Shipping.

Evening Star, Issue 3164, 10 April 1873, Page 2

Shipping.

HIGH WATER. To -MORROW. TTfvps 1 Pout Chalmers I Dunedin 1.59 p.m. 1 2.29 p.m. | 3.11 p.m. PORT CHALMERS. arrived. „il 10—S-imson, 121 tons, Edie, from Ouiiam. Passengers : Mrs Campbell and servant, Mrs Edie, Messrs Burton, M‘Gavin, Langley, Parker, M'Farlanc, Bardaley, Armstrong, Smith and son, and three in the steerARC. Storm Bird, 67 tons. Eraser, from Bluff. Passengers : Miss Morrison, Mr Seaward, Mr Stincn, and two in the steerage. CUSTOM HOUSE, DUNEDIN. Tina Day. inwards. Nebraska, 2,143 tons, Hauling, from Lyttelton Result, 11 tons, Kelly, from Waikouaiti. Ericndship, 53 tons, Francis, from Molynenx. Samson, 121 tons, Edie, from Oamaru. OUTWARDS. Maori, 118 tons, Malcolm, for Timam. Samson, 124 tons, Edie, from Oamaru. Friendship, 53 tons, Francis, for Molynenx. Lloyd’s Herald, 48 tons, Henry, for Gatlin’s River. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. City of Dunedin, for London, April 12. Margaret Galbraith, for London, April 12 Chattanooga, for Hong Kong, April 10 iSealimdia, for London., April 15 City of Bombay, for London, May 5. Rangitoto, for Bluff, April 16 Albion, for Lyttelton, April 17 Samson, for Oamaru, April 11 Storm Bird, for Bluff, April 12 Defiance, for Moeraki, April 10 Cora, for Wanganui, April 10 Pretty Jane, for Port Molyneux, April 14 Maori, for Lyttelton, April 11 Lady Bird, for Lyttelton, &c., April 13 Nebraska, for San Francisco, April 12 Mary Ogilvie, for Westport, shortly Vessels in Port Chalmers Bay this day : Ships : City of Dunedin, Margaret Galbraith, Lutterworth, Barque: Chattanooga. At the Raff way Pier Ships : Euterpe, City of Bombay, Zealandia. Barques: Formosa, East Lothian. Mail Steamer : Nebraska. The p.s. Samson returned from Oamaru at two o’clock this morning, with a full cargo of wool and grain. She went alongside the Zealandia, and discharged 103 bales of wool ; and then to the Margaret Galbraith to discharge a portion of her grain. The s.s. Storm Bird arrived in Port, from Bluff, at 10.30 a.m. to-day, and steamed alongside the Zealandia to discharge her cargo. She left the Bluff at 1 o’clock on Wednesday evening, and experienced fine weather along the coast. We thank the steward for Southland papers.

A correspondent, who was a steerage passensenger from San Francisco to Auckland in the Moses Taylor and Nebraska, writes to the Southern Cross “As a through passenger from San Francisco I cannot do better than give a brief sketch of our voyage from that City to Auckland. We left San Francisco on Wednesday, March sth, in the p.s. Rioses Taylor. The boilers were in such a bad condition that at no time were they able to work more than half speed, and the cylinders were constantly leaking scalding water on the firemen below. The steam pumps were going the whole passage, and at no time were there less than 7ft of water in the well. Fot innately we had fine weather all the way, for if there had been half a gale of wind we should have run a great risk of going to pieces. The day after we left San Francisco a bolt came out of the boiler, and we had to lie to for some hours until it was put in again. Luckily the bolt came out below the water-line; if it had been above the water, we should have been steamed. Two days before we reached Honolulu the vessel nearly took fire. The sea Water, soaking through the ship’s bottom, had heated the coal to such au extent that if it had not been shifted when it was, spontaneous combustion would have ensued in a few hours after. So great was the danger that all hands, both officers and men, worked in the hold for six hours shovelling coal. We did not know anything about it till the danger was past, as they were afraid of causing a panic amongst the lady passengers. The accommodation in the steerage is something vile —a dark narrow place in the fore-peak, and very badly ventilated. The provisions were of the worst quality, the meat and potatoes being very often both rotten ; the bread either stale scraps from the cabin table, or inferior biscuits. We stood up to our meals round a swinging table on the main deck, as if we were a lot of pigs round a trough. We reached Honolulu on Sunday, March, 16, and left in the Nebraska the same evening.”