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Evening Star, Issue 3523, 8 June 1874, Page 2

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HIGH WATE*. To-morrow. [ Port Chalmers- 1 Dtoeain 10.31 p.m. I 11.11 p.m. I 11.56 p.m. PORT CHALMERS. ARRIVED. June 3,—Atrato, s.s., 3,051 tons, Husband, from Plymouth, via the Cape, with 762 immigrants. Harriett Armitage, barque, 233 tons, Mailler, from Newoastle. Passengers : Mrs Masters, Mrs Lomben, Misses Masters (3), Mr Thomas. Isabella, ketch, 52 tons, Cowan, from Moeraki. Glimpse, ketch, 38 tons, Scoones, from Timaru. Jane, cutter, 25 tons, Divers, from Shag Point. Samson, p.s., 124 tons, Edie, from Oamaru. Wanganui, s.s., 179 tons, Eraser, from the Bluff. Beautiful Star, s.s., 146 tons, Hart, from Lyttelton, via Timaru. Passengers : Misses Holmes, M'Lean, Gaard, Captain Eox, Messrs Irvine, Scanlan, Lamb, Hamilton. Nairn, Machin, Lockley, Boultoron, M. Caughlan, and four in the steerage. Eureka, barque, 555 tons, Chaple, from New York. Cora, schooner, 45 tons, Russell, from Timaru. Albion, s.s., 800 tons, Underwood, from Melbourne, via the Bluff. Passengers : Mr and Mrs Gibbs and servant, Mrs S. H. Mirams and two children, Mr and Miss Evans, Mr and Miss Mirams, Misses O'Dea, Huie, Joyce', Rev. F. R. M. Wilson, Captain Logan, Messrs G. Bell, S. Deßeer, Mattheuman, Pell, Frederick, Thompson, and two in the steerage. Comerang, p.s., 125 tons, Hughes, from Lyttelton. via intermediate ports. Passenger : one in the steerage. Tararua, s.s., 529 tons, Clark, from Melbourne via the West Coast and Northern Ports. Passengers : Bishjp of Dunedin and Mrs Neville, Mr and Mrs Steele and three children, Mrs Duak, Miss Richmond, Rev. Mr Edwards, Messrs Caddiford, M'Lellan, Guynneth, Wood, Gallagher, Mackay, J. H. Quinlan, B. W. Rose, and twenty-five in the steerage. SAILED. June B.—Dallam Tower, ship, 1499 tens, Davies, for Loadon. Passengers: thirteen in the second cabin. Woodville, barque, 496 tons, Hodge, for Newcastle. Ladybird, s.s., 267 tons, Andrews, for the North. Passengers : Eor Manakau—Mrs Asher. For Greymouth—Mr Todd. For Napier—Miss Jeffrey ; two steerage, and a number of immigrants. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Beautiful Star, for Lyttelton, June 9. Freetrader, for Auckland, early. Hadda, for Auckland, early. Himalaya, for Newcastle, June 12. Mikado, for Northern Ports, June 30. Maori, for Lyttelton, early. Satuspn, for Oamaru, June 9. Scimitar, for London, June 10. Wanganui, for Bluff, June 10 Wallabi, for Bluff, early. Wild Deer, for London, June 15. The ketch Trial, from Waikouaiti, arrived on Saturday. The barque Woodville, for Newcastle, was towed to sea by the Geelong this morning. The ship Dallam Tower, for London, was towed to sea by the Geelong on Saturday. r lhe p.s. Samson arrived from Oamaru on Saturday night, and passed up to Dunedin. The ship Trevelyan wasunmooretl and shifted to the lower anchorage by the p.s. Golden Age on Saturday. The s.s. Wanganui arrived from her Southern trip early yesterday morning, and passed the Port to Dunedin. The schooner Cora arrived last night with a full cargo of grain from Timaru, for tranship ttent to the ship Scimitar. The N. Z. Company's s.s. Ladybird, with the northern portion of the Suez mail, transhipped from the s.s. Albion, sailed this morning shortly after the arrival of the 10.30 train from Dunedin. The ketch Isabella, which left here on the 17th for Catlin's River, took from there a load of timber for Moeraki, and returned on Saturday night with a full cargo of building stone and grain, and passed up to Dunedin. The following is the passenger list of Messrs Shaw, Saville, and Co.'s ship Devana, whicn left London on April 11 for Port Chalmers : Messrs Edwin J. Cox, Luke Hinde, A. G. Knight, and John Eattenbury nineteen in the steerage. Th« cutter Jane arrived on Saturday night, with a cargo of coal for the steam dredge from Shag Point. She also, on account of the same gale put into Moeraki, and left for Port Chalmers on Friday night. The ketch Glimpse, which has lately been purchased at Wellington by Captain Scoones (late of the pilot service) and Mr Munroe, arrived on Saturday night, with 400 bags of wheat, from Timaru, for transhipment. She left on Saturday week, but, owing to the heavy S.W. gale, put into Moeraki on Monday; left again oa Friday night, and arrived as above. On March 20 Messrs M'Fadyen and Co., Port Glasgow, launched an iron sailing ship of 850 tons, for Messrs D. and J. Sproal, Kirkcudbright, named the Loch Cree. This is the third iron ship for the Australian and New Zealand trades which has been launched this month by Port Glasgow shipbuilders.—'European Mail, April 7. ' The s.s. Beautiful Star arrived from her nsual trip from Lyttelton and intermediate ports yesterday morning, and steamed alongside the ship Wild Deer to discharge. She left Port Chalmers on Tuesday evening, called at Timaru and Akaroa, and arrived at Lyttelton at 9 a.m. on Thursday; left on her return trip at 3.30 p m. on Friday ; called at Timaru, and took on board a full cargo of meats and grain and left for Port Chalmers at 8.10 p. m. ' The p.s. Comerang arrived from the North yesterday morning, and steamed alongside the ship Scimitar to discharge. Left Lyttelton at 5 p.m. on Tuesday (with seventy-three immigrants) for Timaru, but, on account of the heavy S.W. wind, she put into Akaroa, and lay there until 3 p.m. on Friday, arriving at limaru at daylight on Saturday ; took in cargo and left for Port • Chalmers at 8 p.m., and armed as above. Messrs M'Meckan, Blackwood's s.s. Tararua arrived from Melbourne, via West Coast and i £ Perts > yesterday afternoon. She left Melbourne at 2.30 p.m. on the 26th • cleared the Straits at 2 p.m. on the 27th ; had light head winds and fine weather until amvin"off Hokitika, on the 31st, at 5 p.m. ; left at 4.30 a.m. on the Ist June. Called at Nelson Wellington, and Lyttelton. We thank her purser, Mr Hart, for report and files. She brought across the entire thoroughbred horse Cassibelaunus belonging to Mr G. Dodson which was safely landed yesterday afternoon. The following vessels have sailed from Home for Port Chalmers :—Bruce (Harbor Company's steamer), from Greenock on April 11, commanded by Capt. Macfarlane ; Carrick Castle, 879, from Queenstown, with immigrants: Devana, 795, from London, April 13 ; Caroline from Queenstown, April 14; Hindostan, with 329 immigrants, from Plymouth, April 9 • Sussex, 1,305, on Ayril 14, from the West i Docks, with about 400 immigrants. There were loading at Liverpool, Cordelia, 598; at Glasgow, Mane Bahn ; and at London, Peter Denny, 997, and Sam Mendel, 1,033. On March 20 Messrs Barclay and Curie, of Whiteinch, launched an iron sailing ship named the Mairi Bhan, and of the following dimensions :—1,360 tons; in length, 230 f t; breadth 36fft; and depth, She has been built with all the newest appliances for the accommodation of passengers and cargo, having in both respects satisfied the utmost requirements of the emigration and Lloyd's surveyors. She proceeds through the agency of Thos. Aikman and Co. to New Zealand as one of the ships of the line of Messrs Patrick Henderson and Co. The screw steamer Vasco de Gama, pioneer steamer of the China Trans-Pacific Steamship Company (Limited), has just completed her second trip across the Pacific, in both cases having made the quickest passages on record, although Bhe has had to oppose the vessels of the American Pacific Mail Company, the largest |and best equipped mail line sailing under the American flag, and largely subsidized

by the American Government to ensure speed. On her second voyage she accomplished the distance between Sari, Francisco and Yokohama in seventeen day two hours, being more than two days in advance of any passnge on record. Messrs M'Meckan, Blackwood, and Co.’s s.s, Albion arrived alongside the railway pier at 8 a.m. to-day from Melbourne via the Bluff, having made a fine passage to the Bluff of four days and nine and a-half hours. She cleared Port Phillip Heads at 2.30 p.m. on the 2nd; experienced light variable winds for three days, then light N. W. winds until making the land at 7 p.m. on the 6th; arrived at the Bluff at 1.30 a.m. on the 7th, discharged cargo, and left at 2 p.m., and arrived off the Heads at 12.30 a.m. We are obliged to her purser (Mr Norris) for report and Melbourne files. The clipper barque Harriet Armitage left Newcastle on the 21st May, with W. and N.W. winds; on the 22nd the breeze freshened to a gale, which lasted till the 26th ; it came with violent squalls and high sea, during which the vessel shipped a great quantity of water, carried away part_ of the starboard bulwarks forward of the main rigging, stove in the cabin doors, filled the saloon with water, and. swept everything moveable off the deck ; to relieve the decks the water holes had to be cut on the port side of the bulwarks ; the gale was so terrific that Captain Mailler expected the ship to founder; she was head-reaching for three days under lower topsails, the fore staysail and main staysail being blown away ; on the 27th the weather moderated, and had N.E. winds until reaching the New Zealand coast; was detained off Breaksea Sound with a S.W. gale ; passed the Solanders on the sth, was off i 'og Island at noon on the 6th, passed the IN uggets the same evening, and was at the Heads at midnight on the 7th—seventeen days from Newcastle ; then signalled for a tng, and was towed up by the Geelong and anchored off the railway pier at 11.30 this morning. A barque was seen off the Heads yesterday morning, and managed to sail up to the Port with the light N. E. breeze and came to an anchor off the railway pier. She proved to be the Eureka. 105 days from New York, and the same vessel which_ was at the Heads on Wednesday last. Captain Ohaple reports idea ving New York on tho 18th of February ; had westerlj winds to the N.E. trades, which were caught in lat. 30’40 N., and lost in 4 - 3 on the 30th of March ; the S.E. trades were immediately caught; the barque crossed the Equator the same day ; the S.E. trades were lost on the 31st of March, in lat. 21.225. ; easterly winds were then met with until April sth; the meridian of Greenwich was crossed on the loth, after which variables were experienced until the 22nd ; on this day, being in lat. 39.515., long. 20W., the barque got the first of a gale which lasted for seven days. The wind came down heavy from the N.E., and worked round gradually to the westward, there being, however, a calm during each change, which occurred about every twentyfour hours. During the continuance of the gale a very heavy cross-sea was felt, the natural result of the changes. On the 29 th bad fine weather from the westward, and the ship was able to lay her course; her easting was run down in about 475. ; the Snares were sighted on the Ist of June, there being at the time a strong gale from the S.W. ; made the Heads on the 3rd, and arrived as above. She brings a full cargo, part of which is for Lyttelton and Wellington.