Shipping.

Evening Star, Issue 2920, 28 June 1872, Page 2

Shipping.

HIGH WATER. TO-MORROW. Heads I Port Chalmers | Dunedin 10.23 p.m. I 10.53 p.m. 1 11.38 p.m PORT CHALMERS. ARRIVED. Phoebe, from Northern Ports Glencoe, from Hobart Town. SAILED. Alice Ball for Newcastle. CUSTOM HOUSE, DUNEDIN. THIS DAY, INWARDS. Phoebe, 416 tons, Worsp, from Lyttelton OUTWARDS. Phoebe, 416 tons, Wowp, for Oamaru PROJECTED departures. Anne for Moeraki, June 29 Albion for Northern Ports, July o Beautiful Star for Lyttelton, June 29 Maori for Oamaru, July 1. Nevada fot Northern Ports, July 5 Phoebe for Northern Pmts, July 2. Pretty Jane for Port Molyneux, July 1 Rangitoto for Melbourne, via Bluff, July 8 Storm Bird for Invercargill, June 29 Wild Deer for London, July 5. The American ship Alice Ball, for Newcastle, in ballast, was towed to sea this forenoon by the steam-tup; Geelong. The barque Glencoe arrived this forenoon and was towed to jPort Chalmers by the steam tug Geelong. She will proceed to Dunedin to-morrow to discharge cargo. The barque left Hobartown on the 12th inst; experienced light winds throughout ; made the Snares on the 22nd, and met with light baffling -winds, thick rainy weather, and a heavy south-east sea to arrival at the Heads The Glencoe brings a cargo of timber an! fruit, and is consigned to Messrs Gibbs and Clayton. A lady passenger who went home in a ship from Auckland, the captain of which was known for his religious enthusiasm, writes a very bitter letter to a friend, which is published in the Southern Cross recently. She says the captain was “religious to satiety ; had so much conscience that he had no occasion to care what he did ; and was such a teetotaller that when' the women 'were in actual want of stimulants as medicine not a drop could he had. After alludingto the hypocrisy of his religion, the writer says “He proved the quality and genuineness of his conscientiousness by packing us like pigs—2l souls in a space 26 feet long by 9 feet wide by 6 feet 7i inches deep, in which we had to sleep and eat, and in wet weather to live together; by never once venturing down the ladder to see whether we were alive or dead or fed or starved, by short-provisioning the ship, so that'at the end of 90 days we were nearly without flour, sugar, oatmeal, potatoes, salt pork, preserved meat, and biscuit, and had to be put on short allowance of flour and sugar till we met with a ship that]supp"ed us with sugar,” This is what the passenger says of “the good captain.” We will not attempt to take the good captain’s part, although we cannot refrain from saying that the actual complaints can be very much narrowed. The passenger appears to have been one of the third class, and as such would know the space and provisions she might expect. The twenty-one souls may in reality have represented only a fourth that number of adults, for which the space would be more than adequate in a sailing ship. She also takes care to insert the word nearly when alluding to the scarcity of provisions after ninety days sailing. We perceive that “ the food ship” Beth Shan occupied 126 days on er last trip from Auckland.

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ARRIVED, Lyttelton, 28th, 12 20 p.m. Wellington from Dunedin.