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Evening Star, Issue 3409, 24 January 1874, Page 2

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HIGH WATER. To-morrow. Heads I Port Chalmers-I Dunedin 7.50 p.m. 1 8.34 p.m. | 9.19 p.m. Monday. 9.14 p.m. | 9.49 p.m., ] 10.34 p.m. % PORT CHALMERS. / ARRIVED. January 24.—Jane, 25 tons, Divers, from Shag Point. Wallabi, s.s., 101 tons, Leys, from the Bluff, via Gatlin’s River. Crest of the Wave, 72 tons, Bell, from . .Oamaru., r ' Mermaid, 12 tons, Neave, from Waikouaiti. Chanticleer, brig, from Hobart Town January 14. ' Passengers: Mr Gellibrand, Mr and Master Davey, Messrs Jobes and Valentine; and nine in the streerage. . SAILED. January 24. p.s, 124 tons, Peterson, for Oamaru. Elderslie, 202 tons, M'Gowan, for Port Es peran'ce, Tasmania. Albion, 800 tons. M'Lean, for Melbourne, via Northern and West Coast ports. Glencoe. 159 tons, Dillner, for Melbourne, via Moerakt ‘ Oorrido, 271 tons, Lament, for Newcastle. Columbus, ship, for London. Passengers; Mrs Kay and child, Mrs BaUanty and child. •. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Beautiful Star, for Lyttelton, January 25 Christian M’Ausland, for London, Feb. 20 Northern Ports, Feb. 7 Harriet Armytage, for Auckland, early ■ Jessie-Roadman, for London, Feb. 20 Maori, for Lyttelton, early Mary Ogilvie, for Greymouth, Jan. 28 Margaret Soollay, for Moecaki, Jan. 28 • Phpfcbe, for Sydney, Feb. 15 Samson, for Oamaru, Jan. 27 Omeo, for Northern Ports, Jan. 28 Taranaki, .for Northern Ports, Jan. 27 Wanganui, for Bluff, January 27 VTallabi, for Bluff, January 26^ The three-masted schooner Elderslie, for Tasmania,. sailed yesterday afternoon. ' The barque Glencoe sailed this morning, for Moerakt, to load stone for Melbourne. The barque for Newcastle, was towed to sea this afternoon by the Geelong, i. 'The SitfT Wallabi arrived from the Bluff, via Gatlin’s river, early this morning, and passed up to Dunedin. , •/ The ship Caller Ou’ was removed from thfe ■ talhyay pier this morning by the tug Geelong to the lower anchorage, and will sail for Newcastle the beginning of next week. The p.s. Peninsula conveyed Pilot Kelly and the boat’s crew from the Heads to the Port, this morning, to attend the inquiry on the distress signals made by the Gothenburg. ,j The s.s.. Beautiful Star was taken into Murray’s, floating. dock yesterday, and was cleaned and received a coat of Peacock’s patent paint. She . sails for her usual trip to-morrow afternoon.

Among the passengers by the s. s. Wallibi this morning was Captain Bruce, of ; the shipßebington, which vessel has nearly completed her loading at the Bluff, but on account of the scarcity of seamen there Captain Bruce will engage .as many as.he requires in Dunedin, when they * will be conveyed to the Bluff by steamer. The following message with reference to the wreck of the barque City of Melbourne has been telegraphed from Bisbane to the ‘ Sydney Morning Herald’■“ Reports have been received that the barque City of Melbourne was wrecked six miles north of the Burrum River. The vessel was ■ bound from Mackay to Maryborough, in ballast. At five o’clock on Sunday morning last it was blowing a gale on shore. Both anchors were let go, but they were carried away. At 7.30 the mizen-masi was cut away, and an hour later the mainmast was also cut away. The barque, drifted ashore and struck on a soft sandy beach at 11 a.m , and at low water was twenty yards from the land. The master and crew remained by the wreck to save the property and secure everything before leaving. ' The vessel is now the property of Messrs ■ Pettigrew and' Co. She was formerly one of the AIS.N. Oo.’s steamers.” SHIPPING TELEGRAM. Lyttelton, January 24, —The Taranaki has just (1.55 p.m.) sailed for Dunedin. .v A VOYAGE FOR* LOVE. In the'annals of maritime adventure no precedent could perhaps be found for a voyage undertaken for love in so frail a craft as that described hy the 1 Rockhampton Bulletin ’:— On the night of the 4th instant, as the brig Phyllis was lying near the mouth of the Fitzroy River, Captain M'Eachem saw what he at first took to be a log of wood floating past his, ship. He subsequently noticed something move 'Unit, 'and immediately sent a boat away in charge of the first mate, who returned in a short time with two men and a raft made of an ordinary ship’s ladder lashed across a seaman’s .chest; The men were foreign sailors, and were i very much exhausted, having, as they said, been in the water without food for twenty-four hours, during which time they had come only sixteen miles. It was further learned, from them by signs and a little German and English combined, that they had run away from the immigrant ship Eugenie, and, when asked where they were going with their frail craft, replied, ‘‘To Rockhampton, to see our sweethearts.” They also stated that another man had loft, or was going to leave the ship with the intention of swimming ashore, for the same purpose. Captain M'Eachem took them on board, and gave them a hot supper. It is rather remarkable, considering the number of sharks that infest the bay, that the men should have so long remained in the water, balancing the ladder on the sea-chest, without molestation. Captain Kock, of the Eugenie, expresses great sympathy for the inen, and describes them as young but good sailors, and as not having any knowledge of the coast or the situation of Rockhampton. The captain also thinks that the men’s sole desire was, as they said, to go on shore and see their sweethearts, and does not attribute their desertion to any other circumstance.