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Evening Star, Issue 3451, 14 March 1874, Page 2

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HIGH WATER. To-morrow. Heads I Poet Chalmers; I Dunedin 12.47 p.m. 1 1.22 n-m. | 2.7 p.m. Monday. 1.36 p.m. | 2.11 p.m. | 2.56 p.m. PORT CHALMERS. ARRIVED. March 14.—Ladybird, s.g., 286 tons, Andrews, from the North. Passengers; Mr and Mrs Watt and servant, Mr and Mrs Hawdon and servant, Mrs Goodison and child, Mrs Moodie, Mrs Willis and child, Miss Clark, Dr Stewart, Messrs Everett, Southerland, Landon, W. Grant, Bagdone, Baguis, 0. F. Money, Jackson, W. B. Stewart, and nine in the steerage. Defiance, 22 tons, Burke, from Moeraki. Maori, s.s., 118 tons, Malcolm, from the Bluff; Passengers : Captain Greig, Messrs J. Mills, Hay, Smith, Bolt, Walker, Saunders, Master Malcolm, and five in the steerage. SAILED. March 14.—Trial, 12 tons, Bradshaw, for Waikouaiti. Belle Brandon, 65 tons, Sullivan, for Invercargill. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Alhambra, for Bluff, March 18. Beautiful Star, for Lyttelton, March 16. Ladybird, for Northern Ports, March 16. Maori, for Timarn, March 15. Omeo, for Northern Ports, March 18. . Samson, for Oamaru, March 13. Wanganui, for Bluff, March 17. We notice thjjt the ship May Qneen cleared the Invercargill Customs on Wednesday, and Was to sail for London to-day. The schooner Belle Brandon was.towed down from Dunedin to the Port by the s.s, Jane yesterday; she afterwards sailed out, bound for Invercargill to load railway sleepers for Lyttelton. The 8.8. Maori returned from her special trip to the Bluff to-day. She left here at 4 p.m. on the 12th, and arrived there at 8 a.m. on the 13th; discharged and took on board, besides other cargo, 273 stud sheep for Timaru, and six for Dunedin; left again at 7.15 p.m. on the 13th, and had strong head winds with cross sea and thick weather to arrival. She leaves again for Timaru to-morrow afternoon. We

thank her steward for southern files. • The New Zealand Oo.’s s.s. Ladybird arrived at ten o’clock this morning and berthed alongside the railway pier. Besides a number of Saloon passengers, she brings five racehorses for the forthcoming races. Captain Andrews reports leaving Nelson at noon on the 9th ; called at Picton, Wellington, and Lyttelton, and arrived as above. She leaves again for the North on Monday afternoon. We thankyher purser, Mr William Dougherty, for report and On the evening of Saturday, the 7th March, the whaling ship Eliza Adams, of New Bedford, U. S., Caleb 0. Hamblin, master, anchored in Port William, Stewart’s Island, for the purpose of getting a supply of wood and water. She has been twenty-one months out, and has secured eighty tuns of sperms and ten tuns of black oil. Since the. 7th of December last she has been cruising about the Solander, and caught during that time five sperm whales, which yielded fifty-seven tuns of oil. About the 25th February saw part (about twenty-five feet long) of a ship’s long boat, with a piece of small chain attached to the bow of it. Pieces of bulwark and stanchions were also seen floating about, apparently the debris of the wreck of a vessel of about 150 tons, painted black outside, and a light color inside. —‘Southland Times.* All the laws relating to sailors are harsh and Unjust, and two cases have lately turned up in Victoria that show the urgent necessity of a change. In one, the seamen on board the barque ‘ CHenshee ’ ccmplain that though their last voyage was far less than a fortnight, and the weather was fine all the time, they were without animal food of any kind for four days, living, as one of the crew put it, “on a potato a day.” In. the other a man sued for a month’s wages, which was acknowledged by the captain to be due, but because the plaintiff had joined in the sailors’ strike for the eight hours movement a short time back, the captain took the vindictive course of holding back the money due to him for the whole term of his six months for which he had shipped, and the bench supported him in his tyrannical course. This was done notwithstanding that the man was engaged by the month, and that it was the custom till the strike to pay monthly wages.