Shipping.

Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2791, 27 January 1872, Page 2

Shipping.

HIGH WATER. ; to-morrow. Hksds I Port Chalmers I DTOKpi* 4.39 pm. I 5.9 pm. I 5.54 p.m. MONDAY. 513 ] 5.43 p.m. 1 0.28 p.m. PORT CHALMERS. ARRIVED. Wallace, from Oamaru SAILED. Claud Hamilton, for Bluff Alhambra for Lyttelton. Geelong, for Oamaru CUSTOM HOUSE, DUNEDIN. THIS DAY. OUTWARDS. Flirt, 100 tons, M‘Kenzie, for Kaipara Florence, 54 tons. Beaton, for Havelock Wallace, 50 tons, Edie, for Waikava INWARDS, Result, 14 tons, Andrew, from \> aikouaiti Alice, 21 tons, Scones, from Kakanui Geelong, 108 tons, Sinclair, from Oamaru Wallace, 50 tons, Edie, from Oamaru

PASSENGER LIST.

PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Annie, for Moeraki, Jan. 27 Albion, for Northern Ports, Feb. 3 Beautiful Star, for Lyttelton. Jan. 30 City of Dunedin, for London, eaily Crest of the Wave, for Greymouth, early Flirt, for Auckland, early E. P. Bouvevie, for London, early Jewess, for New York, early May Queen, for London, Feb. 10 Pretty Jane, for Kakanui, Jm. -8 Peter Denny, for London, be b. In Rangitoto, for Bluff, Feb. 2 Ransratira, for Wellington, Jan. oO Storm Bird, for Invercargill, Jan. Z.i Sarah, for Boston, early Taranaki, for . Bluff, Jan. 29 Geelong, for Oamaru, Jan, 30 The D.s. Wallace arrived from Oamaru early this momiiur, and sails this afternoon on a special trip to Waikava, l, Patersons Inlet, and Port \Vrlliam with His Honor the Superintendent, members ot the Executive, and others, returning on Claud Hamilton, for Melbourne via the Bluff, and the s.s. Alhambra, for Melbourne via Northern and West Coast ports of call, sailed last evening with passengers, cargo, and mails. Thep.s- Geelong sailed last evening on a special trip to Oamaru. . The p.s. Golden Age was last evening enon a moonlight excursion from Dunedin to°Port Chalmers, round the shipping and back. St. Patrick’s Band was in attendance." and fireworks and blue lights were displayed as the steamer passed .round the harbor. The number who availed themselves of this treat was not so great as on former occasions. This may, however, be accounted for by the wind being rather strong in the early part of the evening, and counter-attractions. The weather was fane fine throughout, and every provision was made by the Harbor Company for the enjoyment of the excursionists. The Melbourne papers to hand by the last mail contain very voluminous particulars of the loss of the Sussex, 980 tons, John Dean Collard, master, 82 days from Plymouth, at Barwon Heads. The official enquiry took place on the 4tfi of this month. The vessel left Plymouth on the 9th of October, with 47 passengers, and a crew of 43 hands. She passed the Otway on the 31st December, and on that day, supposing the voyage at an end, a testimonial signed by nearly all the passengers, was presented to the captain hy Dr Walsh. There was no conviviality. That night, in consequence of mistaking alight forjthe light-houseon Cape Schanck, a. wrong course was taken, the vessel went ashore between 9 and 10 o’clock, at Barwon Heads, and became a complete wreck. The passengers and crew were taken off the wreck the following morning by the steamer Titan, with the exception of a boat s crew of six men, under command of the third officer, that left the wreck daring the night in order to reach Queenscliff. The boat capsized in a heavy sea, and all were drowned save one, a man named' James Libdon, who after a struggle of two hours and a half with the waves, reached the shore by swimming. “ The official court of inquiry held at Melbourne, to inquire into the circumstances attending the stranding of the ship Sussex near the Barwon Heads, on the night of the 31st December last, find—that the ship was lost through the dafault of the master in not taking the necessary piecautions to verify his position before attempting to make Port Phillip Heads. 1. By not properly making sure that the light first seen on the starboard bow was the Cape Schanck light, which he had ample opportunity of doing whilst it was in sight. 2. In steering for the lights seen on the port bow after discovering that his assumed position showed some great error in the steering of the ship. Taking into consideration Mr Collard’s long servitude and well-known excellent character as a careful officer, the Court suspends his certificate only for a period of six calendar months.” The wreck and c.rgo were sold at auction on the 4th hist, by Mr [H. A. Coffey, for the sum of LG, 800. The purchaser was Mr Miller, of Geelong; hut it was stated that several other well-known merchants were connected with him in the speculation. The insurance companies interested agreed before the sale to protect their interests to the extent of L 5,000. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. ARRIVED. Oamaru.—27th, daylight, Alhambra, from Dunedin. Oamaru.—27th, 3 a.in., Geelong, from Dunedin.

Bluff. — 27th, 11 a. m., Claud Hamilton, from Dunedin,