Shipping.

Evening Star, Issue 3177, 26 April 1873, Page 2

Shipping.

HIGH WATER. To-morrow. Heaps 1 Port Chalmers I Dunedin 3.20 p.m. 1 3.45 p.m. j 4.30 p.ra. CUSTOM HOUSE, DUNEDIN. This Day. INWARDS. Stormbird, 07 tons, Eraser, from Bluff. Flying Squirrel, 10 tons, Hughes, from Molyncux. OUTWARDS. jane Anderson, '.Hi tons, Paterson, for Kakanui. lledoliffe, 22 tons, Urquhart, for Mocraki. Mary Van Every, 41. tons, Dawson, for Oam aru. . Meteor, 43 tons, Mason, for Napier. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. City of Bombay, for London, May 5. Lutterworth, for London, May 15 (.laud Hamilton, for Melbourne, via Bluff, May 2 Alhambra, for Melbourne aud Northern Ports, May 2 Taranaki, for Northern Ports, April 29 Maori, for Timaru and Lyttelton, April 27. Storm Bird, for Bluff and Invercargill, April 28. Wanganui, for Wanganui, April 30 Beautiful Star, for Timaru and Lyttelton, April 29 Samson, for Oamarn, April 29 Flying Squirrel, for Kaitangata, April 29. Vessels in Port Chalmers Bay this day Ship: Lutterworth. Barque; East Lothian. At the Railway Pier Ships : City of Bombay, Euterpe. Barque: Hadda. Tho Maori, for Lyttelton and intermediate ports, nails to-morrow, at mid-day. The Taranaki and Wanganui are both expected at Port Chalmers to-morrow, A thick drizzling rain continued all day at the Port, stopping all work in connection with the shipping, and completely obscuring the Heads from"view. Should any vessel be outside, it would almost be impossible for it to come up harbor. As throwing some light on the natural processes that are at work effecting geographical changes on the earth's surface, Captain Brown, mnv°a resident at Forest Hill, sends ns the following extract from the Japan Mail, wherein R appears as part of a report furnished by our correspondent, who was tb.cn master of the British barque Jane Spiers, trading between Saigon and YokohamaAt 5 a.m. on the Kith March passed ten miles to the westward of Pona-piden Island ; at noon Smith’s Island bore N.N.W. dist. eight miles, when we observed .a large volume of steam aud white smoke rising from the water, about four to the north and west of Smith’s Island ; this continued at : itevvaL, bursting and curling out and spreading to a considerable extent around the spot. At 2 p.m. passed over ,-boal eolorc I water, biff no soundings eould be got at twentyfive fathoms. Smith’s Island at this time bore N.W. by W., lat. at noon 30.11 N., long. 149.1 E!, bar. 30.22, thor. 70. _ The shoal -water Stretches from the volcano in a M.E. direction ; at 4 p.m. tacked ship to the N.W., the volcano then bearing W. by N. I N., no rock nor reef could bo seen in the vicinity of the volcano. Tho smoke, ike., seemed, as far as we were able to judge, to come from the water, no crater being visible, although it is possible that it was hid by the dense volume of smoke. Mr Grillin, the chief officer, saw two vivid Hashes of fire come from the spot at 7.30 p.m., which then hove W.S.W., another huge body of fire was seen to emerge from the sjiot at 10.30 p.m. No soundings could be got when passing within five miles of the volcano at twenty-five fathoms.” The indications above noted would lead us to infer that a new island was about to emerge from ocean’s depths. In that case there would he a danger “not laid down in the charts” whereon tho unwary mariner might suffer shipwreck. —South I(ind New*.