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Evening Star, Issue 3191, 13 May 1873, Page 2

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HIGH WATER. To-morrow. „ Hb .ds 1 Port Chalmers 1 Dunedin 42 p.m, 1 4.3/p.m. # | 5.17 p.m.

PORT CHALMERS. SAILED.

May 13—Beautiful Star, s.s.', 146 tons, Hart, for Lyttelton and intermediate Ports.

CUSTOM HOUSE, DUNEDIN. This Day. inwards.

Pretty Jane, 101 tons, "Christian, from MolyThomas and Henry, 2J5 tons, Clark, from Newcastle.

■OUTWARDS. Wellington, 262 tons, Carey, for Timaru. Pretty Jane, 101 tons, Christian, for Orunam Beautiful Star, 146 tons, Hart, for Timaru,

PROJECTED DEPARTURES.

City of Bombay, for London, May 14. Rangitoto, for Melbourne, May 14 Albion, for Northern Ports, May 15 Rangatira, for Northern Ports, May 14 Maori, for Lyttelton, May 15 Pretty Jane, for Port Molyneux, May 15 Excelsior, for Auckland, May 14

Vessels in Tort Chalmers Bay this day : Ships; Lutterworth, Wild Deer. Barques : Hadda, Sydney Griffiths, Frowning Beauty, Eleanor, P.C.E. Brig: Thomas and Henry. At the Railway Pier Ships : City of Bombay, Euterpe, William Davie, Oberon. Bng: Speedy.

The s.s. Beautiful Star was shifted off the Sandbank early<fchis morning. She sailed at mid-day for Lyttelton and intermediate ports. The barque P.C E., another Newcastle vessel, -was towed in shortly after the Thomas and Henry. She left on April 21, and for the first three days had a succession of S. and S.E. gales; from that time till making the land had light and variable weather. Preservation Inlet was made on May 4, when strong easterly winds set in, with thick foggy weather; had a dead beat through the Straits, and did not clear Ruapuke Island till the Bth; passed the Nuggets on the 11th, and anchored under Otago Heads on Sunday, at 5 p.m. We have also to thank Captain Samson for files. _ The brig Thomas and Henry has again been the most fortunate of the Newcastle vessels, making the best passage of any. She was signalled from the flagstaif during the forenoon yesterday, and' took advantage of the easterly wind ana sailed in. Captain Clark reports leaving Newcastle on April 28, with light W. N.W. winds. On the 29th spoke the bng Alarm, which is chartered by Captain Clark, for the Bluff ; from thence hail strong-W. and N.W. winds. The Solanders were sighted on May 10; passed through the Straits the same night; passed the steamer Wallabi, off Waikava, on Sunday morning. We thank Capt. Clark for Newcastle papers up to the day of sailing. The barque Eleanor, from Newcastle was towed up the harbor on Sunday evening. Capt. Stephens reports leaving on the 18th April, and for the first eleven days had a succession of J3.E. gales, during which the vessel was hove-to for forty-eight hours. The Solanders were made on the 4th of May; passed through Foveaux Straits on the same evening; made the Nuggets on Monday, sth inst., at midnight; on Tuesday, at 8 p.m., Cape Saunders bore N. by E. ten miles distant. Strong gales from the N.E. then set in, with thick foggy weather, completely obscuring the land, when she was driven south again. On Thursday, the 18th, was off the Nuggets again, with wind still strong from the N. At 8 a.m. on Sunday nvorning sighted Cape Saunders, when she got ja slant of wind from the southward, enabling her to run to the Heads. We thank Captain Stephens for Newcastle papers to date of sailing. The Eleanor would be the vessel reported off Cape Saunders last week. The reports of vessels which arrived yesterday show that the gales which have been experienced in Auckland for the last ten days have been felt along the entire coast. Captain Carter, of the barque Alice Cameron, which experienced the gale in all its fury on the North Cape, reports that he has never before -encountered such fearful weather. Alice Cameron was hove-to under maintopsail for a week. She was twenty -nine days x>n the passage, of which about ten days were gpent in the vicinity of the North Cape. She had her skylights broken and her decks Ewept by the heavy seas running. The s.s. St. Kilda, from the Manukau, also caught the gale in all its fury off the North Cape, And had to lay-to for two days under Cape Maria, unable to get round. She had a portion of her bulwarks stove in. The schooner Dauntless felt the full force of the weather, flqJ bad to put into Wangaroa ; but after leaving this place the gale re commenced, And drove her back 30 miles to the northward of the North Cape, smashing her boat And splitting her foresail, sweeping her decks of watercask, dunnage, &c. The schooner Energy, from Tahiti, was likewi e within the influence of the gale, but suffered no damage. The schooner Herald, from Hokionga, suffered severely, and the numerous /fleet of vessels which arrived yesterday from different parts of the coast, report the gales tas being the heaviest that have been known ior years past.— N. Z. Herald, May 8.

SHIPPING! TELEGRAM,

Bluff. —May 13; Alarm, brig, from Newcastle. The Albion is detained by bad weather, and sails to-morrow night. Timaru.—l3th, 10 a.m. : Rangitoto, for Dunedin.

EXTRAORDINARY TALE.—A MAN IN AN OPEN BOAT WITHOUT FOOD OR WATER FOR TWENTY - TWO DAYS, By the arrival of the schooner Energy, from Tahiti, we {N. Z. Herald) are placed in possession of the particulars of the picking up of a 'man in an open boat, after being without either food or water for a period of twenty-two days. We are indebted rto Captain Campbell for the ffollowing story :—While the Energy was on her woyage from Rorotonga to Tahiti, m February last, and when in lat. 23deg S., and long. 159deg W,, a boat was fallen in with, containing a Kanaka, who was sitting on the thwarts nodding his head from side to side in a most extraordinary manner. The man was brought on board the schooner, when he was found to be a •perfect skeleton, and presented a frightful ■spectacle of skin and bone. It was at •once seen -that the poor fellow was in the very last stage of starvation. Nourishment was administered to him very sparingly, and with proper treatment he came roundT On gaining a little strength, he told -his story, from which it appeared that he and three other Kanakas had left Pamuta Island for an island adjoining, having in the boat a ••cargo of firewood. A sudden squall came on, and the boat was capsized. Two of the men were drowned. The other two hung on to the boat, and ultimately managed to right her and get into her and bail her out. Without a morsel of food, ora drop of water, a fearful prospect now stared them in the face— the boat drifting rapidly from the island. For two and twenty days it continued to drift, and when it wa« picked up it was 900 miles ffom the Island of Pamuta. How the poor wretches lived so long without any assistance, is most astonishing. *The survivor stated to the captain that two days Before the schooner fell in with the boat the other Kanaka died, ami that the body fell overTboard. Captain Campbell is of opinion that, in all probability, the surviving Kanaka par4ook of a meal off his dead companion, and then threw the body overboard. Ihe survivor (received every attention from Capt. Campbell and the crew ox the Energy, and when the vessel arrived at Tahiti he was put on shore. When .the vessel left again, we are informed that he had finite recovered, and was even gettmg tat. We have heard many stories of men having lived many days without food or water, but we never before heard of even a Kanaka keeping body and soul together without anything in his stomach for such a length of time. It is more than probable that the Kanaka was delirious, and mistook the number of the days lie was imprisoned in the boat; but he assured Captain Campbell that he had very carefully kept the time, and that the number of days was exactly twenty-two. The story is an extraordinary one, but we give it exactly as we heard it from the captain.