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Evening Star, Issue 3385, 26 December 1873, Page 2

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HIGH WATER. To-morrow. o>ads I Port Chalmers 1 Dunedin 8.28 p.m. I 0.8 p.m. 19.53 p.m. PORT CHALMERS. ARRIVED. December 24—-Samson, p.s., 125 tons, Edie, from Oamaru. Passengers : Miss M Craw, Messrs Spencer, Tulloch, Simon M Gaw, Finch, Holmes, Mowatt, Smith Every (2), Johnstone, Webster _ (2), Bhkely, Read., Beissel, Gardner, Pemman, M Coll, Median, Calder (2), Hare, Patterson, Edwards, Stevenson, Baker, Johnstone j and thirty-one in the St NicoUne, barque, Ahlman, from Newcastle. Elderslie, three-masted schooner, 2CL tons, M'Gewan, from Tasmania. Jane Hannah, schooner, 52 tons, Kerns, from ketch, 25 tons, Andrews, from Waik°Deceinber 23.—Annie, ketch, 27 tons, Haswell, fromMoeraki. - Wallabi, s,s., 101 tons, Leys, from the Bluff. Passengers : Mr and Mrs Boyce, Mr and Mrs Stewart and child, Messrs Morris, Hughes, Huntley, Bruce, Davis, Parkins, Nancarrow, Smith; Salter, Watt, Murray ; and nme m the steerage, India, barque, 202 tons, Samson, from Launceston. Passengers : Messrs Symmons (3), Besrtr, Andrews, and Beaumout. Grace, cutter, 12 tons, Brady, from Waik°Queen of the South, barque, 376 tons, Adair, from New York. , . , M«.uora, barque, 357 tons, Petrie, from M luritius. Passengers : Mrs Petne and child. M to Jane, schooner, 38 tons, Ackers, from Lyttelton. SAILED. December 24.—Wanganui, s.s., 179 tons, Fraser, for the Bluff. Passengers: Misses Watt (2), Mrs E. C. Black, Rev. Mr Levy, Miss Levy, Messrs Erridge, Esther, Peake, i mdlay, and Grant. , Woodville, barque, Hodge, for Newcastle. December 25.—Tararua, s.s-, 520 tons, Clark, for Melbourne via Bluff. Passengers: Miss M’Laren, Messrs Spence, O’Hagan, VValstab, Lundon, M’Dermid, Captain Hamilton; aud three in the steerage. Pretty Jane, 101 tons, Peterson, for Oamaru. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Alhambra, for Northern Ports, January 12 Claud Hamilton, for Northern Ports, Dec. 31 Gothenburg, for Bluff, January 13 Hadda, for Hong Kong, January 3 Maori, for Lyttelton, early Otago, for London, January 10 Samson, for Oamaru, early Wanganui, for Bluff, early Wellington, for Akaroa, Dec.,3o Yessels in Port Chalmers Bay—Ships: Lady Jocelyn, Otago, Barques : Columbus, Glympse, Bobycito, Jewess, Woodville, Horatio Sprague; Duke of Edinburgh, William Ackers Memento. At the Railway Pier—Ships : Caller Ou, Christian Zealandia, Jessie Readman. The s.s. Pretty Jane sailed for Oamaru last barque Medora arrived from the Mauritius yesterday. , The schooner Mary Van Every, for Wanganui. put back for shelter yesterday. The Governor's yacht Blanche was taken into the Graving Dock this morning. The s.s. Tararua, with the buez mail, lett tlie railway pier at 4.15 p.m. yesterday. . The coasters Mermaid and F ..nny from Waikouaiti, Annie from Moeraki, Mabel Jane from Lyttelton, and Grace, arrived yesterday. The schooner Jane Hannah, from limarn, arrived on Wednesday evening. She left at 4 p.m. on the 23rd, and had baffling winds to arrival* The s.s. Wallabi returned from the Bluff at 1 p.m. yesterday, with a largo number of passengers, having left the Bluff at 8 p.m. on Peninsula conveyed the members and friends of the Prince of Wales Lodge of Odd Fellows to their annual pic-nic at Portobello this morning. , , . ~ The p.s. Sam?on returned from her Oamaru trip on Wednesday, and steamed alongside the Otago to discharge. Her passengers were conveyed to Dunedin by the Golden Age. The barque India, for Hobart I own, sailed up to her anchorage at 3 p.m. yesterday. Re ports leaving Launceston on the 18th inst., with S. W. winds ; sighted the feolandois at 8 a.m. on the 24th ; passed through the Straits with a strong S. W. gale under close-reefed topsails ; was off the Nuggets at 8 p.m. same night, and arrived off the Heads at 9 a. m. yesterday. She brings twenty horses, which ha* e arrived in hue condition. She was towed to Dunedin this morning. We thank Captain Samson for Launceston papers. The three-masted schooner Elderslie, from Tasmania, was towed upon Wednesday evening by the Geelong, and was immediately berthed alongside the railway pier to discharge her cargo of piles arui Sbe lett Port Esperance at noon on the 17th inst, and cleared Tasman Head same day ; had fine winds from the N.W. to the 19th, when she was caught in a heavy gale from the N. W., and was compelled to heave to for twenty-four hours, under closereefed cmvas ; variables were then experienced until making the West Gape on the 23d , passed through the Straits with a fresh N.W. breeze, which continued to the Nuggets, when the weather coming from the b.w.. she was enabled to make the Heads at 3.30 p.m. on Wednesday. Pilot Kelly, immediately boarded her, and brought her to an anchorage. On Wednesday afternoon it was reported that two square-rigged vessels had passed the Ocean Beach. At about 3.35 p.m. the leading craft was seen off the Heads, and proved to be the three-masted schooner Elderslie, from Tasmania. Shortly afterwards, a barque hove in sight, but, not being signalled, we were unable to publish her name in our last issue. She proved to be the North German barque Nicoline, with a cargo of coal consigned to Messrs Findlay and Watson. Captain Ahlman reports leaving Newcastle on the IGth inst., with a fine N. W. wind, which continued until making the West Cape at daylight on the 23rd. The wind then shifted to the S.W., and carried her past the Solanders at noon the same day ; from thence light variable winds until making the Heads at 4 p.m. She was boarded by Coxswain Moore, and the wind shifting from the S.W. to N.E., she was enabled to sail up to her anchorage off Carey’s Bay. The fine iron barque Queen of the South arrived at the Heads at noon yesterday, and was immediately boarded by Coxswain Moore, who brought her up to her anchorage off Carey’s Bay. Captain Adair reports leaving New York on the loth August with light S.W. winds which continued until the 24th; the wind then was variable for some time, and afterwards came from the southward with indications of bad weather. The vessel was in consequence made as snug as possible, and at 8 a.m. next day the wind increased to a perfect hurricane; when in lat. 48 N., long. 60 W., the wind suddenly changed to the west, and came down with such tremendous force that the canvas was blown out of the gaskets, and the ship was on her beam ends under bare poles. The main and mizen topmasts were carried away, also the rudder-heads, two boats, compasses, boat-skids, and deck waterclosets, and the galley was clean swept of everything moveable. The cook—W. Thomson belonging to Hamburg-was unfortunately canied overboard amid the wreck, (curing the gale, which lasted two days, the ship was hove-to; the weather moderated on the 26th, and the barque bore away for St. George’s, Bermuda, for repairs; after refitting there, the hatches were opened, aud the cargo seemed to be in good order. Started again for Pori Chalmers on the 24th September, with tine weather; crossed the Line ou the 29th ; the N.E. trades were light; the S.E. trades were soon caught, and were carried to lat. 34 S. ; from thence to the meridian of the Cape of Good Hope, which ■was crossed on the 22nd of November, in lat. 47 S,. had N. and N.E. weather ; ou the 24th, an ordinary seaman named John Grant, while fur lino' the main-royal, teil overboard ; the ship was going at 11 knots, and the man could not i be saved. Her easting was run down between the parallels of 48 and 618 during which she en-1 countered & and S«W» winds, with squalls of f

rain and snow; passed Stewart; Island at 11 a.m. on the 24th, with a strong N. W. wind ; was off Cape Saunders at 4 a. m. yesterday, and reached the Heads early yesterday morning. We thank Captain Adair for Bermudan papers.