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Evening Star, Issue 3428, 16 February 1874, Page 2

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HIGH WATER. To-morrow. Heads J Port Chalmers j Dunedin 3.19 p.m. j 3.54 o.rtu | 4.39 p.m. PORT CHALMERS. ABBIVED. February 14.—Jane, 25 tons, Divers, from Shag Point. Samson, p.s., 124 tons, Edie, from Oamaru. Passengers: Mr and Mrs Hawden, Mr and Mrs Curry, Mrs Doughty and 3 children, Mesdatnes Corrigan, Campbell, Miss Hartley, Messrs Wales, Campbell, Hunter, Cowall, Joad, Luke, Beer, Hutchinson, and 7 in the steerage. February 15.—Beautiful Star, s.s,, 146 tons, Hart, from Lyttelton and intermediate ports. Passengers : Mr and Mrs Fleet, Misses Terry, Farr, Messrs Ward, Wright, C. Opie, Stanlin, Wilson, Causton, Douber, M’Naught, and 10 in the steerage. Wanganui, s.s., 179 tons, Fraser, from the Bluff : Passengers : Mrs and Miss Brown, Mrs M’Gill and 4 children, Rev. J. Clark, Messrs Cleave, H. Brown, Hamilton, Tussen, Smythe, and 11 in the steerage. Taranaki, s.s., 279 tons, Wheeler, from Northern Ports. Passengers: Mr and Mrs Donglas, Miss Tukson, Revds Isitt, Beck, Rigg, Dr Coughery, Dr Borrows, Messrs Cameron, Morrow, Hussey, Pitt, Pyke, Sheriff, Spreat, Buchanan. M‘Master, Fraser, Mason, Moray, W hit®, and 29 in the steerage. Otago, s.s., 1000 tons, John M‘Lean, from Melbourne via Bluff. Passengers : Saloonfrom Melbourne - Mrs and M'Kehzie, Mrs and Misses Swanstou (3) and two servants. Mrs Wolf, Mr and Madame Rekel, Madame Jenny Claus, Misses Robertson (2), Jacobs. Dr Hudson, Signor Ohechi, Messrs Campbell, Raphael, Muller, Quiggan, Coombe, Cogle, Atkinson, M‘Leod, M'Glashan, Brotherton, and 18 in the steerage. From the Bluff—Mr and Mrs and Miss Kingsland, Messrs Swanston, Cleland, Locksby, Pepys, Gibbs, and 5 in the steerage. Wallabi, s.s., 101 tons, Leys, from the Bluff. Passengers; Messrs Hunter, Weston, Kingsland, Reed, Holt, Butler, Dukrist, Grimley, Jonasy, Granger, Perry, Stockley, Walker, Bums, and 7 in the steerage. SAILED. February 15;—Coomerang, p.s., 125 tons, Hughes, for Lyttelton and intermediate ports. Maori, s.llß tons, Malcolm, for Lyttelton and intermediate ports. February 16.—Sarah Pile, 90 tons, Robinson, for the Bluff. ■ Otago, 1,000 tons, M'Lean, for Melbourne, via the North. Passengers: For Melbourne— Mr and Mrs Thomson, Mr Teeland. For Lyttelton—Professor Sale, Mr Hayman. For Hokitika—Mr Bradley, and 10 Chinamen; six steerage for all ports. PEOJKOTBnjDBPARtURBS, Alhambra, for Melbourne, via Bluff, Feb. 18. Albion, for Melbourne, via Bluff, Feb. 27. Beautiful Star, for Lyttelton, 4£eb. 17. Carl, for Auckland, early. Christian M‘Auslnnd, for London, Feb, 20. Claud Hamilton, for Melbourne, via Bluff, March 6. Macgregor, for San Francisco. March 10. Omeo, for Newcastle, via Northern Ports, March 6. Phoebe, for Sydney, Feb. 27. Samson, for Oamaru, Fob. 17. Smason, for Oamaru, Eeb. 17. Taranaki, for Northern Ports, Feb. 17. Jessie Readman, for London, Feb. 28. Jessie Readman, for London, Feb. 28. Wallabi, for Riverton, Feb. 17. Wallabi, for Bluff, Feb. 17. Wanganui, for Bluff, Feb. 18, Zealancliai for London, Feb. 25. The ship Dover Castle will sail for Sydney to-morrow. The ship Zealandia will finish her loading for London to-morrow evening. The s.s. Beautiful Star arrived from the North at 9 a.m, yesterday. The s.s. Wallabi arrived last night fiom the Bluff, and passed up to Dunedin. The cutter Jane arrived from Shag Point on Saturday with coal for the steam dredge. The steamers Comerang and Maori, for Lyttelton and intermediate ports, sailed yesterday. The new schooner built by Messrs Sutherland will probably be launched at high water tomorrow afternoon. The Samson and Beautiful Star were discharging < a-go into the ship Christian M'Ansl&nd thia^mermng. The ships Warwick, Margaret Galbraith, and Lutterworth are fast discharging their cargoes into lighters in the stream. The brigantine Sarah Pile, for the Bluff, was towed to sea this morning by the s,s. Jane! The p.s. Samson arrived from her Oamaru at 5 p.m. on Saturday. After transhipping her passengers to the Golden Age she steamed alongside the ship Christian M‘Aix«land to dishargo cargo. The s.s. Wanganui returned from her southern trip at 11 a.m. yesterday, and went alongside the Elizabeth Graham to discharge. We thank Mr Herbert for files. ° The remainder of the passengers of the Mongol were conveyed to the Quarantine Island yesterday morning with the boats belonging to the ship, they being towed there by her steam launch. The Peninsula took charge of the lighter having the luggage of the passengers on board, and brought her to the Island. There was another 'death on Saturday night on the Island Charles Stripp, aged seventeen months, from bronchitis. The s.O. Taranaki arrived 10 o.ra. yesterday from the North. She left the Manakau at 2 P-“; tbe 9th; arrived at Taranaki at 6 a.m. on the 10th; left at 10.30 a.m.; arrived atNelson at 2 a.m. on the 11th; left at 2.30 p.m. • amvedat Picton at 11 p.m.; left at 4 a.m. on the 12th; arrived at Wellington at 2 a.m. • left at 4 p.m.; experienced strong S.E. gale’ with very heavy sea all the passage to Lyttelton, arriving there at 8 p.m. on the 13th; left for Port Chalmers at 1.30 p.m. on the 14th, and arrived as above. We thank her pnrser, Mr C J. Edmmston, for report and files. She leaves again for the North on Tuesday afternoon The following vessels sailed from London for Otago in December:—Himalaya, 1,007 tons, December 20; Jungfrau, 534, December Omega, 462 (for Bluff Harbor and Dunedm , December 5 j Scimitar, 1,225, December ? 3 ; irevdyan, 10,42 November 29;jWiId Deer, 1,016 (from Glasgow), December 6. The vessels loading at London were—Durham, 998; Undine, 795 ; and the William Davie. The Trevelyan(Loftus) anchored in the Downs on Nov. 22, with jibboom cawied away, and sailed again on December 2 ; the Carnatic put into Plymouth oh December 7, with condense rout of order, hut sailed the following day. The following are the passenger lists of ships that left Hone for Otago in December:—Shaw Savill and Co.’s Himalaya, from London, December 17.—Cabin; Mr A W. Minty, Mr Arthur Osborn, Mr Chas. Lawson. Mr Chas May, Mr William A Peach, Mr E. Parker, Mr ihomas Murphy and wife. Miss Susan King Miss Annie T. King, and ten steerage. P Henderson and Co. y s Wild Deer, Captain Cowan), from Glasgow, December 6.—For Dunedin (Consigned to Messrs George Gray Russell, and Co.): Cabin: J. M’Dougal and family, Mr Wilson, John Inglis, John Fraser James and Mrs M'Gregor, John M'Gregor Donald M‘Gregor, Alex. Cowan, James M. Duncan, R. W. Robertson, and D. G, Howden! The Liverpool Star-line steamer Arcturus homeward bound, with full cargo from Calcutta to London, struck on the Guidurah Rock, near Galle,onr Monday, 29th December, got stranded, and next day slipped off the reef into sixteen fathoms of water, entirely disappearing. The vessel’s papers, chronometers, and a few cases of tea were the only things saved. The Arctures was to call at Colombo, and in endeavoring to make a rapid passage, kept too near the shore, and fan full speed on to thereof. She immediately tilted over to port with ten feet of water in her hold. Efforts were made that afternoon to land part of the cargo, but without success, though the weather was fine. No lives were lost. The Arcturus was a favorite passenger steamer, having established a first-class reputation for steam arid comfort on the Canal line. She had made one of the fastest passages on record between London and Colombo, At a ffF*. of incim y y > Cawtain Theakstone’e cerjjggj ** maSt6r BUS P ended twelve

Messrs M'Meckan Blackwood’s s.s. Otago anived at 6 a.m. yesterday from Melbourne via the Bluff, with the Suez mail, which was conveyed to Dunedin by a special train at 8 a.m. The last trip the Otago made to New Zealand was in January, 1869, she then belonging to the P. and O. Company. She was afterwards sold, and was employed in the China trade until being purchased by her present owners. Since her arrival in Melbourne she has been thoroughly overhauled and entirely refitted, and has now a hurricane deck. No expense has been spared for the accommodation of passengers, there being 76 berths in the saloon and 121 berths in the steerage. She is commanded by Capt, John M'Lean, Mr Tozer being the chief officer; Mr Robertson the chief engineer; and Mr J. H. Heaton the purser. The Otago was formerly a favorite boat, and renowned for her speed, and it is very satisfactory to have two such splendid steamboats as the Otago and Albion to Serform our Suez Mail service. The Otago left lelbourne at 4 p.m. on the Sth; experienced fresh easterly wind the first day, then light winds until nearing the land, when the wind freshened from the eastward;. passed the Solanders at 3 a.m, on the 14th; arrived at the Bluff at 9 a.m.; left again at 4 p.m., came through the Heads at daylight, and arrived as above. We thank Mr J. H. Heaton for report and files. THE GALE IN AUCKLAND.

(From thcN.Z, Herald.)

On Saturday morning the weather was squally, and the day advanced, the temperature and clouds indicated in the east bespoke what might be expected before night. In the-afternoon a heavy downpour of rain and fitful ! gusts of wind, and later the still falling glass shewed what was unmistakenbly preparing. Yet, little or no preparation appeared to be made for the coming storm. Nearer and more near it approached, when at ten o’clock it burst upon us in all its fury. The very floodgates of heaven seemed to be open, and the waters of a second deluge hurled upon ns. In company with this came a mighty wind, in power and duration unequalled by anything experienced hero since the year 1861, It came first from the S.E., then changed to the N.E., from which we had it in all its intensity and force, when its afterwards shifted to the N.N.E., and later to the north, in fact it may be said that we were enveloped in the tail end of a cyclone. The destruction amongt the shipping has been enormous, and all within the space of half-an-hour, when the tornado was at its height. It is usual on Saturday evenings for the harbor to be well dotted with coasting craft, most of which are moored to the eastward of the wharf. It was here that the havoc commenced. It may be described as similar to a game of ninepins—as one vessel broke adrift another was home away with it, and > so another and another as they fouled’ until all came down, driven by the sea, on to the wharf, where they stove In, were pounded to pieces, and eventually sank. No greater proof of the destruction was wanted yesterday morning than the sight of the heaps of ships’ timbers, planks, &0., all driven by the flood tide into the eastern comer of the wharf against the new silt basins, and which were left by the receding tide in one heterogenous mass, an evidence of the terrific havoc made amongst the shipping.