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Evening Star, Issue 3304, 22 September 1873, Page 2

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HIGH WATER. To-mobrow. Heads I Port Chalmers I Dunedin 3.26 p.m. I 3.58 p.m. | 4.40 p.m. PORT CHALMERS. ARRIVED. September 21.—Wallabi, s.s., 101 tons, Leys, from the Bluff. Passengers—Mr and Mrs Morrison and family (5), Messrs James, Mathieson, Black, and three in the steerage. Derwent, 220 tons, Alson, from Kaipara. Taranaki, s.s., 290 tons, Wheeler, from Northern Ports. Passengers—Mrs Reynolds, Mr and Mrs Prosser, Mr and Mrs Hamilton, Miss Rich, Rev. Mr Rigg and family (9), Messrs White, Graves, Rich, Bishop, Cobb, King, and eight in the steerage. Redcliff, 22 tons, Arnott, for Moeraki—put back. Annie, 26 tons, Hassell, for Oamaru—put a Stormbird, 67 tons, Fraser, from the Bluff.— Passengers: Messrs Menzies, Matthews, Beaver, Fleming, and Hdfvley, SAILED. Sept. 21.—Claud Hamilton, 350 tons, Sinclair, for Melbourne, via Bluff. Passengers for Melbourne—Mr and Mrs Simpson and two children, Dr Gibson, Miss Fergusson, Messrs Thomson, Fergusaon, and thirteen in the steerage. For the Bluff—Mr and Mrs Connell and two children Mr and Mrs Tustono, Messrs Coote and Scsrg* Beautiful Star, 146 tons, Hart, for Lyttelton, via intermediate ports, Omeo, s.s., 600 tons, Calder, for Sydney, via Northern Ports. Passengers—Mrs Taylor and two children, IVlessrs Roberts, Biuco, Lawienson, Eddie, and five in the steerage. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Albion, for Northern Ports, Sept, 30 Alhambra, for Bluff, Oct. 2 Maori, for Lyttelton, Sept. 25 Phcobe, for Northern Ports, Sept. 26 Pretty Jane, for Port Molyneux, early Storm Bird, for Bluff, Sept. 23 Samson, for Oamaru, Sept. 23 Taranaki, for Northern Ports, Sept. 23 Vessels in Port Chalmers Bay this day Brigs : Derwent and Wave. Schooners : C. L. Taylor, Dunedin, Maid of Otago, Crest of the Wave. At the Railway Pier Ships : Peter Denny, Allahabad, and St. Kilda, Steamer: Taranaki. The N.Z. Co.’s s.s Phoebe is announced to Bail for Sydney, via Northern Ports, on Friketches Annie, for Oamaru, and Redcliffe, for Moeraki, put in for shelter yesterday morning. The s.s. Beautiful Star, which had been detained on account of the heavy sea on the coast, sailed last evening. The s.s. Omeo, for Sydney, via Northern Ports, and Claud Hamilton for Melbourne, via the Bluff, sailed yesterday afternoon. The Stormbird left the Bluff at seven o clock On Friday night; arrived at the Nuggets at eight on Saturday morning ; hove too for fourteen hours ; then ran back to Long Point; left at three this morning, with heavy N.E. winds. The brig Derwent, with 146,000 feet of timber from Kaipara, arrived at 7 a.m. yesterday. Reports leaving on the Cth, after being detained bar-bound for nine days. Experienced strong S.E. gales to tho Straits. Passed through on the 16th, with strong easterly wind and heavy S.E. swell to arrival. The brig Moa had arrived. Her cargo was all ready, and she would sail about a week afterwards. The N.Z. Co.’s s.s. Taranaki, from Northern ports, arrived at 12.30 p.m, yesterday. Capt. Wheeler reports leaving the Manukau at 2.30 p.m. on the 15th, and arrived at Taranaki at 7 a’m. on the 16th; the surf being too high to permit the boat coming off to her she immediately proceeded on her course, and arrived at Nelson at 5.30 a.m. on the 17th, having experienced strong S.W. gales with heavy sea from Manukau. She left Nelson at son the same day, hove to at 8 a.m. on the 18th, and arrived at Picton at 1 p.m. ; remained all day at Piston on account of a heavy gale from the S.E., with a heavy rain ; left again at 5 a.m. on tho 19th, and arrived at Wellington at 10.15 a.m. ; left same day at 5.30 p.m., and arrived at Lyttelton at 1 p.m. on the 20th : left again at 5.30 5,m., and arrived as above. We thank Mr C. . Edxninston for files and other favors. She leaves again for the North to-morrow afternoon. SHIPPING TELEGRAM. LYTTELTON, September 22.—The Phoebe leaves for Dunedin at one o’clock to-day; the Schiehallion cleared out for London to-day with 1,709 packages preserved meats and hams, 481 bales Sax, 403 do. wool and skins, 394 hides, and 11,751 oz. gold. The Schiehallion drove from her anchorage yesterday to within her own length of the south-east end of Shag Reef. She was towed by the Maori from her perilous position. THE CLAUD HAMILTON AFTER THE GALL. The appearance of the vessel showed that the sea had struck her on the starboard quarter, smashing in the whole of the bulwarks frera the fore part of the poop to the stern. They were however not carried overboard, but were secured, and are now lashed up for temporary service. Scarcely a vestige is to be seen of the captain’s cabin, which was torn down, and, together with the whole of its contents, swept bodily away, with the exception of the side to leeward, which was found on the dock, the remainder having been dashed up against the bulwarks on the larboard side with such force as to smash them outwards. The man at the wheel states that on the cabin being carried away, he distinctly heard the captain cooee, and a few seconds later heard another fainter cry, which seemed to be stifled and cut short in its utterance, in the vessel’s wake. This was all that was heard of or from the captain, who thus met with his death so suddenly. The same sea carried away the companion and one of the sky-lights, and in a moment the saloon was deluged with water to the depth of over three feet, saturating the whole of the passengers’ clothing, and leaving them without a dry stitch to put on. The deck cargo, which consisted mainly of cases of oranges and other fruits was of course entirely swept away. The steersman gives a graphic account of his own sensations as the enormous wave bore down upon them. The tremendous shock drove him with great force against the wheel, and for a few seconds the enormous pressure of water against him was almost overpowering, but by holding hard on to the wheel, and pressing with his foot on the brake with which it is provided, with all bis force, he contrived to retain his position until the vast body of water had passed away to leeward. He was not lashed to tho wheel as stated in the telegrams, and his own impression was when the ship was first struck that he must be carried away. His own words will perhaps convey that impression more forcibly than any we can supply “ I saw it coming, I f«lt a tremendous pressure, and said to myself, ‘ Well, Fred, old man, it’s all up •with you,’ but I thought a broken arm would be better then a lost life, so I held on with all my strength till the wave had passed over, and then for the first time I felt I was safe.” The mate too, it appears, had a narrow escape from aharing the fate of the captain. He was on the main deck going aft to speak to him in his cabin, when he saw the giant wave coming down upon them, and immediately ran back and up on to the bridge, where he held on till it had gone past. Had he not seen it in time, he would inevitably have been swept away. Altogether the ship presented a piteous spectacle with her temporary binnacle, patchwork companion, one skylight completely gone, a few splintered boards left to show where the cabin bad proved the captain’s coffin once stood, and bulwarks stove in, smashed, and torn away from the position they originally occupied,— Nelson Examiner.

The inquiry into the cause of the disaster was held at the Custom House, Nelson, before Mr D. Johnston, Collector of Customs, on the 15th. After hearing the evidence of the acting master, Captain hmclair, and that of several other witnesses, the Collector of Customs gave the following decision : « That- it is possible the late master committo

an error of judgment, considering the bad state of the weather, in not having the vessel hove to, and that no blame ean be attached to the present master and crew; and I am further of opinion that, as the late master unfortunately lost his life by the accident, any further or formal inquiry would be of no service.