Shipping.

Evening Star, Issue 3171, 19 April 1873, Page 2

Shipping.

HIGH WATER. To-mohrow. Heads I Port Chalmers I Dunedin 8.46 p.m. I [9.16 p.m. I 10.1 p.m. PORT CHALMERS. arrived. April 19—Meteor, from Oamaru. sailed, April 19—Friendship, 62 tons, Francis, for Kaitangata. CUSTOM HOUSE,’DUNEDIN. This Day. inwards. Jane, 25 tons, Campbell, from Shag Point. Pretty Jane, 101 tons, Christian from Timaru. OUTWARDS. Beautiful Star, 546 tons, Bilton, for Lyttleton. Mary Ogilvie,- 72 tons, Falconer, for Oamaru, Jane, 25 tons, Campbell, for Shag Point. Pretty Jane, 101 tons, Christian, for Molyneux. Awarua, 48 tons, Gilroy, for Bluff. Edinburgh, tons, Crabbe, for Moeraki, PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Margaret Galbraith, for London, April 21 Chattanooga, for Hong Kong, April'2o City of Bombay, for Loudon, May 5. East Lothian, for Auckland, in a few days Wellington, for Lyttelton, kc., April 22. Dagmar, for Oamaru, April 21 _ Hope, for Moeraki and Kakanui, April 21 Wallabi, for Southern ports, early Lutterworth, for London, May 15 Claud Hamilton, for Melbourne, via Bluff, May 2 Alhambra, for Melbourne and Northern Ports, May 2 Mary Van Every, for Hokitika, early Emulous, for Auckland, April 22. Stonnbird, for Invercargill, April 21. Samson, for Oaraai a, April 22

The Samson sailed out last night for Oamaru.

The Margaret Galbraith sails on Monday for London, with a full cargo of grain and preeerved meats. She also takes a few passengers. The Albion was detained until 8 o’clock last night, owing to the quantity of cargo which had to be landed and taken on board since her arrival. On Thursday morning over 300 tons of cargo were sent to Dunedin, and about 100 tons put on board, which included some huge blocks of Oamaru stone, the transhipping of which took some time, and tended considerably to the detention of the vessel. The night was very dark, and not at all favorable for taking a large steamer like the Albion out. She was, however, safely taken out under the command of Pilot Paton.

The Friendship beat out yesterday morning for the Molyneux for another cargo of Kaitangata coal. The brig Australia arrived yesterday from Hokianga, N.Z., after a most trying passage. She left on the 3rd instant, and on the third day out she sprung a leak, which has been increasing ever since, and reached 18 inches per hour. This necessitated all hands being kept at the pumps, and when she arrived in this port, and moored alongside the Washington Wharf, at Miller’s Point, she had 6ft. of water in her hold. South-east winds prevailed until making the land. —Newcastle Chronicle, April 1, 1873, A MYSTERY OF THE SEA. The Gibraltar Chronicle relates a story which toight have given a hint to Edgar Poe or Coleridge. The Dei Gratia, British ship, on sth December, fell in with an American brigantine, the Mary Celeste, in lat. 38.20 N., and long., 17.15 W. The master boarded her, and found her abandoned, from no apparent cause. She was perfectly sound, had suffered from no storm, a small phial filled with oil being found perpendicular, and nothing whatever had been injured. A sword which was in the cabin was found to be smeared with blood, the top-gallant rail had marks on it of blood, and both bows of the vessel had been cut with some sharp instrument. The captain’s effects were of value, and there had been a lady and child on board. It is not mentioned whether the boats were gone, but the theory would seem to be that the crew, or part of them, murdered the captain, ran the vessel towards the Azores, and escaped in the boats, carrying off the lady and child with them.