Shipping.

Evening Star, Issue 3404, 19 January 1874, Page 2

Shipping.

ARRIVED. •

January !?.—Samson, p.s., 126 tons, Peterson, from Oamarui J. Mills, agent. PassenR. : Campbell, Hon.; M. . Holmes, Icsinre Oliver, Farr,' Copeland, Martin, Anderson, E. '‘Booth, A. Booth/ Hardy, Gardiner, M'Master, Masters M‘Marty (2), Messrs Rossbotham, Benson, Goldsmith, Masters Holmes, Telford, Libbertson, Mrs Yorke, Misses Lane (2), Miss Hardy, Mrs Spence, Telford, Fulton, Beal, Misses Beal, Humphrey, and ten in the ' steerage'.'” January 18.—Maori, s.s., 118 tons, Malcolm, from -Lyttelton, ;and ; intermediate ports. J. Mills, agent. Passengers—Mr and Mrs Stone, Mr and. Mrs„Smith, Mrs ,D. Olarke, Messrs Reading. M'Sherly, Roberts, Elder, Bagley, Inglis, Gee/Michelaon, Walker, Adams, Hole; _ Maries,: Peter, Scott, Mark, Tean, Tainui, Roubep; Sdtln, and four in the steerage. ■ V .Comerang, p.s., 162 tons, Hughes, from Lyttelton. ; ' ■' i Jane,' 26-tons/Divers, from Shag' Point for ? Oaxnaru (put in). ■■./ ; , ■ . : V ..; /: ; SAILED; . - / . January : 18.—Horatio Sprague,: 504 , tons, . SmalL-forNewcastle.. -Wallabi,.M., 101 tons, Leys, for the Bluff, ; v Spec, 52 tohßj Madson, for Moeraki, Albion; for Northern Ports, January 20 Cbmerangj.for Lyttelton, January 21 Madri, 1 for Lyttelton, January 20 Otago, for London, January 20 , Tiurarua, for Northern Ports; January 21 Wanganui, for Bluff, January 20 ! . Wellington for Northern Ports,-January 20 L Vessels':}!! Port Chalmers Bay—Ships: Caller Ou, Warrior Queen, Agnes Muir. Barques: Famingham, Cesarewitch. In the stream— Bteather J Wellington; ships: Dover Castle, Zealandia t Qtago, / Jessie Readman; Christian M‘Ausland; barques: Elizabeth Graham, Columbus, Queen of the South, Corrido. At ttiSAld Thorafe and Henryk > 'The schooner Spec, which got cm the bank oh Friday night, got off yesterday and sailed for MoerakL . ‘..." - '.'The American barque Horatio Sprague, for rf was towed to sea by the tug GeeV; r The Ou has finished discharging, and is now busy ' taking: oh board her ballast. /Shegbes to ,V ■ ■' The p.s/ Samson 1 came ddwn from Dunedin \.this - morning," and. steamed alongside the ship Jessie Readmanto .discharge: cargo. ■ . The s.s. Wallabi sailed for the Bluff, via ' Gatlin’s River,- yesterday afternoon, having a •' number of Chinese passengers on board: The Harbor Company’s s.s. Maori arrived at : aim- from the North; and steamed alongside the ship Zealandia to discharge wool; We. thank her purser for files.; She sails agaiq for her usual tnp on Tuesday.

THE CALIFORNIAN STEAMERS.

•i.\ -'.A correspondent writes to a Melbourne contemporary regarding the Macgregor, the first boat of the new San Francisco line, as follows :—She came from Singapore in 18 days, drawing 20ft—in other words, she averaged 12 knots. This is an eye-opener, and the look of .the .Macgregor fully confirms the facts. I We have had nothing of the description in these waters. She - is on the model of the transAtlantic mail r clippers, and. has strengh sufficient and to spare for the Pacific. Everything is ; pointing towards utility. She took 1.000 tons of sugar oh board in the Straits, so that she can carry burden, as well.as d 0,12 knots. I have seen all the' novelties which visited the Bay, and never saw anything the right sort till the Mac-, gxegor came. The P. and 0. boats are good, but they have not equalled the Macgregor’s time. Take, for instance, their straight running from Galle to' Melbourne—averagee —average time, twenty-one 'days’; dibtan6e, 4,670 miles; average per hour, nine miles. Nodoubt this can be improved on, and the Macgregor will be a gentle stimulant. To those.of your readers who have not seen her, I may say that she is long and narrow—the characteristic of all steamers, because they carry no top weight, rigging, or sails to speak of. It is the immense canvas and rigging of the auxiliary : screw steamers which require breadth of beam. The narrow beam of the Macgregor involves no risk whatever, simply because she has no top rigging to speak of, but I need not say what an immense advantages narrow beam confers, dispensing with s6' many feet of displacement of water; a single foot of displacement disSinsed with confers so much speed per hour, er immense length brings her tonnage up to the largest of our steamers; but she looks flmaU,-and at once strikes the beholder as just 'we thing for our calm latitudes.

SHIPPING TELEGRAM.

o ’ Wellington, January 19.—The ship Salisbury, from London, with the second batch of Colonel Fielding’s immigrants, was signalled yesterday, and remains outside the Heads, owing to a head wind.' She is still Unable to get in.

HIGH WATER. To-mobrow. y.' Heads | Port Chalmers I Ddnedxn 4.9 p.m. I 4.44 p.m, I 5.29 p.m.,