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Evening Star, Issue 3607, 14 September 1874, Page 2

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HIGH WATER. To-morrow. Heads I Port Chalmers I Duhedin 5.2 p.m, I 5.42 p.m. | 6.27 p.m. PORT CHALMERS. ARRIVED. September 14.—Wanganui, s.s., 179 tons, Fraser, from Bluff Harbor. Passengers: Saloon —Mr ami Mrs Longford and three children, Mrs Connell and child. Mrs Mathiaon; Miss M, Maloney ; Messrs Barnes, Macintosh, Morton, Wall ce. Findlatar, Grant, Constable Hanagan and lunatic, Hector, J. Harvey, E. J. Cox, J. H. Kingsland ; and three in steerage. Samson, p.s., 124 tons, Edie, from OamarU. Lady of the Lake, s.s., 60 tons, Urquhart, put back. Vision, brig, 159 tons, Loverock, from Auckland. Agnes .Jessie, three masted schooner, IST tons, Phillips, from Hobart Town. Passengers : Miss Maloney, Messrs Maloney (3), Cutts, and Hood ; and three in steerage. Trial, ketch, 16 tons, Mussen, from Waikouaiti, SAILED. September 14. —Friendship, schooner, 50 tons. Grant, for Gatlin’s River. Fanny, ketch, 25 tons, Andrews, for Gatlin’s River. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Beautiful Star, for Lyttelton, earlv. Bruce, for Lyttelton, September 15. Easby, for Newcastle. September 21. Lizzie Guy, for Greymouth, early. Mary Ogilvie, for Greymouth, early. Maori, for Lyttelton, early. Otago, for Northern Ports, September 16. Peter Denny, for London, early. Samson, for Oamaru, September 15. Star of the South, for Fiji, October 4. Taranaki, for Northern Ports, September 15. Tararua, for Bluff, September 30. Vision, for Auckland, early. W anganui, for Bluff, early.

The ship Otago will finish discharging her cargo this evening. The s.s. Lady of the Lake arrived yesterday morning from the Taieri. The coasters Friendship and Fanny sailed this morning for Gatlin’s River.

The coasters Eliza M'Phee and Glimpse are loading railway plant at the new jetty. The p.s. Samson arrived from Oamaru on Saturday night, and passed up to Dunedin. The barque Hebe and ship Parsee commenced to discharge their cargoes into the railway trucks this morning.

The ship Tweed was removed from the Quarantine Ground to a more convenient discharging berth, which she will discharge her cargo Sato lighters. The barque Glencoe was towed from the lower anchorage to Dunedin on Saturday by the s.B. Jane to dischaige her cargo of Hobart Town produce.

The s.s. Beautiful Star was taken into Murray’s floating dock this morning to be cleaned and her bottom coated with anti-foul-ing composition.

Captain Fraser informs us that the whaling weasel Chance, belonging to the Bluff, was to sail yesterday on her first cruise. She will by this start secure the half of the bonus, the other half being payable to the first vessel arriving with the stipulated quantity. The brig Vision, from Auckland and Mercury Bay, with a load of timber, was towed up to Dunedin on Saturday afternoon. She left Auckland on the2oth of last month, and arrived at Mercury Bay the following day. Here she loaded her cargo of timber and left on the 2nd anst.

The s.s. Wanganui left Port Chalmers on the 9th instant for the Bluff, where she arrived on the 10th, There discharged, reloaded, and sailed again on the 12th at 6 p.m. She experienced a strong S,\V. breeze with hail squalls all the way up, and arrived at the pier at 10 a.m. yesterday. We thank Captain Fraser for papers and report. The three-masted schooner Agnes Jessie left Hobart Town on Sept. 4, came between the Traps and Snares at 8 p.m. on the 11th, and made the land off the Nuggets at 10 a. in, on the 12th, Passed Cape Saunders at 6 p.m.; «ame to anchor at the Heads at 8.30 a.m. yesterday, and was towed up by the Geelong in the evening. We thank her captain for files and report. She will discharged her cargo at the new jetty.

The American ship Bunker Hill, from Boston, via Meibomne, was towed up yesterday afternoon by the tug Geelong, and moored off the railway pier. Captain Davis reports leaving Boston on the 9th May, and having a very good voyage to Melbourne of eighty-two days. She remained there exactly a month, during which time she discharged two-thirds of her cargo, and took in a quantity from that port from this place. She left Melbourne on the 31st August, cleared the Heads ou the Ist inst., and passed through Bass’s Strait the same day; thence had a succession of N, \V. weather for seven days, which brought her up to the Snares on the 7th, when she was taken aback by a E.N.E. gale for three days, during which *ne kept working to the windward ; and at last •on the 11th she got a slant of westerly winds and calms which brought her to the Heads on khe same night. A singular custom prevails on board Swedish ships which has not been adopted by any other navy in the world. It is called skarafjelding, and the principles of the rule seem to be worthy of consideration both by captains of vessels and others who have large factories or bodies of workmen under them. Every morning, as soon as the decks are washed, each individual of the watch is sent skamfjelding •to some particular part of the hull or rigging. Those thus sent spend the next twenty minutes in examining the efficiency of the various matters brought thus temporarily under their inspection, each person being held responsible tor the good order and com dition of the rope, block, sail, or tackle which he has been told to survey, and to repair or report upon. Should anything break during the day, the man who skamf jelded it in the morning is called to an account, and is exonerated, reprimanded, or put to do some disagreeable job, just as he shows his innocence, or the amount of his carelessness is demonstrated. By this means every man becomes in turn acquainted with each part of the vessel, and takes care to make himself thoroughly acquainted with seamanship, since any deficiency of knowledge in that respect is pretty certain to show itself at some time or another when a portion of rigging, &c., gives way, the liability to do which he has failed to report.—* Southern Cross.*