PORT CHALMERS.

Evening Star, Issue 3577, 10 August 1874, Page 2

PORT CHALMERS.

ARRIVED. August 10.—Saihson, p.s., 124 tons, Edie, from Oamani. Passengers : Miss Brady, Messrs Crow, M‘Ewan, Hart, Scanlan, M'Kay: Bud tour in the steerage. Wanganui, s.s., 179 tons, Fraser, from Bluff. Passengers : Mr and Mrs Roscrudge, two children, and servant, Misses Stewart and Barbara, Messrs Lockley, Rownell, Attwood, Adams, Patterson, Murray, Simpson, Proudfoot, Grant, Pirk, Wilson, Logan, Haynes, O’Brien, Lewis, C. J. Webb, Blanchfield, and Captain Massey. Wallabi, s.s., 101 tons, Leys, from Riverton. Esk, barque, 404 tons, Hodge, from Newcastle. William Cundell, brig, 267 tons, M'Farlane, from Newcastle. Mary Melville, schooner, 61 tons, Urquhart, from Bluff. SAILED. August 10.—Maori, s.s., 118 tons. Captain Malcolm, for Lyttelton. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Alhambra, for Bluff, August 17. Beautiful Star, for Lyttelton, August 10. Dunedin, for London, August 15. Omeo, for Northern Ports, August 12. Phoebe for Northern Ports, August 12. Samson, for Oamaru, Aug. 11. Tartar, for San Francisco, August 25. Tauranga, for Greymouth, early. W anganui, for Bluff, August 11. Wallabi, for Timaru, August 11. The Samson sails for Oamaru to-morrow morning. The s.s. Maori sailed for Lyttelton, &c., on Sunday night. The p.s. Comerang is advertised to sail for Riverton this evening. The schooner Mary Melville arrived from the Bluff, and sailed up to Dunedin. The Wanganui towed the barque Harriet Anmtage to Dunedin yesterday. The s.s. Wallabi arrived from Riverton yesterday, and, after transhipping the Wanganui’s passengers, steamed up to Dunedin. The schooners Crest of the Wave and Tauranga are taking in cargoes from the ship Hindostan at the railway pier, for Moeraki and Kakanui. Messrs H. Houghton and Co.’s s.s. Wanganui returned from her usual trip to the Bluff yesterday morning. She sailed for Dunedin at 4.45 p.m. on Saturday, and having a good S. W, breeze up the coast she arrived early. The Harbor Steam Company’s p.s. Samson arrived from Oamaru on Saturday night. She left Oamaru at 11 a.m., and berthed at the Old Jetty, Port Chalmers, at 6.50 p.m., having made the ran up in less than six hours, against a atm sou’-wesler. The brig William Cundell, W. M. Farlane, afnved at tho Heads last evening and stood in across the bar, coming to an anchorage above the Heads landing-place. She reports leaving Newcastle on the 24th July, and had good N.W. Winds for three days ; but from the 28bh to the i u j e , ° a S.E. gale, in which she labored heavily, shipping much water, which stove m her bulwarks. Ou the sth instant she got a fine S.S.W. breeze, which lasted up till arrival. She brings a cargo of coal, and will wait for a fair breeze before coming up to Port Chalmers. The barque Esk, as we reported in our last, arrived at the Heads on Saturday morning from .Newcastle, and was in the afternoon towed up to a berth off Carey’s Bay by the Geelong, She comes here for the purpose of serving as a coal —ulk for the Harbor Steam Company. Having been purchased by Captain Hodge for them, he also retains % share in her, and is, we understand, to remain on board of her as hulk manager. She left Newcastle on the 17th July and had S.E. weather for the first fourteen s*y?- After that she had had seven gales from N.L. to S.E., and was hove-to for two days h 7 e . i r md 1 f ; 0 ?r S - E -, Passed fche Solander on the 7th, and had from thence a splendid S W breeze along the coast, which brought her to the Heads as above.