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Evening Star, Issue 3427, 14 February 1874, Page 2

Shipping.

HIGH WATER. To-morrow. Heads | Port Chalmers I Dunedin 1.53 p.m. 1 2.28 am. | 3J3 p.m. Monday. 2.40 p.m. | 3.15 p.m. | 4.0 p.m. PORT CHALMERS. A RRIVED. February 14. Cambria, 38 tons, from Oamaru. Spec, 50 tons, Madson, from Allday Bay. SAILED. February 14. —Jessie Nichols, 93 tons, Jones,' on a cruise. Hope, 21 tons, Gay, for Tois-tois. Gothenburg, 561 tons, Pearce, for Melbourne, Passengers : Messrs Roberts, M’Kellar. For Bluff—Mr and Mrs Rogers, Messrs Wilson, To nes ; two steerage for Bluff, and five for Melbourne. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Alhambra, for Melbourne, via Bluff, Feb. 18. Albion, for Melbourne, via Bluff, Feb. 27. Carl, for Auckland, early, Christian M‘Ausland, for London, Feb. 20. Maori, for Lyttelton, Feb. 15. Otago, for Melbourne, via Northern Ports. Feb. 16. The cutter Hope sailed last night for the Toi Tois. The schooner Spec, from the coast, passed up to Dunedin to-day. The topsail schooner Jessie Nichols sailed yesterday for the south. The brig Brenda was removed alongside the nil way pier to discharge her sugar. The' barque Otago nas finished discharging her sugar, and hauled off this morning from the railway pier into the stream - . 1 ' 1 The senooper Cambria arrived this morning from Oamaru, with 62 bales of wool for transhipment to the Elizabeth Graham. SHIPPING TELEGRAM. Lyttelton, February 14. Arrived, last Slight, Miss Kilmansegg, brig, from Dunedin. * THE MONGOL. Yesterday afternoon the Board of Health proceeded down in the p.s. Golden Age to the mail steamer Mongol, for the purpose of informing Captain Flamank of the decision of the Board, which was “Ist, That the ship remain in quarantine in the meantime, and that she be thoroughly fumigated; 2nd, That the fourteen immigrants for Otago be placed on the Quarantine Island, and ell the usual and necessary steps be taken to fumigate their clothes, bedding, baggage, and personal effects; that the cargo for this port be placed into lighters and fumigated prior to its being landed; 3rd, That if the Colonial Government so desire it, the whole of the passengers of the steamship MongoLbe landed on the Quarantine Island, and their clothes, &c., thoroughly fumigated.” It will thus be seen that if the General Government are unwilling that the passengers be landed at this port the ship will proceed on her way to Lyttelton, under the quarantine laws. The following is the distribution of her passengers For Otago, 10J adults; Canterbury, 71; Wellington, 91; Auckland, 72£, Of those for Otago there is but one female suffering with a chronic disease. Dr Davidson, ship’s smgeon, informed the Board of Health that while the emigrants were all ready for embarkation at the Plymouth depot, there were some families attacked with scarlet fever, and on the morning before the emigrants came on board there were two families sent out of the depot, who were so ill that they were considered unfit for the voyage, and that they had also left the effects of the disease behind them in the depot; but tbe emigrants were taken on board. The day before starting Dr Davidson caused a family to be sent on shore who were suffering from the disease, and not fit to be amongst a number of passenger i. These facts show gross neglect on the part of the clearing officer at Plymouth. We may expect something with the ship Scimitar, which left the same day us the Mongol, as the emigrants by both ships came from the same depot, and the Scimitar’s batch will be much longer at sea. Every means at the command of the Captain and doctor of the Mongol were used for the mitigation of the diseases, or the consequences might have been much more reriqus. _ It is to be hoped that the strictest investigation into the circumstances of the whole ease will be made by the authorities, as an affair of this kiad tends to obstruct emigration very materially. The complaints were at their worst about the beginning of January. The following is an account of the ship, furnished by Captain Flamank The Mongol is of 2,265 tons register, and 400 horse power nominal, I*6oo indicated; is fitted with compound engines; length, 300 f t; beam, 35ft: depth of hold, 31ft Tin. She belongs to the New York, London, and China Steamship Company, and is chartered by the Australasian and American Mail Steamship Company. Her commander is Captain John Flamank, who is welljknow in the Colonial passenger trade She was built by Messrs Dobbie and Co., Clyde, expressly for the tea trade beand New York, and is sister ship to the Tartar, one of thejsame line, and which is expected hero shortly. Her engines were constructed by Messrs HowdenandCo., of Glasgow under the superintendence of Mr Lawrie, the chief engineer of the ship. For passenger accommodation the Mongol will compare favorably with any vessel that has visited us yet, her ladies cabin, retiring rooms, bath-room, icehouse, &c,, being fitted in a very superior style, uffie total numbfer of her crew is 54, including officers, engineers, firemen, &c.