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Evening Star, Issue 3562, 23 July 1874, Page 2

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HIGH WATER. To-morrow. Heads [ Port Chalmers I Ddkedis 10.32 p.nu | 11.17 p.m. | 11.2 p.m. PORT CHALMERS. ARRIVED. July 23.—Otago, s.s., 800 tons, M'Lean, from, Melbourne, via the Bluff. Passengers : Mr and Mrs J. Reeves and two children, Mr and Mrs Fitzsimmons and child, Mr and Mrs S. J. Reeves, Mrs Techew and family (4), Mrs S. Martin, Mrs G. W. Smith and child, Mrs Jacobs and two children, Mr and Mrs Isaacs, Dr and Mrs Brown and child, Mrs Souttar, Mrs Author and two children, Misses Smith, Monteith, and Kelly, Hon. Donald M‘Lean, Major Ropata, Messrs T. H. Townsend. G. N. M‘K eoun, Swanston, Ehrman, Grogan, and twenty-seven in the steerage. Sam Mendel, ship, from London. SAILED. July 23.—Wallabi, s.s., 101 tons, Lees, for tne Molyneux. Wanganui, a.a., 179 tons, Fraser, for the Bluff. Easby, s.s., 969 tons, R. Shand, for Newcastle. Passengers : Mrs and Miss Williams, Mr Fulton and two Mis* Fultons, Mr M. Joel. Jane, cutter, 26 tons, Divers, for Shag Point. Mermaid, cutter, 12 tons, Kelly, for WaikouaitL Zior, schooner, 67 tons, Bell, for Hokitika via Oamaru. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Beautiful Star, for Lyttelton, early. Cyphrenes, for San Francisco, July 28. Claud Hamilton, for Bluff, July 24. Dunedin, for London, August 15. Maori, for Lyttelton, July 26. Samson, for Oamaru, July 24. W anganui, for Bluff, early. Wellington, for Northern Ports, July 26.

The barque Glencoe sailed down from Dunedin this morning. The brigantine Swordfish, for Hobart Town, sailed yester afternoon. The steamers Wallabi, for the Molyneux, and Wanganui, for the Bluff, sailed last night. The cutter Jane, for Shag Point, and the Mermaid, for Waikouiti, sailed yesterday. The p.s. Peninsula transhipped the single females from the ship Sussex to the railway pier this morning.

The bng Pakeha, which got aground in the Cross Channel, got off this morning, and was towed down by the s.s. Jane. The s.s. Easby took her departure for Newcastle yesterday afternoon. The trip is expected to occupy about three weeks. This morning the ship Sam Mendel, from London, was signalled at the Heads. The tug Geelong proceeded down, and towed her up this afternoon.

The ketch Eliza MThee, which sailed for the Molyneux a few days ago and got blown to sea in the S.W. gale, arrived at the Heads last night, and reports losing anchor and chain.

The topsail schooner Zior came down from Dunedin this morning and anchored in Carey Bay, and shortly afterwards got underway and sailed for Hokitika via Oamaru,

Messrs M'Meckan, Blackwood’s s.s. Otago arrived this morning from Melbourne, via the Bluff. She left Melbourne on the 15th, and passed tho Heads at 5.30 p.m., and Swan Island at 2 p.m. on the 16th, with fine westerly wind, which shifted to the southward. She was hove-to at 5 p.m. on the 19th, with a tremendous sea running at the time ; at 6.30 p.m. shipped a heavy sea, which flooded the saloon and broke the skylight. At daylight there was a heavy gale from the south, with terrific squalls and sleet; sighted the land at noon, and took shelter in Dusky Sound at 4 p.m.; left *B a m at 7 a.m. on the 2lst, and arrived at the Bluff at 11 p.m., entering at daylight. Discharged cargo and passengers, and left again for Port Chalmers last night, arriving as above. She had five horses on board, which, notwithstanding the severe weather on the passage, were landed alive. The Otago leaves for Melbourne, via the West Coast and Northern Ports, to-morrow afternoon.

The City of Hobart, s.s., while steaming down the Yarra on July 8 on her voyage to Hobart Town, came into collision with the 8-8 m and suffered considerable damage. The Otego was moored to the wharf on the north side of the river, opposite the new wharf, whilst on the south side of the river two steamers weie lying. The channel is considerably narrowed by the erection of the coffer dam at the new wharf. The City of Hobart, when passing this point at reduced speed, was swung round by the force of the current, and the steamer came into violent collision with the starboard bow of the Otago. The mizzenmast ofthe former vessel was carried away, and the taffrail was also injured. The only damage done to the Otago was that her foretopgallant mast was carried away. The screw of the City °f Hobart was broken by coming into contact with the wharf, and was so much injured that the agents of the vessel have decided to dock her, and to ship a new screw. We understand from Messrs Hudson and Watkins, the ftgents, that this cannot be done until next week, owing to the pumping machinexy of the Albert Dock (Yarra) having broken down, the patent slip at Williamstown being all out of gear, and the Alfred Dock being engaged by the Cambridgeshire and Delmira.— ‘ Australasian.’