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Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2165, 14 April 1870, Page 2

Shipping.

PORT CHALMERS OBSERVATORY. Latitude, 45.48.55 south ; longitude, llh. 22m. 36sec. east. Time Ball drops daily (Sundays excepted) at [Jp.m. Port Chalmers mean time, or Hi. 37m. sec. a.m, Greenwich mean time. HIGH WATER. to-morrow. Heads I Port Chalmers ] Dunedin 2.42 p.m. 1 3.22 p.m. I 3.57 p.m. SATURDAY. 3.19 p.m. | 3.49 p.m. | 4.34 p.m. PORT CHALMERS. SAILED. Casma. ship, for Newcastle, in ballast. Huon Belle, schooner, for Gatlin’s River. CUSTOM HOUSE.—DUNEDIN. This Dav. ENTERED INWARDS. c 'Wallace, 56 tons, Edie, from Oamaru. J. Mills, agent. Cora, 45 tons, Russell, from Invercargill. K. Ramsay, agent. Airedale, 286 tons, Kennedy, from North. G S Brodrick, agent. . CLEARED OUTWARDS. Wallace, 56 tons, Edie, for Oamaru. J. Mills, agent. * . Margaret Campbell, 122 tons, Gumming, fer Oamaru, Master, agent. PASSENGER LIST, Per Airedale, from Northern Ports : —Hon. W. Fox, Mr and Mrs Smart, Mr and Mrs Johnston. Mr and Mrs Halloway, Messrs Cummins, Gordon, Chapman, Davis, Mapleton, Kennedy, Hill, Evans, Simpson, Jenkins, Rev. Mr Dewsbury ; and 14 hi steerage. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. 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. Beautiful Star, for Hokitika, 15th inst. Claud Hamilton, for Melbourne, via Northern Ports, April 16th. Dagmar, for Invercargill, early. Jessie Readman, for London, early. Maori, for Lyttelton, early. Mary Van Every, for Westport, early. Omeo, for Melbourne via Northern Ports, 23rd inst. Queen Bee, for London, early. Taiaroa, for Port Molyneux, early. Tarama, for Melbourne via Bluff, 15th April. Warrior Queen, for London, 30th inst. Wallace, for Oamaru, loth inst. Wellington, for Northern Ports, 17th inst. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. ARRIVED. Lyttelton : April 14th, noon, Ahuriri, from Dunedin. Wellington: April 14th, 9.15 a.m, Tararua, from Nelson. The schooner Excelsior arrived at Lyttelton on the 12th.

H.M.S. Challenger arrived at Lyttelton at 4.30 p.m. on the 11th. She will remain there a couple of days. "We learn by telegram that the schooner Mary Gumming, Captain Wigmore, sailed from Invercargill for Melbourne this morning. The barque Casma has been towed to sea by the Geelong. A cutter from the sea passed up this morning. The Huon Belle was beating out at 4 p.m. Messrs M'Meckan, Blackwood, and Co.’s steamers were advertised to leave Melbourne for New Zealand ports, as follows :—Claud Hamilton, via Bluff, on April 9 ; Omeo, via Bluff, April 16 ; Gothenburg, via Hokitika, April 21. The Airedale steamer, Captain Kennedy, which arrived at Rattray street Wharf this afternoon, left Manakau at 4 p.m. on the 6th instant, Wellington at 3.30 p.m. on the 22th. She arrived at Lyttelton at 11 a.m. on the 13th, left at 4 p.m. yesterday, and arrived at Dunedin at 2.30 this afternoon. The Hon. W. Fox, Colonial Secretary, and Mr and Mrs Smart are passengers. The Airedale on arriving in Port at 1.30 on the way up the harbor was boarded by Pilot Louden, and afterwards the health of the officers of the boat was proposed, Judge Ward availing himself of the opportunity of getting on board. At the flag staff the Union Jack was displayed in honor of our ■distinguished visitor. An exciting race is reported between the steamers Airedale and Wellington on their way to Lyttelton, in which the Airedale is said to be victorious. The Huon Belle was beating out at 4 p.m. By letters received by the Geelong, we leam of the death, by drowning, of Mr F. J. Syme, late chief officer of the s.s. Euahine. The accident occurred on the 30th December, on board the ship Bogota, from Liverpool to Valparaiso. Two days after leaving the land, a violent gale came on, and the unfortunate gentleman was swept overboard by a heavy sea. Mr Syme had been the means by which several lives had been saved during his short career as a seaman, and his friends in the Colony will, doubtless, regret his untimely fate. Herald , March 21.

In noticing the departure, from Auckland, of the first vessel of the new Pacific Service, the Southern Cross of April 2, says : —The Wonga Wonga is to start at two o’clock today. She will he a full ship as regards passengers, except, perhaps, in the fore cabin. So popular has the route become at its initiation, that the number of berths unoccupied when the steamer left Sydney, were insufficient to accommodate passengers booked at Auckland, or brought from the south by the Airedale. The joint endeavours of Mr Hall and the Auckland agents, Messrs Cruickshank, Smart, and Co., resulted in arrangements which will prevent disappointment in a few cases. Some passengers who had booked for the saloon will now go in tho second cabin; and to enable them to do so, a few booked for that department will go in tho fore cabin. Still, however, there are would be passengers who remain behind for the City of Melbourne, no less than six of her saloon berths having been booked yesterday in Auckland; and all the Sydney allotted berths of the City had been secured before the Wonga Wonga had left that port. The additions made here to the passengers ()f the latter, number 17 in the saloon, five in the second cabin, and seven in the steerage. Altogether the Wonga Wonga will have about 170 passengers ; and probably it never before happened that a pioneer boat on so long and important a line of travel left that port with every available berth occupied. Just as the handsome clipper ship Thcrmopyhe is about to leave this port for China,

another “sweet tiling” in tea clippers has come to take her place, and furnish an additional illustration of the perfection to which shipbuilding is being carried in the old country. The vessel to which allusion is made is a smart little vessel named the Eme, which arrived in Hobson’s Bay on Saturday afternoon, after a very excellent passage from London. The Emc is a very hue model, with an extreme clipper entrance, and a beautiful run, and alow and aloft she is the very bean ideal of a ship meant to sail. She lias been built expressly tor the China trade, and in the days to come it will be singular if she does not take premier rank with other ships in more than one ocean race from China to London. She is constructed on the composite princip'e, and was laid down at the yard of .Messrs Charles Connell and Co of Glasgow, from whence she was launched on November 4. She has been built undci special survey for her owners, Messrs Robertson and Co , of Cornhill, London, and has been classed A 1 at Lloyd’s for 16 years. Melbourne Argus, March 17.