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Evening Star, Issue 3291, 6 September 1873, Page 2

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high water. To-morrow, hvads I Port Chalmers I Dunedin I 3.34 p.m. | 4.10 p.m. Monday. 3.52 p.m. I 4.27 p.m. | 5.9 p.m. PORT CHALMERS. ARRIVED. Sept 5,—0. L. Taylor, 366 tons, Sears, from Puget Sound. Passenger—Mrs Sears. Sept. 6. —Beautiful Star, s.s., 146 tons, Hart, from Lyttelton. Passengers - Misses M. Gardner, T. Gardner, Messrs Guy Bennett, A B. Smith, and four in the steerage. Margaret Scollay, 25 tons, Cowan, from Oamarn. , , Tr , Spec, 50 tons, Pratt, from Kakanm. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Annie, for Oamarn, Sept. 10 Beautiful Star, for Lyttelton, Sept. 8 Claud Hamilton, for Melbourne, Sept. 18 Isabella, for Hokitika, Sept. 10 J. N. Fleming, for London, September lo Omeo, for Northern Ports, Sept. 13 Pretty Jane, for Port Molyneux, early Phoebe, for Northern Port, Sept. 9 Bedcliffe, for Moeraki, Sept. 10. Samson, for Oamarn, SentO Spec, for Wanganui, Sept. 9 Storm Bird, for Bluff, Sept. 9 Tauranga, for Wanganui, early Wanganui, for Northern Ports, Sept. 13 Vessels in Port Chalmers Bay this day Barque : Duke of Edinburgh. Schooner : a L Taylor. At the Railway Pier—Ships : J. N. Fleming, St. Hilda, Allahabad, Peter Denny.

The Harbor Company’s s.s. Beautiful Star, from Lyttelton, arrived at 2 a.m, this morning, and steamed alongside the ship J. N. 1 leming to discharge meats. Reports leaving Lyttelton on the 4th at 4 p.m.; arrived at Timaru au 7 a.m. on the sth; left again at 2 p.m., and arrived as above. We thank her steward, Mr Herbert, for Lyttelton and Timaru papers. She sails again on Monday evening. The Dunedin, schooner, is taking on board the cylinders from the ship St. Kuda for the Waitaki Bridge. _r , -a The Spec, schooner, from Kakanm, arrived this morning with 500 cases meat and 27 casks tallow for the ship J. N. Fleming. . The Margaret Scollay, from Oamaru, arrived this morning with 250 cases of meat for the three-masted schooner Melaine, which left here on Thursday afternoon, arrived at the Bluff at 7 p.m. last evening. The three-masted schooner C. L. laylor, from Puget Sound, with a caago of lumber consigned to H. Houghton and Co., signalled for a tug at 5 p.m. yesterday. The Geelong immediately proceeded down, and brought her up to her anchorage at 9 p.m. last evening. Captain Sears reports leaving the Sound_ on the Ist of July *, passed through the Straits of Juan de Fuoa on the 4th; had strong north-west winds to the trades. The Equator was crossed on the 24th of July in long. 145deg W. ; then run down between Palmerston and Cook s Group ; the S.E. trades were baffling; sighted the Ihree Kings on August 25 ; Castle Point on the 30th, with southerly winds ; from thence to Banks Peninsula N.W. and N.E. winds; encountered a strong S.W. gale on the Ist; variables from thence to arrival at the Heads, which were sighted at noon yesterday, and arrived as above. The New Zealand Herald says :—A subject of no small importance has been brought under our notice by one who has lately arrived in our midst from the old country. It has reference to the treatment passenger immigrants receive on board ship during the passage from London or Liverpool to New Zealand, and the temptations which are thrown in the way of young females. The following statements have been placed before ns, and we have only too much reason to fear that in the main they are correct. In the first place, it is alleged that ships are not unfrequently detained for a month after the day of sailing is announced. It is true that after the passenger has got his contract, he can claim one shilling and sixpence a day for every twenty-four hours after the specified time of sailing. But it is also true that one and sixpence a day will not do more than find a stranger in London or Liverpool in one substantial meal. Again, contract tickets invariably state that passengers shall have each three quarts of watefldaily, exclusive of ten gallons for cooking purposes, for every 100 passengers. But no sooner do passengers begin to draw their promised supply of water, than only three pints instead of three quarts are served out, the rest being kept back, as alleged, for cooking purposes, in addition to that allowed for this purpose. It is further alleged that ships too frequently neglect _to cany side lights at sea, and that while running at from ten to twelve knots before a strong breeze, the safety of the ship and the lives of the passengers are endangered. Of this we t.binV there can be no doubt. With respect to the treatment of young women, we allow our informant to speak in his own words. He says, “As soon as the vessel is fairly away from the land, the steward begins to cast his eye about among the females for one who may be weak enough to allow herself to be entrapped. After being a few weeks at sea, the second and third class passengers begin to loathe their food. It is then, by the offer of dainties from his pantry he succeeds in enticing young girls to their ruin,” Our informant goes on to say, “ The food in these vessels is generally wretchedly cooked for the second and third class passengers. Indeed, so badly served up that I have frequently seen it thrown overboard in disgust. The captains are fenerally oivil enough to the saloon passengers, ut quite ignore the comfort of the steerage and intermediate passengers; and I regret to say that some of them are hard drinkers, too often leaving the command of their ships to their mates. In one of my voyages (not, however, to this Colony) we ware scarcely at sea before it was necessary to confine the captain, he having been seized with delirium tremens. And yet this vessel had been inspected by an immigration officer, who merely called over the names of the hundred passengers and tried the hose, after Which he took a glass of grog with the skipper, at that time on the verge of insanity from drink. None but good moral men should bo engaged as captains. None but married men accompanied by their wives as doctors. None but steady men as stewards.”

SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. Lyttelton, Sept. 6, 2.30 p.m.—Phcebe, tor the South, _ _ , _ Auckland, Sept, 6,—The Lady Bowen, barque, bound from Sydney to London, has put in here with three feet of her bulwarks carried away in a gale, and short of water owing to the capsizing of the tanks. She will probably be detained a week.