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Evening Star, Issue 3043, 19 November 1872, Page 2

Shipping.

HIGH WATER. TO-MORROW. ffR.UW 1 PoitT OHAiteIKRS J DUMKIIir. 6.18 p.m. } 6.48 p.m. 1 766 p.m. PORT CHALMERS. SAILED. Samson, for Oamaru. Ironsides, for Bluff. CUSTOM HOUSE, DUNEDIN. this day. INWARDS. Flying Squirrel, 19 tons, Weir, fiiom Preservation Inlet. Anne, 29 tons, Haswcll, from Moeraki, OUTWARDS. Storm Bird, 67 tons, Fraser, for Bluff. Maori, 118 tons, Malcolm, for Titnaru. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Alhambra, for Bluff, Nov, 22 Albion, for Bluff, Doc. 4 Claud Hamilton, for Northern Ports, Dec. -■> Energy, for Auckland, early Hope,' for Moeraki, early J. N. Fleming for London, early, Nebraska, for San Francisco, Nov. 21 Otago for London, early. Peter Denny, for London, early Raugitoto, for Northern Ports, Nov. 21 Strathnaver, for Auckland, early Wellington, for Northern Ports, Nov. 20. The p.s. Samson sailed at 8 this morning for Oamaru. The ship Ironsides, for the Bluff, was preparing to tow to sea at 2 p.m. to-day. The American mail steamship Nebraska was to-day decorated with hunting in honor of the re-election of General Grant; other vessels also heisted colors, and also several flagstaff's on shore. A party, undercharge ofCapt. J. Louder, were to-day employed in removing any hard substance that might have fallen overboard during the construction of the railway jetty. At noon to-day Mr Mills, the diver, went clown astern of the ship E. R Bouverie, and was engaged searching the bottom when our despatch left, at which time a few pi-.ces of wood, &0., were the only things found, and nothing was di covered that could possibly injure any vessel that might touch the ground, It is satisfactory to know that where the E. P. Bouverie is now lying there is a depth of 18 feet at low water and a soft bottom. The ship Helen Burns left the Clyde, for Port Chalmers, on August 14, with the fol- | lowing passengers : — Mr George Hndlay, j Rev. Mr and Mrs Neil M‘Galium, aud Mr Henry C. Williamson. Steerage: Mr and Mrs Thomas Hourston, Wm. Cuthbert, John Cuthbert, Alex, M. Ferguson, Mr and Mrs D. Stewart and family, John C. Cranston, Andrew Wilson, Mrs Ann Neil and family, Donald Scott, Mrs Oath. Mcnzies, and David Sinclair.—The City of Dunedin left Glasgow on September 20, with the following passengers Cabin ;Mr and Mrs Thomas Andrews, junr. ; Mrs E. Law and family, Mr and Mrs A. W, Morris, family, and servants ; Mr Charles Shaw, and Miss Jane Bathgate. Steerage : John Watt and Mary Moodie. We learn from a private letter received by last mail that Sir James M'Culloch is endeavoring to induce the Imperial Government to make Melbourne the head-quarters | of the Australian squadron, op at any rate to ■ get a ship of war to call here oftoner and to remain longer than an present.— Aye. The official trial trip of the new screw steamer, the Rmvena, built by Messrs Niccol, of Auckland, took pljice on the 2t)th ultimo, the vessel being most flatteringly successful to her builders. The vessel is one of the best models that Messrs Niccol have yet turned out from their shipbuilding yards. The engines are on the compound principle, and were manufactured by Messrs Fraser and Tinne. They are beautiful specimens of marine engineering. The high-pressure cylinders are 15 inches in diameter, and the low-pressure #ll indies. The steam pressure on the boilers i« 70lbs to the square inch. The engines ou the trial made 112 revolutions to the minute. She ran twelve nautical miles in seventy minutes, against the tide, on her way to Wangaproa but the actual indicated horse-power, from diagrams •taken by Mr J. Stewart, Government Inspector of Steamers, was 154. The principal feature of these engines is the large amount of power given for a very small consumption of coal.

A FEIGHTFUL PASSAGE. Recent telegrams announced that the captain of the steamer Queensland had been presented with a valuable testimonial for his conduct on the occasion of a disaster which befel that vessel, the following particulars of which have been communicated to the S;/'ht/i/ Mornitty ffrrald by a passenger : The steamship Queensland left the wharf at Brisbane, for her return passage to Sydney, on the evening of Monday, 2‘>rd ulfc., at ten o’clock. At midnight on Tuesday the wind was so strong ana the sea beating so fiercely, that the second officer left his cabin for fear it should be torn away. The gale rose higher and higher, till, at seven o’clock on Wednesday morning, a furious sea burst in part of the port bulwark, tearing away the second officer’s cabin, with part of the sponson on the port side, and sweeping away the cook’s house and fearfully maiming the •eodk, who was cutting meat for breakfast. The poor fellow was carried, groaning, to a sofa, and still lies ill. The gale still deepened, and all felt that a crisis was near. About nine o’clock, as the lirst officer «tood on the grating over the engine room, giving orders for baling out the water that had rushed in, a sea of terrific force struck the ship on the starboard bow, smashing away the bulwark and stanchions, and lashing right over the funnel, carried the first officer out to sea through the gap on the opposite side. The same sea struck the captain, who was standing on the bridge, ami bore him right in under the lifeboat, which just saved him from sharing the inevitable fate of the first officer. That 4iue energetic young fellow rose to the surface, and a life-buoy was thrown, which he ■caught. A gleam of hope lit his countenance as he saw the men rush to lower the boat, but next moment a lowering sea bore down and sunk him to rise no more. It was well it did, for no boat could have lived or succored him iu such a sea, and other lives would have been uselessly sacrificed. This threw a gloom over all hearts, for every man saw the same doom might next be bis own. Now the water camo pouring through chink and gap, and boltholes, into tho middle compartments, coalbunkers, and engine rrom, as well as into the steerage passengers’ cabins. The coal was rolling in water from side to side, and all bands that could be spared from

•working the ehip as she lay to in the furious seas were summoned to bail out the water. The only available little pump broke at the first stroke of the pistou, aud for eighteen hours the water was little diminished. There were as passengers to Sydney six men of the Yarra Yarra’s crew, with their boatswain. They eutsvcd heavily into to the work to save their own lives and ours, and without their aid humanly speaking, we could not^ possibly have been saved. Their boatswain w'as made second officer after poor Bryant’s death Ultimately, when there was Sit of water in the stoke-hole. Captain .Johnson discovered the principal inlets of water to be by the holes out of which had been wrenched the bolts of the sponson uoams, These, by great and perilous exertion, were plugged from without and within. Had the sponson stays given way the water would have lusln d into the middle of the ship, where it could not possibly have been stopped, and we must have gone down in the wild deep sonic thirty miles from land. By Thursday, about three o’clock, the wind had moderated, though the head seas were still violent. Shortly before that hour a fire was lighted, and some food dressed for the passengers, who had had nothing except a biscuit or sandwich for nearly two dajs. About half-past three the furnace fires were lighted, and we received the glad nows that wo were soon to move under steam and canvas. 1 should not omit to mention that several men among the steerage passengers lent effective aid in bailing out the water that flooded their own cabins. The state of the women and children-there was something frightful, both as to body and mind. Among them, however, were sonic who road their Bibles ; and some of them both “ pumped and prayed” with hearty goodwill. On Friday we reached Moreton Bay.