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Evening Star, Issue 3328, 20 October 1873, Page 2

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HIGH WATER. To-morrow. Wwinei I Port Chalmers 1 Dunedin lU pm. I 209 p.m. | 3.33p,8.. PORT CHALMERS. arrived. October 19.—Sampson, p.s., 124 tons, Edie, from Oamaru. . Ladybird, 8.8., 286 tons, Andrew, from the North. Passengers :Mr and Mrs Clark, Miss Scott, Messrs Clark, Kelly, J. M. Goote, Maitland (2), Fulton (2), Begg, Janion, Lawrence (2), Hughes, M'Leod, Gunn, and eight m the **' Wanganui, s.s., 179 tons, Fraser, from Bluff Harbor. Passengers : Misses Bell, Moore, Mrs Caucb, Mrs Simpson and children (2), Messrs Clark, Smyth, M‘Lean, Licoll, Brand Cowley, Fitzhcrbert, Thomas, and three in the s.s., 101 tons, Leys, from the Bluff. Passengers : Messrs Collins, Walker, Constable, Vernon, and three in the steerage. October 20.-Horatio Sprague, 507 tons, Small, from Newcastle. Bobycito, 431 tons, Websdale, from JNew Herald, 48 tons, Wilson, from CatUnited Brothers, 50 tons, Williams, from Gatlin’s River. sailed. . . October 18.— Allahabad 1,187 tons, Crispin, for Sydney. Passenger: Mr P. H. ivuK. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Albion, for Northern Ports, October 2o Alhambra, for Bluff, October 30 Beautiful Star, for Lyttelton, Oct. 24 Claud Hamilton, for Bluff October 23 Harriet Armitage, for Sydney, Oct. A Jane, for Moeraki, Oct. 21 Ladybird, for Northern Ports, Get. A Maori, for Lyttelton, early n . 01 Pretty Jane, for Port Molyncux, Oct. 21 Peter Denny, for London, early Samson for Oamaru, October ~ I Skimmer of the Waves, for Now Turk, early Wanganui, for Bluff, Oct. 21. Wallabi, for Bluff, Oct. 21

The Harbor Co.’s p.s. Samson returned at 5 p.ro. on Saturday, from Oamaru. The s.s. Jane was launched ott Isbistei ,s Slip *lllahabad, for Sydney, was towed to sea by the tug Geelong on Saturday aftein Thc 8.8. Wallabi, from Bluff Harbor arrived at 10 a.m. yesterday, and passed up to i)uns.a, Wanganui, from Bluff Harbor, arrived at 6.30 a.m. After a short stay m the Port she passed up to Dunedin. ( The Lloyd’s Herald, from Gatlin s River, arrived this morning, and passed up to Dunedin. She brings 26,000 ft. timber. The cutter Mermaid, from Waikouaiti, also passed up. The United Brothers, from Catlmsßner, tiassed up with 30,000 ft. timber. Captain Williams reports leaving last night with the schooner Friendship, which she passed, bound *°The barque Bobycito, from Newcastle, was towed up by the tug Geelong this morning, and anchored off Deborah Bay. Capt Websdale reports leaving Newcastle on September 30, with variable winds, principally from the southward : sighted the Solander on the 17th ; came through the Straits the same day, the wind dying away the same night to a calm ; a light southerly wind springing up enabled her to make the Heads at 2 p.m. yesterday ana anchor inside last night, arriving as above. She brings 050 tons of coal for Jie Harbor Steam Company. , T j u- j The New Zealand Company s s.s. Ladybird arrived yesterday morning from the North. Captain Andrew reports leaving the Manukan at 3 p.m. on the 13th ; arrived at Taranaki at 7 p.m, on the 14th ; left again at 10.30 a.m. same day, arriving at Nelson at 3.15 a.m. on the 15th ; left again same day at 2 p.m. ; amved at Pic ton at 11 p.m. same night: left again at 2.30 a.m. on the 16th, arriving at Wellington at 7am.: remained there till 9.30 p.m. ; left .gain, called at the Kaikora and arrived at Lyttelton at il p.m. : left ««« ■*“ pm. on the 18th, and arrived at 1 ort Chalmers at 9.40 a.m., having experienced fine weather during the passage. We thank her punier, Mr Fougherty, for hies and othei favors. She leaves again for the JNortii tomorrow afternoon. On Saturday afternoon another addition was made to our Dunedin rowing fleet, in the shape of a fine-looking boat, which was launched from the shed of Mr Paterson, at Pelichet Bay. She is named Formosa, and has been built to the order of a crew belonging to this town by Mr F. Paterson, from designs furnished by JVlr Green. She i< 30ft. long, with a beam of 4ft. lim, and, having been modelled especially to Buit the Dunedin waters, should prove a formidable opponent to any boats that may be brought against her. We believe it is contemplated to turn out two or three more craft ot a somewhat similar build ; and we hope this will be done, as then we may expect some racing worthy of the name during the coming season. The American barque Horatio Sprague, from Newcastle, was towed up by the tug Geelong late last night, and anchored off Carey s Bay. Captain Small reports leaving Newcastle on the 29th of September, with light S.E. winds for the first three days, increasing to a heavy gale, which lasted forty-eight hours; then light southerly winds until the Bth, when she oncountered a heavy 5.13. gale, the ship under the two lower topsails and fore gallantsail: then Btiong S.W. winds till the 15th; made the South Trap Rocks on the 16th ; from thence to arrival variables ; was in sight of the barque William Ackers for six days after leaving Newcastle, and sighted her again off the South ( ape on the 14th. She brings 700 tons of coal, consigned to G. S. Brodrick.

STRANGE PORT 1 PRACTICES AT TIMARU.

Under the above heading, the Southern Crons of October 4 contains the following : Something like a modem form of wreckage appears to exist at the port of Timaru, where immediate reform is absolutely necessary, and we think the interference of the General Government, as the following narrative will tend to snow. Some of the harbors and roadsteads in the South are obtaining an unenviable notoriety—because of the dangers which attend shipping frequenting them. Conspicuous amongst these places are Timaru and Oamam. Both are open roadsteads, and both places have proved themselves very dangerous to shipping. A large destruction of shipping property has occurred at each place—especially at the former—during the present winter. Such losses are to bo regretted at all times, but when the loss is intensified by the action of the Provincial Government, or the lessees under the Government, matters are rendered much worse. The limaru authorities seem to be vexatious when shipwrecks occur in their district ; and so annoying and irritating has their action become, and so excessive are their demands upon the unfortunate owners of vessels wrecked upon their beach, that it is now seriously contemplated by the Insurance companies doing business In the Colony, to refuse all marine risks sailing to or hailing from Timaru. The following circumstances will show what sympathy and assistance the owners of shipwrecked vessels have to look for from the Timaru authorities. On the 27th of August last the schooner Duke of Edinburgh was driven ashore in a gale at Timaru. On the following day a notice was served on the captain and agent of the vessel by the lessees of the “ Government Landing Service,” that they were liable to a fine of LSO for every day the vessel was allow -I to he on the beach twenty-four hours after she was stranded. The absurdity of such a regulation could scarcely be exceeded, for it is irnpo n sible to clear away a wreck in twenty-four hours after a vessel stranded, while the gale continued which drove her ashore. And yet such are the terras of one of the regulations of the Government Landing Service at Timaru. At this roadstead there are two places where vessels can be discharged. On the 28th August, st one o’clock a.m., the Silver Lining and Johba slipped their cables and stood out to sea, to save themselves from sharing the fate of the Duke of

Edinburgh, so that when the notice was served upon the captain and agents of that vessel, there was no other vessel in the roadstead, and ho delay in the discharge of other vessels’ cargoes could take place, by the Duke ol Edinburgh being stranded upon one of the ‘ landing services.” The Silver Inning did not return to the roadstead until the evening of the 31st August. From Thursday morning (the ..Bth) at one o’clock, to Sunday evening (the 31st), when the Silver Lining returned, there was no vessel in the roadstead of Timaru, save the Duke of Edinburgh, which was laying high and dry on the beach. Yet, in the face of this, the lessees of the Government landing service there, sent in a claim for “ losses sustained through the schooner Duke of Edinburgh being stranded, causing an obstruction of the Government landing service, and thereby preventing the lessees working the same from the 28th of August to the 2nd of September,” for the sum of L 155. The claim is thus made for six days, including Sunday—a day which, in other parts of the Golony, is set apart for somewhat different purposes than the landing of goods. From the 28tb to the 31st inclusive there was no vessel in the roadstead, and therefore there could bo no landing of goods, aiM hence there could be no possible loss sustained by the lessees. The Silver Lining returned on Sunday evening, and she was discharged on Monday by the second landing service, and thus no delay occurred through the Duke of Edinburgh being stranded on the first landing service. Nor does this show the injustice to which the owners of the latter vessel were subjected. When the wreck was put up to auction for sale, the solicitor of the lessees gave notice in the auction room that whoever purchased the wreck would have to make arrangements with the lessees for their claims against the vessel, and that there was a penalty of LSO per day for every dav the wreck had lain upon the beach after the first 21 hours after being stranded. This action on the part of the lessees .seems to have given much offence, even to the people there, who were not slow to perceive that a few repetitions of such conduct would have a most damaging effect upon the maritime trade of Timaru. The Timaru Herald, in its notice of this sale, says undoubtedly the action of the solicitor of the lessees had an injurious effect upon the sale. It is believed that the sale was prejudiced to the extent of Ll5O at least. 1 lie vessel was bought with gear, &c., as she lay upon the beach, for L 250, She was afterwards put up at auction by the purchaser, and was bought in at L 750. We understand that several marine risks have already been refused for both Timaru and Oamaru since the Duke of Edinburgh was wrecked. At Timaru there are no means or appliances for saving vessels that are stranded, except those which the lessees of the Government Landing Service possess, a circumstance which is not seldom prejudicial to the unfortunate owners of stranded vessels. The Governments of Canterbury and Otago should take immediate steps to remedy this crying evil, for the marine trade of the two ports is seriously threatened by the existing state of affairs.

SHIPPING TELEGRAMS,

Lyttelton, October 20.—Adamant, immigrant ship, from London. Wellington, October 20.—James Patterson, for the North. Auckland, October 20,—The ship Hydaspes arrived yesterday after a seventy-nine days’ passage from the Channel. Sailed —/sior, for iHmedin.