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Evening Star, Issue 3595, 31 August 1874, Page 2

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HIGH WATER. To-morrow. ftsi.cs I Port Chalmers | Dunedin 5.40 p.m. | 6.20 p.m. | 7.5 p.m. PORT CHALMERS. ARRIVED. i Aug. 30.-Wanganui, 179 tons, Fraser, from Rlttff. Passengers : Mrs Dunn, Mrs and Master Nicklin, Misses Willett, Sergeant Neil, and four children, Captain Thomson, Messrs Thomson, Hannel, Robertson, Neil, Wyatt, Brown, Instone, Hallenstein, Bird, Montague, Cameron, and five in the steerage. Samson, p.s , 124 tons, Edie, from Cam am. Passengers: Mrs Meek, Mrs Scott, Messrs Nicholson, M‘Kenzie, Thomson, K. Ramsay, M‘Gregor, May, and one in the steerage. Wallabi, s.s., 101 tons, Leys, from Timaru. Passengers: Mr MTntosh, and one in the steerage. Phoebe, s.s., 417 tons, Worsp, from the North, Passengers :Mr and Mias Mills, Mr and Mrs Geddes, Mesdames Moray, Holdsworth, _ Wales, Grant, Gallop, and Burton, Miss Biddle, Major Croker, Captain Bowman, Messrs Wales, Macandrew, Tolmie, Ellis, Olson, Macassey, Kerr, Evans, Copper, O’Meagher, Rutherford Bncklancl, Shipton, Dalgleish, Sutton, Ross, Chapman, Secular, Pritchard. Mills, Jenkins, Herman, Lutnsdeu, Graham, Collins, Basch, Barnes, Gallop, Wales, Ayres, Ho’dsworth, Smith, and members of the Combination Troupe (13), and ten in the steerage. Otago, ship, 993 tons, Leslie, from London, with 364 immigrants, equal to 293 i statute adults. Columbus, barque, 744 tons, Atkin, from London. Passengers : Messrs Houghton, Millington, Nichoi, Black, and six in the steerage. Splendid, barque, 362 tons, Meller, from New Bedford, America. Passenger : Mr W. W, Parsons. Julius Vogel, schooner, 54 tons, Dolby, from Auckland. Mermaid, cutter, 16 tons, Kelly, from Waikouaiti. Glimpse, ketch, 42 tons, Scones, from Moeraki. Tararua, s.s., 500 tons, Clark, from Melbourne, via West Coast and Northern Ports. Passengers : Mr and Mrs Ward, Mr and Mrs Thompson, Mr and Mrs Bradshaw, two children, and servant, Mrs Smith, child, and servant, Mrs Howarth, Miss Marr, Messrs Allen, Creighton, Miller. Holmes, Shepherd, Stewart, Barr, Taioroa, M'Glashan, Reid, Campbell, Malcolm, Coombes, and eight in the steerage. BAILED. August 31. Crest of the Wave, schooner, 65 tons, Bowers, for Oatnaru. The schooner Crest of the Wave sailed for Oatnaru. The p.s. Samson arrived from Oamaru yesterday morning. The ketch Glimpse arrived yesterday with a full cargo of stone from Moeraki for transhipment to the Tararua. The s.s. Wallabi, from Timaru, with a cargo of wheat, arrived yesterday morning, having left the evening previous. The s.s, Maori was on Saturday taken out of the floating dock, after having received a thoroughly good overhaul and coat of paint. The s.s. Wanganui arrived at 9.30 yesterday morning from the Bluff. She left there at 5.30 p.m. on Saturday, and arrive as above. The schooner United Brothers, which for some days past has been on Isbister’s slip for repairs and overhaul, was taken off on Saturday. The p.s. Golden Age transhipped a number of passengers from the ship Otago this morning, who were conveyed to Dunedin by the 11.30 train. A rather smart-looking schooner was observed coming up the harbor on Saturday, and turned out to be the Julius Vogel, a fine clipper-looking schooner of 54 tons, from Auckland, with a cargo of timber. The s.s. Phoebe arrived from the North yesterday afternoon. She left the Manukau on the 22nd, called at Taranaki, Nelson, Picton, Wellington, and Lyttelton, and arrived at Port Chalmers a* 1.30 p.m, yesterday. We thank her purser, Mr Barber, for files and report from the North. Messrs M'Meckan, Blackwood, and Co.’s s.s. Tararua anived from Melbourne, via Northern and West Coast ports, at 8.30 this morning, She left Hobson’s Bay at 3.15 p.m. on the 18th, and arrived at Hokitika at 5 p.m. on the 23rd; called at Greymouth, Nelson, Wellington, and Lyttelton, arriving at Port Chalmers as above. We thank her purser, Mr Hart, for report and files. ’ The fine large British barque Columbus, trading under the flag of the New Zealand Shipping Company, arrived from London with a full cargo on Saturclay. She has brought four saloon passengers and six steerage. She left London with 44 pure bred Leicester and Lincoln sheep, bnt had not been long at sea when a number of them sickened and died ; in all she lost just one half of them, the remainder coming on to the end of the voyage in splendid condition. Twenty of them are for Sir Carcrof t Wilson, of Canterbury, and two are for Mr Thomas Russell. According tocaptain Atkin’s log the vessel left Gravesend on the 2nd June, and landed the Channel pilot on the 6th, at the Isle of Wight, and took her final departure from the Lizard on the 7to. The equator was crosse* I on the 27th !June, and the meridian of Greenwich on the 18th July, the Cape of Good Hope on the 23rd. and the Crozet Islands on the Slat. On the 14th August she passed the meridian ot Leuwin, made the Snares on the 27th with thick rainy weather, and had favorable breezes up the coast, arriviug as above. She made her easting on a general parallel of lat. 45 S. The long expected barque Splendid, which has been purchased by an Otago company, and is intended for the whaling trade about these seas, was signalled at the Heads at an early hour yesterday, and there being a fine fair wind she sailed up to her anchorage at 2 p.m She is a vessel adapted for the trade sh - has been purchased for, and is fitted with all necessary gear and appliances, boats, See., for whaling. Her captain has also had great experience. The vessel will soon start on her first trip from these waters, when we hope she will have success for enterprising owners. Captain Meller reports leaving New Bedford, Mass., U.S., on January 11, with favorable winds ; on the 21st fell in with a heavy gale from the north. Th - gale moderated on the 24th. and the ship bora away for the Barbadoes, West Indies, for reI»air«, as she had been badly damaged, and was caking freely from the straining she had re coived. She arrived at Barbadoes on the 3rd February, but, finding that there were no means of having her repairs effected, she stood away to St. Thomas, where she arrived on the 6th, and there managed to effect what was required. She sailed again on April 18th, passed the meridian of Greenwich on the 21st in lat. 36 S., and that of the Cape of Good Hope on the Ist July. She had then good westerly winds down as far as St Paul’s, which was passed on the 24th. She then encountered a terrific gale from the W., which lasted for 48 hours, and increased to a perfect tornado; in fact, Captain Meller said he never experienced so heavy a gale. She made her easting between the parallel latitudes of from 38 te 40 S. The Snares were passed on the 27th ; Cape Saunders on the 29th, and she arrived at the Heads the same night. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. Lyttelton, August 30.—The St, Lawrence and the Catbcart were at the Heads last night with immigrants, said to be 750 in all, Wellington, August 31.—Marion, schooner, from Dunedin. Enterprise, 124 days from London, with 410 immigrants, all well