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Evening Star, Issue 3157, 2 April 1873, Page 2

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HIGH WATER To-morrow. Heads I Pout Chalmers I Dunedin 0.56 p.m. 1 7.20 p.m. | 8.11 p.m. PORT CHALMERS. ARRIVED. April 2.—Maori, 118 tons, Malcolm,' from Lyttelton and intermediate ports. Passengers : Mrs Cameron and child, Mr Williams, Dr Richardson, Messrs Roberts, Herbert, Ingram, Sullivan, Dean, Hughes, Connor, and six in the steerage. SATTiKD. Free Trader, 200 tons, Miles, for Hobart Town. CUSTOM HOUSE, DUNEDIN. Tins Day. INWARDS. Maori, 118 tons, Malcolm, from Timaru. Pretty Jane, s.s., 101 tons, Christian, from Oaniaru. OUTWARDS. Paterson, 200 tons, Kennedy, for the Bluff. projected departures. Nebraska, for Sau Francisco, April 10 City of Duuediu, for London, April 7. Agiies Muir, for London, April 7 Margaret Galbraith, for Loudon, April 10 Alhambra, for Northern Ports, April 5 Tararua, for Bluff, April 4. Chattanooga, for Hong Kong, April 10 Zeahmdia, for London, April 10 Maori, for Lyttleton, April 3 City of Bombay, for Loudon, May 5. Beautiful Star, for Timaru, April 3. Samson, for Oaraaru, April 4 Vessels in Port Chalmers Bay yesterday Ships : Margaret Galbraith, City of Dunedin. Barques: Duke of Edinburgh, Eleanor, Formosa. Three-masted schooner: Margaret Campbell. At the Railway Pier;- Ships : City of Bombay, Beautiful Star, Zeahmdia. The Harbor Company’s steamer Maori returned from her Northern trip at b.30 a.m. to-day, and berthed alongside the Margaret Galbraith, to discharge her grain. The Maori left Lyttelton wharf at 2 p.m. on the 31st ult., and arrived at Akaroa at 7.30 p.m. ; left again at 9 35 on the same day, and arrived at Timaru at 7.15 on the Ist April; left at 6 p.m., and arrived at Port Chalmers as above. We thank Mr Street, her steward, for our Northern files. The barque Free Trader, for Hobart Town, was towed to sea this morning by the Geelong. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. Auckland, April 1, 10 p.m. : Nebraska, from Honolulu, with the San Francisco mail. April 2, 0 a.m. : Wonga Wonga, from Sydney, With thirty-five passengers, A POLAR CONTINENT DISCOVERED. Nows of a deeply interesting nature is given in a despatch from' San Francisco in the New York papers, regarding M. Pavy’s expedition to W rang el Land/the name given to the range of peaks sighted by Peterman to the north of the eastern extremity of Siberia, but of which beyond tills nothing has hitherto been known: The barque Cadmus, sent out to _ recover property from the wrecked whalers in the Antic Sea," has returned to Sau Francisco with despatches from M. Pavy s expedition, leceived from the master of the whaling ship Robbias on September 28, and bearing date of Aimist 23, from the east coast of Wrangei Land, in latitude 74‘38, 17618 W. The following' synopsis is from the original despatches addressed to the 1 rench Geographical Society : —lhe expedition, consisting of M. Octave Pavy, commandei : liofessor*Thomas Newcomb, Henry Edwards, of San Francisco, Jean Brnll, and four seamen, landed on the east shore of Knlyuehinska Bay, in about lat. 67 N., long. 176 W., from the brig Albatross on the 18th of June, ihe party started eastward on the northern shore of Siberia on the 22nd, augmented by 11 natives, and provided with dogs and sledges, ihe outlets of the several large streams were crossed, and on the 17th of July the month of the Pctrolitz River was reached. From this point the ice existed in immense detached fields, having a steady movement to the N.L. The party set out due north for the south shore of v\ range! Land, crossing a single ice-floe of 60 miles m breadth In this distance the observations show™ I that the party hail been carried eighteen miles out of their hearings by the iee-ffoe. M. Pavy etermined the accuracy of his theory of the oncentratiou and increased velocity of the branch of the great “Ku Ro Siml (Japanese current) setting through Behring Straits and winding eastward off the Siberian coast. The ice-raft, constructed of inflated hags of prej>areil rubber, was launched at intervals, and open stretches of water were crossed of varying widths from thirty to sixty miles. Ihe coast of Wrangei Land was reached at the mouth of a large stream flowing from the north-west, not laid down iu any of the charts. Ibis discovery establishes the’ theory of the > existence of a large Polar continent reaching far to the north, and having a summer temperature sufficiently warm to melt the snows, ihe current of the river turns eastward, and sweeps along* the open coast. M. decided upon following the course of the stream northward, and the expedition had penetrated 200 miles. Its course was uniformly through a leval valley, varying from five to sixty miles iu breadth, skirted by mountain ranges of great height, and at different points rising in perpendicular cliffs and exposing faces of bare rook. Eighty miles from the month of this river, on the open plain, the party discovered traces of the remains of the extinct mastodon, and on excavating where the tusks of one protruded above the snow, the immense body was found in a perfect state of picsei vatimi. The hide was covered with a thin growth of black, wiry bristles, becoming more thick and long along the ridge of the back. The tusks mciisnred lift Sin from point to base, and curve t<> the elevation of the animal s eyes. Ihe forelegs were kneeling, and the rear pai t deeply embedded in the snow, the posture indicating that the animal was endeavoring to emerge from snow or water when overtaken by death. Professm; Newcnrib was unable to determine differences amounting to a distinct order from the elephant of the present period. The contents of the animals stomach were examined, and exhibited specimens of barks and grasses which have not yet been subjected to satisfactory tests. The plain for many miles bore traces of these remains, and indicated that a vast herd of these enormous beasts had been overwhelmed by some great natural convulsion at a former period. In this region the polar bear abounded, and feasted upon this anciently preserved food. One hundred and twenty miles from the coast a solid cliff of ice, 1,000 feet in height, approaches within half a league of the river, which is surrounded with a layer of gravel and large boulders thirty feet in depth where it crops out beneath the snow. The stones were smooth and rounded, having evidently been raised by some inexplicable course of nature from beneath awatei snifaee. Aictic animals are found along this valley in great abundance, and myriads of birds follow the course of the stream. M. Pavy expected to winter in latitude 75, iu the valley of the -mit river of the polar continent, and was about to commence the collection of animal materials for food and fuel, which weic icadily attainable. The party were iu good health and spirits, and fully confident of reaching an open polar sea and a moderate temperature on the northern limits of this continent, at an early period next season, and will thence proceed eastward to the Atlantic through Melville Sound. The despatches contain reports of some extent, detailing the scientific observations of the expedition, which are withheld fiom inspection before reaching their destination, EntjlUh paper.