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Evening Star, Issue 3431, 19 February 1874, Page 2

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HIGH WATER ITo-morrow. Heads I . Port;. Chalmers J Dunedin 5.08 p.m. T' , 5.45 t).m. | 6.28 p.m. POET ’CHALMERS. I ARRIVED. , February 19.—Sampson, p. 5.,124 tons, Edie, from Oamaru. Passengers: Hon, J. M'Lean, Mrs and Miss M‘Lean,_ Miss Benton, Messrs Hay, Livingstone, and eight in the steerage, SAILED. February 19.—Wanganui, s.s., 179 tons, Fraser, for the Bluff. Wallabi, s,s., 101 tons, Leys, for Eiverton and the Molyneux. Lady of the Lake, 66 tons, Urquhart, for the Molyneux. Fanny, 25 tons, Andrews, for the Molyneux. Beautiful Star, s.s., 146 tons, Hart, for Lyttelton and intermediate ports. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Albion, for Melbourne, via Bluff, Feb. 27. Christian M'Ausland, for London, Feb, 20. Claud Hamilton, for Melbourne, via Bluff, March 6. Ladybird, for Northern Ports, Feb, 24. Maori, for Lyttelton, Feb. 21. Mongol, for Auckland, Feb. 21. Macgregor, for San Francisco, March 10. Omen, for Newcastle, via Northern Ports, March 6. Oretl, for Wellington, early. Pbcebe, for Sydney, Feb. 27. Samson, for Oamaru, Feb. 20. Wanganui, for Invercargill, Feb. 24, Zealandia, for London, Feb. 25. The Zealandia finished her loading last night, and the Christian M'Ausland will complete hers this evening. The Mongol was admitted to pratique this morning. Shortly after her realease her saloon passengers were brought ashore in the steam launch, and proceeded to Dunedin by the 11.30 train. - The Mongol will not be removed from her present anchorage, and her coal will be lightered down to her. The three-masted schooner Agnes Muir landed her horses in first-rate condition at the old jetty last evening, and was towed up to Dunedin this morning by the Geelong, where she will discharge her general cargo of Hobart Town produce. The p.s. Samson arrived from Oamaru at 9.30 last night and steamed up to Dunedin. After landing her passengers she went back to the Port to discharge cargo into the ship Dunfillan. .

The N.Z. Shipping Co.’s barque Elizabeth Graham commenced to bend sails this morning. The harqne Otago, with part cargo from the Mauritius, for Lyttelton, is all ready for sea, and will sail the first slant of wind. The steamers Alhambra for Melbourne (with the Suez mall), Lady of the Lake for the Molynonx. Beautiful Star for Lyttelton and intermediat ports, Wallabi for Riverton and the Molyneux, and Wanganui for the Bluff, sailed last night. The schooner Pioneer took oh board transhipments from the Margaret Galbraith, yesterday. The barque East Lothian, from New York, was towed up last evening by the Geelong and berthed alongside the railway pier, where she will discharge her Dunedin portion of Yankee notions. The remainder of her cargo is for Auckland. She is still under the command of Captain William’s, who was master of her when she was here last April. - She reports leaving New York on the ,4th November, with moderate S.W. wipd.the first day; then variables until the 9th, when the weather settled in the S.W., and freshened to a heavy gale, with high sea ; the barque was under lower topsails and reefed foresail for twelve hours; after the gale had .blown itself out, westerly winds were experienced until reaching lat. 32.2 N.; the N.E. trades were very light, but before reaching the line, in lat. 1.30 N., she caught the S.E. trades, and crossed the equator on the 6th of Decern ber t> in long, 31.40 W.; the S.E. trades were carried until reaching lat. 175.; baffling winds were then met with until in lat. 275., when a heavy gale set in from the S.E., and lasted for 48 hours, during which the ship was head reaching under lower topsails; the meridian of the Capa was passed on the 9fch January ; her easting was run down between the parallels of 465. and 475.; passed the meridian of Cape Leuwin on the 3rd February, and made the Solanders oh the 16th, with a heavy gale from the northward; signalled the Bluff at noon on Monday, passed the Nuggets at 9 p.m. same night, and was at the Heads on Tuesday morning. On the 22nd December, in lat. 295.. long. 26WV, signalled the barque Strata Florida, 39 days out from Cardiff, bound'to Point de Galle. •The ketch Fanny sailed yesterday afternoon for ,the Molyneux, with a cargo of railway iron, transhipped from the Dunfillan. The Tjrig Wave, Captain M‘Kenzie, from Newcastle to the Bluff, spoke the Eliza Adams, American whaler, Captain Stuiers, off the Solanders on the 12th, cutting-in a 100-barrel whale, with 45 tons oil aboard; all well; had been off the Solanders nine weeks, and had strock seven whales, of which they captured four, all over 100 barrels oil; experienred heavy gales all the way.