Shipping.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2491, 9 February 1871, Page 2

Shipping.

PORT CHALMERS OBSERVATORY. Latitude, 45.48.55 south ; longitude, llh. m.36seo. east. Time Ball drops daily (Sundays excepted) at 1 p.m. Port Chalmers mean time, or in. 37m, 23seo. a.m, Greenwich mean time. HIGH WATER. TO-MORROW. Heads I Port Chalmers 1 Dunedin 6.3 p.m. I 6.35 p.m. I (.-0 p.m. CUSTOM HOUSE.—DUNEDIN. This Day. ENTERED INWARDS. Storm Bird, 08 tons, Fraser, from Invercargill. H Houghton and Co, agents. Wallace, 56 tons, Edie, from Oamaru. J Mills, agent. , , „ _,, Taranaki, 290 tons, Wheeler, from Lyttelton, J Mills, agent. PASSENGER LIST. Per Taranaki—l39 excursionists. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. From Boston —Robert From London-City of Dunedin, Warrior Queen From Liverpool—Harvest Home From Newcastle -Percy PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Alhambra for Melbourne, 17th Feb. Beautiful Star for Lyttelton, early Christian M'Ausland for London, early Chile, for London, Feb. 15 City of Dunedin for London, early Cora for Invercargill, early Excelsior for Napier, early Gothenburg for Lyttelton, ISth Feb. Maori, for Tiraaru, early Diary Van Every, for Hokitika, early Otago for London, Feb. 25th Phoebe for Lyttelton, Feb. 21st Redcliffe for Greymouth, early, Robert Henderson, for London, Feb. 15th Storm Bird for Molyneux, early Tairoa, for Molyneux, llth Feb. Taranaki for Northern Ports, Fob. 10th Tararua for Melbourne, 13th Feb. Wallace for Molyneux, early On the Maori leaving Timaru on the evening of the Ist, the wind shifted from N.W. W S.W., accompanied with lie,ivy sea; at midnight the gale increased to a hurricane with heavy showers '*f rain, the ship lalxy ing heavily, and shipping largo quantities of water; at 4 a.m. the wind and sea increased, and the cargo below the hatches shifted to the port side ; the sea breaking over the vessel, was obliged to throw over part of her deck cargo, consisting of bar iron, drums of oil, &c.; arrived at Akaroa at 8 a.m. on Thursday; let go both anchors, and rode out the gale, which was still raging. Capt, Malcolm and his officers state they never saw the sea rise so quickly as it did on the night of Wednesday last.