Shipping.

Evening Star, Issue 3472, 9 April 1874, Page 2

Shipping.

HIGH WATER. To-morbow. Heads J Port Chalmers | Dunedin 9.3 p.m. j 9.38 o.m. |10.23 p.m. PORT CHALMERS. ARRIVED. April 9.-Samson, p.s., 124 tons, Edie, from Oamaru. SAILED. April B.—William Cundell, brig, 267 tons, M'Farlane, for Lyttelton. Wanganui, s.s., 179 tons, Fraser, for the BluffLady of the Lake, s.s., 66 tons, Urquhart, for the Molyneux. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Alhambra, for Bluff, April 14. D unfill an, for London, early. Helen Burns, for London, April 15. Maori, for Lyttelton, April 12. Margaret Galbraith, for London, April 15. Mikado, for San Francisco, May 5. Otago, for Northern Ports, April 14. Phoebe, for Northern Ports, April 10. Samson, for Oamaru, April 10. Tauranga, for Wanganui, early. Wallabi, for Bluff, April 13. Warwick, for London, April 15. Wanganui, for Bluff, April 15. The s.s. Lady of the Lake sailed for the Molyneux last night. • The brig William Cundell sailed; yesterday afternoon for Lyttelton. The ship Trevelyan commenced to discharge at the railway pier this morning. The barque Southern Cross, having discharged and ballasted, will sail for Hobart Town this evening. The 8.8, Wanganui, after taking on board transhipments from the Wild Deer, sailed for the Bluff last evening. The p.s. Samson arrived last night, from Oamaru, and steamed alongside the ship Warwick to discharge cargo. The barque Tasso was removed this morning alongside the hulk Henbury, where she will discharge her cargo of coals. The p.s. Peninsula is employed towing the punts from the steam dredge to Carey’s Bay, where the silt will now be deposited. The three-masted schooner Elderslie, having taken on board her ballast, was removed from the railway pier into the stream this morning, and will sail for Port Esperance this evening. The p.s. Coomerang sailed last night for Timaru, but unfortunately got ashore on the bank in the Cross Channel, where she now remains, having been, unable to get off at high Water this morning. There is a number of men employed at the Graving Dock painting the bottom of the s.s. Phoebe. As soon as she comes out of dock, the brigantine Sarah and Mary, which lately arrived from Hokitika, having been ashore there on the bar, will be taken in for a thorough overhaul.

OAMARU HARBOR WORKS. At the last meeting of the Oamaru Dock Trust, the following letter from Mr M'Gregor, the dock’s engineer, was read “ The accompanying plan shows a proposed wharf and reclamation starting from the shore end of the breakwater, and running towards the beach, about parallel to the Jpresent tramway. My design ns to construct a wharf in front of the reef, following a line where not less than ten or twelve feet can be obtained at low water. Behind this wharf I propose to reclaim the whole area colored red on the accompanying plan, so as to make the ground available for building sites or warehouses. Thirty-four sections, having one chain frontage by two and a-half chains depth, can be reclaimed. The sites, in the position indicated on the plan, would, I consider, be very valuable, and could either be sold or let on lease for an annual rental that would far more than pay interest on the capital required to complete the work. A line of rails would run down in front, and another behind, so that export goods could be taken in at the back, and imports at the front, and thereby keeping the lines, clear of each other. My object now in • submitting this plan to the Trust is, that a comprehensive design for future wharfage accommodation for carrying on the trade of the port should be adopted; and whatever reclamation or other works be constructed now for the purpostof temporary shipping accommodation, should form part of the future design. I anticipate that when the breakwater is out a little farther, a small piece of wharf, forming the commencement of the ultimate design, will be constructed, and if this were done, I think a quantity of stone might be shipped, and other heavy articles loaded and discharged without interfering with the progress of the breakwater. It seems to me to be important to get a beginning made—even though on a small scale—with shipping under the breakwater, so that the district may derive some immediate benefit from the expenditure on the works. I estimate the cost of the proposed wharf at L2O per lineal foot, including the reclamation. It would not be necessary to carry out the whole length of the wharf at once. I propose to begin at the inside of the breakwater and extend towards the beach at such a rate as mfcht be required. ” • Considerable discussion toak place upon the proposals and plan submitted. It was considered that the work, although desirable, was of too great magnitude to be at present entertained as a vhole, but that as suggested by the engineer, a sufficient reclamation should be made to allow of wharfage accommodation and shipping facilities without delay.