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Evening Star, Issue 3447, 10 March 1874, Page 2

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HIGH WATER. STo-mobbow. Heads 1 Port Chalmers I Dunedin 7.58 p.m. 1 8.33 p.m. | 9.18 p.m. PORT CHALMERS. arrived. March 10.—Jungfrau, 585 tons, Scotland, from London. Kassa, 324 tons, M'Connelly, from the Mantitans. SAILED. March 10.—Samson, p.s,, 124 tons, Edie, for Oamaru. PROJECTED DEPARTURES, Alhambra, for Bluff, March 18. Anne, forMoeraki, March 11. City of Dunedin, for London, March 14. Jane, for Moeraki, March 11. Lady Bird, for Northern Ports, March 16. Maori, for Lyttelton, March 12 Otago, for Northern porta, March 18. Samson, for Oamaru, March 13. Wanganui, for Bluff, March 11. The brigantine Kate Brain sailed yesterday for the New Ritot. The p.s. Samson sailed for her usual trip to Oamaru shortly after the arrival of the 7.30 train this morning. The steamers Beautiful Star, for Lyttelton And intermediate ports, and Claud Hamilton, for Melbourne via the Bluff, sailed yesterday. When our despatch left the Port this afternoon a “ ship to the northward” was signalled at the Heads, but we had received no particulars of her when we went to press. t The New Zealand Co.’s s.s. Rangatira arrived at 1.45 p.m. yesterday from the North. She left Poverty Bay at 6 p.m. on the 3rd, and experienced heavy S.W. weather after leaving Lyttelton. We thank Mr Dougherty for reSort and files. _ She was piloted up by William toore, coxswain of the pilot boat. The fine Jersey built barque Kassa, formerly to Jersey, but now tbe property of 'Captain Wells of Port Adelaide, was signalled at the Heads this morning, after a passage of thirty-seven days from the Mauritius. She Was detained a week on account of the heavy weather. She left Port Louis on the Ist February, and had calms for the first three days, the Mauritius being still in sight; on the 4th a fresh breeze sprang up from the southward, but was very unsteady; the trades hung well to the southward, and after losing them had very unsteady winds until reaching the meridian of Cape Leuwin on the 25th of February, in lat. 46.30; then moderate westerly .winds until making the land; passed the Snares on the Bth, at 8 a. tn., and encountered heavy winds along the coast, principally from the S.passed Cape Saunders at 5 p.m. yesterday, and the Heads last night; kept Under weigh all night, and sailed up to her anchorage this morning under the charge of Pilot Stevens. Captain M‘Connelly reports passing a barque painted green yesterday afternoon, standing to the southward, and two barques off the Heads. The barque Jungfrau, one of the New Zealand Shipping Company’s chartered vessels, arrived off the Heads early yesterday morning, and was towed up during the afternoon by the Geelong. Although heayily laden, she has made a rattling trip of eighty-one days. Besides her general cargo she brings nine Lincoln ewes and one ram for Canterbury. Some of the .ewes lambed on the passage ; but on account of the severe weather most of the young ones died. She left London on the 17th of December, had fine westerly winds down the Channel, and took her final departure from the Lizard on the 25th ; from thence she had fine light westerly weather to Cape Finisterre; the N. E. trades were caught on the Bth of January, in lat. 18.30deg, N., and were lost on the 16th, in lat. 2deg. N.; passed in sight of Sal Island, one of the Cape de Verde Group, oft the Bth of January, and crossed the Equator on the 17th ; the S.E. trades were good, she making during their continuance an average of ■ten knots, and they carried her down to lat. 25 deg. S. ; she then got a steady breeze from the N.E., which left her in lat. 38deg. S., long, Isdeg. W., where she picked up the westerlies on the 2nd of February. They continued steady, and the meridian of the Cape of Good Hop% Was crossed on the 9th. In running down her easting she went as far as 50deg. S., but met. no ice; the wind continued steady, but a heavy cross swell was running all the way down; passed the meridian of the Leuwin on the 26th, in lat. 49,30deg S., and made the Snares on the Tthmst., at 7 p.m. ; passed a barque standing in the same direction under lower topsails; it was then blowing hard from the S.W., and the •hip made a fine run up the coast, arriving off the Heads at midnight on Sunday. SHIPPING TELEGRAM. Lyttelton, March 10.—Arrived: Hudson, ninety-four days from London, with general cargo and six passengers, twelve sheep, and two horses.' Sailed : Duke of Edinburgh, for London, with 3,934 bales of wool, 4,698 sacks of Wheat, twenty-four packages, and eight passengers ; Helen Bums, for Dunedin.