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Evening Star, Issue 3194, 16 May 1873, Page 2

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HIGH WATER To-mokkow. Heads I Port Chalmers I Dunedin 6.18 p.m. 1 6.48 p.m. j 7.33 p.m.

PORT CHALMERS. ARRIVED. May 16.—Wallabi, 101 tons, Leys, from the Bluff.

SAILED. May 16.—Dunedin, 66 tons, Stewart, for Napier.

CUSTOMHOUSE, DUNEDIN. This Day.

inwards.

Wallabi, 101 tons, Leys, from Bluff. Margaret Scollay, 16 tons, Scollay, from Stewart’s Island. Hope, 21 tons, Gay, from Kakanui. OUTWARDS.

Margaret Scollay, 16 tons, Scollay, for Stewart’s Island. Sydney Griffiths, 333 tons, Knarston, for Newcastle. Pretty Jane, 101 tons, Christian, for Molyneux.

Albion, 591 tons, M'Lean, for Lyttelton. Passengers: Mr and Mrs Camithers, Mrs Lees and son, Judge Chapman, Dr Crawford, Mr G. E. Barton, and eight in the steerage. Maori, 118 tons, Malcolm, for Timaru. Hadda, 320 tons, Henrichsen, for Newcastle.

PROJECTED DEPARTURES, Samson, for Oamaru, May 19 Lady Bird, for Northern Ports, May 27 Excelsior, for Auckland, early Wallabi, for Bluff, Slay 19 Wild Deer, for London, early William Davie, for London, early Lutterworth, for London, May 21 Friendship, for Moeraki, early Taranaki, for Northern Ports, May 20 Wanganui, for Northern Ports, May 20 Storm Bird, for Bluff, May 17 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 Hemy. Brigantine: Ottawa. At the Railway Pier Ships: Euterpe, William Davie, Oberon.

The topsail schooner Dunedin, sailed this morning for Napier. The Albion, for Melbourne, via the North, sails this evening. The Maori, for Lyttelton and intermediate ports, and Pretty Jane, for Port Molyneux, sail this evening. The steamer Wallabi, from the Bluff, arrived off the Heads at 6 p.m. yesterday, where she stopped until this morning. Captain Leys reports leaving Invercargill at 5.30 on Wednesday night, and experienced fine weather with a heavy easterly swell. The Eliza M‘Phce was passed off Catlm’s River on Thursday morning. She brings a full cargo of timber for Oamaru, which will probably be transhipped into the Jane Anderson, which vessel comes off the slip this afternoon.

WRECK OF THE ADVANCE,

We regret to have to chronmlo the total Wreck, on Friday last, of the cutter Advance — trading between Waikouaiti and Dunedin—at the Sandspit. About half-past 12 on Friday it was high tide, and the vessel was unmoored from the landing-stage and proceeded down the river. A strong ebb tide was flowing at the time, and the fresh in the river was very heavy. Between the two, there being no wind by which to guide her, the craft became unmanageable, and was thrown on the -sandbank in being forced down the wrong channel, and could not be removed. The weather looking fine, and wind calm, with every appearance of its continuance, Captain Latimer, finding all efforts to remove the vessel futile that tide, determined to postpone any farther attempt until next tide, being sanguine that ho would accomplish it all right. Thick heavy weather, however, set in the same night, bringing with it a heavy sea from the south-east, which caused the vessel to strike violently on the sandspit, and before sfie could be got off she commenced to make water. Eventually, however, the vessel was shifted into deep water, when she began to sink, with a rough sea, and the waves breaking - over her. The captain and hands on board saved themselves with difficulty by lowering the dingy and jumping into it. They had, however, no sooner reached the opposite shore than the boat stove in. The next day she broke Up. Very little cargo was saved. No blame is attached to Captain Latimer, who, with his crew, did his best to extricate the craft, but the misfortune is attributed to the fresh in the river having deepened the wrong channel and drifted his vessel in spite of him in that direction, where she was stranded. The craft was, we understand, uninsured, and Captain Latimer will recover very little save the tackling. His loss will, consequently, be a very heavy one, and is to be deplored. Mr Harper informs us that he has not seen such a heavy swell for the last eight years as has been experienced during the last few days. —Waikouaiti Herald.