Shipping.

Evening Star, Issue 3199, 22 May 1873, Page 2

Shipping.

HIGH WATER. To-morrow. Heads 1 Port Chalmers J Dunedin 241 p.m. 1 1.11 p.m. . I 4.56 p.m.

PORT CHALMERS.

arrived.

Blay 22.—Samson, 125 tons, Edie, from Oamaru. Passengers—Mr Glassby, and twelve in the steerage.

BAILED.

May 22.—Pretty Jane, 101 tons, Christian, for Port Molyneux.

CUSTOM HOUSE, DUNEDIN. This Day.

inwards. Samson, 124 tons, Edie, from Oamaru Friendship, 53 tons, Francis, from Moeraki

OUTWARDS. Friendship, 53 tons, Francis, for Moeraki Beautiful Star, 146 tons, Hart, forTimaru

PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Lady Bird, for Northern Ports, May 27 Excelsior, for Auckland, early Wild Deer, for London, early William Davie, for London, early Lutterworth, for London, May 24 Wanganui, for Northern Ports, May 23 Hope, for Moeraki, May 23 Tararua, for Northern Ports, May 29 Claud Hamilton, for Bluff, May 30 Storm Bird, for Bluff, May 24 Samson, for Oamaru, May 23 Maori, for Lyttelton, May 23 Wallabi, for Bluff, May 24 Thomas and Henry, for Newcastle, May 24

Vessels in Port Chalmers Bay this day Ships: Lutterworth, Wild Deer. Barques : Eleanor, Frowning Beauty, P.C.E., Formosa. Brig : Thomas and Henry. At the railway pj er .—Ships : Euterpe, Oberon, William Davie.

The Pretty Jane, for Port Molyneux, sailed Formosa has commenced discharging her coal into lighters. The other colliers are nearly all empty. . The Oberon has commenced putting ballast in her after hatch. She leaves here for Newcastle, where she will load coal for Shanghai; from there she will load tea for Home. The Samson, from Oamaru, arrived in Port yesterday at 9 p.m. She left at 330 p.m., and reports fine weather outside. This morning she was taken into Murray’s floating dock, for cleaning and painting. There is a full-ngged ship about twenty miles off the Heads. Her name as yet is not made out. The Geelong was getting up steam to go out to her as our despatches left the Port. There was a rep >rt current on Wednesday that a ship was seen off the ocean beach. Had such been the case, she would have shown up before last night. The vessel seen would probably have been one of the two towed out on Monday morning. . The Auckland Evening Star gives the following particulars regarding a relic of the sea : —A life-buoy was picked up by the Herald, schooner, at the North Cape, on her passage to Auckland, bearing the name of Alsager, Liverpool. No notice was taken of the event, and the life-buoy was detained on board. By a curious coincidence the officers and crew of the Alsager are at present in Auckland, two of the latter number being in custody on a charge of scuttling the ship. The second mate happened this rooming to go on board the Herald, recognised the buoy, and supplied the following par-ticulars:-On the 24th June last the vessel, while on her voyage from London to Melbourne, was in latitude 27 S., and long. 173.15 E., when a man fell overboard; the life-buoy was thrown to him by the second mate, but without avail; the man was lost, and the vessel proceeded on her voyage.. Her subsequent career has already been lately before the public; but this buoy, after a course of ten months, drifting 1,300 miles, was picked up off the coast of New Zealand, brought into Auckland, where those who aae enabled to identify it are also thrown here by chance.

A TROOP SHIP IN AN ATLANTIC GALE

The Himalaya troop-ship, Captain W. B. Grant, had an unusually rough voyage of twenty-nine days to Halifax. She left Portsmouth on the 3rd of January with troops. The number of persons on board was 1,430. On the Bth of January (the Land’s End had been cleared on the previous day) a tremendous sea struck the ship on the port side, carried away the cutter, and severely injured the guard. The sergeant in charge had both legs badly fractured. Seven other soldiers sustained severe injuries. The sea poured down into the engine-room, and for a time it was feared that the vessel would founder, but she rode through safety. After eight days’ steaming, the ship was found to be only 700 miles from England. On the 14th a large hawser, which was flung over the fore-stokehole, weighing about a ton, gave way, and killed a boy five years of age, named Jonathan Norris, the son of a corporal of the 60th Rifles. Three other children were seriously injured by the same accident, one *f whom had his back broken. On the night of the 15th the tiller ropes were carried away, but the second engineer repaired them at great risk to his life. On the 17th a sea was shipped down the funnel, and the decks were constantly washed by the waves, so that it was hard work to keep the ship clear of water. At this time between twenty and thirty men were on the sick list, having been injured by the rolling and tossing of the vessel In tne afternoon the best troop cutter was lost, and the sea was so heavy that the watch stood by to cut away the other. Very few of the seamen on board had ever seen such weather. On the 18th the storm-trysail was carried away, and the cries of the women and children were distressing. On the following day the tiller chains were again carried away, and all hands were called to their posts. A sea struck the vessel on the port beam, and carried away the life-boat and cutter, leaving the port side a complete wreck. But four small boats were then left, and (on the 18th) it was found that the ship was forty-five miles farther from her destination than she was on the 16th. On the 20th the wind and sea went down, and the weather improved until the anchor was dropped at St. Jonn’s on the morning of the 25th. Here the ship coaled and recruited, and on-the 29th sailed for Halifax, which was reached on the Ist February,