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Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2546, 15 April 1871, Page 2

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PORT OHALMERS OBSERVATORY. Latitude, 46.48.55 south ; longitude, llh. m.36sec. east. Time Ball drops daily (Sundays excepted) At 1 p.m. Port Chalmers moan time, or lb. 37m, 23seo, a. in, Greenwich mean time. HIGH WATER. TO-MORROW, Heads I Port Chalmers I Dunedin 0.55 p.m. I 1.25 p.m. | 2.10p,m. ‘MONDAY, 1.30 p.m. ( 2.0 p.m. I 2.45 p.m. PORT CHALMERS. ARRIVED, Lord Ashley from Lyttelton SAILED. Mary King for Cam am Result for WaikouaUi Flying Squirrel for Kakanui CUSTOM HOUSE.—DUNEDIN. Tnfs Dat. ENTERED INWARDS. Gothenburg, 4">9 tons, Pearce, from the Bluff. Dalgety, Nichols, and Co., agents. i Alhambra, 497 tons, Underwood, fromLyt.olton. Dalgety, Nichols, and Co, agents. CLEARED OUTWARDS. Gothenburg, 459 tons, Pearco, for Lyttelton. Dalgoty, Nichols, and Co agents. '• Alhambra. 497 tons, Underwood, for Bluff, pool. Dalgety, Nichols, and Co, agents. Midlothian, 15 tons, Blauey, for Kakanui. K Ramsay, agent. PASSENGER LIST. Per Alhambra Miss Murphy, Mrs David Baxter, Messrs D Johnston, E M‘Kenna, Wah Yong, and 11 in the steerage. Per Gothenburg Mesdames Graham and Boss. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. From Hong Kong—North Star From Newcastle -Magellan Cloud From Glasgow—Helenslee, Yokohama From New York—Annie From Melbourne—Robert From London—Boslyn Castle PROJECTED DEPARTURES, for Invercargill, early Agnes Muir, for London, May 5 Beautiful -Star for Lyttelton, eaily Cora for Invercargill early Edward for Invercargill, early Excelsior for Napier, early Jane, for Wanganui, early Lord Ashley, for Northern Ports, April 17 Maori, for Lyttelton, early Pioneer, for Invercargill, early --Planet for Fijis, early Storm Bird for Bluff, early Tairoa, for Molyneux, early Wallace for Oamaru, April 18 Warrior Queen, for London, April 20 The s.s. Lord Ashley from Lyttelton ar rived at 2 p.m. The ketch Flying Squirrel for Kakanui , sailed at 1 p.m. to-uay. The schooner Jane Hannah was this morning placed on Isbistcr’s slip, in Carey’s Bay, to receive a periodical overhaul. The schooner Caledonia, for Grcymouth, via Oamaru, and the cutter Lapwing, for Levukn, that sailed yesterday, cleared the Heads this morning with a light fair wind. The topsail schooner Mary King sailed for KDamaru at noon to-day.

Tho brig Wave, from Oamaru, is now alongside the ship Warrior Queen, discharging wool. , The s.s. Gcthenbhrgb, for Melbourne via Northern ports, ami the s.s. Alambra, for Melbourne via the Elaff, were expected to sail on receipt of passengers per Harbor Co. ’s steamer at 4 p.m. Captain E. E. Patterson, of the American barque Alcyone, met with a most remarkable incident on his voyage from Amoy to this port. The Alcyone left Amoy on tho 2nd December for Singapore, and pursued her voyage until the 7th, when, at about 7 p.m., alight was db covered close-to on the starboaidbbw. It was evident that the light proceeded from a boat or a raft, and being far from land, Captain Patterson judged that it-must be some one in distress. Canvas was quickly reduced, and the ship hove-to, to allow the boat to come alongside ; but she failing to do so, and the sea running too high to lower the. ship’s boat, the vessel wore round to endeavor to get near the boat, which was evidently unable to make the vessel. After wearing ship several times, she got near enough to throw lines over the boat, which proved to be a Chinese sampan containing three Chinese. The poor fellows caught the line, and two of them succeeded in holding on and getting on board the ship, but the third, being blind from exposure, and too weak to bear his own weight, foil overboard and Was lost in the attempt. When the poor fellows got on duck they were completely exhausted, and it was found necessary to feud them like infants. When they were able to tell their story, it was found that they bad been driven away by a gale from Formosa, which place they left on the 3rd or 4th November; their sail and mast had been carried away by the gale on the second day out, and their steering oar lost, leaving them without sail, mast, oar, or rudder. The poor fellows did not despair, but managed to subsist from day to day by catching fish and birds, which they ate, and for water they had merely what they could catch when it rained. Thus they lingered day after day, drifting about at the mercy of Ihe winds and waves, and when picked up by the Alcyone had been incredible to relate, thirty-two days at sea in this helpless condition, in an open sampan. During this time, who shall tell their sufferings and privatitns ; and had it not been for the humane perseverance of Captain Patterson in working his ship up to them, attracted only by the light which they displayed as a forlorn hope, their fate must have been starvation in all its horrors. Tho boat had drifted S.W., i S., 1000 miles during the 32 days, being an average of a fraction over 31 miles per day. —Simjapore Straits Times, Jan . 4.