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Evening Star, Issue 3482, 21 April 1874, Page 2

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HIGH WATER. To-mobkow. Heads I Port Chalmers j Dunedin 7.2 p.m. 1 7.37 urn. | 8.22 p.m. PORT CHALMERS, ARRIVED. April 21.—Isabella, schooner, 82 tons, Quince, from Napier. Beautiful Star, s.s., 146 tons, Hart, from Timaru. Passengers: Mrs Fox, Mrs Driscoll and child, Miss Driscoll, Messrs Elder, Austin, Word, Drake, and fourteen in the steerage. Lloyd’s Herald, ketch, 48 tons, Arnott, from Timaru. Annie, ketch, 29 tons, Haswell, from Oamaru. BAILED. April 21.—Samson, p.s, 124 tons, Edie, for Oamaru. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Albion, for Northern Ports, Apnl,3o. Alhambra, for Bluff,fMay 11. Dunfillan, for London, early. Excelsior, for Auckland, April 22. Emulous, for Oamaru, early. Freetrader, for Hobart Town, April 25. Helen Burns, for London, April 25. Margaret Galbraith, for London, April 25. Mikado, for San Francisco, May 5. Maori, for Lyttelton, April 24. Omeo, for Northern Ports, April2s. Rose M, for Auckland, early. Samson, for Oamaru ? April 24. Tanranga, for Wanganui, early. Tararua, for Bluff, April 27. Tokatea, for Sydney, early. Warwick, for London, ApriL'23, Wanganui, for Bluff, early. ‘ The ship Warwick has now the last of her cargo alongside, and will sail for London shortly. The N. Z. Company’s s.s. Taranaki left the railway pier yesterday afternoon for the Northern Ports. The barque Hopeful, from Mauritius, commenced to discharge into the railway trucks this morning. The Harbor Company’s p.s. Samson sailed for Oamaru shortly after the arrival of the 7.30 train this morning. Messrs Sutherland and Co. are making good progress with the new schooner now building, they having nearly the whole of her framing tip. The ships City of Dublin, from Liverpool, Durham, and Himalaya, from London, have commenced to discharge their cargoes into

lighters. The schooner Isabella arrived this morning from Napier in ballast. Left on the 10th inst., and encountered strong easterly weather nearly the whble way. The Harbor Company’s s.s. Beautiful Star arrived from her special trip to Timaru this morning, and steamed alongside the ship Warwick to discharge. She brings 1,175 bags of wheat. The ketch Lloyd’s Herald arrived this morning, from Timaru, with 520 bags of wheat for transhipment to the Warwick. She left Timaru on the 14th inst., and ever since that time has been contending with a succession of gales, and was on one occasion blown as far north as Banks Peninsula. She had nearly all her canvas blown away once, and broke her mainboom. Considering the severe weather met with, it is a wonder the ketch sustained no serious damage.

The Mongol made one of the fastest passages on record from Auckland to-Dunedin and back, having made the round run in nine days and a few hours. Out of this time sho lay at Wellington twenty-four hours. Her passage from Napier occupied thirty-three hours, under easy speed. Captain Flamank is to be complimented on his endeavors to keep up to mail time, in which he has been successful, but at a great amount of personal labor, the run up and down the coast being so rapid, and the port stoppages go short, as to afford little time for rest to any of the officers, and of course especially so to the commander of the vessel. The Wellington ‘Post,* writing on the same subject, says;— “ Captain Flamank complains that at the New Zealand ports the pilot stations are all so inconveniently situated as greatly and unnecessarily to delay all steamers not exempt from -pilotage. The work accomplished by the Mongol, although performed in excellent style, has been a severe strain upon her officers, who have had to be at their posts night and day without relaxa tion. Captain Flamank has not been able to undress and turn in for thirteen days, excepting once, but has had to content himself with snatching short naps whenever he could. The run down the coast from Auckland to Port Chalmers and hack never before has been so rapidly performed.”