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Evening Star, Issue 3338, 31 October 1873, Page 2

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high water. To-JfOKKOW. ~ - i Port Chalmers 1 Dunedin Heaps 0 .42 p.m. 1.27 p.m. PORT CHALMERS. arrived. October 31.---Anne, 26 tons, Haswell, from Oamaru. -m Wahabi, s.b., 101 tons, Leys, from the Bluff. Pretty Jane, s.s., 101 tons, from limaru, via Mocraki. SAILED. October 31.-Mermaid, 13 tons, Neave, for Waikouaiti. Flying Squirrel, 10 tons, Mam, for Shag Point. „ „ „~. , Lloyd’s Herald, 48 tons, Wilson, for Catlm a river. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Bend each, for Hokitika, early Isabella, for Hokitika, Nov. 1 Maori, for Lyttelton, Nov. 2 Omeo, for Northern Ports, Nov. I Pretty Jane, for Oamaru, Nov. 1 Samson, for Oamaru, Nov. 2 Taranaki, for Northern Ports, Nov. 4 Wanganui, for Northern Ports, Nov. 4 Wallabi, for Bluff, November 1 Vessels in Port Chalmers Bay this day Ship*. Peter Denuy. Barques: Horatio Sprague, Duke of Edinburgh, Columbus, Memento William Ackers. Bng : Chanticleer. At the Railway Pier—Ships: Otago, Dovei Castle, Bebington, Rokeby Hall. Earqim; Ce -fy[fj •witch. In the Craving Dock—Ship. Wild Duck. In the Floating Dock —Paddle-steamer Samson. The ketch Annie, from Oamaru, passed up Star was taken into the Floating Dock for a periodical overhaul The s s Wallabi arrived from the Bluff at noon to-day, and it being high water she proreeded to Dunedin. . . ~ The ship Wild Duck was taken out of the Graving Dock, and commenced taking her Ca Lloyd’s Herald, for Catlm’s river Flying Squirrel, for Shag Point, and Mermaidf for Waikouaiti, sailed this morning. The p.s. Samson, after receiving a thorough overhaul and painting, was taken out ot the Floating Dock yesterday, and sails for Oamaru 4 The twin-screw steamer Result, which has undergone repairs in hull and machinery, and w intended to run in conjunction with the p.s. Peninsula in the harbor traffic, makes a trial trip to-morrow afternoon. The s.s. Alhambra, with the Suez; mail, left the railway pier at 4.30 p.m. yesterday, but before getting into the stream she took the ground aft, showing that the channel pieviously made is fast silting up._ The Harbor Company’s twin-screw steamer Pretty Jane, from Timaru and Moeraki, arrived at the Port Chalmers last night at 12. Captain Peterson reports leaving I nnaru at b p.ra. on the 27th, and arrived at Moeraki at 4 a.m. on the 28th ; was detained on account ot a heavy S W. gale until 3.30 p.ra. on the 30th, andarnved as above. She brings a full cargo of flour and wheat.

STEAMER RACE.

There was an exciting and well-con tested race on Friday afternoon between the JN.A.&.&. Co’s Pheebe, and M'Meckau, Blackwood, and Co.’s Alhambra, and the trial of speed caused great interest among the passengers and crews of both vessels. Since the alteration effected in the Phoebe, she has made such good runs that by many she was regarded as the fastest steamboat trading on the coast, and it was believed that she would be very hard to beat by any of the steamers visiting our ports. At 3 o’clock on Friday the Alhambra was oil Cape Jackson on the run from Nelson via the French Pass, and the Phrebe was sighted coming down from the Manukan. I here was some difference of opinion on board the Alhambra as to the relative positions ot the two steamers ; some thinking they were about equal distances from Cape Terawhiti, where their courses would become the same, while others believed that the Phoebe was two or three miles ahead of the Alhambra. Putting it in nautical language, looking from the Melbourne steamer the Pheebe was about three points before the beam. All on board the Alhambra saw there was going to be a race, and at once two sides were formed ; with one the Pheebe was the favorite, and the Alhambra’s officers were of that party, but others asserted that they would catch the Pheebe and they soon began to say they were gaming on her. There was a fresh gale from the north-west which enabled the sails of the Pheebe to draw well, while it was dead aft the Alhambra ; but the latter was going at a great pace, and ran 8 2 miles from Jacksons Head in 32 minutes, and the trip from Nelson was made in nine hours. For a good while it was doubtful which was gaming, but as Terawhiti was approached and the vessels ran the same course, the Alhambra, then halt a mile behind, was evidently gaining, and here the excitement became quite intense. _ Both vessels were carrying all sail and firing up, for the rapid revolutions of the machinery rendered lots of coal necessary to keep a good head of steam. There was rather a nasty rip at Terawhiti, but excepting that, the sea was not rough, and everything was _ favorable for a race. After leaving Terawhiti the Alhambra passed her opponent about 50 yards to leeward, but the contest was still in doubt, as it was thought that perhaps as the course altered and the wind became more abeam and then ahead, the Phoebe would have the best of it. The wind became stronger, and in a very heavy squall the Alhambra had to take in her topgallant sail and reef the topsail. When the vessels were close together it was plainly seen that all hands on both were interested in the trial of speed, and it was noticed that both vessels were on an even keel, neither having the advantage of being down by the stern. _ The Alhambra increased her lead, and at Sinclair s Head was fully two miles in advance. On entering the Heads the wind was adverse, and sail was taken off both ships. When the Alhambra passed the lighthouse she was 3$ miles ahead, and in steaming up to the port she fully kept her advantage, if she did not increase her lead, and reached the wharf first by 20 minutes. The result of the race astonished the officers of the Alhambra, who, although they thoroughly believed in their ship, had, from what they had heard of the Phoebe’s speed, thought that they would have been beaten in an equal race. When both boats were going under full steam and carrying all sail their speed must havo becn a good deal over 12 knots. No doubt if the boat* meet again they will have another trial, but it is not often a race comes off in which in a few hours there is a fair wind, then wind abeam, and afterwards dead ahead; _ and the Alhambra people are disposed to think their boat the best at all points.— lndependent, 27 th inst.