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Evening Star, Issue 3357, 22 November 1873, Page 2

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high water. To-morrow, Hsvm 1 Port Chalmers I Dunedin 4,3b p.m. 1 s.lti p.m. | 6.1 p.m. Monday. 5,21 p.m. i 6.1 p.m. I 6.46 p.m. PORT CHALMERS. arrived, November 21.-Mermaid, 12 tons, Ncavc, from M aikouaiti. , , ~i a . November 22. Jane Kowlaml, 318 tons, Hughes, from the Mauritius. llbion 5.5.,800 tons, M’Lcan, from Melbourne. via the Bluff. Passcngers-Mrs and Miss Mftthieson, Mrs Lewis, Mrs Lellautyut, Mrs Berliner and two children, Mrs and Master Lees, Mrs Wilson, three children, -and servant, Miss’ Prosser, Miss Brown, Messrs A. H. Neale, Marshall, J. F. Wright, Bnmton, A. M’Master, Pattinson, Thomson, Gavaiiagh, Kennedy, and 25 in the steerage Hnon Belle, 42 tons, ImsWf ■rW*' River. SAILED. November 21. Gcsasewitch, 428 tons, Nichol, for Newcastle. . ~ Wallabi, 8.8., 101 tons Leys, for the Bluff. Passengers Messrs Hudson, M’Death, and Williams. projected departures. Albion, for Northern Ports, Noy. 23 Excelsior, for Auckland,. Nov. 21. Jane, for Moeraki, early Lady Agnes, for New A oik, early Maori, for Lyttelton, Nov. 25 Peter Denny, for London, early Pretty Jane, for Port Molyneux, Nov 21. Rangatira, for Northern Ports, Nov. go Samson, for Oamavu, Noy. 2o Tarania, for Melbourne, Nov. Wanganui, for Bluff, Nov. 2o The Mermaid arrived last evening, from Waikouaiti. . , , f . • The Yorkshire made the run home from • Port Chalmers in seventy-eight days. The p.s. Golden Ago transhipped cargo from the railway pier to the Peter Denny this momin*Tho Huon Belle, with 30,000 ft timber, from Gatlin's river, arrivedithis morning, and passed up to Dunedin. The B.s. Wallabi came down from Dunedin this morning, and steamed alongside the May Queen, and leaves for the Bluff tins afternoon. The barque (,'csarewitcli took of the S W. breeze yesterday afternoon to weigh anchor, but brought up outside the Heads. The ss. Result brought one more family named Pike, who have lost two children, and likewise two children of the family now left on the island. The child now on tUo island is progressing favorably. . The p.s. Samson returned with a large num* her of excursionists from Oamaru hist evening, and passed up to Dunedin ; came down again this morning, and steamed alongside the Otago to discharge 225 bags of wheat. The Queen of the South, for Port ( halmers, put into Bermuda on September 8, having lost sails, main topgallantmast, mizen topmast, and had her rudder-head broken. The following is the Hut of passengers by the Warrior Queen, which left Loudon on the 12th ■ September, for Otago 5- Gobm : Messrs Fredk. and Spencer Cook. Second (. abin : Mr W. B. Taylor, Mr J. R. Swan and family (10), Mr John Cook ; and eight steerage. Messrs M‘Meckan, Blackwood, and Go a. s.s. Albion, with the Suez mail ami a large number of passengers, arrived at 11.15 a.m., ami was immediately berthed alongside the railway pier. Her mails being already on deck were immediately landed and conveyed to Dunedin by the 11.30 train. We thank her purser, Mr J. Norris, for report and tiles. The barque Jane Rowland, from the Mauritius, was signalled at the Heads about mid-day Captain Hu-hes reports leaving Port Louis on October 4th, passed Burdin Island on the sth ; had strong south-east winds from October 10th to the 20th, after that a continuation of heavy gales ; shipped a great deal of water, hove to threo times, on October 2»*th carried away her bulwarks ; passed the Snares on the evening of the 20th hist., and thcNuggets yesterday. Spoke the ship Adelaide yesterday from Adelaide to London.

THE FRENCH WAR STEAMER VIRE,

A little after 1 p.m. yesterday a steamer was seeu outside the Heads, and shortly afterwards she steamed up to an anchorage off Carey’s Ray, under the charge of Pilot Kelly. She proved to be the French war steamer Vi re, from Sydney, which was signalled as the Terror when passing the Bluff. The mistake arose fiom the fact that the Yire’s number in the English code is the Terror. She is a wooden vessel, ban pie rigged, of 1,025 tons register, and her complement consists of seven officers and seventyeight men. She carries six 501b. rilled guns, each •weighing 2 tons, 5 cwt.. 20 lbs., on her upper deck. Her engines are of 1*)0 horsepower, French, equal to 200 English, driven by two boilers, and she will steam up to about eleven knots per hour. Her dimensions are - Length, 250 feet; beam, 52 feet; ik‘«th of hold, 30 feet; and draws 10 feet afvuna “ reet forward. She is one ot three vessels built at L’Orientin 1871, especially for surveying purposes, and is now on her maiden cruise on an international expedition to Campbell's Island to survey and take observations of that island for the purpose of ascertaining its suitability for observing the transit of Venus, she being provided with nearly all the necessary instruments. The Viie left France on the 25th of June, arrived at New Caledonia on the 10th October ; left again on the Ist of November, arriving at Sydney on the Gth November, after a good passage, when, just as she was entering the harbor, she encountered a heavy southerly buster, which blew the jib out of the bolt ropes and committed other damage. She remained at Sydney to refit until the 13th, when she loft for Port (‘halmers. During the trip over she metwith moderate S. W. and variable winds, and passed through Foveaux Straits under steam and sail, on Thursday afternoon ; passed the Bluff at 7 p.m., and arrived off Otago Heads at 1 p.m. yesterday. She will remain here until Tuesday next, when she will leave for Campbell's Island, and return here about the beginning of January, and, after a stay of six weeks, will proceed to the French Pacific Naval Station at Valparaiso. The following are the names of her officers Commander, Jacquemart; First Lieutenant, D’Etroyat; Second Lieutenant, Swincki; Sub-Lieutenants Patural, Rathonia, Brichet; Paymaster, Blim ; Doctor, Cenevin. Her officers are very obliging and willing to give any information about the vessel, which will repay the trouble of a visit.