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Evening Star, Issue 3599, 4 September 1874, Page 2

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HIGH WATER. To-morrow. Heads | Port Chalmers I Dux emu 10.32 p.m. I 11.32 p.m. | 12.17 p.m* PORT CHALMERS. ARRIVED . September 4-Lloyd’s Herald, ketch, 50 l6lrt, Amott, from Gatlin’s River.^ Hannah, schooner, 52 tons, Kerns, from Chitlin’s River. .Wellington, s.s., 262 tons, Carey, from the North. Passengers; Mrs Croker and child, Mrs Laird and child, Mr and Mrs Anderson, Hre Webster, Hon. Dr Webster, M.L.C. : Hon. Captain Eraser, M.L.C. ; Messrs J, L. Gillies, M.H.R, ; Mervyn, M.H.R. ; Tarratt, Ellis, Braid, Farquhar, Downey, Lynn, Newbary, Geo. Guineth, Wilson, Hodgson, Fogel, Creagh, Learmouth, Irving, and Plant. Parsee, 1,281 tons, Nelson, from Glasgow, with 446 souls, equal to 362* statute adults. Passengers : Saloon—Mrand MrsM'Naughton, Mr and Mrs M‘Carthy, Misses M'Carthy and Duggen, Mrs Nelson, Master M’Carthy, Messrs Sterling, Brock, Garrick, Finlayson (4), Boyson, and Tunn. SAILED. September 4.—Samson, p.s., 124 tons, Edie, from Oamaru, The schooners Jane Hannah and Lloyd’s Herald arrived this morning from Gatlin’s River, and passed up to Dunedin. The p.s. Golden Age transhipped the majority of the immigrants from the ship Otago to the railway pier, and they were conveyed to Dunedin by the 11.30 train. The Harbor Co.’s p.s. Samson sailed from the old jetty shortly after the arrival of the 7.30 train, and called alongside the ship Otago, and took on board a number of immigrants for Oamaru. The signals at the Heads this morning announced the arrival of the immigrant ship Parsee, from London. The tug Geelong proceeded down and towed her up to her anchorage off Grassy Point shortly after noon, when she was boarded by the Customs and Immigration officers. The N.Z.S.S. Co.’s Wellington arrived from the North at 8.30 o’clock this morning, and •teamed alongside the railway pier.. After landing her mails and passengers, she steamed alongside the ship Dunedin to discharge 1,022 sacks of grain. She left Onehunga at 9.15 a.m. on the 26th, called at Taranaki, Nelson, Lyttelton, Picton, and Wellington. At the latter port she steamed alongside the ship St, Lawrence, and transhipped 236 immigrants for Timaru and nine for Dunedin. She arrived at Timaru at daylight on the 2nd, but could not anchor until 10 a.m. owing to the dense fog. Discharged immigrants and took on board 1,022 Backs of grain, and left for Port Chalmers at 5.30 p.m. We thank her purser, Mr Willcocks, for report and files. ARRIVAL OF THE PARSEE. [Bt Telegraph.] Poet Chalmers, Sept. 4. The Parsee arrived from Glasgow this morning. There have been fourteen deaths on boards, two being of adults—Charles Paterson, aged twenty-eight, from measles, and Mary Muir, nineteen years, from apoplexy. There were also three births. The families are under the charge of Dr M'Coll. The saloon passengers are Mr and Mrs M’Naughton, Mr and Mrs M'Carthy, Miss and Master M'Carthy, Miss Duggan, Messrs Stirling, Brock, Garrick, Findlayaon (4), Boyson, Finn, Mrs Nelson. The Parsee left Greenock on the 11th June with fine weather; cleared the Channel on the 13th; got the S.B. trades on the 4th July, in lat. 5N.; crossed the equator on the 6th, and the meridian of the Cape of Good Hope on the Ist of August, in latitude 45.39S : the meridian of the Leuwin on the 21st ; made the S.W. Cape on the 2nd ; had a severe gale from the N.E., and came through Foveaux Straits on the 3rd, and arrived at the Heads at 2 a.m. 'She run her easting down in long. 45, and made the passage from port to port in eighty-four and a-half days. There were about 300 cases of measles amongstj the passengers during the voyage. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. Wellington, September 4,—The schooner Melanie sailed yesterday for Dunedin. Westport, September 4. The schooner Dunedin was got off safely last night, with but slight damage. NOTICE TO MARINERS. The Port Master, Brisbane, has published the following notice respecting Wide Bay Bar:— “ In consequence of the decrease in the width and depth of water in the North Channel over Wide Bay Bar, the leading beacons have been removed and shifted to the Middle Channel. These leading beacons are square, painted white, and now lead through the centre of the Middle Channel, on a due west bearing, in 2k fathoms low water springs. On Inskip Point, two beacons triangular and white (not visible from outside the bar), lead in clear of the Spit off Hook Point, on a S.W; by W. bearing, “ Brisbane, July 17.”