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Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 3222, 18 June 1873, Page 2

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high water. To-morrow. Heads I Port Ohalmkbs I 10.25 p.m. 1 10.55 p.m. 111.40 p.m. PORT CHALMERS. arrived. June 18.— Maori, 118, tons, Peterson, from Lyttelton and intermediate ports. Passengers : Captain Nicol, Messrs M'Grath, Mackay, Fairley, and Johnson. Friendship, 62 tons, Francis, from Moeraki. CUSTOM HOUSE, DUNEDIN. This Dat. inwards. Isabella, 82 tons, Priest, from Hokitika. Maori, 118 tons, Peterson, from Timaru. OUTWARDS. Pretty Jane, 101 tons, Christian, for Port Molyneux. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Claud Hamilton, for Bluff, June 20 Elderslie, for Auckland, early Isabella, for Hokitika, early Janet Ramsay, for Wanganm, early Mary Ogilvie, for Wanganui, Juno 19 Maori, for Lyttelton, June 20 Samson, for Oamaru, June 19 Storm Bird, for Bluff, June 23 Tararua, for Northern Ports, June 26 Wanganui, for Northern Ports, June 25 Wild Deer, for London, July. 10 Wellington, for Northern Ports, June 24. The schooner Friendship sailed up the harbor this morning, at the top of the flood, from Moeraki, with a cargo of stone and gram. She left yesterday afternoon, and experienced fine weather along the coast, with a heavy roll of a sea. Her cargo of stone is for transhipment to Harbor Company’s steamer Maori arrived in Port Chalmers at 6.30 this morning, called at the railway pier, and proceeded on to Dunedin with the flood tide. She left Lyttelton last Monday afternoon, and arrived at Timaru the next morning; sailed again the same night, arriving in Port Chalmers as above. We thank her steward for our Lyttelton papers. The Maori sails again on b’riday. A case of some interest to shipowners has been heard in the Sandridge Police Court. Alexander Kean, master of the British ship Royal Alfred, was summoned by Alfred Wood for not supplying him with the quantity of fresh water specified in the contract-ticket, duiing the voyage from Liverpool to Melbourne. The contract-ticket set forth that the complainant, who was a second-cabin passenger on board the ship was to be' supplied with three quarts of water per day, exclusive of that required for cooking purposes. It was proved by several witnesses that three quarts of water had been allowed to each second-cabin passenger, but that two quarts had been used for cooking, thus leaving only one quart of water for each passenger. The Bench decided that the terms of the contract-note had not ‘been kept, and as the complainant only asked for Is damages, an order was made for that amount, with L3l3s 6d C °The following is an extract from a letter by a passenger onboard the Velocidade, of Lyttelton, bound from Auckland to NewcastleOn Sunday, April 25, it began to blow very hard against us, and drove us out of our course, the wind increasing to a perfect gale, with a very high sea. On Wednesday morning we sighted a ship, apparently in distress, so we went down to her about ten miles, and found it was the Belle Isle, of Liverpool, from King George’s Sound, bound to Newcastle. We got within hail of her, and found that she had sprung a leak, and that the water had got into her sand ballast, and in the rolling of the ship the ballast had shifted, and the vessel was right on her beam ends. She looked at every roll that she must turn bottom upwards. Theyhad cut away her main and mizen masts. There was a very high sea on, so our captain sung out 1 Launch your boats, and we will lay to for you.’ They tried to launch one, and it was smashed up in two minutes ; they then tried another, and got her out without much damage. Meanwhile, our captain had lowered his boat—a very good one, but very small —and pulled over to her. Then there was a fine sight to see in the midst of a gal e _ WO men, children, and men being lowered one after the other over the stem of the vessel into these boats, and then they put away for our ship, and we milled them on board; some of them thanked God from their heart when they were safe. The Belle Isle’s boat wasso damaged that she could not go back again, so our little boat had to do all the work, and kept on at it till dark, and still there were the officers and four or five sailors on board, so we had to stay by her all night. They might have come off before, but the captain would not leave her, so we had to stay there all night, much to our captain’s disgust, as he was in a hurry. Next morning our boat was sent again and brought off all, and we started, having saved more than forty persons. The sailors were a queer lot, nearly all blacks. Some of them had been put in irons till just before the ship was wrecked, for disobedience to orders. The captain—we found him a veiy fine old gentleman—was very low at the loss ox his ship. He had been twentyeight years at sea, and this was his first acci dent.” Though greatly crowded, the Velocidade reached Newcastle in safety on the Saturday following.— Lyttleton Times. SHIPPING TELEGRAM. Lyttelton. June 17. —Langstone, ship, from London, with passengers, all well, ninety-five days out. The Himalaya, ship, clears tomorrow for London, with a full cargo. The barques Velocidale and Joliba clear to-morrow for Auckland, with produce. Lady Don, for Hokitika; Elizabeth Curie, for Waikato.