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Evening Star, Issue 3459, 24 March 1874, Page 2

Shipping.

HIGH WATER. ?.f ; . To-morrow, i• Heads I Port. Chalmers J Dcnedih 8.27 p.nri: I 9.2. rim, | 9.47 p.m. j PORT CHALMERS. ARRIVED. Miuroh 24 s.s., 117 tons, Edwards, froni tna North. V: March 25.—Beautiful Star, s.s:, 146 tons, Hart, from Lyttelton and intermediate porta. Passengers . Mr and Mrs Arenas, Miss Duncan, Messrs Coote, M'Yicar, Bell, Thomson, Wildie, 0. Thompson, Velvin, Winchester, Evans, Wilson, Turner, Martin, two Maoris, and four in the steerage. ♦ .BAILED. March 25.—Isabella, 82 tons, Quance, for Wellington.via Moeraki. Agnes Muir, 851 tons, Anderson, for London. ! Passengers : Messrs Parkin, Burston, D. Cairns, j J. Thomson, P. Bain, J. Malcolm, Grieraon. . PROJECTED .DEPARTURES. i Albion, for Bluff, Apfil 2. ! Beautiful' Star) for Lyttelton, March 25, City of Dunedin, for London, March 25. ! Claud Hamilton, for Northern Ports, April 1.!

Dunfillan, for London, early. j Rangatira, for Northern Ports, March 26. j Satiwonpfor painaru,' March 27.;■. ' Serene, for-Auckland, early. j ,51 Wanjganui, J(or Bluff, March 26. •• , j The s.s. Rangatira arrived this afternoon! fromthejjforih. t, ! The Brigaetine lsahella sailed !yesterday for* Wellington, via Moeraki. j The brigantine Isabella, for Wellington,! sailed out ‘-this''forenoon -;hs(orea fine S.W.I breeze. # The Scimitar was removed from the qnaran-i . tine >’ground and • berthed'at the pier this! morning. \ The ship Dallam Tower was towed by the! Geelong from the lower anchorage to one more| convenient to.the pier. i Messrs^Patrick -Henderson ahd 'Coi’s ship* Agnes Muir, for London, was towed to sea byj the tug Geelong,this morning. The s.B. Wallabi was taken but of the floating dock and went alongside the ship Wild Deer for 1 the'purpose of> transhipping cargo for the Blnff. • '..The ketchHuon Belle -was taken into Mur--rayis floating" doek yesterday for the purpose of' repairing- the damage she received while on the! rocks at Waikouaiti. j The ship Dallam Tower, yraa removed yester-!

dfw-tp a more’Convenient discharging berth..' ;After discliargmg she will go info the Graving! Dock tohecleaned andpainted.'. • : The N.Z. Shipping Coi’s ship Durifillan will! hetbwfed to aha by the tug’ Geelong to-morrow ■ morning. "The following are the names of the 1 • passengers 'that proceed by her:—Rev. Mr Hoollett, Messrs F, Taine, Blair, Hy. Taine. The ship Scimitar was removed from the 1 ■ Quarantine ground to the -Railway Pier , yesterday, where she will discharge her cargo! and loaa for London. The ship Margaret; .Galhraith having been cleaned and coated with; patent grefcsfe. was taken out of the Graving 'Dock thrgmorhing and moored in the’stream,! ' where she ; will take in her cargo' for London. ; The Harbor Company’s s.s, Beautiful Star! arrived from Lyttelton and intermediate ports ! at :10.15 this; morning, and steamed alongside* the.hulk Henbury. : She left Lyttelton on, the; 20th, and experienced a heavy S.W. gale with! high-sea, .which compelled..her to put into; Akaroa; and called at Tiiharu, leaving there 1 at 9.15 last night,, ,We thank, her steward fori Lyttelton papers. : : ‘ ! Three days and a half from Lyttelton to; Auckland is a. passage which a steamboat may; feel proud Of' accomplishing. Two brigantines: arrived in harbor yesterday, one having made; the run in three andThalf days, apd the other ! In two hours under four days, having, however,! hove-to for ten hours out of this time. This! would make the -time occupied by both vessels! on the passage, equal, Both lie Ryno and the* Magellan Cloud—the'vessels referred to—bear ttie'deputation, of being fast sailers.— ‘ New; Zealand Herald,’ March 12. THE LORD ASHLEY IN A GALE. —With-reference,to the damage , sustained by thh steamer Lord Ashley during the recent gale, 1 Captain John.D. Harley reports that the Lord Ashley, left Rockhampton on Tuesday, the 20th ! mtimd, at 11 p.m. 1 Made* all sail, wind E.S.E. ; steering N. iE. At 10 p.m., wind increasing and weather looking very gloomy, ■ took ; ih foW-topgallantsail, mizen, and jib; At midnight, owing to the gale increasing,' took in *ll sail from the ship; ship running before the wmd, dirty weather; wind about S. .’At'2 a.m.'On Thursday, the 22nd, hove the ship ; to, mead fo 7 th& eastward. Gale increasing, and verydirirr-lpoking weather j glass fallen to 28.50: secured the sails afresh ; sea rising, and the vessel rolling and lurching heavily. At sa.m. the galeincreased tohunioane force; wind still from the S. At 6a. m.. furiousjsqualls, -with blinding mn, vessel on her beam ends, and enveloped with heavy sea fore and aft, washing horses and everything, available off the decks—blowing starboard lifeboat from the davits and carrying ~ it clean over: the mainmast head like a lucifer and disappeared out of. sight in an leeward; 6.30 a.m., fearful gusts; impossible to stand on deck without lying down toifo Went down below to look at'barometer, and found the aneroid standing at 29.90, and osculating between that and 29.70. Went on deck again, and found the ship enveloped in a complete mass of sea, and lying on her beamends, and water on board up to the main hatches, vessel faUfog off in the trough of the sea, and all canvas having even the tarpaulin in the main rigging. The ■ f - P, 111 imminent ■ danger of foundering, ' ' ‘•'the ■ foremast to he cut away; Before the mast could be cut' away,' the sails had all disappeared, from the yards, . blown: away ~like pieces of tin- ■ ® r *A A” er . the lanyards were cut off the tigging, the mast disappeared under her , bottom; was obliged to stop tne - engines until the - wfock got clear of the : screw. In the meantime; thewindwas screeching and howling, md ram and sea tumbling on board in all directions. Aiter the mast' was cut away, the vessel came, more head on to the sea and behaved better. At about 7 a.m. the wind lulled for about five minutes, and expecting a sudden wmge, got the vessel’s head round to meet the " ■ wi change m time, when - the wind came down with renewed vigor, and blew with an - awful humcane force for an hour, vessel lying at the mercy of the elements. At 8 a.m., glass gradually, rising and gale -abating. Noon: Alqre moderate < weather,, but vessel still hove to. Wind veering to N.E., hove to all night. ± nday : More moderate at daylight, and steamed on our course, thankful to God tor His preservation over* us during that fearful hurricane. Arrived at Townsville on Saturday at 11 p.m. without loss of human life.—* Brisbane Oouner/February 16. .■