Shipping.

Evening Star, Issue 3421, 7 February 1874, Page 2

Shipping.

HIGH WATER. ITo-mobbow. Heads I Pokt Chalmers I Dunedin 6.39 p.m. ] 7.14 p.m. | 7.59 p.m. Monday. 7.28 p.m. | 8.3 p.m. | 8.48 p.m. PORT CHALMERS. ARRIVED. February 7.—Alhambra, s.s., 497 tons, Sinclair, from Melbourne, via the Bluff. Passenfers: Mr and Mrs M'Pherson, Mr and Mrs ilarson, Mr and Mrs Russell, Rev. W. Henderson, Signor Biscaccianti, Mrs ,Mnir, Misses Henderson, Berghoff, Bastings, Carandini, Messrs Smith, Berghoff, Rutherford, G. Conway, Ostler, Strackey, E. L. C. Brooke, Morton, Hogg, Goldsmidt, Eva, Grant, Roskruge, and 20 in the steerage. Pioneer, 22 tons, Machieson, from Shag Point. Margaret Scollay, 16 tons, Scott, from Moeraki. Beautiful Star, 146 tons, Hart, from Lyttelton and intermediate ports. Passengers: Messrs Moisman, Lawrence, Hodder, Cramond and two children, and six in the steerage. Wanganui, 179 tons, Fraser, from the Bluff. Passengers—Miss Anderson blisses Watt (2), Cockerane, Mr and Mrs Smithy Messrs Allen, G. Smith, and 7 in the steerage. SAILED. February 6. —Samson, p.s., 124 tons, Peterson, for Oamaru. Maori, s.s., 118 tons, Malcolm, for Lyttelton and intermediate ports. Huon Belle, 42 tong, Saunders, for Gatlin’s river. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Alhambra, for Northern Ports, Feb. 9. Beautiful Star, for Lyttelton, Feb, 9. Carl, for Auckland, early. Christian M'Ausland, for London, Feb. 20, Dover Castle, for Sydney, Feb. 9. Phoebe, for Sydney, Feb. 15. Paterson, for Lyttelton, Feb. 9. Samson, for Oamaru, Feb. 10. Wanganui, for Bluff, Feb. 10. Wallabi, for BlufL Feb. 9. Wellington, for Northern Ports, Feb. 10. The barque Woodville was removed alongside the old jetty to take in ballast. The new shaft for the s.s. Gothenburg came down from Dunedin last night, and will be fitted on Monday. The Margaret Scollay arrived this morning for Moeraki.

The Huon Belle sailed last night for Gatlin’s Kiver. The Paterson has been taken out of the Graving Dock, and the Gothenburg taken in. The Harbor Ce.’s s.s. Beautiful Star arrived at 9.30 this morning, and steamed alongside the ship City of Dunedin to discharge cargo. We thank her steward for Lyttelton files. •The steamers Claud Hamilton, for Melbourne via the Bluff, Samson, for Oamaru, and Maori, for Lyttelton and] intermediate ports, sailed last night. We have been favored with a telegram sent to Mr A. Hill Jack, which states that “ it was the May, and not the Amateur (as stated in our last night’s issue), that was wrecked at Kaipara.” She was insured in the Sou tlx British for L 1,500, the New Zealand for LSOO, and the Victoria for L 500.. Messrs M‘Median, Blackwood, and Co.’s s.s. Alhambra, uoder the command of Captain W. C. Sinclair, arrived at 5.30 this morning from Melbourne, via the Bluff. She left Hobson’s Bay at 2.30 p.m. on the 31st, and arrived at the Bluff at 4 p.m. on the sth. Experienced fine weather the whole of the passage. We thank her purser (Mr Jago) for report and files. As instancing the mildness of the weather occasionally met with on the voyage from England to Melbourne, the * Argus ’ mentions that when the Malabar, just arrived in Hobson’s Bay, was in a calm off Trinidad, a picnic was given in the maintop, at which some eighteen or twenty gentlemen assembled, the ladies being taken aloft in ship’s chairs, and the gentlemen climbing up the rigging in the usual orthodox manner.

A PERILOUS VOYAGE,

The following account from the * Home News,’ is of interest, as bearing similarity in some of its features to the case of the Surat:—“The fears which have been entertained in Southampton, London, and Havre during the close of last week as to the safety of the Fannie, steamer, belonging to the first-named port, have now been happily dispelled by the arrival of the missing vessel. The Fannie is one of the steamers plying between Havre and Southampton, in the service of the London and SouthWestern Company, and is of 632 tons register and 250-horse power. She was built in 1670, and is under the command of Captain Kni-dit. As she did not arrive in Southampton when Sue, the company despatched two of their boats, the Wolff and the St Malo, to seek her, and the various ports oxf the south-eastern coast were in* formed by wire that great anxiety prevailed as to the whereabouts aud safety of the Fannie, a sharp look out for which was requested. Nothing, however, was heard of her until she was towed into Dover two days overdue after a passage across the Channel which seems to have been attended with the utmost peril. According to the statements of some of the saloon passengers, the Fannie left Havre at midnight on October 31 with about 130 men, women, and children on board, the majority bound for New York and the West Indies, all of whom expected to reach Southampton the next day in time to embark on the steamers which were announced to sail from that port on that day. It was remarked that the Fannie was deeply laden, both her upper and forward decks, if the testimony of tho passengers is to be credited, being encumbered with cargo. Not very long after the steamer had left Havre, water was discovered in her fire-rooms, and this increased so rapidly that by the next morning it reached the fires and extinguished them. Not very long after this the vessel became entirely helpless, not having sufficient sail to control her, and was completely at the mercy of the .wmd and waves, and, as the sea was very rough, sufferings of the passengers were intense, while tho greatest anxiety was manifested by all of them as to their safety. As the day advanced, it was expected that every moment the steamer would go down under one of the heavy waves which over and over again swamped her, but Captain Knight, who never lost his self-possession from first to last, endeavored to calm the fears of his passengers by assuring them that, as the Fannie had not reached her destination at the appointed time, vessels would be despatched by the company to her assistance. For this reason he declined to accede to the request of many of the passengers to hoist signals of distress, and consequently, they say, they were passed by several vessels which might have rendered them assistance had they known their perilous position. The passengers, however, on the whole, behaved admirably! The few who were not prostrated by sea-sick-ness offered to assist the crew in working the pumps, but it was found they were choked and were of no service. Helplessly drifting up Channel, the steamer encountered the fury of a gale which raged all one night, and wheii daylight appeared the captain hoisted signals of distress, which attracted the attention of the screw-steamer Eddystone, of Glasgow. The Fannie had passed the Isle of Wight, and was being tossed about off Beachy Head, when the Eddystone came to her assistance, and attaching a hawser, towed her safely into Dover Roads. The harbor tug Palmerston was engaged to land the passengers and baggage, and rooms were secured at the Lord Warden Hotel for the unfortunate passengers, who were afterwards despatched, cn route, for Southampton, by special train. After the passengers and their luggage had been landed, the Fannie remained in the roads until the arrival of the Wolff, when she was taken in tow, and left for Southampton with every prospect of a quick and safe voyage.