Shipping.

Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2523, 18 March 1871, Page 2

Shipping.

PORT CHALMERS OBSERVATORY

Latitude, 45.48.56 south ; longitude, llh. tn.36«co. east. Tima Ball drops daily (Sundays exoepted) at X p.m. Port Chalmers mean time, or In. 37m. 23seo. a.ra, Greenwich mean tune. HIGH WATER. TO-MORROW. Heads I Port Chalmers [ Dunedin 1.59 p.m. 1 2.29 p.m. | 3.14 p.m. MONDAY. 2.27 p.m. | 2.57 p.m. 1 3.42 p.m. PORT CHALMERS, ARRIVED, Nil EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Prom Hong Kong—Whirlwind, W. Clowes From Newcastle—Percy From London —Jessie Roadman From Glasgow—Helenslee PBOJBCTBD DPPAUTOnKS. beautiful Star for Lyttelton, March 19 Caledonia, for Greymouth, early Christian M'Ausland for London, March 2a City of Dunedin for London, April 1 Dagmar for Hokitika, early Edward for Invercargill, early Gothenburg, for Melbourne, March 20 Excelsior for Napier, early Jane, for Wanganui, early Lord Ashley for Northern Ports, early Lapwing for Levuka, Fiji, March 27 Uaori, for Timaru, early Pioneer, for Invercargill, early Storm Bird for Bluff, early Tairoa, for Molyneux. early Wallace for Oamaru, March 21 Wanicr Queen, for 1 ondon, April 20 Wanganui, for Northern Ports, March 29 The Gothenburg and Alhambra have not been able to enter the Heads in consequence of the heavy fog which has prevailed during the day. The following letter, addressed by Lieutenant Panter to a friend in Melbourne, will be read with interest, as showing how the gallant commander of our ironclad extracts amusement out of the difficulties and inconveniences of his adventurous voyage. It is dated H.M.C.S. Cerberus, Aden, January 10:—“ Well, here I am with the three headed brute, safe and sound so far. though not halfway to my destination. I have been rather a long time getting so far, but she is not a clipper; and with all her extra weight she won't steam, and it requires a gale to drive her under sail; and when it docs blow a g vlo I prefer keeping the sails lashed up, or I should be making another Captain of her, which, as far as I am pei\ oually concerned, 1 don’t care about, nor do I think, as far as regards the ship, the colony would thank me for so doing. She is not a handsome ship—bow and stern the same, except that she has a bowsprit at one end and not at theother; but her real beauty will not be seen till I go into dock, when they will see her magnificent lines just like this (making a mark to illustrate the cross section of the vessel.) Her extreme breadth on upper deck is 45 feet, And on the bottom 43 feet, so you can fancy it being much like taking a float ng dock to sea. Nevertheless she has proved herself a good sea boat, though not exactly a clipper, 1 have managed hitherto to get 100 miles a day out of her. Her next best (?) quality is power of suffocation, which is very strong We were nearly all cooked coming down the Red Sea, and I am sure if we had been another week we should have been overdone. I have the satisfaction of being the first to bring an ironclad and cupola ship through the canal and down the Red Sea ; also I hoist the Australian flag ‘in these parts.’ Victoria may be prond of the first ironclad she possesses, as far as strength goes, for I verily believe she is impregnable to the present ordinance. She causes a vast Amount of astonishment wherever she goes, especially when people see her guns. I hope te get away from this the day after tomorrow, and reach Galle about the 2nd of February; from thence Igo to Sumatra and Java, then down south for the Sound and then ‘Hoorah’ for Hobson’s Bay. It will he one of the happiest days of my life when I drop my ‘ mud hook’ off Williamstown. ” Argus.