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Evening Star, Issue 3193, 15 May 1873, Page 2

Shipping.

HIGH WATER. To-morrow. \ Heads 1 Port Chalmers j Dunedin 5.28 p.m. I 5.58 p.m, | 6.43 p.m.

PORT CHALMERS. ' ARRIVED.

May 15—Albion, 591 tons, M'Lean, from Melbourne, via the Bluff. Passengers—Miss Skelly, Miss Fyans and servant, Mrs R. Lawe, Mrs Clark, Dr Knight, Rev, J. Clark, Messrs Campbell, Jackson, Croconibc, Mussen, J. Duncan, Alexander, J. Southern, Leckic, J. Tennant, M. Benjamin, T. H. Bates, Houghton, Walters, G. Hall, A. Campbell, Rees, Seed, Mr and Mrs Branson, and seven in the steerage. Maori, 118 tons, Malcolm, from Lyttelton and intermediate ports. Passengers—M iss Sly, Messrs gScott, Puflett (2), Epyro, Mr and Mrs Johnson, and four in the steerage. Storm Bird, 67 tons, Frazer, from the Bluff, Passengers Mcadames Longford, Fordham, Tollock, Feeney, Messrs Risetto, Travers, Taylor, and Master Tullock.

BAILED.

May 14. Oreti, 60 tons, Bartlett, for Oamaru. Rangitoto, 419 tons, Mackie, for Melbourne, via Bluff. Passengers : For Bluff—Messrs W. S. Trotter, Johnson, M‘Laren ; and three in the steerage. For Melbourne—Miss Coneys, Messrs Copeland, I. Isaac, Trestrail, Nesbitt, W. A. M'Donald; and seven in the steerage. May 15—Rangatira, 179 tons, Hepburn, for the North.

CUSTOM HOUSE, DUNEDIN. This Day.

inwards. ’ Maori, 118 tons, Malcolm, from Timaru Pretty Jane, 101 tons, Christian, from Oamaru Storm Bird, 67 tons, Fraser, from the Bluff Jane Hannah, 52 tons, Kerns, from Gatlin’s River Albion, 591 tons, M‘Lean, from the Bluff Mermaid, 12 tons, Mussen, from Waikouaiti

OUTWARDS.

Glencoe, 159 tons, Lewis, for Auckland

PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Albion, for Northern Ports, May 16 Maori, for Lyttelton, May 16 Wild Deer, for London, early William Davie, for London, early Lutterworth, for London, May 21 Friendship, for Moeraki, curly Taranaki, for Northern Ports, May 20 Jessie, for Oamaru, early Wanganui, for Northern Ports, May 20 Storm Bird, for Bluff, May 16 Hope, for Moeraki, early Thomas and Henry, for Newcastle, May 20

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

The Storm Bird arrived from the Bluff and Riverton at 6 o’clock this morning, discharged her wool for the City of Bomb y and proceeded on to Dunedin at G. 30 a.m. She left Riverton at 2 a.m. on the 14th, and arrived at the Bluff at 5.30 a.m. ; left at 11.25 a.rn. same day, arriving in Port Chalmers as above. Experienced strong N.N.E. weather from the Nuggets till arrival. The Harbor Company’s steamer Maori returned from her Northern trip at 2 o’clock this morning. Captain Malcolm reports leaving Lyttelton last Monday evening at 6 o’clock, and arrived at Timaru the next morning at 7 ; left yesterday at 4 p.m., having experienced fine weather throughout. On arrival she steamed alongside the City of Bombay, and discharged '319 bags of grain, and afterwards discharged 972 bags into the Lutterworth. Messrs M'Meckan and Blackwood’s steamer Albion arrived in Port Chalmers shortly after daylight this morning with the Suez mail, which was taken to Dunedin by a special train. She cleared Port Phillip Heads on the Bth at 6 p.m.; passed Swan Island at 2 p.m. the followin'' day, and experienced light W. and S.W. winds, arriving at the Bluff at 11 a.m. on the 13th, after a fine run of four and a-half days. Left the Bluff at 5.15 p.m. on the 14th, having been detained by the bad weather, arriving at Port Chalmers as above. We thank Mr Norris, hexpurser, for our Melbourne files. The Albion sails for Melbourne, via the North, again tomorrow. The schooner that was built by Mr Sutherland in Carey’s Bay was launched yesterday afternoon, without being named, and at present it is unknown what she will be called. She has been purchased by Messrs Thompson Bros., of Port Chalmers, and is intended to trade on this coast. Judging from her appearance, she will be a craft very well adapted to the trade, being of light draught and large carrying capacities, and is expected to sail well. This makes the third vessel launched in Port Chalmers this year. We regret to learn (says the China Mail of February 0) that the Thales brings intelligence of the loss of the well-known tea-clipper Serica on the Parades. The German barque Johann Smidt carried the information to Saigon ; the saddest part of the story being that only one survivor lives to tell the tale, he having been picked up at Triton Rocks. The entire crew perished on the rocks, with the of this one man, who was picked up by a passing junk, and convoyed to Tonron. The captain of the German vessel offered the man a passage to Saigon, which he declined, preferring to remain at Tonron, where he is being very well treated by the natives. The Serica left Hongkong for Mauritius on October 21, 1872, to load for Monte Video. The following statement by Captain Hageinan, of the Johann Smidt, has been placed at our disposal“ Two days before my departure from Touron, I was told by an Annamite that there was a European on shore in the house of the first Mandarin, I went there and found a man, who said ho was a sailor (name not intelligible.) He had been boatswain on board of the British ship Serica. The Serica had left Hong Kong on Saturday morning, bound to Monte Video, and the following evening, between seven and eight o’clock, struck on a reef which, as the captain afterwards said, was the north shoals of the Parades. It being very ■tormy, the masts,, boats, and deck-house were ■Bwept away by the sea. The crew made a raft, Kvided themselves with some provisions, and the ship. They consisted of twenty-eight bands. The captain died after four days, and eight men died a few days later. On the eighth day water and all provisions were finished. During the tenth night the raft was smashed on a rock, whereby the remaining crew, except one of them, were drowned. The surviving man found some rain water, and lived on shells found on the rocks. On the sixteenth day he was saved by a fisherman, and brought on shore to a French missionary, who provided him withfood, and with whom he stayed six days. He was then handed over to a Mandarin, and was sent to Touron in a palanquin, where he arrived on the evening of the 20th January, after a journey of three weeks. He speaks very favorably of the treatment he received on the journey, and in Touron.

SHIPPING TELEGRAM.

Bluff, May 15. Rangitoto, from Port Chalmers. She sailed for Melbourne, at noon.