Shipping.

Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2707, 20 October 1871, Page 2

Shipping.

HIGH WATER. TO-MORROW. Heads I Port Chalmers 1 Dunedih 8.37 p.m. I 9.7 p.m. I 9m 2 P• ,T ’• FORT CHALMERS. THIS DAY. ARRIVED. Defiance, from Kakamii SAILED. Caledonia, for Oamaru City of Newcastle, for Newcastle CUSTOM HOUSE, DUNEDIN. THIS DAY, OUTWARDS. , Elisa M’Phee, ,39 tons, Peterson, for Cntlm s River EXPECTED ARRIVALS. From Glasgow—E. P. Bouvorie From New York—Sunny Region, Nehcmian Gibson From Boston—Sarah From London—Peter Denny, May Queen From I iverpool—Glenhuntly From Foochow Foo—Bonny Dunkeld From Newcastle—Pet From Mauritius - Queen of the South PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Ahuriri, for Lyttelton, Nov. 3 Alhambra, for Northern Ports, Oct, 2b Amphitrite, for Sydney, Oct. 24 Beautiful Star, fovTimaru, Oct. 22 Gothenburg, for Melbourne, via Bluff, Oct. 2» Jane, for Oamaru, October 21 J. N. Fleming, for London, early Maori, for Bluff, October 24 Otago, for London, Dec. 24 Pretty Jane, for Oamaru, October 24 Phoebe, for Northern Ports, October 24 Rangitoto, for Melbourne, via Bluff, Nov. 7 Storm Bird, for Bluff, October 25 Wallace, for Oamaru, early William Davie, for London, October 23 Wellington, for Northern Ports, Oct. 27 BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. ARRIVED. Lyttelton ; 20th, Maori, at’ll a.m. SAILED. Lyttelton: 20tb, 5 p.m., Maori, for Timaru, Lyttelton: 20th, 1.10 p.m., Plncbe. for Dunedin Bluff : 20tb, 12,30 p.m., Beautiful Star, for Dunedin. There are no less than eight different acts in this colony re'ating to shipping and marine affairs. Most of these acts have evidently been copied from the Imperial Merchant Shipping Acts of 1854 and 1862, and experience has shown that they are most faulty where they differ most widely from the text of these acts. Mr Seed, in his Marine Department report, says :—lt would be exceedingly desirable to have all these laws consolidated ; but before doing this it would be prudent to wait until the bill which is now before the Imperial Parliament for amending and consolidating the merchant shipping laws has passed, and then to adopt that act as a model for a comprehensive measure for regulating all matters relating to shipping in the colony, which are subject to local control and supervision. The barque Union, with a general cargo and nine Chinese passengers, from Hong Kong, was towed sp to the lower anchorage this morning. Four passengers died on the passage from non-infections diseases, and three are now ill. The vessel, having been cleared by the health officer, will be shortly removed to a discharging berth. The Acacia, from ii chart Town for Canterbury, was signalled as passing the Heads at four o’clock this afternoon.