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Evening Star, Issue 3298, 15 September 1873, Page 2

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HIGH WATER. To-morbow. Heads I Port Chalmers | Dunedin ■ llsTm. I 11.41 p.m.' 1 12.23 p.m. PORT CHALMERS. arrived. September 13. —Storm Bird, s.s., 67 tons, Eraser, from' Bluff Harbor. Passengers—Mrs Levey, Messrs Coates, De Beer, Grand, Penman Captain Densem, and one in the steerage. Pretty Jane, s.s. 101 tons, Christian from Molyneux. Passengers -Mr and Mrs Jackman and family (4), Mr and Mrs Puflett, Messrs Taperell and Reynolds. , ... Mermaid, 12 tons, Neave, from Waikouaui. September 15.—Belie Brandon, 50 tons, bullivan, from Auckland. . ~ , Plying Squirrel, for Shag Point-put back. SAILED. September. 11—Annie, 26 tons, Hassell, for Oamaru. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Claud Hamilton, for Melbourne, Sept. 18 . Maori, forTimaru, Sept. 16 Omeo, for Northern Ports, Sept. 17 Pretty Jane, for Port Molyneux, Sept. 16 , garrison, for Oamaru, Sept. 16 • Storm Bird, for Bluff, Sept 16 . Waningtea, for Northern Porta, Sept. lt> The Annie, for Oamaru, sailed yesterday. The putter Mermaid, from Waikouaitx, passed SoTSmber from the schooner C, L. Taylor was taken to Dunedin this morning. The Harbor Company’s s.s. Pretty Jane, from the Molyneux, arrived at 4.15 p.m. on Saturday having left at 7 a.m. same morning. The schooner Bencleuch armed at Hokitika on Saturday, after a smart passage of five days. The ketch Plying Squirrel, for Shag Point, put back this morning. . , , The fine schooner Belle Brandon armed at 7 30 this morning, from Auckland, and passed up to Dunedin, after a long passage of sixteen days. She brings 45,000 feet of timber to order. The yacht Diana, in which a private gentleman (Mr Leigh Smith) has undertaken a Polar expedition, had, on Jnne Ist, reached lat. 77.40, and was making for Spitsbergen. The Storm Bird, s.s., from the Bluff, armed at 4 p.m. on Saturday ; reports leaving at 6.10 p.m. on the 12th; had light S.E. winds, with heavy sea, to arrival. We thank her steward, Mr Somerville, for Southland files. The Shannon fishermen have had extraordinary success of late. On Wednesday, June 18, upwards of 3,000 salmon were said to have ■ heen taken between Limenck and Corbauy. The ship J. N. Fleming, for London, pro- ■ seeds to sea to-morrow morning, immediately after the arrival of the 7.30 train. The following are the names of her passengers :--Saloon : Mr and Mrs Gilkerson, Mr and Mrs J. M Lean, Rev. Mr G. Smith, Messrs R. R. Burgess, Kincolf, Bridge, 1 M’Master. Second cabin: Mr and Mrs Jackman and family, Messrs Vanhorisa, Brown, Naylor, Mack, Gunn, Hodgms, Sybald, Gill, Forest, Taperell. SHIPPING TELEGRAM. September 13.—The s.s. Storm Bird has been purchased by Messrs W. and Gr. TurnbuH and Co. for the coastal trade. Ine N.Z.S.S. Company have resolved to place the Phoebe on the line between the Manukau and Sydney. _ BEACHING OF THE S.S. LADY OF THE LAKE. On Wednesday morning last, about ten o’clock, the inhabitants of Timaru were surprised and somewhat alarmed in seeing a small steamer rounding Patiti Point amongst the breakers, there being a heavy sea on at the time, and the wind blowing hard from the sou - east. The Harbor-master fired the gun from the signal-station, and the beach near the Timaru Landing and Shipping Company s Service was speedily lined with a crowd of anxious spectators. As the steamer came nearer mit was discovered that she was in distress, as she had the British Ensign flying upside down as a signal to that effect, and the attention of the Harbor-master and others was directed to getting her beached in the best possible place. It • was seen, however, that no pilotage was required, as the captain of the vessel steered her direct ori to a sandy portion of the beach, close to the George street Landing Service. _ Ihe ■ beaching of the steamer was effected without the slightest accident, and the seamanlike manner in which it was done drew forth the admiration of the crowd. She came broad- ■ side on the beach shortly after eleven 0 clock a.m., when she was discovered to be the s. s. Lady of the Lake. We learn from the captain that the steamer had taken a cargo of timber from the Bluff to Oamaru; and finishing her unloading on Tuesday last, sailed, from that port the same afternoon for the Molyneux River, and shortly after a perfect hurricane sprang up from the sou’-east, with a terrific sea. It was discovered that she began to make water, having sprung a leak, and all hands were ' called to the pumps, which were kept going all the night through, and those on board experienced such a night that could scarcely be credited by any landsman. Ihe hatches were battened down, and the coal for the fqr&aqe thus not being at hand (and even if that wore not the case, they were thoroughly saturated with the salt water), the furnace was kept going with what wood could be found. As daylight approached, the pumps being rendered useless through being choked, and being afraid the vessel would founder, there being five feet «f water in her hold, the captain determined to beach her at the best place, and finding he was not far from the port oi Timaru, having been driven northward by the force of the gale near the beach at Waimate, steam was kept up as wreli as possible under the circumstances, and she was beached at the time and place already narrated. Ail praise is due to the captain and those on board, for the able manner in which the unfortunate vessel was brought ashore. The vessel having been beached when the tide was low, was made fast by acoir hawser to the shore, and on the tide turning, a portion of the ways of the Timaru Landing and Shipping Service preVenbmg her rising up the sloping beach, a portion was cut away till she freed herself. Shortly after four o’clock p.m., thA tide having then brought her close up to the ways of the George street Service, a stout chain was made fast'around her hull, and by means of the engines of both services, the vessel was hauled up as well as possible, well greased skids having been placed for her to glide upon. Everything was then made secure. —Timaru Herald.