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Evening Star, Issue 3439, 28 February 1874, Page 2

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HIGH WATER To-morrow. Heads I Port Chalmers | Dunedin 1.41 p.m. ) 2.16 o.nu | 3.01 p.m. Monday. „ 2.16 p.m. I 2.51 p.m. | 3.36 p.m. PORT CHALMERS. arrived. February 28. Chanticleer, 186 tons, Phillips, from Hobart Town. Passengers : Mrs Davie and family (6), Mr and Mrs Howis and child; six m the steerage. Carnatic, 871 tons, Moon, from London. SAILED. February 28.—Beautiful Star, s.s., 146 tons, Hart, for Lyttelton and intermediate ports. Lady of the Lake, s.s., 66 tons,' Urquhart, for the Molyneux. Dunedin, 66 tons, Stewart, for Napier, via MoerakL Phoebe, 646 tons, Worsp, for the North. Passengers, For Lyttelton : Mrs Warde, Messrs Strange and Buck. For Wellington : Mfs Older and family (4). For Manakau : Mrs Sptatt, Mr Hayman, and eight in the steerage. Twenty Chinese for Hokitika, and about 100 Immigrants from the Mongol , PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Agnes Mliir, for London, March 14. City of Dunedin, for London, March 14. Claud Hamilton, for Melbourne, via Bluff, March 6. Dunfillan, for London, March 15. Jessie Headman, for London, March 4. Maori, for Lyt,telton. Match 3. Macgregor, for San Francisco, March 10 Omeo. for Newcastle, via Northern Ports, March?. Oreti, for Wellington, early. Samson, for Oatnaru, March 3. Taranaki, for Northern ports, March 10. Wellington, for Northern Ports, March 5 Wanganui, for Bluff, March 4. The schooner Dunedin sailed yesterday afternoon for Napier, via Moeraki, with a fine S W Wind. The brig Brenda was removed alongside the ow jetty this morning for the purpose of receiving her ballast. The steamers Albion, for Melbourne, via the Bluff, Beautiful Star, for Lyttelton and intermediate ports, and Lady of the Lake, for the Molyneux, sailed last evening. The new schooner Wanganui, which has been in Murray’s floating dock for the purpose of being coppered, was taken out at high water to-day, and the barque Bobycito was taken in for. an overhaul. The s.s. Wallahi came down from Dunedin last night and steamed alongside the brig Wild Wave, afterwards towing the brig alongside the old jetty, where she will discharge a portion of nor coals for the^gasworks. The clipper bng Chanticleer arrived last evening, from Hobart Town, after a fine passage of six days. She brings seven days’later ‘ news toan that received by the Albion. She left Hobart Town on the 21st instant, at noon, with & southerly wind, and cleared Storm Bay the following morning at two o’clock, the wind having shifted to the N,E.; had moderate weather for two days; the wind then came from the N. W. and continued moderate; made the S. WV cape of Stewart?. Island at 2 p.m. on. the 26th; passed the Bluff at;midnight and the Nuggets at, nine the following morning, and made the Heads at 4 p.m., when she signalled * or tug. The Geelong shortly afterwards proceeded down and towed her up to her anchorage laat night. We thank Captain Phillips for Hobart Town papers to the day of sailing. About half-past three this morning Constable Bell, while ou duty in George street, Port ChalmerSj.Observed a;fire oh board a vessel in the bay. He immediately gave the alarm to Serf e{ mbNeil . and Constable Erridge, who took a oat and proceeded off, and found the fire was on board the ketch Isabella, which arrived on Wednesday from Gatlin’s River, and had been waiting at the port for a slant of wind to proceed to Dunedin. Fortunately the fire was soon extinguished. Alexander Conday, mate of the vessel, states that himself and two seamen were asleep in the cabin when he was awoke by something falling on deck. Thinking it was a craft had run into the vessel he immediately got up and upon reaching the deck found that the boom had fallen, and* that the mainsail was on fire. With buckets of water, and the assisance 9*k ers « £°t the fire under, but not until the whole of her mainsail was destroyed, and the gaff and boom damaged. He estimates the damage done to be about forty pounds. It appears there was a small signal lamp fastened to one of the main boom topping lifts, about fourteen feet from the deck, and on the top of the lamp was a piece of canvas to prevent the wind from putting out the lamp.. This canvas must have caught fire, and som.e of the sparks fallen cn the mainsail. The lamp Was still burning-when the sergeant went on Board. The mate does not know whether the vessel is insured. She was got under way and sailed up to Dunedin this morning. The is death'announced in the Sydney papers of an old colonist—James Boyle—who died »|®d eighty-three. He came to the Colonies in 1834, and was placed in commandof the Governor Fhuhp, and in that capacity continued to act without intermission until the transfer of that vessel (with the dependency of Norfolk Island) to the Government of Van Diemen’s Land. Captain Boyle was ultimately discharged by the Government of the last-named Colony on the 10th of March 1845, having been employed as master of the brig Governor Phillip for nearly elevemconsecutive years, with credit to himself and all connected with him. In his command Captain Boyle had to convey stores, troops, and convicts to and from the Colonies and Norfolk Island, often at great personal risk and danger - - T ln , June* 1842— when discharging cargo at Norfolk Island, with a military guard on hoard the soldiers were suddenly overpowered by a gang of convicts from the islands, and it was only through Boyle’s dauntless courage that the desperadoes were finally put ♦ T”’ - T ? e * convicts actually succeeded in taking the bng and in keeping possession of her deck for upwards of an hour, nor was it until Captain Bojde had, through the skylight and from the cabin below, shot the ringleader, that the vessel was regained. In the desperate struggle which then took place five prisoners ■were shot, ana one soldier was drowned: the sergeant of the guard, moreover, being desperately wounded. For this gallant service to ms country the deceased received in June, 1846, a sum equivalent to one year’s salary. In April, law, he was, in consideration of his past services, allowed to occupy on sufferance a portion of Government land at Lake Macquarie, for the purpose of establishing a fishing station • but the enterprise does not seem to have been as prosperous as could have been wished, and the veteran latterly lived in Sydney. Yesterday evening signals at the Heads announced the arrival q{ the ship Carnatic, from London, with sickness on board, but no particulars were obtainable. The tug Geelong proceeded down at nine this morning and towed her up to the Quarantine Ground. The Health and Clearance Officers, with Professor M‘6reS or j at once went down to her in the s.s. Result and kindly permitted the reporters to accompany them. We were thus enabled to glean*the following Carnatic left Plymouth on the Bth of December; had a fine-weather passage to the Equator, which was crossed on the Bth January; her N.E. trades were very light; run her easting down between 48 S. and 49 S and made the Snares at noon last Thursday, i’here have been thirty-four cases of scarlet fever and twenty-six cases of meaaels during the passage, which have resulted in five deaths. There are now six cases of sickness on board, but only two of these are under treatment, one case being very bad. The first sign of measles was on the 21st December, but the patient recovered on the Ist January. The first case of scarlatina occurred on the 31st December, and the patient died on the 16th January. . The last case of scarlatina was on the 13tn February, and the last case of measles on the 16th, both of which are now in the hospital. The five deaths were as follow:—William Cox, ten weeks old, from exhaustion from vomiting; Fanny Larkin, five years, scarlatina (malignant) ; Miriey Cox, six years, scarlatina (malignant); Eliza Bowler, twenty-one month?, tcarlatina; Jano Lainchbury, two and a-half years, scarlatina. Besides these, another casualty occurred—one of the crew, named.Robert William Lather, was accidentally drowned. As

soon as the diseases showed themselves every precaution was taken by Dr Robert Gihbs, the surgeon, tot prevent them from spreading, and had'it,not been for the ‘great care with which the unfortunate patients were kept apart from the rest of the passengers, we should probably have had a much greater amount of sickness to chronicle. The passengers’ clothing, where possible, was washed in a solution of Oordy’s Fluid, and carbolic acid and other disinfectants were plentifully used.. She brings no saloon passengers, but adds 251 immigrants to our population. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. Wellington, February 28.— The William Tapscott arrived at Queenstown after a passage of ninety-eight days. Melbourne -Arrived : 16th, Lady Jocelyn, from Port Chalmers. SaUed: 20th, Dallam lower, for Dunedin. Sydney.— Sailed: 18th, W. 0. Wentworth, for Auckland. Newcastle. Arrived: 13th. Princess Alice, from Lyttelton; Duke of Edinburgh, from telton; Ann and Jane, from Wellington; 18th Caller Ou and William Ackers, from Dunedin. WRECK OF THE BARQUE WYNAUD. Captain Findlay, of the barque Wynaud, that left this port on the 14th instant for London, via Launceston, reports that the Wynaud went ashore about half-a-mile to the southward of Eddystone Point, on the morning of the 16th instant. Since leaving here the Wynaud had experienced thick, dirty weather, with the wmd blowing very hard from the southward. At 2 a.m. on the 16th, the wind and weather stiU continuing unfavorable, the vessel was embayed about half-a-mile to the southward of Eddystone Point. The anchors were immediately dropped, but they parted, and the vessel went ashore on the sandy beach, the sea all the time breaking heavily over her. A hawser was then run out to the shore, and through its means the lives of those on board were, though with great difficulty, saved. When the captain and crew left the vessel there were about six feet of water in the stern, and heavy seas were breaking over her, and it is uncertain whether it will be possible to get her off the beach. It is possible that & portion of the cargo will be saved. The vessel is covered by insurance. At the recent conference of representatives of the different Colonial Governments, held at Sydney, and at a subsequent conference of Marine Boards, also held at Sydney, it was decided that a lighthouse should be erected at Eddystone Point. If that resolution had been carried out, the Wynaud would not have run ashore at that place.— ‘ Hobart Town Mercury,’2lst inst.

A ROMANCE OF THE SEA

The Eden, a ship of over 500 tons, sailed from London on October 15, bound for Valparaiso. She was loaded with 150 tons of gunpowder, and with a general cargo, in which a quantity of matches conveniently figured. The ship was making a good passage, and all was going well till she had been about twenty days out, when symptoms of insanity began to appear in the conduct of the captain. The symptoms rapidly increased in intensity, and presently manifested themselves in an exceedingly unmistakeable manner. At midnight on November 7, the crew sleeping in their berths were aroused by shouting and the shuffling of feet, and rushing on deck they found the captam, with loaded firearms in his hand, raving and threatening to shoot the watch. This was not a pleasant situation to be in at sea, with a captain prone .to turn out of his cabin in the dead of the night with loaded pistols, and an evident recklessness as to where their contents might go. Rut the sailors seem to have taken the matter very coolly, and soothing the madman m their kind but clumsy manner, induced him to turn in again, he promising not to make any fresh disturbance, Half-an hour passes away, the sailors are all asleep save the watch, when suddenly there is another alarm, and the crew crowd on deck to find a sight more starI*™? than that of a madman armed with loaded pistols. The ship, with 150 tons of gunpowder on board, was on fire! The captam, instead of fgoing to sleep, had fired the cabin in several places, and the flames wore plainly visible through the lurid cloud of smoke that filled the room. The case demanded instant treatment. The cabin door was shut, and so the crew dashed in the skylight and tried to get down through that. But this course was found to be impracticable, and the second mate and the carpenter volunteered to go down, break open the cabin door, and secure the madman, who, still armed to the teeth, was pacing round the cabin, uttering shouts of demoniac glee. The two men succeeded in breaking down the door, and, the second mate entering, was shot in the head by the captain, and retreated, followed by the carpenter. The flames were spreading with a rapidity which presently led to the discovery that the captain had carefully prepared for the fearful scene by soaking parts of the ship in parafine oil. When the sailora heard this, they gave up all hope of saving the ship, and a move was made for the boats. As the longboat was being swung, the infuriated captain, having now added a bayonet to nis armory, appeared on deck, and seeing the preparations for escape, rushed at the crew gathered round the boat, fired at the head of one, and stabbed another in the shoulder With a bayonet. A sailor, picking up a handspike, smote down the madman’s arm, and the rest rushing upon him disarmed him. The crew then got into the boats, and implored the captain to leap over and join them, but he refused. Th ey put off, having determined to leave him to his fate, but on second thoughts they decided to do the thing that was right and manly atwhatever cost. So they pulled back, got the maniac safely into the boat, and rowed away in time to view from a safe distance the explosion of the ship. Next morning they were picked up by wie Juamta, of Scarborough, bound for Bahia. Un the Scarborough the captain of the Eden, Bowman by name, remained in irons for four . y s> w ken he "ot an anchor loose,” and, runlung to the vessels side, leaped overboard, and. weighted with two irons, went straight down in the sea, and was never more seen. The crew were taken to Bahia and forwarded thence to Liverpool.—‘Daily Post.’