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Evening Star, Issue 3417, 3 February 1874, Page 2

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PORT CHALMERS. ARRTVEI). February 2.—Warwick, 1,000 tons, Skinner, rom London. Passengers : Mr and Mrs M‘Lean, three children, and two servants; Mr and Mrs E. P. Kenyon, three children, and servant ; Mrs Brodie and four children, Mrs Linsen, Messrs Isberwood, Wood, Master Glendining, and seventeen in the second cabin. Ivanhoe, 72 tons, Stewart, from Eaipara. Lhmedin, 66 tons, Stewart, from Havelock. SAILED. February 3. —Trial, 25 tons, Bradshaw, for Waikouaiti Beautiful Star, s.s., 146 tons, Hart, for Timaru. Caller Ou, 633 tons, Rea, for Newcastle. Lady Bird, s.s., 286 tons, Andrews, for the North. Passengers: For Lyttelton—Mr and Mrs Eskett and child, Messrs Styles, Forsyth, and Campbell. For Taranaki—Mr Davidson. For Manakau—Mrs Street, Mr and Mrs Genever, Mr and Mrs Bodle and two children, and Mr Parker. For Hokitika—Miss Marr. For Poverty Bay—Mr Briggs, five steerage, and 23 Chinamen. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Alhambra, for Northern Ports, Feb. 7. Christian M‘Ausland, for London, Feb, 20. Claud Hamilton, for Melbourne via Bluff, Feb. 6. Dover Castle, for Sydney, Feb. 9. Maori, for Lyttelton, Feb. 4. Phoebe, for Sydney, Feb. 15. Samson, for Oamaru, Feb. 6. SjWanganui, for Bluff, Feb. 4. The brig Chanticleer, for Hobart Town, will sail this evening. The s.s. Beautiful Star, after taking on board transhipments from the Dunfillan, sailed for Timaru last evening. The Sarah Pile hauled alongside the ship City of Dunedin this "morning, to discharge her eargo of oil. The schooner Ark conveyed the powder from the ships Lutterworth and Warwick to Dunedin this morning. The ship Caller Ou commenced to unmoor this morning, and was towed to sea, bound for Newcastle, by the Geelong, The 8.8. Wallabi came down from Dunedin, and steamed alongside the Warrior Queen for transhipments, and sails for the Bluff this evening. The schooner Ivanhoe arrived this morning from Kaipara, having leftthere on the 24thinst.; had variable winds to arrival. She brings 02,000 ft. of timber. The schooner Dunedin arrived this morning, having left Havelock on .the 28th ult., with northerly winds, which continued until the Ist inst., when the weather came from the S.W. ; at 5 p.m. encountered a heavy squall, accompanied with thunder and hail, but no damage was done. She brings 50,000 ft. of timber. The ship Warwick, reported in our last issue as having arrived, was towed up by the Geelong to the Quarantine ground last night, where she was anchored, having powder on board. She left London on the 25th October, and the Downs on the 26th; discharged her pilot on. the 27th, and cleared the channel with a wind on the 28th ; encountered a stiff S.W gale on the 2nd November in the Bay of Biscay; the N.E. trades were caught on the 13th, but they were light, and light weather was experienced until passing Cape de Verde Islands; lost the trades on the 15th in lat. 21T1 N.; northerly and variable winds were experienced to the Equator, which was crossed on the 2nd of December in long. 27 T1 W.; the S.E. trades were also very light; passed Tristan D’Acunha on the 23rd, and crossed the meridian of Greenwich on the 26th, with a strong breeze from the N.E.; crossed meridian of the Gape on the 31st, and made her easting between 44 S. and 47 S.; on the 24th January encountered a heavy W.S.W. gale, which soon increased to a hurricane, the barometer standing at 29’5; at 6 p.m. there was a tremendous see running, and the vessel shipped a quantity of water. A heavy sea stove in the main hatch, carried away the deck-house, filled the cabin, and carried away everything moveable on the decks; other seas treating on board covered the vessel’s deck with water, a quantity going down the main hatch. Everything on board was in confusion.' On the 26th there was still a heavy gale with high sea, the ship laboring very much, and all hands being employed in securing the main hatch ; on the 27th it was found on going below a deal of cargo and stores were damaged. The passengers and crew lost a quantity of clothing, some of it being swept overboard and the rest destroyed by the water. The main hatch was battened down after some trouble. On the 28th the weather moderated, and things were got a little straight. Passed the Snares at 7.30 a.m, on the Ist of February with a N. \V. wind,.sighted the Heads at 11 a.m. on the 2nd, and arrived as' above. SEIZURE OF A VESSEL FOR OVERLOADING. Information from Liverpool reports the seizure there, by order of the Board of Trade, of a Government vessel, the Loreley, a small steamer of only 284 tons register, which has just been loaded at that port with Government stores for the seat of war on the West Coast of Africa. The Loreley had oh beard no lessjthan 640 tons of coal and salt, and 100 tons of other cargo, or very considerably more than double her registered tonnage. A better criterion, however, of the extent to which she was overloaded will be found in her draught of water, which was 13ft sin forward, and no less than 15ft sin aft, with a free side of only Ift 4in The interference of the Board of Trade was prompt and decisive; and, after some parleying the owners consented to remove so much of the cargo as would reduce the draught of water to the amount sanctioned by the Board. Accordmgly, some 50 tons or so were taken out, reducing the draught from a mean of 13ft llin to a mean of 13ft sin, and increasing the freeboard to a corresponding extent, viz., from Ift 4in to Ift 10m. The amount of cargo to be removed has been decided by four experienced assessors, viz., Captains _Sandeman and Searles, of the merchant service; Captain Mackenzie, R.N. chief engineering officer of the port of Liverpool; and Mr W. H. Bissett, deputy principal surveyor of steam shipping for the Mersey— Captain Searles having no connection with the port, hut being sent from London expressly to assist the local officers. The net result of the transaction, so far as the Loreley is concerned, is a delay of three days in the despatch of the Government stores with whiof she is laden, and a bill of LlO for expenses of survey. SHIPPING TELEGRAM. Lyttelton, February 3.— The Isles of the South, eighty-eight days from London, arrived Jate yesterday. Crusader, eighty-six days from