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Evening Star, Issue 3120, 18 February 1873, Page 2

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high water. To-mobrow. R«XDS I Font OUUMKM I I I »«»«■■ PORT CHALMERS. SAILED. Feb. 18-Huon Belle, 42 tons, Saunders,: for C& SaMThee, 32 tons,Peterson, for Gatlin’s Herald, 48 tons, HeAry, for Gatlin’s River. CUSTOM HOUSE, DUNEDIN. , This Day. : inwards. Beautiful Star, 146 tons, Hart, from Timara. Samson, 124 tons, Edie, from Oamavu. OUTWARDS, Samson, 124 tons, Edie, for Oamarm Storm Bird, 67 tons, Fraser, for Lyttelton. May Queen, 733 tons, Leslie, for London.

PBO.TBOtKD pEPARTORBS. Albion, for Northern Ports, Feb. 20^ Harriet Armitage, for Hong Kong, March 14 May Queen, for London, Feb. 19 Dakota, for San Fran ieco, March 13. Rangitoto, for Bluff, Feb. 20 . Taranaki, for Northern Ports, Feb, 22 ■Warrior Queen, for London, March 1 WaHabi. for Bluff, Feb. 19 Beautiful Star, for Lyttelton,' Feb. 10 Hope, for Moeraki, early. Waratah, for Hobart Town,, early.

yessels in Port Olialmers. to-day Ships : Charlotte Gladstone, Margaret Galbraith, Agnes Muir, Christian M*Ausland, City of Dunedin, May Queen. Barque : Helena. Brigantine : Ottawa. At the. Railway Pier:-Ships : Beautiful, Star, Warrior Queen, Zealandia ; barques, Chattanooga, Iris, Waratah.

The Chattanooga, at the Rahway Pier, will commence discharging to-morrow. The Samson returned from Oamaru on Monday night, and proceeded to Dunedin early this morning. The coasters Huon Belle, Eliza M‘Phee, and Lloyd’s Herald, all for Gatlin’s River, sailed out this morning. ' The fore-and-aft schooner Florence, which has been aground above the Islands since Saturday last, got off yesterday afternoon, at high water.

She leaves to-day for Auckland. A number of the single men from the Charlotte Gladstone were towed over to the Quarantine Island this morning in a lighter, to give more , room for those on board the ship to fumigMfr their clothes, &o. Everything is as well as citn be expected on the Island, no fresh cases having occurred; so that, iu all probability, most of them will be admitted to pratique during the WGGl£* The following is the report of the ship Charlotte Gladstone, 1304 tons, Isaac Paddle, commander :—*• She sailed from Gravesend on the 2nd November, with a general outgo and 312 emigrants, Hi cabin and 6 steerage passengers. The pilot was landed off the Start on the 11th November. Experienced strong westerly winds in the Channel. Got the N.E. trades in the Tropic of Cancer on the 26th November. Lost them iu lat. 6deg. north on the Ist December, Passed St. Paul’s Rocks on the sth December, and crossed the Equator the same evening m long. 30deg. west; passed close to Fernando Noronha on the 7th December. Passed close to Trinidad on the 13th, and the meridian of Greenwich in lat. 33deg oh the 27th. Anchored in Table Bay on the 6th January, sailed from thence on the 3th. Passed the Snares on the 14th February, 93 days from the Lizard to the Snares. Going in at the, Gape delayed our passage from ten to fourteen days. We have had a remarkable fine weather passage; only reefed our topsails for 3or 4 hours. Wo never had a galo or even a squall. Myself and saloon passengers have enjoyed excellent health during the voyage, as have almost all the immigrants. The chip is well adapted for the conveyance of immigrants, having very lofty ’tween deck, 8 feet high, and 38 feet 6 inches beam. She conveyed 401 statute adults to Victoria. She has now only 312, but with all that we have had much sickness, owing to the indolence of many of those on board ; and many of them Were m a diseased state when they embarked. The state of some of the immigrants was remarked by many previous .to sailing; also by Dr Bakewril, at Gravesend, to the Medical Inspector. We have had 17 deaths from various causes, which were no doubt engendered in most of the passengers previous to the sailing of the vessel. We have some who have consumption, heart disease, and lung disease. I think a better selec tion might have been made. These last twentytwo years I have been conveying immigrants to Twofold Bay, Swan River, Melbourne, three voyages to Napier, in comipand of the StrathAllan, and also to Canterbury, in the Monarch. 1 never have had any trouble before, and little or no sickness; always been congratulated by the Governor and Superintendent for the healthy manner in which all the immigrants have landed. We in the cabin look upon the B'okress, or rather the nature of it very lightly; for many of those who died were ailing and in a diseased state, and probably would have died on shore. It must not be supposed that it was all typhoid fefer. Wo ate satisfied that the authorities will run no risk by giving us pratique The ship has been thoroughly fumigated with fire and bnmstone, and large quantities of carbolic acid have been thrown over the sides of the berths. The bedding has been hung up, as well as the passengers’clothes, on lines previous to the.fumigation, going on under Mr. Hockens superintendence. —lsaac Paddle.’