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Evening Star, Issue 3303, 20 September 1873, Page 2

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HIGH WATER. To-mokbow. Heads I Port Chalmers j Dunedin 2.14 p.m. j 2.46 p.m. | 3.28 p.m. Monday. 2.59 p.m. I L 3 -31 P- m - 1 13 P-m. PORT CHALMERS. ABBIVED. Sept. 20. —Claud Hamilton, 530 tons, Sinclair, from Melbourne, via West Coast and Northern Ports. Passengers : Prom Melbourne —Rev. Mr and Mrs M'Kenzie. From Northern Ports-Mrs Dale, Mrs Eield, Mrs Burston, Miss Steele, Mr and Mrs Johnston, Mr and Miss Rutherford, Messrs Baker, Cuddiford, Creighton, M.H.R., Robertson, Walcott, C. Johnson, J. H. Harris; and nineteen in the steerage from all ports. For Melbourne M^ s C. Johnson, Mr and Mrs Blemishassel, Mr Casey, and four in the steerage. BAILED. Sept. 20, —Samson, 124 tons, Edie, for Oamaru,

PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Albion, for Northern Ports, Sept. 30 Alhambra, for Bluff, Oct. 2 Beautiful Star, for Lyttelton, Sept. 21 Claud Hamilton, for Melbourne, Sept. 21 Phcebe, for Northern Ports, Sept. 26 Pretty Jane, for Port Molyneux, early Samson, for Oamaru, Sept. 23 Taranaki, for Northern Ports, Sept. 23 Tararaa, for Northern Ports, Sept, 26 Wallabi, for Bluff, Sept. 22

Vessels in Port Chalmers Bay this day Brig; Wave. Brigantine: 0. L. Taylor. Schooners : Fanny, Dunedin, Maid of Otago, and Crest of the Wave. At the Railway Pier —Ships: St. Kilda, Allahabad, Peter Benny. Steamers : Omeo, .Claud Hamilton, and Beautiful Star.

The N. Z. Co.’s s.s. Taranaki is due at Port Chalmers to-morrow morning. The sailing of the s.s. Beautiful Star is postponed till to-morrow afternoon. The p.s. Samson, for Camara, left the railway pier at nine o’clock last night. The brig Thomas and Henry left Newcastle on the sth, and may be looked for with the first S.W. winds. . . „ , The New Zealand Shipping Company have received telegraphic advices from London that the Cardigan Castle sailed for Lyttelton on the 20th August, with 230 passengers. The Caller Ou has sailed for Otago. The Duke of Eclinburgh cleared on September sth, for Otago, with 180 passengers. The Hindostan was to Bail for Auckland on September 11th; the Elizabeth Graham, for Otago, on September 15th ; the Star of India, for Canterbury, on September 22nd; and the Surat, for Otago, on September 27th. All these are vessels belonging to the New Zealand Shipping Company. Contracts have been entered into for building first-class ships, and other vessels were being purchased ana chartered. . Our Bluff correspondent writes The captain of the Lerwick reports that very heavy S.E. weather has been experienced over at Stewart s Island for the past two week, which has of course kept the settlers almost idle. The cutter Kent left Port William, for Dunedin, with oysters, on the sth inst., but up to the present no news of her arrival has come to hand. An accident, whereby a half-caste, named Harry Day, met his death by drowning, through the capsizing of a boat, occurred on the 9th inst. It appears that the unfortunate man, with another half-caste, named Camai, was engaged by a hawker who has for some time past been vending hia wares amongst the settlers on the island, to pull a boat from one part of the island to another. Their way lay through a passage between one of the small islands and the main island, where, from the action of the S.E. wind and tide, a heavy rip was formed. They succeeded, however, in making this passage in safety, but on trying to return the same way, the boat, when in the centre of the rip, broached to and filled. The half caste Camai succeeded, after a severe scratching, in gaining a rock, where he undressed, and swam ashore in safety; the other, Day, was drowned, and up to the leaving of the Lerwick, no trace of his body had been found. Mr Hatch received a telegram from Riverton last evening, conveying the intelligence that the cutter Mary Ann, which has been out on a sealing cruise, had been wrecked in Twothumb Bay, on the West Coast, one of her crew, Henry Paramatta, being drowned. This craft had been purchased by Mr Hatch, for her Maori owners, only last season, and her loss will be severely felt by them. At the time of the unfortunate occurrence, the party had secured 220 skins. Southland Times, Sept. 16. Messrs M'Meckan, Blackwood, and Co, s s.s. Claud Hamilton arrived this morning at 7.30, her passengers and mails being taken to Dunedin by the first train. Capt, Sinclair reports leaving Port Phillip Heads at 8 a.m. on the sth; passed Wilson’s promontory at 8 p.m., and The Sisters at .3.30 a.m. on the 6th, experiencing a strong southerly wind and a high sea, with a south-east swell. At 8 p.m, on Sunday, the 7th, the wind increased to a hard gale, with a tiigh sea, wind and sea still increasing; at 10 p.m, the storm was at its highest, the ship running under close-reefed topsail, reefed mainsail, and reefed foretopsail, rate of speed eight knots, the vessel shipping large quantities of water all day; at 11 o’clock the same night she was struck by a heavy sea on the mam and quarterdeck, carrying away the bulwarks of the poop deck, skylights, companion, and captain’s cabin, with’Captain W. Rouse, who was in bed at the time. He was not seen again. The steering compass, the standard compass, chronometer, charts, log, glasses, signal flags, signal books, and everything on the quarterdeck were washed away. All the deck cargo was washed off. Nothing was left to navigate the ship with. Called all hands and hove the ship to; got the carpenter and crew to nail down the skylight and bale out the saloon, which was filled with water; kept the ship hove to until 2 p.m. next day (the Bth). The sea was subsiding t by this tirryi, and the sea running down considerably. Started at three-quarter speed at 2 p.m. the same day for Hokitika; set fore-and-aft sail and went on at full speed at midnight, wind nonth-east. Spoke the s.s. Albion on Wednesday, the 11th, at 3 p.m,, and corresponded with her, A fresh breeze from the east was then blowing, the weather moderate and fine. On Thursday, the 12th, arrived off Hokitika at 3 p.m., and was tendered by th# s.s. Waipara at noon next day. When the sea struck the ship she was in long. 156 E., lat. 40'7 S. Left for Greymouth at 2 p.m., arriving at 4 p.m. Left at 4.30 p.m., and passed Cape Farewell at 10 m. m on the 13th, arriving at Nelson at 3 p.m. name day; left again at 3.15 a.m. on the 16th, passed Stephen’s Island at 8,30 a.m., experienced light north-west winds with rain, and arrived at 3.30 p.m. ; left for Lyttelton at 4.30 n, on the 18th, with light winds and cloudy weather, passed Cape Campbell at 8.30, and arrived at Lyttelton at 11.30 on the 18th; sailed for Camara at 10.30 p.m., experienced fine south-east winds, and arrived off Oamaru at 2.30 p.m. on the 19th; left again at 3 p.m.. and arrived as above. Wb thank her purser, Mr J. P. Crotty, for report and files. She sails for Melbourne to-morrow afternoon. SHIPPING TELEGRAM. Lyttelton, Sept, 20.— Arrived, Punjaub, 108 days out, from London. She had 15b immigrants originally, but there were 29 deaths on the voyage. Tire vessel has been placed m quarantine, having typhus fever and measles on board.