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Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2162, 11 April 1870, Page 2

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POUT CHALMERS OBSERVATORY. Latitude, 45.48.55 south ; longitude, llh. > 22m.365e0. east. Time Ball drops daily (Sundays excepted) at p.m. Port Chalmers meantime, or Ih. 37m. sec. a.m, Greenwich mean time. [HIGH WATER. TO-MORROW. Heads *1 Port Chalmers I Dunedin 0.14 p.m, 1 0.44 p.m. | 1.27 p.m. PORT CHALMERS. ARRIVED. Ahuriri, s.s, from the North. Dunedin, sch, from the Coast. CUSTOM HOUSE.—DUNEDIN. This Day. entered inwards. Maori, 118 tons, Malcolm, from Lyttelton. J . Mills, agent. . Defiance, 22 tons, Pratt, from Kakanui, K. Ramsay, agent. Wallace, 56 tons, Edie, from Oamaru. J. Mills, agent. . Beautiful Star, 126 tons, Christian, from Lyttelton. H, Houghton and Co., agents. Taiaroa, 51 tons. Tall, from Molyneux. J. B. Mndie, agent. Ahuriri, 131 tons, Flowerday, from Lyttelton. W. Sly, agent. Hope, 21 tons, Gay, from Allday Bay, Master, agent. Woinui, 87 Fiona, Leys, from Lyttelton. K .Ramsay, agent. Dunedin, 66 tons, Stewart, from Hokitika. K. Ramsay, agent. cleared outwards. Alice, 21 tons, Harper, for Waikcmaiti. Master, agent. Dagmar, 44 tons, Smith, for Invercargill. K. Ramsay, agent. PASSENGER LIST. Per Ahuriri, from Lyttelton Cabin :Mr Rainer. Mr Ramsay, and 4 in steerage. Per Beautiful Star for Northern Ports—Miss Barnett, Mr Barr, Mr Payne, Dir George, and 8 in iteerage, EXPECTED ARRIVALS. From Mauritius. Frederick, Pers6v6rant. From Rotterdam. —Jane Van Galen. From Vancouver’s Island.—Barque Ruby. From Puget Sound—Alpha. From Tonsberg—Albatross, From New York—Washington. (PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Airedale, for Lyttelton, 17th inst. Ahuriri, for Lyttelton, 12th inst. Claud Hamilton, for Melbourne, via Northern Ports, April 16th. Dagmar, for Invercargill, early. Jessie Readman, for London, early. Maori, for Lyttelton, 12th inst. Mary Van Every, for Westport, early. Omeo, for Melbourne via Northern Ports, 83rd inst. Queen Bee, for London, early. Tairoa, for Molyneux, 12th inst. Tararua, for Melbourne via Bluff, 15th April. Warrior Queen, for Wallace, for Oamaru, 12th inst. William Lindsay, for Valparaiso direct, early. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. DEPARTURES. Lyttelton : April 9th, 6.15 p.m, Ahuriri, s.s, for Dunedin.

The barque Union bound for Lyttelton, remains at an anchorage inside the Heads. The schooner Dunedin beat up to town this afternoon.

The Ahuriri, from Northern ports, arrived in port this morning at 6.15 a.m. Left Auckland on the Ist instant; Wellington on the Bth, and Lyttelton yesterday at 12.15 p.m. She proceeded to town at full tide. The steamer Williams intended for the Thames trade, in place of the Luna, which has been purchased by the General Govesnment, arrived at Auckland from Sydney on the 22nd instant. She is of 200 tons register ; and is said to be able to steam at the rate of 13 knots per hour. The Went Coast Times of April 2 says : We regret to report the stranding of the brigantine Prosperity yesterday on a sandbank some little distance from the north beach and near the entrance to the river. The Prosperity had arrived from Melbourne on the previous day, and yesterday the s.s. Lioness proceeded to the roadstead to tow her inside. The vessel’s anchor was lifted, and the tug in due course proceeded to the entrance with her charge. During the morning a strong S.W. wind was blowing, and the steamer evidently made every allowance for that circumstance, as she steered well in with the South Spit, and it was thought would bring in her charge cleverly, but just as she got clear of the outer break, the brigantine was observed to take a broad sheer to the northward, and, notwithstanding all efforts of the tug, the brigantine continued to drift, and at last shot away to the northward at a great rate of speed, dragging the steamboat with her. It had been known that there was a strong northerly set, and allowance was made for it, but the strength os the current had been under-rated. The vessel finally took the ground on the shingle bank already described, and finding that he had no command over the vessel, Captain Wilson directed all his energies to saving the tug-boat from a similar fate, as she also was in peril of taking the bank, and, in fact, would have done so but for the prompt and seamanlike measures taken. At low water as much as possible of her cargo was taken out and landed on the beach in boats. The vessel so far has not suffered the slightest injury. The same paper, of April 4, says The Prosperity was hauled off the hummock abreast of the north beach on Saturday, about 10 p.m., and the Lioness dropping down shortly afterwards, she was towed up to the wharf.