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Evening Star, Issue 3594, 29 August 1874, Page 2

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HIGH WATER. To-morrow. Reads [ Port Chalmers I Dunedin 4.21 p.m. | 5.1 p.m. | 6.40 p.m. Monday. 5.2 p.m. 1 ,5.42 p.m. | 6.27 p.m. PORT CHALMERS. ARRIVED. August 28. —Corona, ship, 1,200 tons, Robertson, from London, with 4% immigrants, equal to 390 A statute adults. James Paxton, schooner, 61 tons, Sly, from the Bluff. Lady of the Lake, s.s., 66 tons, Urquhart, from the Molyneux. Passengers : Mis Cunningham and child, Mr Moffatt. Beautiful Star, s. s., 146 tons, Peterson, from Lyttelton and intermediate ports. Passengers : Mesdames Jeffrey, Webb, Longford, Mias Manders, Master B. Levi, Messrs Levien, Mitchell, M‘Connell, Every, Cox, C. Hudson, Reid, Ball, D. Atkins, Howard, Hope, Cane, Milson, and Capt. Dawson. SAILED. .August 28.—Tauranga, schooner, 61 tons, Munroe, for Oamaru. Cora, schooner, 45 tons, Russell, for Oamaru. Pioneer, schooner, 24 tons, Mathieson, for Shag Point. Jane, cutter, 25 tons, Divers, for Shag Point. < Annie, ketch, 29 tons, Stoddart, for Moeraki. Harriet Armitage, barque, 233 tons, Mailler, for Auckland, Dauntless, schooner, 72 tons, Miller, for Auckland. Samson, p.s., 124 tons, Edie, for Oamaru. Halley Bayley, schooner, 113 tons, Harrison, fer Hobart Town. The topsail-schooner Dauntless sailed yesterday for Auckland. The brig William Cundell sailed for Newcastle this afternoon. The schooner Hally Bailey sailed this morning for Hobart Town. The schooner Tauranga sailed this morning with transhipments from the Hindostan for Oamaru. The barque Harriett Armitage took advan tage of the S. W. wind yesterday, and sailed for Auckland. The coasters Pioneer and Jane, for Shag Point; Cora, for Oamaru; and Annie, for Moeraki, sailed yesterday. The tug Geelong towed the barque Colusa from the stream alongside the railway pier, where she will discharge her cargo of timber. The signals at the Heads this morning announced the arrival of another Home ship—the Columbus—after a passage of eighty-eight days from London. The p.s. Peninsula brought a number of the single females and part of the nominated married couples from the ship Corona to the railway pier, and they were conveyed to Dunedin by the 1.30 train to-day. The schooner James Paxton arrived yesterday from the Bluff with a cargo of timber. She left on the 25th, and had N.E. winds to arrival at the Heads, where she got the S.W. wind and beat up the harbor, anchoring in Deborah Bay. The Harbor Co.’s s.s. Beautiful Star arrived at 2 a.m. this morning from her usual trip to Lyttelton and intermediate ports. She left at 5.30 p.m. on the 26th, called at Akaroa, Timaru, and Uamaru, which latter port she left at 6.30 p.m. yesterday, and arrived as above, and steamed alongside the ship Dunedin to discharge cargo. The s.s. Lady of the Lake returned from her •usual trip to the Molyneux with a full cargo, at 10.30 this morning, and steamed alongside the hulk California to coal. She left the Molyneux at 11 a.m. on Thursday, and towed the ketch Huon Belle up to Kaitangata, discharged and toek in cargo, and left at 1.30 this morning, having had fine weather throughout the passage. ARRIVAL OF THE CORONA. After towing up the s.s. Bruce, the Geelong returned to the Heads and towed up the ship Cerona, and she was anchored in the Quarantine Ground on account of a fresh S.W. wind blowing. The Customs, Health, and Immigration Officers proceeded down, and the answer to the usual questions being satisfactory' they went on board. She is a fine ship of 1,200 tons, and in every respect suitable for an emigrant ship, having lofty ’tween decks, well ventilated and lighted, and each compartment seems to have been kept clean during the pas-> sage. The single females, under the charge of Miss Throughgood (matron) occupy the fore part of the ’tweeu decks. There are 496 souls on board, equal to 390J statute adults, tho whole of whom speak in high terms of the treatment and care shown them throughout the voyage by Dr Gordon, Captain Robertson, and his officers. During the passage there were eleven deaths, ten of which were of children, and one, an adult, from consumption. There were also ten births. The following are the names of those who died ;—On the 4th June, George Whitehead, aged six months ; 12th, Stephen T. West, sixteen months; 9th, Michael Sullivan, eight months; 14th, John Milton, twenty-six years, from consumption ; 23rd July, Eliza J. Willis' 12th August, E. T. Welsh, nine months; 27th,’ Mary Sullivan, three years. The remaining deaths are connected with the births on board —June 4, Mrs White, of a son; 21st June, Mrs LeFauden, of a daughter; 21st July, Mrs Brooks, of a son, who died the same day ; 21st July, Mrs Jopson, of a son; 16th July, Mrs Hannon, of a daughter; 31st July, Mrs Barron, of a daughter, who died: 11th August, Mrs Walker, of a daughter, who died on the 13th August; 13th, Mrs Grewett, of a daughter, and the same day Mrs Blackwood, of a son still-born. The Corona left the London docks on the 22nd May, and Gravesend on the 24th ; had variable winds down the channel, and took her final departure from the Lizard on the Ist of June: thence variable winds were experienced. _ Doldrums were met to the Equator, which was crossed on 2nd July in long. 28.10 W. The Meridian of Greenwich was crossed on the 19th in lat. 38.4 S., and that of the Cape on the 25th, when she had N.E. and variable weather for three days. Her easting was run down on a general parallel of 48 to 47, and she passed the meridian of Cape Leuwin on che 13th. On the 17th she got easterly weather, which increased to a heavy fale, the ship being under close-reefed topsails, lade the Snares on the 23rd, and arrived at the Heads at 4 a.m. yesterday.