. His decision was as follows “The vessel was lost through unavoidable accident, by the roughness of the sea outside the bar, driving the vessel into the break. That the accident occurred during an attempt to return to the Grey, the master finding the sea too rough, by a heavy sea having struck the ship, driving her bow to starboard, bursting in com-panion-door and skylight. That there is no blame to be attached to the master for crossing the bar, as the signalman’s evidence proves the bar was safe at the time, but he did not have the lights ready, owing to no application having been made.” He recommended that the authority of the Harbor-master should be extended beyond the bar, from Point Elizabeth to the Saltwater, as most of the casualties here took place on the beach and not on the bar. The vessel lias become a total wreck. Her rigging-fittings, and a portion of her engines, have been saved. The engines will be taken out and shipped to Dunedin. Her owners were Messrs George Harper of 6 v eymouth. and E, P. Houghton of Dunedin. She was valued at L 5,000, and was uninsured. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. ARRIVALS. Lyttelton : 25th, 10.50 a.m, Phoebe, from Dunedin; 12.30 p.m,, Rangatira, from Wellington ; 4.40 p.m., Beautiful Star, from South. Napier : 25th, 4.45 p.m., Lord Ashley, from Auckland : 26th, early, Star of the South, from Auckland. Picton : 24th, 6.45 p.m., Stonnbird, from Wanganui. Nelson : 25th, early, Omeo, from Wellington; 26th, Airedale, from Taranaki. Greymouth : 26th, 11 a m., Wallaby, from Westport; 11.30 a.m., Storm King, from Melbourne; 12.15 p.m., Prosperity, from Melbourne. DEPARTURES. Pictou : 25th, 4.45 p.m., Stonnbird, for Wellington. Wellington : 25th, 1 pun., Moss Trooper, for Valparaiso.