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Evening Star, Issue 3444, 6 March 1874, Page 2

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HIGH WATER. TO-MOBBOW, Heads I Pobt Chalmebs I Donedih 4.53 p.m. .1 5.28 n.m. | 6.13 p.m. PORT CHALMERS. ABUTTED. "March 6.—Jane, 25 tons, Divers, from Shag Point. - SAILED. 6,—Flying Squirrel, 19 tons, Main, for thcMolyneux. PBOJEOTED DEPABTTJBES. Agnes Muir, for London, March 14. Beautiful Star, for Lyttelton, March 8. City of Dunedin, for London, March 14. Claud Hamilton, for Melbourne, via Bluff, March 9. Jane, for Moeraki, March 7. Lady Bird, for Northern Ports, March. 16. Mongol, for San Francisco, March 10. Omeo, for Newcastle, via Northern Ports, March 7. Samson, for Camara, March 10., Taranaki, for Northern ports, March.lo. Wanganui, for Bluff, March 10. The s.B. Wallabi arrived yesterday from her* southern trip. The Geelong towed the brigs Brenda and Wild Wave to sea this afternoon. The passengers by the Wild Deer were brought ashore to the railway jetty by the p.s. Peninsula this morning, and conveyed to Dunedin'by the 1.30 train. Thes.s Samson, after taking in her passengers by the 7.30 train, steamed alongside ithe ship Wild Deer and took in a number of berpassengers for Oamaru, and sailed at 9 a.m. The brigantine Sea Gull arrived yesterday afternoon from Havelock. She left on the 28th February, with variables,and when off the Ninety Mile Beach, encountered a stiff gale from the S.E., which lasted for six hours; thence fine weather to arrival She brings 80.000 feet of timber. Messrs Patrick, Henderson’s composite ship Wild Deer, under the command of Captain Cowan (formerly of the Margaret Galbraith), arrived at the Heads at noon yesterday, and eune inside with a fine breeze, under the hharge of Pilot Stevens, The Geelong was in readiness, and. proceeded down and arrived alongside the ship just as the breeze died away, when she made fast, and brought her to an anchorage off the railway pier. She will be removed alongside the jetty to-morrow, where •he will-discharge her cargo. The health and clearance officers went down to the ship in the a.a. Result, and, upon hoarding her, found that the passengers were all in good health. The presented a tidy appearance, and the passengers speak very highly of the treatment they have received from Captain Cowan, Dr Simpson, and the officers. Her different compartments were very clean, especially that of the single females. We are indebted to the chief officer for the following report of her passage : Sailed from Landaah Bay on the 10th December, and beat down the Channel against a fresh breeze from the W.S.W. and S.W, On the 18th parted with the pilot off Scilly Islands,from which she took her final departure on the 30th; was off Madeira on January 1: fell in with the N.E. trades in lat. 25deg. N., long. 20deg. W., and lost them on January 7, in lat. 4deg. N., long. 27deg, W.; and then had southerly winds until meeting with the S.E. trades about the Equator, on the 10th, in long. 31.30deg. W. OB the 11th tacked the ship in order to clear •the island of Fernando De Norpnho ; and on the 13th put the shipahout again. On the 15th was forced to tack ship in order to clear Cape Ban Roque. She carried the S.E. trades until in lat. 24.30deg. S. : , on the 24th,, where she' rke the barque Blaney Brothers, from Lonito Auckland, forty-nine days out. Passed the meridian of the Cape of Good Hope on the 4th .February, and on the Bth sighted Marion Island in the Prince Edward group. On the 10th a seaman named ’ A Bival fell overboard. - The starboard boat was immediately lowered, but nothing could be seen of him, he thus being lost. Passed the meridian of Cape Lenwin on the 22nd, and the Snares on the 3rd Maroh, and, with good winds up the coast, she arrived at the Heads at midnight yesterday. There were two deaths among the passengers— Mary Henderson from bronchitis, and Alexander Henderson from an accident. Both children were of the same family.