Shipping.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2172, 23 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 p.m. Port Chalmers mean time, or lb. 37m. sec. a.m, Greenwich mean time. HIGH WATER. TO-MORROW. ’ Heads 1 Port Chalmers I Dunedin 10.41 p.m. | 11.11 p.m. | 11.06 p.ra. MONDAY. 11.20 p.m. n.sop.m. I 0.35 p.m. PORT CHALMERS. ARRIVED, Omeo, from Melbourne. Crest of the Wave, schooner, 56 tons, Gorn, from Fijis via Auckland. SAILED Wainui, Leys, for Lyttelton and intermediate ports. CUSTOM HOUSE.—DUNEDIN. This Day. entered inwards. Taiaroa, 51 tons, Tall, from Molyneux, J. B. Mudie, agent. , Omeo, 660 tons, Calder, from Bluff, &c. Daljrety, Nichols, and Co., agents. Pioneer. 23 tons, Matheson, from Stewarts Island. K. Ramsay, agent. , Huon Belle, 49 tons, Saunders, from Catlm s River, Master, agent. CLEARED OUTWARDS. Jane, 26 tons, Bowers, for Shag Point. K. Ramsay, agent. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. From Rotterdam.—Jane Van Galen. From Vancouver’s Island.—Barque Ruby. From Puget Sound-Alpha. From Tonsherg—Albatross. From New York—Washington. From Liverpool.—Pembroke Castle. From London. —Sally Brown, Equator. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Claud Hamilton, for Melbourne, via Northern Ports, 14th May. Cora, for Invercargill, early. Gothenburg, for Melbourne via Blutt, ora May. Jessie Roadman, for London, early. Maori, for Lyttelton, 26th inst. Omeo, for Melbourne via Northern Ports, 25th inst. Phrebe, for Bluff, 25th April. Queen Bee, for London, early. «. Rangitoto, for Northern Poits, 2nd May. Taiaroa, for Port Molyneux, 26th inst. Tararua, for Melbourne via Bluff, 14th May. Warrior Queen, for London, 30th inst. Wainui, for Lyttelton via interned) ate ports, earl}'. Wallace, for Oamaru, 26th inst. Wellington, for Northern Ports, early. IMPORTS. Per Omeo, from Bluff, &c.—lo hags malt, 2 horses, Marshall and Copeland ; 15 wine, order ; 1 truss, 4 pkgs, Mills, Dick, and Co; 2 cks, l>case hardware, 74 bars steel, 2 bars iron, A Briscoe and Co; 21 coils rope, J Blakely ; 4 bales corks, 5 boxes corn flour, 3 cases drugs, Kempthorne, Prosser, and Co ; 1 case, D Garden ; 9 pkgs agricultural implements, T Robinson and Co ; 1 case gloves, 1 pkge samples, Sargood, Son, and Ewen; 2 cases gloves, 1 prcl, W Watson ; 1 case merchandise, Bntterworth Bros; 2 cases drapery, A and T Inglis; 1 box opium, Me Wah ; 100 bags sugar, 25 bales cornsacks, C Burke; 7 cases tobacco, 5 f-boxes, 6 4-boxes tobacco, 280 bags rice, Lange and Thoneman; 3 pkgs leather, Farquhar ; 2 cases drapery, Ross and Glendining ; 4 pkgs seeds, Law, Sonnier, and Co ; 2 cases metal, J Edmond ; 1 pkge, G M'Leod ; 2 prcls stationery, H Wise ; 1 do, Livingstone; 6 cases castor oil, Keenan ; 2 horses, Campbell; 10 horses, Wright, Stephenson, and Co ; 53 cases fruit, Dunning Bros ; 1 prcl, King ; 1 do, W Hodgkins ; 1 prcl, C B Cairnes ; 1 pkge jewellery, Hart ; 1 do books, W Taylor; 1 do samples, M'Cullum, Neill, and Co; 1 do, W and G Turnbull and Co; 1 do books, Athenaeum ; 2 do apparel, order; 2 do electro-plated goods, J Mills ; 6 cases silks, ribbons, &c., Bing, Harris, and Co ; 2 pkgs plate and jewellery, order ; Ido music, G R West; 8 bales bags, Hutchison and Co.

The Omeo, Calder, arrived in Port at 7 o’clock this morning. The Swordfiish, from Dunedin, arrived at Hobart Town on the 11th. On February 19, from the yard of Messrs W. H, Potter and Co., at Liverpool, was launched a large screw-steamer, which is intended to trade beeween the Australian ports, and which has been built for the owners in the colony. The vessel, which is 220 feet in length, 29 feet beam, and 16 feet deep, is 800 tons burthen, and has been fully fitted up for passenger traffic, as well as having large carrying capacity. Her engines are being made by Messrs James Jack and Co., of Liverpool, and are 100 horse-power nominal, but of sufficient power to work up to a much higher rate. The p.s. Favorite left Auckland for the Manukau on Government survey service on Sunday week last, the 27th ult., at seven o’clock in the evening. Experienced fine weather until Ist April, when light winds and passing squalls of rain from S.S.W. intervened. At one a.m. passed Reef Point, Ahipara Bay, with fresh breeze from S. S. W.; at two the sea and wind rapidly increased, with thick, dirty weather ; at 2.40 a heavy sea came on, which caused the vessel to labor considerably, and large quantities of water were shipped. The engines were eased, and the ship’s head kept to sea, the ship still making a deal of water, and it being found necessary to keep all the pumps going, and bilge injection. At three oclock the steamer was observed to be getting out of shape and settling down amidships, with great difficulty in steering on account of her not answering her helm. At 3.30 water began to gain on the pumps, andCapt. Adams accordingly here up for Ahipara Bay, and came to anchor abreast of the native settlement in three and a half fathoms; at 6.15 veered to 20 fathoms of chain cable. All hands at the pumps, found the water still gaining and the vessel completely out of shape, apparently back broken. Held a consultation with mate and engineer, and came to the conclusion that the only thing remaining eo save the steamer from going down in deep water would be to beach her, the water being nearly level with the furnace bars, and the ship fast settling down. At 11 o’clock all possible steam was got up, and the Favorite was run on a sandy beach. The crew and a number of Maoris were employed heaving coals overboard, landing Government gear and ship’s furniture the vessel parting at the splice where

she had been recently lengthened ; the sea increased on the beach and she had to be abandoned. At midnight next day a fearful sea was robing into the bay and the ship was totally submerged, the sea making a clean breach over her. On the 2nd instant a survey was held on the vessel, when she was condemned to be sold for the benefit of whom it might concern. —A r . Z. Herald , 12th inst. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. ARRIVED, Nelson: April 23rd, early, Claud Hamilton, from Wellington. DEPARTURE. Lyttelton : April 23rd, 11.15 a.m., Phoebe, for South.