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Evening Star, Issue 3564, 25 July 1874, Page 2

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HIGH WATRR. To-morrow. .Heads F Port Chalmers I Dunedin 12.26 p.m, I 1.6 p.m. | 1.51 p.m. Monday. 1.22 p.m. 1 2.2 p.m. ) 2,47 p.m. PORT CHALMERS. ARRIVED. July 25.—Main Bhau, ship, 1,315 tons, Masson, from Glasgow. Passengers : Saloon— Mr and Mrs Bertrine, Rev, Mr and Mm Russell, Misses Russell (2), Masters Russell (2), Mr and

Mrs Thomson, Messrs Campbell, Keith, Young; and 476 souls, equal to 394£ statute adults—immigrants. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Albion, for Bluff, July 27. Alhambra, fftr Bluff, August 17. Beautiful Star, for Lyttelton, early. Cyphrenes, for San Francisco, July 28. Claud Hamilton, for Bluff, July 27. Dunedin, for London, August 15. Maori, for Lyttelton, July 28. Marion, for Wellington, early. Samson, for Oatnaru, July 28. Tauranga, for Greymouth, early. Tararua, for Bluff, August 1. W anganui, for Bluff, July 29. Wellington, for Northern Ports, July 26, The cutter Hope, from the Coast, passed up t* Dunedin. The schooner Wanganui came down from Dunedin last night, and went alongside the hulk California. The s.s. Otago took her departure for Melbourne, via Northern and West Coast Ports, yesterday afternoon. The s.s. Wellington’s time has been taken up conveying immigrants ex ship Peeress, from Lyttelton to Timaru. Her arrival is consequently not looked for till late this evening, and her departure, according to advertisement, is postponed till Monday. The ship Mairi Bhau, which was reported in our last issue as having arrived at the Heads yesterday morning, was compelled to lay there at anchor during the night, on account of the tug Geelong being engaged during the whole of yesterday in Dunedin. The tug got up steam, early this morning and proceeded down and x _ 1 i . 1

towed her up to her anchorage, under- the charge of Pilot Kelly. The Mairi BWu,is.a.. fine ironship of 1,315 tons register, and'is now on her first voyage, having been, recently built by Messrs Barclay, Curle v and, Co., of Glasgow. She belongs to Capt. P., MTntyre, of London, and is under charter to.Messrs.Patrick Henderson, and Go. She brings IB saloon passengers, besides 476, immigrants, equal to 394* statute adults, all of whom, have enjoyed good health during the voyage under the charge of Dr Alexander M ‘Kenzie, The whole of the passengers Ipok a healthy class, fitforhard work. Having inspected the different compartments, y?hioh are much about .the same as ether immigrant ships, with,the, exception of the different Compartments being, rather dark, we heard np complaints, amongst the passengers, and those we addressed spoke in good terms of the treatment'they have received from Dr M‘Ken-

B®, Captain Masson, and his officers during the voyage. There were four deaths of infants, ukjewise three births, the names of those that , died being Mary Clark, aged 1 year and 6 on the 27th June; Maiy Jar, e M Conaell, aged 2 years, on the 6th Ju\v • Eglin, aged 1 year on the months, on the 13th. The births were—O the 30th May, Mrs O’Neill, of a son; on th , e 21st June, Mrs 1 ulton, of a daughter ; on tl ie 24th July, Mrs Dunu, of a daughter. The i ,hip has arrived after a splendid passage of seventy-one days, as the following report will sh 4 ow. She left Gksgow on the sth May, and. the Tail of the Bank at 4 p.m. on the 7th, ; had baffling S. winds with heavy squalls to Cape Clear, ™i c , hj * as P as ? ed on 17 th , then moderate S e oL n ’ mds ,N.E. trades Zh* m \ a S which were very rr Wer< t 29th, in lat. 11.14 N. Had bafflmg w.mdß tci the Equator, which was crossed on the 4th. June, in long. 28\V.; the S.L. trades being immediately caught, which yei |? and were carried to lat. ■■ ■ »•' then, hr strong westerly winds ; crossed the raer Mian of Greenwich on the 20th June in 45.80 > and that of the Cape on the 23rd; f j ■ J . n ® w^n<^s > principally from the W. to 0.W., dr jr j n g which she made some capital runs, the highest being 342 miles on the 24th dune, the lowest 220 on the Ist of July. Her es .sting was run down in 47 S.; made the Snakes on the 17th, with a fine N. wind; had £*r vV. winds along the coast, and on the 19th had terrific squalls, accompanied with heavy rain; yr as off the Heads at noon on the 20th ; stood in close under three lower topsails, it then blowing very heavy with severe squalls of snow. After standing in as close as was prudent, seeing no signals in answer stood off again.;; the wind then coming from the S.W., she went past the Heads to the northward, and arrived off the Heads again yesterday morning.