Shipping.

Evening Star, Issue 3153, 28 March 1873, Page 2

Shipping.

HIGH WATER. To-mokkow. Heads 1 Pout Giialmeks 1 Dunedin 3.41 p.m. | 4.14 p.m. | 4.59 p.m. PORT CHALMERS. SAILED. March 23. —William Akers, 299 tons, Greenwood, for Newcastle, in ballast. Sword Fish, 155 tons, Harvey, for Hobart Town, in ballast. CUSTOM HOUSE, DUNEDIN. This Day. inwards. Jane Hannah, 52 tons, Korns, from Kakanui.

OUTWARDS. Agnes Muir, 851 tons, Anderson, for London.

PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Chattanooga, for Hong Kong, April 10 Zcalandia, for London, April 10 Nebraska, for Sau Francisco, April 10 City of Dunedin, for Loudon, March 31 Agnes Muir, for London, April 7 Christian M'Ausland, for London, March 29 Margaret Galbraith, for London, April 7 Tararua, for Blutf, April 4 Alhambra, for Northern Ports, April 5 Wellington, for Northern Ports, April 1 Storm Bird, for Blutf, April 2 Wallabi, for Bluff, March 29 Beautiful Star, for Lyttelton, March' 29 Tauranga, for Auckland, March 31

Vessels in Port Chalmers Bay this day : ghips : Agnes Muir, Margaret Galbraith, Christian M'Ausland, City of Dunedin. Barques : Duke of Edinburgh, William Akers, Eleanor. Brig: Thomas and Henry. Three-masted schooner : Margaret Campbell. At the Railway Pier Ships : City of Bombay, Charlotte Gladstone, Beautiful Star, Zcalandia. Brigantine : Swordfish.

The barque William Akers and the brigantine Sword Fish were towed to sea together by the Geelong this morning. The former is for Newcastle and the other for Hobart Town. We learn that the screw steam-collier Fidelia,

Swainston, master, a fine vessel of 1,000 tons burthen, fitted with all the latest improvements, sailed from Cardiff for this port, via Newcastle, N.S.W., last month. This vessel is locally owned, and it is intended she should ran in the trade between Newcastle and this port, thus opening a much wanted direct communication with New South Wales. She will have accommodation for several first class, and an unlimited number of steerage passengers. The following notice of motion was tabled at a recent meeting of the Auckland Harbor Board That, with a view of manning our growing shipping independent of runaway sailors, this Board do petition the Parliament of New Zealand to make it compulsory on the owner of every vessel of 50 tons to carry one apprentice, and every vessel of 100 tons to carry two apprentices, and one apprentice for every 100 tons up to 500 tons.” There is no doubt that some such Act as the one suggested is very much required in this port, and we believe the motion will meet with favor at the hands of the Board. Captain Casey has also given the following notice of motion for the next sitting { ] a y .—“That shipwrights desirous to lease land for shipbuilding purposes, can only obtain possession on the condition of the lessee being master of at least three apprentices, in order to keep up the supply of an increasing demand for ship-carpenters.” --N. Z. Herald, March I*2. An incident, says the Independent, occurred on the last trip of the Ivangatira, in which the heroic and ludicrous are mingled. While between Napier and Poverty Bay, with the steamer running about ten knots, wind and sea favoring, an intoxicated fireman who had been ordered out of the engine-room came on deck, and in lolling about the rail ho lolled himself into the sea. The cry “man overboard ” was heard almost simultaneously, and before the poor fellow had swept By into the wake of the steamer, Captain Hepburn thundered out the order to clear away the boat. She was quickly lowered, and the chief mate and four of the crew put off after the drowning man. The captain then altered the course of the steamer, no easy task from the rate of speed on, and went after the boat. _ This was done so expeditiously that in a few minutes the steamer was up to the fellow, who was at his last gasp. Captain Hepburn saw this, and knowing no time must be lost where a life was at stake, clapned a bowline under his arms and jumped overboard. He then held the exhausted man afloat until both wore soon after taken on board. The rescued man was taken into the cabin, stretched on the table, and the usual restorative means taken, the captain superintending in his wet clothes. After about twenty minutes’ labor and anxiety their efforts were rewarded. The partially dead or drunken fireman fetched a deep sigh, opened his eyes, and on meeting the well known swarthy and dark-bearded face of bis captain bending over him, he rather amused those in the cabin by ejaculating, “By , Black Jack, I owe my life to you.” But checking himself, he added, “ I beg pardon, Captain * Hepburn. ” Soon after the fellow once more began talking of jumping overboard again, but changed his mind on being invited to do so, and told that no one would go after him. The captain dropped him at Poverty Bay, having had somewhat too much of the fellow, A violent , cold will keep the recollections of his exploit in the captain’s mind with some freshness for a week or two. The fireman’s name is Palmer.