Shipping.

Evening Star, Issue 3565, 27 July 1874, Page 2

Shipping.

HIGH WATER. To-morrow. Heads f Chalmers J Dohedik 2.10 p,m. | 2.50 p.m, | 3.35 p.m.

PORT CHALMERS.

ARRIVED. July 26.—Peter Denny, ship, 997 tons, Pyecraft, from London. Passengers : Saloon—Mr and Mrs Stephenson and family (4), and servant, Rev. Mr Granger, Miss Gravely, Mr G. R. Beart; and 374 immigrants, equal to 302 statute adults. Wanganui, s.s., 174 tons, Fraser, from Bluff. Passengers : Mrs Nicholson and child, Dr and Mrs M‘Cure, Dr Carr, Mrs Shand, Mr ami Mrs Gilmour, Miss Presswell, Messrs Hyman, Scott, Harding, Hall, Ingram, Lumsden, Kaffer, and Walls (2), Claud Hamilton, s.s., 528 tons, Bawden, from Melbourne, via Hokitika and the North. Passengers : Captain Logan, Miss Lahay, Mrs Rich, Mrs Davidson, Messrs Pierson, Tanner, B. H. Wcycoss, J. Murray, Henry Godfres, R. C. Jones, Burtory, Clark, Haswell, Kernel, Wylie; and five in the steerage. Samson, p.s., 124 tons, Edie, from Oamaru. Wallabi, s.s., 101 tons. Leys, from Port Molyneux. Passenger : Mr J. Patterson. Margaret Scollay, cutter, 16 tons, Scott, from Moeraki. Wellington, s.s., 262 tons, Carey, from the North. Passengers : Captain Jones, Mrs and Master Jones, Mr and Mrs Somerville, Mrs Laird, California Minstrels (14), Messrs Copeland, Russell, Burt, Bow. Munson, Robinson, Blanchard, Lilburn, Smith, Driscoll, and A, Muir. SAILED. July 27.—Pakeha, brig, 155 tons, Paterson, lor the Bluff. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Albion, for Bluff, August J. Alhambra, for Bluff, August 17. Beautiful Star, for Lyttelton, early. Cyphrenes, for San Francisco, July 28. Dunedin, for London, August 15. Maori, for Lyttelton, July 28. Marion, for Wellington, early. Samson, for Oamaru, July 28. Tauranga, for Greymouth, early. Tararua, for Bluff, August 3. Wanganui, for Bluff, July 29. Messrs Houghton and Co.’s s.s. Wallabi arrived last night at 10.30, from Port Molyneux. The Harbor Steam Company’s p.s. Samson returned from Oamaru, and steamed up to Dunedin, on Saturday night. The barque Mariano, having discharged her cargo at the railway pier, was removed to a berth in the stream on Saturday, by the s.s. Jane.

Messrs Houghtou and Co.’s s.s. Wanganui, 179 tons, Fraser, arrived from the Bluff yes terday morning, in time to send her passengers to Dunedin by the 10 a.ra. train. The brig Pakeha was towed down to the Heads on Saturday by the s.s. Jane, but the sea was so high that the bar co*id not be attempted, so she came to anchor inside. The Margaret Scollay, cutter, arrived in Port Chalmers, and berthed alongside the old jetty, early yesterday morning, from Moeraki. She reports having left the schooners Zior and Jane Anderson there, which had to leave Oamaru and seek for shelter in Moeraki; and also the Pioneer, which had to run from Shag Point. The sea was very heavy on the coast. Messrs M Meckan, Blackwood, and Co.’s s.s. Claud Hamilton, 529 tons, Captain W. J. Bawden, arrived in Port Chalmers yesterday morning from Melbourne, via Hokitika and Northern ports. She arrived off the Heads at 10 p.m. on Saturday, remained there all night, and after daylight yesterday morning steamed Up into port, and berthed alongside the pier. Her passengers went to Dunedin by the morning train. She left the Queen’s Wharf, Melbourne, at 11 a.m., July 10 ; arriving off Hokitika at 9 a.m. on the 17th July. Left for Greymouth at 11 a.m., called at Nelson, Wellington, and Lyttelton; could not be tendered at Timaru or Oamaru, so came on to Port Chalmei’s. We are indebted to Mr John Peter Crotty, her purser, for her report. The N.Z.S.S. Co.’s Wellington arrived from the North late last night. She left the Mauakau at 10 p.m. on the 18th ; arrived off Taranaki at 8 a.m. on the 19th ; left at 1.30 p.m., and reached Nelson at 10.30 a.m. on the 20th ; left at 1 p.m , and arrived at Picton at 10.30 p.m. ,same night; left at midnight, and arrived at Wellington at 7 a.m. on the 21st. Was detained there until 10.15 a.m. on the 22rd, owing to the severe gale from the S.E. and heavy sea at the Heads; arrived at Lyttelton at 9 a.m. on the 24th. After landing cargo, steamed alongside the ship Peeress, and transhipped 180 immigrants for Timaru, and left at 4 p.m. ; was kept under easy steam all night, and arrived at Timaru roadstead at 8 a.m. on the 25th; there being too much sea to work, anchored at 2 p.m., landed passengers and luggage safely at 8 a.m. yesterday, and left for Port Chalmers at noon. Experienced violent southerly gales, with heavy sea, from the Manukau to Timaru; from thence light N.E. breeze and fine weather. We thank her purser Mr Willcocks for report and files.

ARRIVAL OF THE PETER DENNY.

On Saturday afternoon a ship was signalled to the northward, which was expected to be the Dunedin, from Lyttleton, but early yesterday morning the signals at the Heads announced her to be Messrs Patrick Henderson’s wellknown ship Peter Denny, from London. The tug Geelong started down early and towed her up to her anchorage at II a.m., and the Custom and Health Officers proceeded down in the p.s. Peninsula, and in reply to the usual question, Captain Pyecraft presented a clean bill of health, Dr. Button stating that there had not been a case of any infectious disease during the passage. The different compartments of the passengers were very clean, the single females’ compartment being in a portion of the saloon, which had been partitioned off. The married peoples’ compartments are in the main hold, their berths being fitted up in blocks similar to those of the Sussex, giving them a great deal more privacy than in most of the other ships that have arrived here with immigrants. The whole of the compartments are well ventilated, and there did not seem to be a murmur amongst the passengers: all seemed in good health and happy. The ship has been remarkably free from sickness, there having been only three deaths, and those were of children under two years of age. There were three births, the Denny thus bringing the same number of souls as when she left London—374, equal to 302 statute adults. All seem well pleased with the care and attention they have received from Dr Button, Captain Pyecraft, and his officers. Captain Pyecraft reports leaving London on the 30th April, and Gravesend on the 2nd May ; had moderate N.E. and N.W. wind in the Channel, and cleared, taking her final departure from Start Point on the 6tlq and subsequently had N.E. and N.W. weather •lithe way down, until falling in with the N.E. trades on the 17th, in lat 28 N.; those winds were moderate, and were carried up to lat. 5’38 N. where they were lost on the 22nd; light e! winds from thence carried her across the equator, on the 34th, in long. 28'20 W. Caught the S.E. trades ou the 26th, in lat. I'2o S. By this time she had been carried as far west as long. 33'34, and the wind came in well from the southward, being S.P.E., and she was consequently carried in on the Brazilian coast, and had to make two boards before she could weather Cape San Iloque. The trade was lost on the 11th June, in lat. 31 34 S. and long. 29 25 W. She had then N.E. winds, with intervals of N.N.W. wind, for three days, and on the 14th got the westerlies, and these brought her down .her eastern heading at a good speed. Crossed the meridian of Greenwich on the 18th, in,lat. 42.41 S., and the Cape of Good Hope on the 21st; then 48 clays out. From thab time, right down to our coast, she had strong breezes from N.W, and S.W., sometimes so heavy that she was running under two lower topsails and foresail; in fact this was the most frequent quantity of canvas spread during her easting. She had also some heavy snow squalls, and the barometer was very low, being sometimes at 29, and frequently at 29.20. The easting was Tun down on a general parallel of lat. 48 8., S'd one day she ran 320 miles, this being her st day’s work. She was abteaSt of the ftnares on Friday, the 17th inst./'wheh the v/ns

caught in a very severe N.W. gale, which kept her off this coast, and lasted for three days; and then she encountered a gale from the S.W., and made the land at Banks’s Peninsula on the 22nd, having been driven so far to the northward in spite of herself; and since that time she has been making back again to our Heads, working principally against the wind. She made up as above, stood-to off the Heads on Saturday evening, and came close in yesterday morning, on which she was boarded by Pilot Paton, and afterwards taken in tow by the tug. She has had a very favorable passage, and has clone well, having come fiom land to land in 72 days, and from Gravesend to port in 87 days.