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Evening Star, Issue 3516, 30 May 1874, Page 2

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HIGH WATER, TO-MOBHOW. Heais I Pout Chalmeks I DUAfifilS 2.34 p.m. | 3.9 r> m. | 3.54 p.m. ' POET CHALMERS. ARRIVED. May 30.—Emily, brig, 268 tons, from Newcastle. Beautiful Star, s.s., 146 tons, Hart, from Lyttelton, via Timarn. Passengers; Mrs Smidt, Mrs Smith, Miss Flanmer, Messrs Powell, Duncan, and ten in the steerage. Alhambra, s.s., 416 tons, Sinclair, from Melbourne, via the Bluff. Passengers : Mr and Mrs Russrll, Mr and Mrs Francis Wade, Mr and Mrs J. Hall, Masters Hall (2), Miss Mears, Sergeant Major Stevens, Messrs Benali, Tulloch, E,. Grant, M. Anderson, N. Solomon, Beaver, J. Clarke, W. B. Watkins, D. B. Esther, Mrs Anderson, and seventeen in the steerage. Taranaki, s.s., 266 tons, Wheeler, from the North. Passengers: Mrs Lewis and two children, Miss Gordon, Messrs Murdoch, Bard, Mallae, De Bourbell, Ayer, Palmer, Wagge, and eight in the steerage. Janet Court, ship, 996 tons, Crawford, from Glasgow, with 375 statute adults. SAILED. May 30.—Helen Burns, ship, 798 tons, Malcolm, for London. Passengers: Mr and Mrs Borns and family, and two in the second cabin. Swordfish, brigantine, 155 tons, Lewis, for Hobart Town. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Alhambra, for Northern Ports, June I. Beautiful Star, for Lyttelton, June 2, City of Adelaide, for San Francisco, June 2. Freetrader, for Auckland, early. Harriett Armitage, for Auckland, early. Maori, for Lyttelton, early. Samson, for Oamaru, June 2. Scimitar, for London, June 10. Syren, for Auckland, early. Taranaki, for Northern Ports, June 2. Tararua, for Bluff, June 8. Wallabi, for Bluff, Juno 3. Wanganui, for Bluff, June 3. The brigantine Swordfish was towed to sea last night. The schooner Wanganui has (gone alongside the ship Asia for transhipment of railway iron. The ship Undine was taken out of the Graving Dock this morning and anchored in the stream. The ship Helen Burns, for London, commenced to unmoor this morning, and was towed to sea by the Geelong this afternoon. The Harbor Company’s s.s. Beautiful Star arrived this morning from Lyttelton via Tiinaru, and will discharge alongside the ship Scimitar. The p.s. Golden Age took part of the passengers of the ships Buckinghamshire and Janet Court to the railway pier, and they were conyeped to Dunedin by the 11.30 train. The Alhambra, on her last trip, arrived in Hobson’s Bay on the morning of May 16, after a fine passage of four days eighteen hours from the Bluff : and the Omeo at eight p.m. on the 17th. The brig Emily, supposed to be from Newcastle, arrived at the Heads this morning and sailed up as far as the Cross Channel, where, on account of the wind dying away, she came to an anchor. The New Zealand Company’s s.s. Taranaki arrived at eight o’clock this morning from the North. She left the Manakau at 3 p.m, on the 22nd; called at Taranaki, Pictou, Wellington, and Lyttelton ; left Lyttelton at 9.30 a.m. on the 28th for Timaru with emigrants; arrived at 8 a.m. on the 29th; left for Port Chalmers at 7 p.m., and arrived as above. We thank her purser, Mir C, J. Edminston, for report and files. * Messrs M‘Meckan, Blackwood’s s.s. Alhambra arrived at 8.30 this morning from Melbourne via the Bluff. She left Melbourne at 2 p.m. on the 23rd ; cleared Port PhilUu Heads at 6 p.m.; experienced strong southerly wind, with a heavy southerly sea and cloudy weather until passing the Solanders at 11 p.m. on the 28th; arrived at the 'Bluff at 8 a.m. on the 29th, discharged 100 tons of cargo, and took in 126 bags of grain, and left at 5 p.m. for Port Chalmers, and arrived as above. We are obliged to her purser, Mr Miller, for report and papers. ARRIVAL OF THE JANET COURT. The ship Janet Court, previously reported, was tow ed up yesterday afternoon, and anchored off the railway pier. She left Glasgow on the 25th of February, and Greenock on the 29th; took her final departure from Rothesay Bay on the 2nd of March ; on clearing the land she had moderate S.W. winds until making the latitude of the Western Islands; the N.E. trades were caught on the 22nd of March, and were very light; they were carried to the Equator, which was crossed on the 29th of March in longitude 27*36 W. ; the S.E. trades were carried to lat 22 S.; thence westerly winds ; crossed the meridian of Greenwich on the 21st in lat. 40*16 S,, and that of the Cape *of Good Hope on the 24th in lat. 41*15 S. ; her easterly was run down in about 49 S. ; sighted the Crozet Group on the 30 th, with variable winds; on the 26th of April, at 8 p.m., a stiff breeze came from the W.S.W., and at 10 p.m. a heavy sea broke on board, which carried away a portion of the bulwarks, stove in the main hatch, and, the captain fears, did damage to the cargo; sighted the Snares on the evening of the 25th; had a fine breeze along the coast, and arrived at the Heads on the evening of the 26th, but on account of the heavy S. W. wind, was blown past the Heads; made them again yesterday forenoon, and arrived as above. All the passengers speak highly of the attention of Dr Purvis to them, on the voyage, and likewise of the care of Captain Crawford and his officers. The ship comes into port tolerably clean, but her ’tween decks are not sufficiently lighted, and are very low. The single girls’ compartment is in the after part of the ’tween decks; the married couples in the main hold and the single men forward. The Janet Court brings 275 immigrants, all in good health. The ship belongs to Messrs W. and A. Brown, of Glasgow, but is under charter by Messrs Patrick Henderson and Co. Four births, four deaths, and two marriages occurred during the trip. The happy couples were Arthur Robert Rammage to jane Ann Low Kaimaer; and John MTntyre to Elizabeth Carmichael. The deaths were all children under three years of age. A COUPLE OF DISMASTED SHIPS. The Loch Ard appears to have been unfortunate on her voyage to Melbourne from the commencement of it. She sailed from Glasgow on the 4th December, for Melbourne, -with general cargo and passengers, put back to Greenock (in tow) on 19th December, and reported that on 13th December a westerly wind sprang up. and from that time until the night of the 15th she encountered a succession of strong westerly gales. At two o’clock on the same afternoon a tremendous squall carried away the foremast, • fore and royal top-gallant masts, and topmast by the board, and these were followed by main and tnizen masts later in the evening. The Loch Ard was now a dismantled hulk, and the state of mattei’a became serious, the weather being so terrific, and the vessel being so far from any apparent assistance. A seaman named Ross was washed overboard from the mizen rigging and drowned The vessel lay in a helpless state in the trough of the sea for some time, but, fortunately the wind moderated, and after knocking about in the Channel for some time, she obtained the assistance of a steam-tug belonging to the Clyde Shipping Company. After being repaired she was reloading cargo at Glasgow, and on 18th January she broke from her mooring at the wharf during the gale, and came into collision with the revenue cutter, carrying away her mast. She afterwards went ashore above Helensburgh, but was got off and towed to Greenock harbor for survey. Her misfortunes did not terminate here, for Captain Warden, of the City of Berlin, who recently arrived at Adelaide, reported that on the 7th April last, being in 43.65., 63 deg. E., he met with the hull of a vessel, having nothing above the deck but an ensign staff, on which was a flag, union downwards, as a signal of distress. The City rounded to, and sent a boat to the clis- 1 abled ship. She was lying in the trough of |

tie Sea, rolling furiously, with a raft of spars ahead to steady her as much as possible, but Captain Robertson would accept of no assistance, though the City was prepared to take the Loch Ard in tow. The Loch Ard arrived in Hobson’s Bay on the 12th ; and that night the John Kerr, almost dismasted, put in an appearance at Port Philip Heads. It will bo recollected both ships left Glasgow on the same day. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. Lyttelton, May 30.—Arrived, City of Agra, ship, eighty days, from the Downs, with twenty-two passengers.