Shipping.

Evening Star, Issue 3410, 26 January 1874, Page 2

Shipping.

HIGH WATER. ,/ To-morrow. , Heads v I Pobt Chalmers f Dunedin 10.38 p.m. I ;• Hi 15 p.m. | 11.58 p.ni. PORT CHALMERS. • ‘arrived, • January 24.—Sampson, p,s M 12& tons, Peterson, from Oamaru, J. Mills, agent. PassenSra: Misses Spalding, Kerse, Wederspoon, rs Stephenson and 2 children, Mrs Bauchop and 4 children, Mrs Cathcart, Messrs Fotherington, Esther, M'Lenan, J. R. Dawson, Scanlam Ashcroft, and 9 in the steerage. January 25.—Taranaki, s.s., 229 tons, Hepburn. from.-, Lystolton and the North. Passengers: Saloon—Mr and Mrs Proctor, Mur. and Mrs.,, Hawthorne, Mr and v Mrs Gardener, Mesdamei Solomon, M'Girr, Bally, Misses -Bathgate (2), Shappere and Anderson, Messrs Pole, Thomson, DeYalley, Ellison, Halliday, Johnstone, Warren, Boeg,; Rentone, Cowan, Hope, Ford, Captain Peth'er ! bridge, and 10 steerage. / ! Wanganui, s.s., 179 tons, Fraser, from the Bluff. Passengers :Mr and Mrs Conyers and 3 children, Miss Nyon, Mrs Matchell, Mr and Mrs Trotter, Mrs Campbell, Misses Reid and Sinclair, Messrs Lindsay, Wm Seed, Channing, Hume, Copeland, Burford, Ansell, Sibbald,and 11 in the steerage. Maid of Southland, schooner, 12 tons, from Purakanui. Miss Kilraansegg, barque. 229 tons, E. Finlayson, from Melbourne, Passengers : Mrs and ' .Master Finlayßon, Mr Tinan and one in the • steerage- 1 - ( Trial, 15 tons, Turle, ; from Waikouaiti. . RAILED. ’ ■ i ;. :.January 25.'—Beautiful Star, s. s., 146 tons, Burt,, for,Lyttelton and Tiiharu. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. ' '• . Christian M'Ausland, for London, Feb. 20 • 5 Gland Hamiltoii, for Northern Ports, Feb.’4 Harriet Annytage, for Auckland, early Jessie Roadman, for London, Feb; 20 'Maori, for Lyttelton, Jan. 28. . t Mary Ogilvie, for Greymputh, Jan. 28 Margaret SCbflay, for Moerald, Jan. 28 H ' Phoebe, for Sydney, Feb. 15 Samson, for Oamaru, Jan.'-'27' • Omeo, for Northern Porta, Jan. 28 Taranaki, for Northern Ports, Jan. 27 -, Wanganui, for Bluff,' January 27’ ' Alhambra, for Northern ports, Feb. 27. Excelsior, for Auckland, early, ■j. ;• Lady of the Lako. for Molynenx, Jan. 27. Zealand!*, for' London, Feb. 25 1 The p.s. Samson arrived from Oamaru on Saturday night, and passed up to Dunedin. ■ The s.s. Beautiful Star .sailed for, her usual trip to Lyttelton and intermediate ports yester- . AayMtemoon. ; .The 8.8. Wanganui arrived at 9.30 a.m. ’yeq* , terday from her', Southern trip/, and it being nearly high water pifocesded to Dimedin. The s.s: Wallabi came down* and steamed alongside the Agnes Muir to take on board •.transhipments for the Bluff, and will sail this evening.' ' The barque Columbus, being the first vessel loaded for London by the New Zealand Freight Company, was towed to sea by the tug Gee'l 'long oh Saturday afternoon. ; Heir cargo is valued at a little over LIOO,OOO. The seamen, in, Sydney are.agiiating for extra wages and the eight hours movement. To carry out the latter would require three shifts ; ; of men instead of two. We leam from the : * Mail’ of Deceihber 27 that the shipmasters of the_ port have held-,'a meeting, at which they maintained that their profits under present circumstances will not bear the strain the men seek to put upon them—that they cannot afford a greater outlay than that >vhich they are nowincurring, and that they Will be driven to the employment of Asiatic seamen, who are noW very largely employed in the Oriental marine. The brig Miss Kilmansegg, l from Melbourne, was signalled at the Heads yesterday afternoon, and shortly afterwards sailed up and anchored off Deborah Bay. This morning she i got; underway, and passed up to Dunedin to discharge part of her cargo, the remainder being j Lyttleton.. - Captain Finlay son Reports ~ clearing Tort Phillip Heads at 6 p.m. on the 18th, with fine westerly winds until making the Solanders oh Saturday morning; came through Fpveau Straits, which was cleared at 5 p.m., and was 15 miles off the' Heads at 8 m m. yesterday, with light variable winds, when a N.E. • wind sprang up, which enabled her to sail to an anchorage as above. The N.Z.S.S. Co Taranaki' arrived from her usual Northern trip at 11.15 a.m. yesterday and was berthgd alongside the Railway Pier. Captain Hepburn reports leaving the Manakau at 10 a f m. on. the 39th, and arrived rt Taranaki at 5 a.m. oh the 20th; left again at 8 a.m. and amved at Nelson-atmidnight, and left again at 10.30 a.m. on the 2lat, arriving at Picton at 7 ■ P;®?-.! andleft again at 2, p.m. on the; 22nd, arriving at Wellington at 7 a. m., and left again at 3p.m. on the 23rd, arriving at Lyttelton at 10 a.m. on the 24th: ’ left again at 2 p.m., and a y ve. We thank her purser, Mr ■■ ! Edmmaton, for files, and report. Nhe leaves again for the North on Tuesday. The brig Chanticleer was signalled at the Heads on Saturday afternoon after a smart passage of six days from Hobart Town, and the Geelong, after towing out the barque Corrido, took hold of her and towed her up shortly afterwards. She was anchored off the railway pier. Captain Phillips reports leaving Hobart Town at 4 a.m. on the 18th with a light northerly wind, and cleared Storth.Bay at noon; had moderate W.S.W, winds, with fine weather dunug the passage; made the S. W. Cape at noon on the 23rd; passed between the Traps and Stewart’s Island, and passed the Nuggets ’ 4 a- 1 *- 24th; arrived at the Heads at f anchored as above. We thank Captain Phillips for a copy of the Hobart Town Mercury. A London correspondent of the ‘New Zealand Herald,’ speaking of the New Zealand Shipping Company, writes Considering the unprepared state, and without proper tools to work.with, I consider this company has done wonders it astonishes the merchants and shipowners in this great city. Last week we sent three large ships out of dock at the same tide 411 f « u < « passengers and cargo; and two large vessels this week. This will give you some idea of the business we are doing here. We have now offices in the South West India Dock ® re loading, and occupy six berths there. We Rave telegraphic coramunication between the City and the dock offices, with a staff of clerks at each end, which will facilitate the loading of the vessels greatly, for mtherto it has been very uphill work. The demands we have for engagements for cargo to New Zealand it was impossible to meet in our passenger ships, so we were obliged to load the ship China, which takes away 2,000 tons to Canterbury. Suitable ships for the New Zealand trade are scarce, for owners do not like bringing them under the Passenger Act, and I feel certain the New Zealand Shipping Company have teken a step in the right direction in building and buying ships for themselves. They are about to build two more : new vessels, ”

A REMARKABLE ESCAPE.

Ihe Auckland Evening Star 5 gives the following account of a remarkable hair-breadth eicape from death by drowning or exposure • The person whose me was endangered was Dr - Smith* .the resident medical man at the Kawau. v ■ It appears:that this gentleman had occasion, on - .the 2nd January, to go over to the Hot Springs , to see,a patient. He took one of Sir George , ..Girey’a open sailing boats; and, being well used I. le^§ I ?^. eme ? i & a boat, put off by him- % Self. He amved safely, and having finished hia business:-jsdt sail to return to the island. On ; 'MB way back,'however, a sudden squall caught ■ > - hls'llttle'vessel, and before she could be brought round to the wind, she capsized.- ’ The doctor clung fast to the boat, which floated bottom upwards. ,The anchor and fifteen fathoms of ‘ - chain fell out ’of the craft, and prevented her to a great' • extent ■from rising to the waves, thus rendering Dr Smith’s* position a very precarious one. The tide was setting out at the rime,,*nd. even, if the boat continued to , jao%t r , there was;the greatest danger of it being swept out to sea and lost with its i. .occupant, The accident took ?:^ ni 9 (?n * At about six in the ctitter Sumpter was about Smdway between Chandler’s Island and Whangayam passage, when a roan named Morgan I

on board espied an oar floating on the water. He called the skipper's attention to it, and preposed they, should pick it up. While they were talking, Morgan mounted the rigging to see whether there was anything to be seen near froin which the oar might have come. At this momentthey heard a faint cry to windward, and directly after another. Both looked arixiously round suspecting the state of affairs. At length' a boat, with a person clinging to it, was made out, nearly a mile to windward.; The head of the cutter was laid in the direction of the object, and on approaching it, Dr Smith was recognised,. A rope was let down from the cutter’s chains, but be was so far gone, either from exposure or the revulsion of feeling at the sight of assistance, when, escape appeared hopeless, that he was unable to lay hold of it. Morgan then sueceeded in making it fast to his body, and the doctor was hauled on hoard in a completely insensible condition. He recovered shortly afterwards was able to give a few'particulars of the accident; but shortly afterwards a collapse took place, and delirium set in. Fearing that death might intervene before the cutter, could arrive at Auckland, Captain Greenwood stood back for the Kawau, and the sufferer was landed there, still in a raving condition.