Shipping.

Evening Star, Issue 3435, 24 February 1874, Page 2

Shipping.

HIGH WATER To-morrow. Heads I Port Chalmers I Dunedin 10.17 p.m. 1 10.52 n.m. | 11.37 p.m. PORT CHALMERS, AT THE HEADS. February 24.'—Phoebe, from the. North. ARRIVED February 24.—Lady of the Lake, s.s., 65 touß, Urquhart, from Moeraki. Beautiful Star, s.s., 146 tons, Hart, from Lyttelton and intermediate ports. Passengers : Misses Leslie, Roberts, Messrs Wilson, Parker, Grav, Shipton, Rogers, Sweeney; and three in the steerage. SAILED. February 24.—Christian RPAualand, 962 tons, Tilly, for London. Passengers : Messrs James Lawrence, John and David M'Lean. Sim&on, p.s., 124 tons, Edie, for Oamarn. Plying Squirrel, 19 tons, Main, for Gatlin’s River. Maori, s.s., 118 tons, Malcolm, for Lyttelton gnd intermediate ports. Ladybird, 286 tons, Andrew, for the North. Passengers: For Lyttelton—Miss Saunders, Mr Griserson. For Wellington—Mr and Mrs Petirson, servant, and family; Miss Andrews, Messrs Peterson, Thomson, and Newman. For Nelson —Messrs Simon and Murison. For Manakau—Madame Carandini, Misses Carandinl (3), Neale, and Lambert; Messrs Barnard, Gordon, Cotterell, and Sherwin. For Napier— Mr Fulton. For Greymouth—Seven steerage and five Chinese. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Albion, for Melbourne, via Bluff, Feb. 27. Agnes Muir,«for London, March 14. Beautiful Star, for Lyttelton, Feb. 25.' City of Dunedin, for London, March 14. Claud Hamilton, for Melbourne, via Bluff. Uarch6. Comerang, for Lyttelton, Feb. 25, East Lothian, for Auckland, Feb. 25. Jessie Readman, for London, Feb. 28. Kate Brain, for Auckland, Feb. 28. Lady of the Lake, for Kaitangata, Feb. 25. Ladybird, for Northern Porta, Feb. 24. Macgregor, for San Francisco. March 10. Omeo, for Newcastle, via Northern Ports, March 7. Oreti, for Wellington, early. Phoebe, for Sydney, Feb. 27. Wanganui, for Invercargill, Feb. 25. ' Zealandia, for London, Feb. 25. The s.s. Maori left for her usual trip to Lyttelton and intermediate ports last night. The ship Christian M'Ausland, for London, was towed to sea this morning by the Geelong. The p.s. Samson left for her usual trip to , Camara shortly after the arrival of the 7.30 train this morning. The p.s. Peninsula brought down the passengers and their luggage for the ship Zealandia to-day. She will be towed out to-morrow morning by the Geelong. The barque East Lothian was removed this morning to the inner berth at the railway pier, where she will finish discharging her Dunedin portion of Yankee notions. The p.s. Golden Ago removed the barque Elizabeth Graham from the railway pier this morning to the lower anchorage. She will probably leave for London to-morrow. The s.s. Lady of the Lake arrived at one o’clock this morning, and steamed alongside the ship Dunfillan to discharge 700 bags of wheat. She left Port Chalmers at 8 p.m. on the 22nd; arrived at Moeraki at midnight ; discharged and took in cargo, and left again at 8 p.m. last night, and arrived as above, having made the trip in 28 hours. The Harbor Company’s s.s. Beautiful Star arrived at 9 o’clock this morning from her usual trip to Lyttelton and intermediate ports, and went alongside the City of Dunedin to discharge preserved meats. She left the Port at 6.30 p.m. on the 18th; called at Timaru and Akaroa, and arrived at Lyttelton at 5,40 p.m. on the 20th; discharged and took in cargo, and left for her return tnp at 6 p.m. on the 22nd; called at Akaroa and Timaru ; left Timaru at 8.20 p.m. last night, and arrived as above. The report which Commodore Goodenough has forwarded to Governor Robinson respecting the objection to the steamships of the San Francisco mail service making Kandavu the port of call instead of Levuka appears to us V N. Z. Herald’) sufficiently strong to command immediate attention to the necessity of a change being mode. Commodore Goodenough tells Sir Hercules Robinson that he had taken the opportunity of visiting the port of Ngaloa, in the Island of Kandavu, considering it all important to the Government of New South Wales (and the Commodore might have added New Zealand) to secure a good port of call for the mail steamers. Commodore Goodenough does not approve of Kandavu. The sea reef of this harbor, he states, extends much further to seaward than is marked in the Admiralty plan. There , will be, moreover, great difficulty and expense in placing the leading lights for the entrance sufficiently far apart to enable a ship to enter with certainty at night; and until those lights- are so placed it will ho impossible to enter the port at night. The Commodore says the only alternative which presents itself is to make Levuka the port of call, and to pass through the group by the Nanuku passage as was_ formerly done. Coming from the Samoan group he entered the Nanuku passage, where there is now no light, under sail only at ten o’clock at night, and on the following night entered the port of Levuka also under sail at the same hour. This was accomplished without difficulty and without emS Joying any person who had ever been in the ijigroup before. The Commodore expresses a strong opinion that if any money be spent upon lights, it is far better that it should be laid out in placing a first-class light on the Nanuku passage rather than make an effort to light Ngaloa. The Commodore in fine takes precisely the same view that we endeavored to support m our columns some time back—namely, that making Kandavu a port of call for the mail steamers is a great and may yet prove a fatal mistake. Levuka, in all respects, both as a harbor and a port, claims a decided preference.

MODERN CRUSOES.

The following i? extracted from a diary kept by one of the officers of H.M.S. Challenger which ie engaged in making deep sea soundings m vanous parts of the world :~At Tristan d Acunha we leamt that two Germans had been living at the well-named Inaccessible Island thirty miles south, who had voluntarily exiled themselves with_ the hope of obtaining seal ekms, but as their provisions were well known to have been long expended, and as from their smoke signalshaving been discontinued for two months they were supposed to have perished the captain decided to go and look after them! so during the night the ship was steamed quietly across the channel. At daylight the following morning the land was closed, but as nothing could be seen but the poor fellows’ grass hut, there were many speculations and much anxiety on board as to their fate. The captain, commander, and paymaster landed, and, as they neared the shore, our minds were much relieved to see the two would-be Robinson Crusoes running at the utmost speed towards the boat.' Soon afterwards they arrived on board, in time for breakfast, when they enjoyed a hearty feast. The rejoicings of the poor fellows at their release from captivity may be well imagined. They had been landed on the island nearly two years before, and during the first year had several opportunities to escape by crossing to the island of Tristan d’Acunha, but each time, to obtain seals, they resolved to remain. For the last ten months they had seen no one, bad been totally without external resources, and wholly dependent on the few vegetables they had been able to raise, the wild pigs on the top of the island—the ascent to which was so steep as to be a question of life or death on each attempt —ana the penguin eggs, which birds frequented the island in large numbers during the breeding season. The poor fellows were taken on boaru, and afterwards landed at the Cape.