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Evening Star, Issue 3506, 19 May 1874, Page 2

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HIGH WATER. To-mobbow. Heads J Pont Ohalmebs j Donedim 5.50 p.m. j 6.250ra. | 7.10 p.m. PORT CHALMERS. ARRIVED. May 19. Craigellachie, brig, 226 tons, Stewart, from Lyttelton. Passenger: Mrs Stewart. Jane, cutter, 25 tons, Divers, from Shag Point. ‘ Phcebe, as., 417 tons, H. Worsp, from the North. Passengers; Mrs Hackworth and family, Mr and Mrs Stocks, Mrs Greigg, Misses Greigg and Davis, Messrs Potter, M‘Kechnie, Dickson, Harris, Foster, Walnut, Tristrail, Nathan, Dodson, and nine in the steerage. SAILED. May 19.—Samson, p.s., 124 tons, Edie, for Oamaru. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Alhambra, for Northern Ports, May 30. , Claud Hamilton, for Bluff, May 25, City of Adelaide, for San Francisco, June 2. Dallam Tower, for London, May 20. Helen Bums, for London, May 20, Otago, for Northern Ports, May 20. Phoebe, for Northern Ports. May 22. Samson, for Oamaru, May 22. Paterson, tor Northern Ports, May 29. Tararua, for Melbourne, June 8. Wellington, for Northern Ports, May_27. Wanganui, for Bluff, May 20. Wallabi, for Bluff, early. The p.s. Samson sailed this morning for Oamaru. The cutter Jane has brought a cargo of coal from Shag Point. The brigantine Sword Fish sailed up to Dunedin last night to discharge. The ship Margaret Galbraith will sail for London this afternoon—a full ship. The s.s. Beautiful Star came down from Dunedin and steamed alongside the Himalaya for transhipments. The N.Z. Company’s s.s. Phoebe arrived from the North early this morning and steamed alongside the ship Dallam Tower to discharge 1,495 sacks of wheat. She left the Manukau at 3 p.m. on the 12th. We thank her purser (Mr H. W. Barbor) for report and files. It is stated that Captain Hepburn, lately of the s.B. Rangatira, has again relapsed into illhealth, and is now lying in Nelson seriously unwelL Captain Lloyd, of the same employ, who lately broke his leg by accident, has now sufficiently recovered to be able to resume his command. The brig that was seen off the Heads last night turned out to be the Craigellachie, which was ashore about a month ago at Bluff Harbor, loaded with timber, for Lyttelton. It appears that she was floated, and, after discharging her cargo at Lyttelton, a survey was held upon her, when it was decided that she was to go into dock, in consequence of a leak. Capt. Stewart reports leaving Lyttelton on Thursday morning with a light southerly wind, which shifted in the evening to the eastward, and continued until noon on Saturday, when she was within fifty miles of Otago Heads; the wind then shifted to the south for twelve hours, and then came from the eastward, but so light that she hardly made headway; at midnight the weather freshened a little, and at noon yesterday she got a fine breeze from the north-east which enabled her to make the Heads at 5.30 p.m. During the passage from Lyttelton she has made two inches of water per hour. At Belfast the other day the PUmsoll Act of 1871 bore its first fruits in the conviction of two gentlemen named'Quinn for the offence of sending a ship to sea in an - unsea worthy condition. The case was a plain one. It appeared that the Messrs Quinn owned a small vessel called the Nimrod, and in November last sent her to sea on a voyage from Belfast to Scotland. The evidence overwhelmingly showed that the ship was then in a moot unsound and unsafe condi-tion-some of her timbers utterly gone, others rotten, and, in a word, quite unfit to contend with wind and waves. She was officially examined at Greenock and reported to the Board of Trade. At the trial the surveyor of the Board of Trade at Greenock deposed that the vessel was “ not seaworthy,” and was “ dangerous to human life.” The Messrs Quinn were found guilty, and Judge Lawson sentenced them to a penalty of Ll5O and two months’ imprisonment each. This is a heavy punishment to respectable men, but it is only by severe sentences that owners of vessels can be compelled to see that the ships in which poor sailors are sent to sea are not what are mournfully termed ‘‘man-traps” and “coffin-ships.”— ‘European Mail,’ March 20.

SHIPPING TELEGRAM.

Auckland, May 19, Pose M,, from Oarnaru.