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Evening Star, Issue 3284, 29 August 1873, Page 2

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HIGH WATER. To-morrow. Heads I Port Chalmers 1 Dunedin 7.2 p.m. I 7.32 p.m. 1 S.lT.p.m. PORT. CHALMERS. ARRIVED. August 29. Paterson, 260 tons, Kennedy, from the North. Passengers ; Colonel Harrington, Messrs Strong, Sidey; and seven in the 8 Wallabi, 5.5.,10 L tons, Lees, from Bluff Harbor. Passengers: Mr and Airs Surcomb, Messrs Hunter, M'Lend, Rawliugshaw, bo>lc, and three in the steerage. SAILED. . . August 29. —Pretty Jane, 101 tons, Christian, for Oamaru. . , r , . Swordfish, 155 tons, Harvey, for Hoorn t Town. _ . _ Alexandra, 30 tons, Bern, for Oamain, PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Albion, for Northern Porta, Aug. 30 Alhambra, for Northern Ports, bept. 2 Beautiful Star, for Lyttelton, early Duke of Edinburgh, for Newcastle, bept. 4 Free Trader, for Hobart Town, August 30 J. N. Fleming, for London, September 10 Maori, for Lyttelton, early Paterson, for Northern Porta, August 30 Pretty Jane, for Port Molyneux, Sept, 1 Strathnaver, for Auckland, early Taranaki, for Northern Porta, September 2 Wallabi, for Bluff, August 30 Storm Bird, for Bluff, early Samson, for Oamaru, early

Vessels in Port Chalmers Bay this day Barque : Duke of Edinburgh. At the Railway Pier—Ships: J. N. Fleming, and St. Kilda.

The schooner Alexandra sailed for Oamaru this morning. T e The Harbor Company’s s.s. Pretty Jane, tor Oamaru, left at midnight. The brigantine Swordfish, for Hobart town, was towed to sea by the tug Geelong this morning. , . „ , , , . The s.s. Wallabi arrived at 6 o clock this morning', steamed alongside the Duke of Edinburgh to coal, and then passed up to Dunedin. Captain Lees reports leaving Bluff Harbor at 10.30 a.m. yesterday, having had strong N.L. W She p.s. Paterson, Captain Kennedy, left Onehunga wharf at 5.15 p.m. on the 20th ; crossed the Mauukau bar at 7 p.m. ; anchored off New Plymouth next morning, remaining there till 5.45 p.m. on the 22nd ; arrived at Nelson next day at 11.15 a.m.; sailed the same night at 9.30; reached Picton on Sunday mornini,- at 5.50; sailed at 4.45 p.m. ; arrived at Wellington at 10 p.m. ; sailed on the 25th at 8 s]> im ; reached Lyttelton next day at 5.15 p’m. ; at 2 p.m. on the 27th, got under weigh and proceeded down the harbor; found the sea breaking right across the entrance, blowing a heavy easterly gale with dense fog; put back and anchored til 9.30 a.m. on the 28th, when the weather moderated, and then proceeded to sea • arrived at Port Chalmers early this morning and passed up to Dunedin; experienced sou - west winds and heavy sea during the passage , heavy squalls from the Mannkau to Nelson; fine weather from thence to Wellington ; heavy south-east wind and sea from thence to Lyttelton ; sou’-west winds and moderate weather to arrival here. Besides a general cargo, she brings a quantity of fungus and 200 bags of rice. We thank her purser, Mr R. B. I angle, for our usual complement of Northern files.

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OAMARU, August 29. —Vessels in roadstead : Steamers Samson and Pretty J aim. The beach is so strewed with wreck that the surf-boats cannot work THE TAPSCOTT INQUIRY. Our Wellington correspondent writes The Tapscott inquiry is still progressing. fßhemate, second mate, and carpenter are the guests of his Excellency during the day, and housed m in the gaol by night. It will not do to express any opinion on the subject while the investigation is proceeding, but there are three facts connected with it that ought to have weight with the public. The captain has been seven years in the employ of the firm three years as captain of this vessel. He is above the ordinary run of merchant skippers in appearance and intelligence : and his log is well and carefully kept, betraying no signs of inebriety. The veriest tyro compositor knows the difference between sober and drunken copy ; and looking over the daily log kept by him, you are constrained to believe he did not drink a barrel of whiskey in the time stated. 1 lie men shipped at California are an ill-looking, hangdog, cut-throat looking lot—scarcely eligible for admission to the Governor’s levee. The captain told me that he had to pay them 100 dollars a man in ’Frisco before they would ship, and forty dollars a head to the boarding master before he would allow them to do so. thus it will be seen shipowners at the Golden Gate have their pecuniary difficulties to contend with when hiring labor. It must have been lively for the captain to have been handcuffed and ringed at his ankles for thirty-three days in his own state-room, with a man walking up aad down before his door with a drawn sword night and day, especially so when he know his ship was leaking, and considered his first mate incompetent. I cannot understand the root of the trouble at all. The captain scorns to consider the mate, disdaining the slow method of meritorious promotion, thought at once to occupy the position of captain by the quicker course of intrigue and mutiny, finding in the crew and his fellow-officers men fit arid apt for this deed of villainy. The inquiry will probably continue during the week. The two mates and the carpenter will probably be sent to New York in irons. By international law, if found guilty, they cannot be punished here. It is a serious case. The ship and cargo will be worth about L 50.000, and a loss of L 3,000 or L 4,000 has already been incurr ed by her wandering from her course and her detention in Wellington. Though a strongly built ship, she is said to be aged, having been a Liverpool trader twenty-three years ago; and, though apparently sound, may be rotten. Plimsoll should be here on the inquiry. _ kShe is a weird, unhealthy, uncomfortable-looking vessel. There feels something unwholesome about her, but what you cannot determine. Her cargo, phosphate of lime— tx, guano—perhaps may have something to do with this, as coal and guano are often the ultimate of vessels. _ Her leaking condition, the neglect manifested in her appearance from the absence of the captain, and the sullen discontent manifested in the scowling looks of the crew, may all, perhaps, tend to increase the feeling which is evident by people saying, “I would not like to go to sea in this vessel.”