Shipping.

Evening Star, Issue 3205, 29 May 1873, Page 2

Shipping.

HIGH WATER. Tomorrow. Heads 1 Port Chalmers I Dunedin 5.31 p.m. 1 6.1 p.m. | 6.46juj>^ POB3LOHALMERS. SAILED. * May 29~Pretty Jane, 101 tons, Christian, for Oamaru. Eleanor, 396 tons, Stevens, for Newcastle, m ballast, CDSTOM HOUSE, DUNEDIN. This Day. INWARDS, Anne,29 tons, Haswell, from Kakanui. Black Watch. 91 tons, Kerruish, from Batavia. Samson, 124 tons, Edie, from Oamaru. Eliza M‘Phee, 39 tons, Peterson, from Kakanui. Beautiful Star, 146 tons, Hart, from Timaru. Pioneer, 19 tons, Matheson, from Kakanui. Cora, 45 tons, Russell, from Havelock. OUTWARDS. Samson, 124 tons, Edie, for Oamaru. Beautiful Star, 146 tons, Hart, for Lyttelton. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Wild Deer, for London, early William Davio, for London, early Lutterworth, for London, May 30 Tararua, for Northern Ports, May 31 Claud Hamilton, for Bluff, June 2 Pretty Jane, for Port Molyncux, May 31 Wangsmui, for Northern Ports, June 9 Awarua, for Bluff, May 30. Maori, for Lyttelton, May 31 Wellington, for Northern Ports, June 3 Strathnaver, for Auckland, June 2

Teasels in Port Chalmers Bay this day Ships : Lutterworth, Wild Deer, Michael Angelo. Barques : Eleanor, Formosa, Lyttelton. At the railway pier:—Ships : Euterpe, William Davie, Oberon, Naomi. Barque; Lyttelton.

The ship William Davie leaves next week for Wellington, where she will load for London, The Oberon has nearly finished discharging her cargo, and leaves next week for Newcastle. The Samson, for Oamarn, leaves this evening. The 8.8. Tarkrua may bo expected in Port Chalmers to-morrow morning, she having left the Bluff this forenoon. The passengers for Dunedin per Michael Angelo were brought to town this morning. The 8.8. Beautiful Star takes seventy of them to Timaru and Lyttelton this evening. The barque Eleanor was towed to sea this forenoon, bound for Newcastle in ballast. The Pretty Jano left last night loaded with cylinders for the Waitaki bridge. Captain Swanson, of the s.s. died at his residence, Kaiapoi, yesterday morning, after a short illness. He was well known by most of the seafaring men in this and the neighboring Provinces, having been many years connected with the coastal trade.— Lyttelton Times , 26th & Harbor Company’s steamer Beautiful Star arrived in Port Cnalmers at 3.30 p.m. yesterday, and called at the Port Chalmers jetty to land her passengers; she then proceeded to Dunedin. She reports leaving Lyttelton last Monday at 8 p.m. ; passed Akaroa, and arrived at Timaru on Tuesday at 10 a.m.; left again the same night, and arrived in Port Chalmers as above. We thank her steward for Lyttelton papers. Particulars have been received of the accident to the schooner Canterbury, at the Kaikoras, in which Captain Elgar lost his life. It appears that the schooner was loaded for Wellington, and was waiting a fair wind ; the Nautilus, cutter, coming to the Amuri Bluff, and making a haul of crayfish, the captain took his dingy, with two men, to obtain some ; ho made one trip, and returned for more; a heavy easterly sea running. Whilst engaged in fishing, what is termed ahlind roller came in to the place where the men were, and broke, capsizing the boat. The two men were able to swim, and managed to escape, but the captain, who was no swimmer, sunk. The clipper ship Michael Angelo, previously reported as being off the Heads, was towed into I*orb yesterday afternoon, and. anchored close to the railway pier ready for coming alongside. Captain Lackie reports leaving London on March Ist, and the Downs' on the 2nd ; adverse weather was met with in the Channel and the Bay of Biscay; the N.E. trades were very light; variables were then met with to the 25th ; the equator was crossed on April Ist, in 19deg. N.; the S.E. trades were pretty fair, and were lost in 28deg. S.; Tristan was passed on April 20th; from thence to the Cape had strong W. and N.W. winds; the meridian of Greenwich was passed on April 22nd, and the Cape of Good Hope on the 27th in 4017deg; her easting was run down between the parallels of 45deg. ; variable S. and S.W. winds were then experienced till sighting the Nuggets last Tuesday morning; she then dodged about till making the Heads, the same evening. The health of the passengers has been good throughout the whole voyage, and they express themselves well pleased.with the treatment they have received. On April 20th, in lat. 49deg. smin. S., long. 129deg. Bmin. E., Mrs Sayers gave birth to a daughter. The Michael Angelo brings five cabin passengers and 142 steerage, forty-two of whom are single girls. She hauls to the railway pier to-day, where she will discharge. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. Bluff—May 29, 10.30 a.m. : Tararua, for Dunedin. Lyttelton.— May 29, 9.50 a.m. : Ladybird, from Dunedin.

UNSEAWORTHY SHIPS.

The case of the fifteen seamen of the ship Peru gives an additional interest to the benevolen t exetrions of Mr Plimsoll-on behalf of Engligk sailors. These men were sentenced to three mon ths’ imprisonment in Dorchester gaol for refusing to re-embark aboard the vessel in which they had engaged to serve. The plea of the men was th o * Ate Peru was not in a seaworthy condition* an -d it was at least a fact that after being a few days at sea she had been compelled to put into Portland for repairs. It now appears that within a short time after she set sail again the Peru foundered, with some loss of .life. Nevertheless, the fifteen sailors were condemned, and they have only been released within the last few days, upon the completion of their sentence. In answer to an inquiry in the House of Commons the other day, Mr Bruce asserted that the plea ofjthe men was shown to be without foundation ; but the foundering of the vessel so soon afterwards affords at all events prima fade evidence in support of the men’s opinion of her condition, and there can at least be little doubt of the sincerity of their objection to go aboard again after some experience of her sea-going qualities. It is important to remark that eveup to the last moment these men would probably have escaped punishment altogether if they would have consented to re-embark. In fact the fifteen were unanimous in preferring Dorchester gaol and the society of felons to putting foot again on the deck of the Peru. Looking to these facts, and bearing in mind the painful details of Mr. Plimsoll’s indictment against the shipowners and underwriters, it is difficult to avoid a suspicion that these unfortunate men, in spite of Mr Bruce’s assertion to the contrary, only failed tojestablish their plea from inability ■jo procure that able legal assistance which may be presumed to have been at the disposal of the prosecutors in the case.