Shipping.

Evening Star, Issue 3169, 17 April 1873, Page 2

Shipping.

HIGH WATER. Tomorrow. Heads 1 Port Chalmers I Dunedin 6.28 p.m. 1 6.58 p.m. | 7.43 p.m.

POET CHALMERS, arrived.

April 17. —Albion, 591 tons, M'Lean, from Melbourne, via the Bluff. Passengers : Mr and Mrs D. Campbell, Mr and Mrs Mowatt, Mr and Mrs Dalgleish, Mr and Mrs Lachlan M‘Cowan (comedians), Miss Brown, Miss S. Foster, Captain A. M'Kinnon. Captain Main, Rev. G. Smith, Messrs F. Walker, H. Gibbs, J. Marbery, Holmes, A. Smythe, and Rennie; 15 in the steerage, and 20 for the North.

CUSTOM HOUSE, DUNEDIN. This Day. INWARDS. Albion, 591 tons, M'Lean, from Bluff.

OUTWARDS. Anne, 29 tons, Haswell, for Moeraki. Zealandia, 1,116 tons, Curry, for London,

PROJECTED DEPARTURES. City of Dunedin, for London, April 17. Margaret Galbraith, for Loudon, April 19 Chattanooga, for Hong Kong, April 20 Zealandia, for London, April 17 City of Bombay, for London, May 5. Albion, for Lyttelton, April 18 Pretty Jane, for Port Molyneux, April 17 East Lothian, for Auckland, in a few days Storm Bird, for Bluff, April 21 Awarua, for Bhiff, April 19 Maori, for Timam, Ac., April 18 Wellington, for Ljrtfcelton, &c., April 22. Dagmar, for Oaraaru, April 20 Hope, for Moeraki and Kakanui, April 20 Wallabi, for Southern ports, early Samson, for Oamaru, April 18

The Margaret Campbell hauled away from the pier this morning, and sails to-morrow morning. . . . The Zealandia was getting ready for sea as our despatches left the Port, ihere are a number of bets as to the run home between her and the City of Dunedin. . Messrs M'Meckan and Co.’s steamer Albion arrived in Port Chalmers at 6.30 a.m. to-day, and steamed alongside the railway pier, astern of the City of Bombay. A special train was sent down, and her mails and passengers at once conveyed to Dunedin. Capt. M ‘Lean reports leaving Port Phillip Heads at 5.30 p.m. on the 10th inst.; passed Swan Island at 4.30 p.m. on the following clay. Experienced light variable winds the first day, then strong east and southeast winds till arrival off Bluff Harbor at 2 a.m. on the 10th ; entered at 6 a.m., leaving at 5 p.m. the same day, and .arrived at Port Chalmers as above. We thank Mr Norris, her purser, for our Melbourne and Invercargill files.

SHIPPING TELEGRAM.

Bluff, April 17.—The Eangitoto arrived from Dunedin this morning, and sailed for Melbourne at eleven o’clock.

JACK ASHORE.

“Pay-day” on board H.M.S. Clio bavin# Come round during the recent stay of the ship at Hobart Town, the tars are reported to have Celebrated the event as follows : —About a dozen men had hired an omnibus, which had been decorated in a decidedly novel fashion. A piece of quartering had been nailed on the roof lengthways, and “ astern ” the projection served as a sort of davit, to which a wheelbarrow had been slung. On the piece of quartering that projected over the front ot the ’bus, a large doll had been fixed as a figure-head, and there was a barrel of beer on the box. There were various other decorations, including some sheets of painted canvas, bearing mottoes, and three or four large flags. The costumes of some of the occupants of the vehicle were most extraordinary. One had his trousers ornamented with rope ends, which hung like scalp locks from the legging of a Red Indian, another was dressed iu parti-colored trousers of blue and white, two were dressed in women’s costume, with flowers in their hair, while others wore battered white hats of the belltopper order. A cab that was driven behind the ’bus also contained some strangely dressed individuals. As the vehicles were driven through the town, one of the men in the omnibus took soundings with a bunch carrots tied to a long string, and same operation was carried on iu the cab behind, a sheep’s head serving for the lead in this instance. The sailors all seemed bent on fun, and they drove through the streets singing merrily. Whenever the omnibus and the cab stopped, and it was time to start again, the order “all aboard” was shouted out, and the driver was commanded to “shove off” without delay. Coming up Elizabeth street, at half-past three o’clock in the afternoon, a marine fell from the box of the’bus. The cry of a “man overboard” was raised, the vehicle was “brought to,” the wheelbarrow lowered, and the marine placed in it and restored to his former seat on the box. Subsequently, several members of the police force were severely handled by the sailors in an attempt to apprehend several of the men by order of the Commodore.