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Evening Star, Issue 3537, 24 June 1874, Page 2

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HIGH WATER, To-mobbow. Heaps I Pobt Chalmebs I Dtobjjiu 11.21 p.m. | 12.1 p.m. 112.46 p.m. POET CHALMERS. AKBIVED. June 24.—Ladybird, s.s., 286 tons, Captain H. H. Andrew, from the North.. Passengers : Mrs W. F. Wheeler, Mrs Fergusaon and three children, Captain Anderson, Messrs Marks, Money, Harper, Smith; and seven in the steerage. Glimpse, ketch, 25 tons, Masters, from Moerakn SAILED. - Jane 24.—Grace, ketch, 25 tons, Brady, for Waikouaiti. PBOJEOTED DEPABTOBES. ' Beautiful Star, for Lyttelton, June 26. Circe, for Hokitika, early. Claud Hamilton, for Bluff, June 26. City of Adelaide, for San Francisco, June 30. Ladybird, for Northern Ports, June 28. Mikado, for Northern Ports, June 30. Omeo, for Northern Ports, June 26. Rio Loge, for Lyttelton, June 27. Star of the South, for Fiji, June 27, Samson, for Oamaru, June 26. Scimitar, for London, June 25. Tarania, for Bluff, July 6. Wanganui, for Bluff, early. Wallabi, for Bluff, early. The ship Asia has cleared at the Customs for Newcastle. - The ketch Grace sailed for Waikouaiti yesterday afternoon. The s.s. Otago sailed North yesterday[afternoon at five o’clock. The ketch Glimpse, 25 tons, arrived this morning from Moeraki. She had a fair passage. Part of her cargo is graingfor transhipment and part stone for Dunedin. An. attempt was made to launch the schooner Emulous, now lying stranded on the beach, on Saturday morning. It was unsuccessful, owing to some timber shifting, and blocking the ways. Everything was being got ready yesterday for a Second attempt. Which will probably be made to-day.— ‘ North Otago Times,’ Tuesday. M‘Meckan, Blackwood, and Co. have sent to Scotland for a new steamship for the New Zealand branch of their fleet, and Mr Waugh, late chief engineer of the Tararua, has been sent Home to superintend the construction of the vessel. She will have compound engines, and all the latest improvements. The New Zealand Steam Shipping Company’s s.s. Ladybird arrived in Port Chalmers to-ddy at 11.35 a.m. She was just in time to see the 11.30 train leave the station for Dun«din. On coming into the pier she had rather a serious mishap. Her starboard bow came against the corner post, which was next caught by the fluke of the anchor, by which her davit was carried away and a few stanchions were torn out. According to her report she left Manukau at noon on the 17th , arrived at Taranaki at 6 a.m. on the 18th, left at 10 a.m. the same day, and arrived at Nelson at 7 a.m. on the 19th; sidled at 1 p.m., and arrived at Picton at 11 p.m., left at 2 a.m. on the 20th, and Went out through the aorth entrance, it being too rough to go down Tony Channel, but on getting into the straits found it blowing a strong so therly gale, and was forced to put back and anchor under Tory Island at 6 a.m. and lay there until 2.30 a.m. on the 21st, at which hour She again got under way and proceeded on her Way, and arrived at Wellington at 7 a.m. the Same day. She sailed again at 2.30 p.m. on the 22nd, arrived at Lyttelton at 9.30 a.m, on the 33rd, and sailed again at 1.30 p.m., arriving as above, having experienced S.E. gale, with a heavy sea, from Mannkau to Wellington,?and subsequently fine weather. We thank her purser, Mr W. Doughty, for our files and report.

A SAD STORY. (Hong Kong Times, March 19.) No sadder or more touching story has reached Vs fot a long time than that told by our Swatow correspondent. The German barque Chance, laden with coal, bound from Newcastle to Hong Kong, drifted against a rock and immediately sank. The cabin hoy was the only one who went down at the moment; the captain and crew, the captain’s wife, and the young children and nurse managing to jump on to the rock. So sudden was the calamity that they had not time to dress; and nothing was saved in the way of provisions but a bottle of jam and another of claret. The position was indeed most perilous. Two pieces of deck plank were lashed together, and, an empty bag being placed at the end; this was hoisted as a signal of distress. Soon a'barque have in sight. Hope rose with the sight, and when the men could be seen on the vessel’s deck the hour of deliverance seemed indeed at hand. “See mother,” said the captain’s little girl, “our Lord sends us help.” Simple words—their spirit taught perhaps in quiet and happy moments by the mother to whom they Were now addressed. Hopeful and joyful did they sound now; but, alas, never was hope msre cruelly blighted. The barque passed on her coarse away, and pleasing expectation gave place to terrible despair. It was with difficulty that the wretched ones eould keep their place on the rock, for the sea at times washed over it j and to add to their sufferings their hands and feet, during the struggle with the waves, were painfully cut and tom. In this sad state the day and the night were passed; and early next morning the calamity was intensified in a most shocking manner. A heavy breaker came fifing along j and all were dashed clean off the nock. Wife and children and servant, all had disappeared. Wearily and anxiously passed the next twelve hours, when the distress signal was Men by the captain of the German schooner Caroline, and the rock was at once made for. Then a boat was lowered ; and the boatswain and four Japanese sailors went off to the rescue. The state of the sea made this a work of extreme difficulty and danger ; but at last it was successful, and the men~-eight in number—were got safe on board. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. Auckland, June 23.—The Loch Awe has arrived from London, after a splendid passage of seven ty-seven days from port to port. She brings 367 immigrants, all well. Messrs Brogden and Sons have purchased the schooner Clio from J. S. Maefarlane, to be employed in the coasting trade. Wellington, June 24,—The Fiji trader Star of the South arrived last night, and sails South to-day. She will go alongside the Dunedin wharf.