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Evening Star, Issue 3470, 7 April 1874, Page 2

Shipping.

HIGH WATER, i To-morrow. Heads J Port Chalmers j Dunedin 6.35 p.m. I 7.10. Urn. | 7.55 p.m. PORT CHALMERS. ARRIVED. AtnSl7. —Australasian and American Mail B.s. Mongol, 1,464 tons, J. Flamank, with the San Francisco mail. Passengers: Mrs Rich, Mrs Gardiner, Miss Cheesman, Miss Rich, Miss Buckland, Messrs Luke, Henderson, Small, Beal, M'Laren. James Paxton, schooner, 60 tons, Robinson, from Riverton. Ooraerang, s.s., Hughes, from Timaru. Passengers : Messrs Croft, Thomas, MTvor, Hassell, Fleming, and Gibbons. Phcebo, s.s., 416 tons, Wheeler, from the North. Passengers: Mr and Mrs Walker, Captain Thomas, Messrs Robertson, Woodford, M‘Alister, and five in the steerage. AT THE HEADS. Tasso, barque, from Newcastle. SAILED. April 7.--Wallabi, s.s., 101 tons, Lees, for the Bluff. Samson, p.s., 124' tons, Edie, for Oamaru. Pioneer, 25 tons, Matheson, Shag Point. Margaret Scolley, 16 tons, Scott, for Oamaru. Lady Emma, barque, 202 tons, Shimxnins, for Newcastle. Jane Hannah, 50 tons, Kerns, for Oamaru. Mongol, 8.5., 1,464 tons, Flamank, for Lyttelton. Passengers For __ Liverpool—Mr O. E. Moore. For San Francisco —Mrs J)unoan, Misses Duncan (4), Masters Duncan (5), Messrs Geo. Duncan and H. H. Moody. For Lyttelton—Mr Foster. For Wellington—Rev. Dr Stuart, Mr S. S. Downes. For Auckland—Mr G. Crowhurst. Steerage; For San Francisco —Messrs Oliver Grunmer and Walter Jeffries. For Kandavu —Oapt. John Ellis. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Alhambra, for Bluff, April 14. Dunfillan, for London, early. Helen Bums, for London, April 15. Margaret Galbraith, for London, April 15. Otago, for Northern Ports, April 14. Phoebe, for Northern Ports, April 10. Serene, for Auckland, early. Wanganui, for Bluff, April 8. Warwick, for London, April 15. The barque Tasso, from Newcastle, was signalled at the Heads this morning. The steamers Samson, for Oamaru, and ‘ Wallabi, for the Bluff, sailed last night. . The barque Lady Emm a, for Newcastle, was ■: towed to sea by the s.s. Jane this morning. The . schooner Jane Hannah sailed for Oamaru with transhipments from the Dallam Tower.. ■ The ketch Hnon Belle was taken out of the floating dock and the s.s. Maori was taken in this morning. The .ship Trevelyan and barque Rose M were removed to the railway pier last night, to ‘discharge their cargoes. "v The p.s. Ooomerang arrived this forenoon ' knd steamed alongside the ship Warwick to discharge 1,000 bags of grain. She left Timaru at 8 p.m. yesterday. . The schooner James Paxton arrived this morning from Riverton. She left there on Saturday night, had variable wind, there being * & fine breeze and fair trade. She passed np to Dunedin. The three-masted schooner Elderslie, having discharged her timber at the new jetty, was hauled alongside the railway pier to take in . ballast this; morning, and will sail to-morrow lor Port Esperance. The stem-wheel steamer Tuapeka has been purchased from the New Zealand Insurance Company by four business firms at Balclutha, and is again plying on. the Clutha, under the command of Captain Tyson. The meagre snipping information supplied at the.various porta of the Colony by the telegraph department has long been a cause of much dissatisfaction to men and the public generally. Sailing vessels are never noted upon the boards of the telegraph offices, whilst only the departures of those steamers direct from port - are supposed to be posted. The only exception to this rule is in the case of steamer carrying the English, mail. With a view to securing more liberal concessions on the part of the .. Government in this direction, the Christchurch ‘ : Chamber of Gomlnerce have taken steps to obtain reports as to the plan adopted in some of the other Colonies, with regard to posting shipping intelligence at the various port telegraph ‘stations. At Hobart Town the telegraph department affords every information to the public as to the arrival and departure of -. shipping from the ports to which the line is ’-extended; such information being, as soon as received, placed upon a board outside the telegraph office for public information. At Adelaide, all arrivals at, and departures from Port Adelaide are posted at every office in the Colony daily. All .arrivals are posted at Adelaide ana Port Adelaide when sighted, and .;alsq when name is ascertained. All stations on" the Murray daily exchange shipping intelligence. Any disaster is at once ported at Adelaide and Port Adelaide and forwarded to .. all other Colonies in communication. Shipping is exchanged with each Colony every morning. Meterological observations ~ taken at every station at nine o’clock daily, and posted at Adelaide and Port Adelaide, and also exchanged with other Bolonies. At Brisbane, the departmental arrangements are, that every morning, upon the opening of the respective coast office?, the arrivals and departure of the proceeding day are wired ts Brisbane and Rockhampton (the two shipping centres of the .Colony), so far as they are of interest to those s ports in the Colony at which vessels may have arrived or sailed for. Further, the several agents of the steamers are allowed to wire the movements of the vessels at Press rates, provided the receiving agent furnishes a copy of sie message, to be posted for the information «f the public at the telegraph office. Those interested are thereby informed, for instance, ~of the day and hour of a steamer’s arrival at Sydney from Brisbane, and her intended departure on the return trip.—* N.Z. Herald.’

THE MONGOL.

The Australasian and American Royal Mail steamship arrived at 10.15 this morning. Her sixty-nine bags of mail matter for Dunedin ' were at once landed. The p.s. Peninsula was engaged to tranship her passengers, who were conveyed to Dunedin by the 11.30 train. The Mongol, since last visiting this port, has been considerably altered, especially for the comfort of passengers, the ’tween decks having been - fitted up with enclosed berths. The passengers on the down passage from Auckland < themselves as highly pleased with the sea-going qualities of the vessel and the attention paid to them by Captain Flanank and ms officers. Bhe left Auckland at 3 a.tn. on the 3rd, and arrived at Napier at 3 p.m. on the «hj; left again at 5 p.m.had fine weather to Barring Head, thence strong gale into Wellington, and was hove to at the Heads for three hours, owing to thick weather, and arrived there at noon on the 6th ; left again at 6 p.m. and encountered a strong northerly gale to v»pe Campbell; thence fine weather to Lyttelton, arriving there at 10 a.m. on the 6th • left again at 1.45 p.m., and arrived as above’ haying had fine weather and light winds from .Lytteitov We thank her purser (Mr H J Ellis), late shipping reporter of the ‘Southern Cross,’ for report and files. She left again . . this,evening with the outward Frisco mail ' Captain Flamank, of the s.s. Mongol, speaks very highly of. the conduct of the natives during the time the Macgregor was ashore at Kandavu. They woiked like Trojans, and, ■ whether pitching out cargo or engaged in clean--Jng decks, their smartness was the theme of Vif.Miration among the white men. The wife of the governor of ' Kandavu herself, a colored woman, remained on board night and day while the great steamer was on the reef, and cheered on the natives to greater exertion. Captain Flamank is of opinion that to the zeal of the population of the island must be ascribed a ' share in the successful extrication of the vessel from her dangerous position. While the Mongol was lying at Kandavu eighty natives were engaged at Is per, diem (think of this, ye ■who grumble at ,9s) to clean the ship. They /went at it as hajrd and as willingly as •■arty European* could doqe, apd turned •put their work in capital cfodltwh. We

hear that the s.s. Mongol is to undergo extensive alterations before she returns here next time. At present the saloon accommodation is not so large as could be wished, and the alterations will remedy this defect by the addition of about thirty more saloon berths. It is intended to remove ?the fore partition of the saloon and carry it forward about 40ft. The berths on either side will then be built in accordance with the style of those already in use. The permanent fitting out is to be accomplished m Sydney, but in the meanwhile temporary berths are being constructed, which will be ready for occupation this trip should the num her of passengers be such to render it necessary. When the alterations are finished the Mongol will provide berthing for over 70 saloon passengers, and the post of chief officer of the Mongol has been entrusted to Mr Zealand, late chief officer of the Star of the South. Mr Zealand has earned a reputation for gentlemanly bearing and seamanship in his previous appointments, and we are glad to_ see his merit acknowledged in such a conspicuous manner. —‘Auckland Star.’ ENGLISH SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. (From the Auckland Star.) Since I wrote you by last Brindisi mail I learn that cargo has not been quite so brisk for shipments as before, hut Auckland and Canterbury are decidedly taking the lead for goods; The New Zealand Shipping Company’s ship Dorctte landed the pilot off the Start on the 23rd of January, having an excellent run of forty-eight hours from Gravesend. Being in good trim, and a likely vessel, she ought to make a rapid passage to Auckland. The ship Asia, 1,446 tons register, sailed from Queenstown on the Bth January, with 482 souls for Otago. The next vessel for Auckland will be the fine ship Rooparelle; she has already completed her loading, but will not sail until the 19th instant, when she will take on board 300 immigrants. She is a large, fine, powerful vessel, and ought to make a fine run out. On the 19fch of January the second of the Shipping Company’s new ships was launched by John Blnmer, and Co,, off Sunderland, named the Waikato. She is 1,021 tons nett register, a sister ship to the Rakaia, but in every respect better finished, the builders having had more time and better weather. She will leave for Wellington on the 17th of March. _ The Company’s ship Rakaia was detained in the Channel with very severe weather, and had to put into Plymouth to repair ; hor steering apparatus, and finally sailed from there on the 29th of January. The New Zealand Shipping Company have dispatched to all ports in New Zealand 7,000 souls since it started. The third ship belonging to the Company will not be launched until the end of April, and will be about 1,190 tons register. There have been all kinds of rumors about Shaw, Saville and Co. sending out emigrants again ; but the reason is the extraordinary order which was received from New Zealand to send out about three times the quantity this year than was ever sent before, and my private opinion is that no one firm could carry out such a number as requested in the year 1874 to New Zealand. So the Shipping Company are doing three-fifths of the trade, and the balance Messrs Galbraith and Shaw, Savill, and Co. undertake. SHIPPING TELEGRAM. Ltttelto n, April 7, 12.30 p.m.— Arrived: Claud Hamilton, from Dunedin.