Shipping.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2497, 16 February 1871, Page 2

Shipping.

PORT CHALMERS OBSERVATORY.

Latitude, 45.48.55 south ; longitude, llh. m.36sec. east. Time Ball drops daily (Sundays excepted) at 1 p,m. Port Chalmers mean time, or Ih. 37m, 23350. a,m, Greenwich mean time. HIGH WATER. TO-MORROW. Heads I Port Chalmers I Dunedin 1.44 p.m. | 2.14 p.m. I 2.59 p.m. PORT CHALMERS. ARRIVED. Sword Fish from Hobart Town Pioneer from Coast SAILED Maori for Timaru Chile for London Tairea for Molyneux Mememto for Sydney CUSTOM HOUSE.—DUNEDIN. This Dat. CLEARED OUTWARDS. Union, 361 tons, Welch, for Newcastle. } W Hutchison and Co, agents. Maori, 118 tons, Hart, for Lyttelton. J Mills, agent. „ . _ Anne, 29 tons, Haswell, for Oamaru. K Ramsay, agent. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. From Hong Kong— Whirlwind, W. Clowes From Glasgow—Agnes Muir From London—Warrior From Liverpool—Harvest Home From Newcastle—Percy PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Alhambra for Melbourne, 20th Feb. Beautiful Star for Lyttelton, early Christian M'Ausland for Loudon, March 13 City of Dunedin for Loudon, March 23 Cora for Invercargill, early Dagmar for Hokitika, early Excelsior for Napior, early Gothenburg for Lyttelton, 18th Fob. Maori, for Timaru, Feb. 16th Mary Van Every, for Hokitika, early Phcebe for Lyttelton, Feb. 21st Redcliffc for Grey mouth, early. Storm Bird for Invercargill, early Tairoa, for Molyneux, early Wallace for Molyneux, early Anne, for Mocvaki, early BY ELECT RIG TELEGRAPH. SAILED, Oamaru : 15 Feb., 11.30 a.in., Wallace for Dunedin. The Government steam dredge has had the whole of her machinery placed in position, and, having coaled to-day, will occupy a position near the entrance of the graving dock, where, we arc informed, the dredging operations will shortly he commenced. We are informed that Captain Hart, so long and favorably known in connection with the Geelong, proceeds with the Maori on her usual northern trip this evening, and that he will shortly take charge of the s.s. Beautiful Star recently purchased by the Harbour Company, A singular fact in connection with the arrival of the new steamship Queen of the Thames, recently arrived at Melbourne, is that news of her arrival was most likely received within sixty-five days of her departure from Plymouth. She was at King George’s Found on the Sth inst. ; the mail steamer Geelong carried that intelligence and was due at Galle on the 25th, from whence a telegram should reach London within twenty-four hours, thus accomplishing a feat which is without precedent in our si tipping news. The schooner Day Dawn while in Tory Channel on Wednesday last, was struck by a sea during a gale, and thrown on her beam ends (at the time she was about seventeen miles off the Kaikoras); she remained in this position nearly half-an-hour, the crew being in the cabin all the time, with _ the water rip to the’r mouths ; providentially the foremast cairied away, and the vessel righted. The men being by this time nearly suffocated they gob on deck with difficulty, and found the vessel quite waterlogged, and the sea making a clean breach over her. On Saturday the weather moderated, and the men were enabled to bale her out in about eight hours. They arrived in Wellington on Sunday, having been four days without food or water. The brigantine Sward Fish from Hobart Town with a cargo of timber and fruit, consigned to Dalgety, Nichols, an I Co . arrived At the Heads, sailed in, and anchored at the Fort this morning. The Sword Fish being «f light draught will discharge cargo at Dunedin. Captain Harvey (who is favorably inown in the trade) reports leaving Hobart Town cn the sth inst, and experienced moderate light N.E, winds, until the Sth, when it veered round and blow a strong S.W. gale, accompanied with a heavy sea and rain. The barometer indicating 28deg. 70min. The vessel was hove to until 2p m. Alt 1.30 p.m. on the 9th two heavy seas were shipped in succession, smashing both boats, damaging the galley, and washing sonic of the deck cargo adrift ; the brigantine was again hove to until C p.m. when the gale moderating and sea abating, the vessel was put before the wind and continued her course, arriving off the SoJanders on the 12th. Light S.E, winds and calms were met with in the Straits, and Dog Island was not passed until 8.30 p.m. on the 14th $ thence northerly and N.N.E. winds until last evening at 5 p.m., when an unsteady wind, ranging W. to 8. W., continued to arrival at the Heads this morning. The Pioneer reports seeing this morning a square-rigged vessel off Cape Saunders standing to the northward. The Wallace towed the dredge punts to the Port this afternoon.