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Evening Star, Issue 3589, 24 August 1874, Page 2

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HIGH WATER, To-morrow, Heads ( Port Chalmers I Doreohj 1.7 p.m. | 1.47 p.m. | 2.32 p.m. PORT CHALMERS. ARRIVED. August 23.—Wanganui, s.s., l79tons, Fraser, from the Bluff. Passengers : Mr and Miss Thomsen, Mrs Cebble and child, Mrs Anderson and child, Miss M'Donald, Messrs Fleming, Grieve, Sparrow, Dalgliesh, M‘Leod, Mitchell, Wade, Anderson, Beatie, Thomson, Langford, Cottrell, Connelly, M'Ardol, Swan, and Shearer; six steerage. WallaM, s.s., 101 tons, Leys, from Timaru. Passengers : Christy Minstrels (8). Maori, s.s., 118 tons, Malcolm, from Lyttelton and intermediate ports. Passengers : Mr and Mrs Renain, Messrs Munro, J. B. Carr, Pollock, Price, Douglas, Brown, W. Martindale, Fox, M'Callum, Belgrave, and M‘Connell; four steerage, Samson, p.s., 124 tons, Edie, from Oamavu. Lady of the Lake, s.s., 60 tons, Urqnhart, from Molyneux. Eldershe, three-masted schooner, 223 tone, Meredith, from Kaipara. Tauranga, 61 tons, Munro, from Oamaru. Crest of the Wave, schooner, 52 tons, from Kakanui. Pioneer, schooner, 23 tons, Matheson, from Shag Point. August 24.—Jane, cutter, 25 tons, Divers, from Shag Point. HaUy Bayley, schooner, 113 tons, Harrison, from Hobart Town. Passengers : Mr Russell, and five in the steerage. Colusa, barque, 1189 tons, C. C. Howe, from Puget Sound. SAILED. August 22.—Seagull, brigantine, 122 tons, Best, for the Bluff. Annie, ketch, 29 tons, Haswell, for NoerakL PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Albion, for Northern Ports, August 31. Beautiful Star, for Lyttelton, August 28. Dunedin, for London, September 7. Harriet Armitage, for Auckland, early. Ladybird, for Northern Ports, August 27Maori, for Lyttelton, early. Owake, for Wanganui, August 26, Ramson, for Oamarn, Aug. 25. ■Sussex, for San Francisco, August 25. Tararua, for Bluff, August 31. W anganui, for Bluff, August 25. f The schooner Pioneer arrived from Shag Point yesterday with a cargo of grain. The brigantineßeagull, for the Bluff, and the Annie, for Moeraki, sailed on Saturday. The ship William Davie sailed from the Bluff for London at 7 a.m. on Saturday. The cutter Jane, 25 tons, arrived from Shag Point yesterday, bringing a cargo of coal and grain, The Harbor Steam Company’s p.s. Samson returned from Oamaru on Saturday evening, and passed up to Dunedin. The schooner Tauranga arrived from Oamaru yesterday, and. having a fine N.E. breeze, passed up to Dunedin before the wind. The Crest of the Wave, schooner, arrived from Kakanui, with 1,040 sacks of grain for the Ship Dunedin. She left Kakanui on Saturday night, and had gentle N.E. winds. The s.s. Lady of the Lake arrived from the Molyneux on Saturday night, having left the latter port in the morning, she having had fine weather round. Picked up the schooner Elder •lie at the Heads and towed her in, and then steamed up to Dunedin.

Messrs Houghton and Ce.’s s.s. Wanganui arrived from the Bluff yesterday morning with « full cargo, -and a- number of passengers. She left the Bluff at 4.15 p.na. ©n Saturday, and Was alongside the jetty in.Port Chalmers yesterday morning at 7. The weather was fine during the return passage. She is advertised to sad again on Tuesday afternoon. Messrs Houghton and Co.’s s.s. Wallabi returned from Timaru yesterday morning, with a «argo of grain for transhipment to the ship Dunedin, and also of sundry other things. She left Timaru at 7.20 p.m. on Saturday, and after a -fine weather passage arrived in harbor at S. JO yesterday morning, berthing, on arrival, alongside .the Dunedin, where she will discharge her grain and wool; thence she will steam up to Dunedin. The s.s. Maori arrived at Port Chalmers yesterday morning. She left Lyttelton at 4.45 fun. on the 20th; arrived at Akaroa at 9.20 p.m., and left at 11.45 p.m., the same day; arrived at Timaru at 9.55 a.m. on the 21st, and left again at 3 p.m. on the 22nd, arriving in Port Chalmers at 8.30 a.m. yesterday. She landed 230 sheep at the old jetty, and then ■steamed back alongside the ship Dunedin, for which vessel she brings 1,040 sacks of wheat. The three-masted schooner Blderslie arrived at the Heads on Saturday morning with a cargo of timber from Kaipara. She anchored at the Heads until evening, when she was taken in tow by the s.s. Lady of the Lake, and brought up to a berth in Deborah Bay. She reports leaving Kaipara on the Bth mat., with strong N.E. wind; came through Cook’s Straits on the 10th; and from Cape Campbell to the Heads had light variable winds. She has a full cargo of timber, and on discharging her deck load will pass on to Dunedin. The Hobart Town schooner Hally Bayley, which arrived at the Heads last evening, sailed up this morning with a fine N.E. wind and anchored off Deborah Bay until high water. She proceeded up to Dunedin, where she will discharge her cargo of Hobart Town produce. Captain Harrison reports leaving Hobart Town on the evening of the 15th, experienced moderate S.W. and W. and N.E. winds throughout the passage; passed the Sounder at 6 p.m. on the 21st and the Bluff at 8 a.m. on the 22nd and arrived off the Heads at 8 p.m. on the 23rd! Since her last passage to this port the schooner ha« been on the patent slip at Hobart Town and recoppered. From a New York paper we learn that two of the fastest trans - Atlantic steamers arrived there during the night of the 9th of May, after a sharp race from Queenstown. Both vessels sailed thence on the Ist of May, and made the following days’ runs The Adriatic, of the White Star line—24o miles 323, 336, 308, 314, 319, 350, 330, 223. The Inman steamer City of Chester—229 miles 354, 362, 343, 320, 320, 364, 363, 143. The Adriatic started five hours and a half a head, and arrived in port five hours ten minutes’ before the City. The average outward passages of the principal lines from Ist January 1872, to 30th March, 1874, were—White Star’ 9 days 21 hours 21 minutes; Cunard, 10 days 19 hours 42 minutes; Inman, 11 days 10 hours 39 minutes; National, 12 days 10 hours 30 minutes ; Grison, 12 days 12 hours 10 minntes. The barque Colusa arrived at the Heads at 11 a.m. to-day from Puget Sound, and sailed up with a fine N.E. wind, anchoring in Deborah Bay. Capt. C. C. Howes reports leaving Puget Sound, Victoria, on the 29th June; had light B.W. winds to catching the N. wind which led into the N.E, trades on the Bth July, in lat. 41, which were carried to 13 N. on the 19 th July; the S.E. trades were caught in 6.38 on the 23rd; the equator was crossed on the 26 th, in 15.2; sighted the Sandwich Islands on the 7th of August, and lost the. S.E. trades on the 9th, in lat. 20; thence light winds till making the Heads this morning. She sailed up under the charge of Pilot Kelly. The Colusa brings one million three thousand feet of timber. Captain Howes reports sighting, on the Gth of August, in lat. 18.155., long 168.23 W., a reef which is not laid down on the chart. The vessel was about eight miles off, and there was a great deal of broken water on it.