Shipping.

Evening Star, Issue 3097, 22 January 1873, Page 2

Shipping.

HIGH WATER. T3-MORROW. f I eads 1 Port Chalmers | Dunedin. 9.42 p.m. I 10.12 p.m. | 10.57 p.in. PORT CHALMERS. Tins Day. ARRIVED. Maori, 124 tons, Sinclair, from Lyttelton and intermediate ports. Passengers: Miss 'Williams, Mrs Bennett, Mrs 'Woolcombe, servant, and four children ; Messrs Woolsey, Roach, Reid, and Thomson ; nine in the steerage. SAILED. Duke of Edinburgh, 470 tons, Arnold, for Newcastle, in ballast. , Southern Cross, 323 tons, Johnstone, foi Hobart Town. CUSTOM HOUSE, DUNEDIN. Tins Day. inwards. Ferndale, 416 tons, Fraser, from Liverpool. Maori, 118 tons, Malcolm, from Timarii. OUTWARDS. Redcliffe, 22 tons, Urquliart, foi Molyncnx. Storm Bird, 67 tons, Fraser, for Bluff and InTliotias and Henry, 215 tans, Clark, for Newcastle, N.S.W. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Albion, for Northern Ports, Jan. 25 Nebraska, for San Francisco, lei). 20 May Queen, for London, early Maori, for Lyttelton, Jan. 23. Otago, for London, Jan. 31 Omeo, for Northern Ports. Jan. uo Pakeba, for Adelaide, Jan. 23 Rangitoto, for Bluff, Jan, 24 Samson, for Oamaru, Jan. 24. Tararua, for Northern Ports, Fein 3 Wellington, for Northern Ports, Jan. 2,j Wanganui, for Northern Ports, Jan, 23 Wanganui, for Wellington, Jan 23

The barque Ferndalc is expected to haul alongside the Railway Tier. The Golden ge brought down the Petei Denny’s and E, P. Bouverie’s second-class passengers yesterday. The latter vessel has now all her wool on borud. The barques Duke of Edinburgh and Southern Cross were both towed to sea to-day. "he Duke of Edinburgh for Newcastle, for coal; and the Southern Cross for Hobart Town. The Railway Pier is filling up again ; four vessels are alongside, the Liverpool barque Fern dale being brought alongside this morning and berthed astern of the Foldin. The Maori returned from Lyttelton at 7.3U this morning. She reports leaving Lyttelton at 4 win. last Monday, and arrived at Aknroa the same night; took in cargo and passengers, and left for Timaru; passed the Pretty Jane, weatherbound, off Akaroa Heads; on the passage across to Timaru, very heavy weather was experienced, the wind being from the S. W .with a nasty cross sea ; arrived at Timaru next moining, and sailed for Port Chalmers the same night. On arrival I ere, she steamed alongside the May Queen to discharge wool. Since the alteration has been made to her screw she is much more comfortable, scarcely any vibration being feit. We thank her purser for Lyttelton files. M‘Mcckan, Blackwook, and Co., have purchased the steamship Otago. M e learn by tele-ram that she left Hong Kong on the 3rd inst°, for Melbourne, under canvas, in charge of Captain Underwood. We believe she is intended to be employed in the intercolonial ttado between Melbourne and New Zealand a trade in which she was so favorably known a few years back—and we are sure that, while her arrival in these waters will be gratifying to the travelling public of this Colony, the enterprise of her new owners will meet with the success which it deserves. — Wed Count Time*, Jan. 17. A meeting of proprietors of the patent for wei-hing the contents of any vessel afloat was held lately in Melbourne. It was resolved to proceed at once with the manufacture of the machines ; the chairman, who is one of the original inventois, stated that he had .discovered a more simple ami economical way of manufacture. The whole interest of the company is to be represented by 4000 shares, and an allotment of shares took place. A vessel trading from Melbourne has been fitted with the apparatus, which has been found to work satisfactorily. ~ , . The oldest steamer in the world has been presented, bv her owners, to the Glasgow Chamber of Commerce. The vessel is named Industry, is 04 tons register, and was launched from the building yard of Messrs John and in. Fyfe, of Fairlie, on the Clyde, in May, lb 14. She was the seventh steamer built on that river* Latterly she has lain sunk in the East India Harbor, at Greenock, but some time ago sho was floated and beached to bo caulked, thereafter to proceed to Glasgow, where she will be preserved as a memento of the early days of steam navigation. It is a pleasing thing to see two vessels lying in the 'Wellington fairway, witn full cargoes of colonial produce, ready to start for England on a favourable change of wind. It is the first time, we believe, that two wool ships have been lying in the fairway together, and it is certainly an evidence of the increase in the export trade of the port. The value of the two cargoes is estimated at L 154,000. The short time occupied in loading the Electra, as in the case of the Bcbiugton, speaks of a vast improvement in the facilities of the port, which, together with the alacrity displayed by her agents, Messrs Turnbull and Co., have tended very much to shorten the stay of the vessel, and consequently to a reduction of the expense incurred tluough detention in times past. —Wellimjton Independent, Jau. 10. ~,,,, A sad story reached London, by letter trom Aden, da'ed September 27, written by Captain E. Garden, of the iron screw steamer Isa (about 1500 tons) giving an .account of the total loss of the vessel on the Island of Socotro, in the Red fiea. on June 23. A week after the ship went ashore the sheik of the island, with 100 armed men, arrived from Tamarada, and wanted to take away the cargo of rice, which the captain refused, to allow. He thereupon stopped the supply of fresh water and food, which had to be brought four miles. On the 23rd of July they were compelled to abandon the ship. The crew lived in caves and holes in the rocks for fifteen days, suffering intensely from the heat. The aheik now came down again with 300 men (armed with swords, daggers, and spears) anti 150 camels, and told the captain he had come to take charge of the ship and cargo. He then went on board the ship, and landed all the rice, and plundered hex’ throughout, also demanding the captain’s money. Captain Garden gives further details in these words; — 4 He compelled me to go to Tamarada, and when the monsoon changed would find me a ship to take me and the crew to Aden. We arrived at Tamarada on Angust 11, shoes worn out, and feet very sore and blistered, as we had to walk about 35 miles over rocky ground. We had a rough stone building given us to live in, from whence the natives daily stole a good deal of our things. At night they threw stones into our sleeping-place. We lived on rice, dates, and an occasional sheep, which we had to purchase with sheets and linen. The rice being nearly exhausted, I sent the first mate and the tux strongest hands of the ship, for a fresh supply, to return in the lifeboat with it, so that wc could communicate with the first ship that hove in sight. On the morning of the 10th an Arab told us, in very good English, that an English man-of-war, called the Briton, was at anchor at Bander Delishi, and that he was her interpreter, and had been sent to bring us on board, as he accidentally heard the night before that an English's ship’s crew were at Tamarada.”