Shipping.

Evening Star, Issue 3509, 22 May 1874, Page 2

Shipping.

HIGH WATER. TO-Mt)RKOWi R 'ads J Fort Chalmers j Dunedin 8.33 p.m< V 9*7 o.m. | 9.52 p.m. PORT CHALMERS. ARRIVED. May 22.—Claud Hamilton, s.s., 530 tons, Bov.’dVn, from Melbourne, via West Coast and Northern Ports. Passengers; From Melbourne— Mr and Mrs Brough. Prom the Coast —Mr and Mrs Haines, Mr and Mrs Ballantyne, i Mit i Morrison, Messrs C. Nickolls, N. Harris, •J. H. Morrison, Reutle, J. Wood, and 12 in th» steerage. Otago, s.s., 800 tons, M'Lean, from Meloourne, via the Bluff.. Passengers: Miss M'Ewen, Mrs Solomon, , Mrs Orr, Messrs W. H. Quick, Barton, Wilson, Jones, D. Lowe, Brown, M'Kenzie, Leggatt, Down, Fogerty, Trewem, and 48 in the steerage. Wallabi, s.s., 101 tons, Leys, from the Bluff. Passengers : Mrs D. Thomson, Mrs T, Thomson, Mr and Mrs Chisholm and two children, . Mr and Mrs Wilson, Messrs Webb, Cheesborough, Waddell, Constable Ede and prisoner (Morrison), and 12 in the steerage. Beautiful Star, s.s., 146 tons, Hart, from Camara. Passengers: Messrs Lodd, Beasley, J. Fulton, O’Neil, Brownlie, and 30 in the steerage. SAILED. May 22. Czarewitch, barque, 428 tons, Moir, for Port Esperance. . * Hope, cutter, 24 tons, Julier, for Waikouaiti. Defiance, ketch, 22 {tons, Burke, for Moeeaki. • Annie, 3[etch, 22 tons, Haswell, for Moeraki. Jane, cutter, 25 tons, Divers, for Shag Point. Pioneer, schooner, 23 tons, Matheson, for Shag Point. Panny, ketch, 25 tons, Andrews, for Gatlin’s River. Samson, s,s., 124 tons, Edie, for Oamaru. Mermaid, cutter, 12 tons, Kelly, for Waikouaiti. Phoebe, 8.8., 416 tons, Worsp, for the North. Passengers: IFor Lyttelton—Masters Bell (2), M‘MelU (2)* For Wellington— Messrs Gamine, Biddle. Por Manukau—Mias Campbell, Mrs M'Kenzie; four in the steerage for Lyttelton; nine for Manukau; one for Napier. Projected departures. Alhambra, for Northern Ports, May 30,, Beautiful Star, for Lyttelton, May 24. City of Adelaide, for San Prancisco, June 2. Dallam Tower, for London, May 28. Freetrader, for Auckland, early. Otago, for Northern Porte, May 23. S&mson, for Oamaru, May 26. Paterson, tor Northern Porte, May 29. Wellington, for Northern Ports, May 27. Wanganui,'for Bluff, early. Wallabi, for Bluff, May 23. The p.s. Samson sailed this morning for Oamaru. The barque Czarewitch, for Port Esperance, . was towed to sea by the Geelong this morning. . The schooner Jane Anderson came down from , Dunedin this’ morning, and anchored off the railway pier. * The schooner Mary Ogilvie is taking onboard transhipments of railway iron from the ship William Davie. ; The p.s. Gulden Age was taken out of the* floating dock and the brigantine Kate Brain taken in this morning. - The 8.8. Wallabi arrived from the South this morning, and steamed alongside the ship Wild Deer to discharge 292 cases of meats. The coasters Defiance and Annie, for Moeraki, Jane and Pioneer, for Shag Point, Fanny, for Gatlin’s River, Hope and Mermaid, for Waikouaiti, sailed this morning. ■ The B,s. Beautiful Star arrived this morning from her special trip to Oamaru, and steamed alongside the ship Helen Burns to discharge cargo. She left Port Chalmers at 9.45 p.m. on the 19th.; arrived at Oamaru at 5 a.m. on the left Again ' at 6.45 p.m. last night, and trrived at midnight. The 8.9. -Claud Hamilton arrived early this . morning frcm'Melbourne, via West Coast and Northern Ports,. She left Melbourne on the Tth ; cleared Port Phillip Heads at 5 p.m, ; passed Wilson’s Promontory at 6 a.m. on the oth ; arrived at Hokitika at 3 p.m. on the 13th, having made the run across under five days. Called at Greymouth, Nelson, Wellington, Lyttelton, and Oamaru j and;, arrived at the -Heads last night, where she waited till daylight, and arrived as’above. We are obliged to her purser (Mr J. Grotty) for report and files. Messrs M'Meckan, Blackwood, and Co.’s s s. Otago arrived from Melbourne via the Bluff at seven o’clock this morning. She brings sixtyfour passengers, 294 tons of cargo, and twentysix horses for this port, besides a quantity of cargo for the northern ports. She left Meltyrnrpe.at 2 p.m., on the, 14th; passed Swan island,at 4 p,m. on the : 15th ; had fresh S.E. f' ales and head sea for three days, and, having oraes pn board, steamed at reduced speed; afterwards light easterly wind and thick weather until arriving at the Bluff at 8.30 p.m. on tHe 20th; left for Pdrt Chalmers at 4 p.m. yesterday, and arrived as above. Her horses are being landed in splendid condition. We thank her purser, Mr Heaton, for report and files. ; v ■ • ■ | • _ The steamship Northumberland arrived in Hobson’s Bay from London, on May 6, after having made a splendid passage of fifty-one days • .eighteen hours from Plymouth to Port Phillip I* B * voyage to England she was to fame for the February wool sales, and has made the two ; passages from Melbourne and hack again in four months and twenty-seven aaya. From Eddystone to Cape Otway she Serfonned 12,245 knots, of -which 4,542 were one under canvas. The greatest distance she traversed in one day was 326 miles. There were abemt three hundred passengers on board, includmg many old colonists. Sir Francis Smith, the Chief Justice of Tasmania, and his family Wete passengers, as also were Mr J. T. Fallon, the well-known vigneroa, of Albury. Two sate'on passengers—a son of Sir Francis Smith, and a gentleman named Harrison, died on the passage; while two of tho warrant passengers of whom there were twenty, k dipd from the effects of a fall. The ‘Hamilton Spectator’ states that news has reached the Colony that the Admiralty are making atnal of Mr Deverell’s patent for utilises wave-power as a propelling force, and the report is that the application of the principle has the effect of doubling the engine power of any vessel supplied with the invention. Mr Bessemer, the patentee of the process for manuiackunng„ s^ee L is constructing several steam vessels, intended to ply across the English Channel, having the saloon cabin suspended according to Mr Deverell’s system, so as to keep the floor always horizontal, notwithstanding the motion of the vessel, thereby saving the occupants from the decrements of sea-sickness lo Mr Bessemer, Mr Deverell has sold, at a satisfactory-' price, another invention of his viz., that of the “ ship clinometer.” This is an apparatus for determining , exactly the angular inclination of a ship in a seaway. The ordinary method of ascertaining this oscillation was by observation of the horizon- a method which was obviously unsatisfactory; but this simple apparatus of Mr Deverelrs registers svery. motion, and is self-acting. The importance of the invention is considerable, as its use wiU enable shipbuilders to determine, after a few experiments, the form of “lines” upon which to build vessels, so as to reduce the rollffig.niotiou to a minimum.

ABEWAIT oF THEpSI^MACGEEGOE We have much pleasure in recording the safe amv*l m port of this fine vessel. The parties l*n of her getting ashore on a reef at Kandatbu have already appeared. The dangerous position of the ship, and the small chance thai existed of her ever being again floated, was thcurrent topic for some time, but Captain Grain veFs indomitable perseverance has overcome al 1 difficulties, and he has the proud satisfaction o. knowing that in despite of the apparent odd* against him, he has brought his vessel from th«s Fijia to Sydney in safety. The Macgregor got ashore on the 26th February, and every means were used at the time with the assistance ot other steamers to drag, her off, but without suceess. Abandoned to his own resources. Captain Grainger at once set to work on his own account. The whole of the cargo and coals overboard, but this had np effect in floating her, previously to which sails properly constructed were in readiness toswegn under

At ship’s bottom over tho damaged portion. H.M.S. Pearl then came to his assistance, Commodore Goodenough being most kind in placing at Captain Grainger’s disposal his gear and crew. The successful method used by which the Macgregor was floated was as follows :—The Pearl laid out 160 fathoms of her bower chain, and from her stem passed on board of the Macgregor 115 fathoms of the second bower, which was then hove taut. The result was that the weight of the chain connecting the stems of the two ships, together with the swell of the ocean setting into the harbor, and acting on the heavy hull of the Pearl, drew the Macgregor off without the assistance of steam. Once again afloat sails were passed under the bottom and the pumps set to work, but were unable to overcome the leak until Captain Grainger, ■witii considerable ingenuity, contrived to manufacture a Californian pump.* This had the desired effect in reducing the water in the hold until the canvas took on the outside, and thus the leaks were stopped to a great extent. A Cofferdam was then built inside the ship over the fractured parts, and securely battened down and shored off to the beams of the main deck; the fore compartment was then filled with 100,000 cocoanuts, and the maindeck hatches put on, and again the whole was shored off to the upper deck ; and in this state the ship has reached pote, Captain Grainger speaks most highly of the conduct of his crew, who, in the hour of difficulty and danger, never deserted him—but from first to last worked with a will. The Macgregor was coaled by the Oyphrenes, and took in a sufficient quantity of ballast to render her safe, the stone being hewn from the rocks by the seamen. She took her departure from Kandavau on the 29th ult., and had variable winds, but fortunately moderate weather throughput the passage, making Cape Hawke at yesterday. The pumps have been going all the trip, and have kept the hold comparatively dry.— ‘ Sydney Morning Herald’ May 9.