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Evening Star, Issue 3066, 16 December 1872, Page 2

Shipping.

HIGH WATER. TO-MORROW. >\ v , xm 1 Port CHALMKBfI I Dunkoh-. 4,34 p.m. I 5.4 p.m. 1 5.40 p.m. CUSTOM HOUSE, DUNEDIN. THIS PAY. INWARDS. Christian M'Ausland, 062 tons, Tilly, from London. Beitha, 178 tons, Harrison, from Lyttelton. Tararua, 524 tons, Rouse, from Melbourne. Storm Bird, 67 tons, Fraser, from Invercargill. Taranaki, 299 tons, Wheeler, from Lyttelton, Maori, 118 tons, Malcolm, from Timaru. Samson, 124 tons, Hart, from Oamaru. Jane, 25 to us, Freer, from Kakanui. OUTWARDS. Samson, 124 tons, Hart, for Oamaru. Florence, 54 tons. Keenan, for Wellington. Alhambra, 407 tons, Pearce, for Lyttelton. Passengers: Miss Fitchett, Messrs Gould and Ferguson, and 2 in the steerage. Tararua, 523 tons, Rouse for Melbourne. Passengers: Mrs Chiaroni, Miss Meyers, Mr Manistry. For Bluff— Messrs Black, Genever, 5 High School boys, and 11 in steerage. PORT CHALMERS. Yesterday. AhRIVED. Storm Bird, s.s., from the Bluff. Passengers: Messrs Heriot, Walter, and 2 in the steerage. Maori, from Lyttelton. Passengers :Mr and Mrs Broad and four children, Mrs Brownson, Mr Elder and daughter, Messrs A, Wilson, Derratt, Duncan, Coote, Cunningham, Fairbourne, Watkins, Blair, Wallace, Battcook, Shannon, and four in the steerage. PROJECTED DEPARTURES, Dakota, for San Francisco, Dec. 10 E. P. Bouverie, for Loudon, Jan. 11 Mary van Every, for Greymouth, early Otago, for London, Dec. 24 Peter Denny, for London, Dec. 24 Rangatira, for Lyttelton, Dec. 23 Stormbird, for Bluff, Dec. 17. Maori, for Lyttelton, Dec. 17. Taranaki, for Northern Ports, Dec. 17. Samson, for Oamaru, Dec. 17. Rangatira, for Northern Ports, Dec. 23. Captain Chapman, of H.M.S. Dido, inspected the Graving Dock, with Captain Thomson, Harbor Master, on Saturday morning, previous to his departure, and expressed himself highly pleased with it, and on his return will steam right into it. The Harbor Company’s steamer Maori returned from her Northern trip on Sunday morning at 9 o’clock, and experienced fine weather throughout the passage. We have to thank her steward for Timaru papers. Her passengers were conveyed to Dunedin by the Peninsula immediately after her arrival. She brings wool for transhipment to the May Queen. The 8.8. Storm Bird left the Bluff at 11.30 p.m. on the 14th, and arrived at Port Chalmers at 10 p.m. on the 15th, having experienced fresh N. N E. winds with heavy seas till arrival. When off Saddle Hill spoke the three-masted schooner Agnes and Jessie, of Launceston, nine days out, bound to Timaru, which wished to be reported. We thank her purser for Invercargill papers. The brigantine Emulous was signalled this morning from the Government flagstaff. She will probably drop up during the afternoon. The 8.8. Wallabi, which has been in the Floating Dock for repairs, came out this morning at three o’clock, after having had a thorough overhaul. She steamed to Dunedin shortly afterwards. The single men from the Christian M‘Ausland, who were on the smaller quarantine island, were conveyed to town this morning by the Peninsula. The ship was admitted to pratique this morning, she having been in quarantine ten days.

ADRIFT IN HAWKES BAY. The following letter was received by Captain Grant, of the barque Ballarat, from the seaman Michael Brickley, who took the pilot’s boat at Napier for the purpose of reaching his vessel Moeangiangi, Dec. 5. To Captain Grant. Sir, —I wish to inform you of the reason of my not being on board before now. I missed the Three Brothers on Tuesday night, and seeing a boat at the wharf, which I mistook for our life-boat, I jumped into her witli the intention of getting on board the Ballarat, but when I got outside the Iron Pot, I found she had no sails on board, and the wind being off the shore, and a strong current running, I found myself passing the ship very quickly. I did my utmost to regain the vessel, or get on shore, so I tried to keep her head to the sea till morning ; but when morning came I found I had drifted a long way off. I could scarcely see the land ; I was in an open boat, without water or food, nor any sails, while the oars were too large and heavy for one man to use. The wind then died away to a calm, and afterwards blew strong from the N.E.; so I took off my coat and shirt, and made them into a sail. I shipped one of the oars as a mast, and rove the boat-hook through both sleeves of my coat, and made it fast to the oar. I then ran before the wind, and was exposed to the sun, wind, and spray. There was a heavy sea on with breakers. At dusk got close to the shore, on which there was a heavy surf. While running before the sea, the boat griped very hard to windward; and while straining every nerve to keep her straight, the oar broke in the small part near the blade. Of course the boat capsized, and I was thrown into the sea I reached the boat again by swimming, only to be thrown on the rocks with violence. I stayed all night there on the rocks, wet through, without clothes or food, then 36 hours out, I could not find my way on land, there being very high cliffs at the place where I was. I gave myself up for lost, but determined to swim as long as I could ; so I struck out up the coast, and after swimming about a couple of miles, tired and weak, I made to where I could land over the rocks. I then saw three Maori women, who went away, but I followed their tracks, when I came to Moeangiangi. The people here are very kind. lam very sick, having been exposed 48 hours without food or slothes.