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Evening Star, Issue 3610, 17 September 1874, Page 2

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HIGH WATER. To-morrow. Haws I Port Chalmsbs I Dtobdm 7.3 p.m. | 7.43 p.m. | 8.28 p.m. PORT CHALMERS. ARRIVED. September 17. —Tauranga, schooner, 61 tom, Munroe, from Moeraki. Defiance, ketch, 22 tons, Burke, from Moeraki. Mermaid, cutter, 12 tom, Campbell, from ffaikouaiti. Samson, p.s., 124 tons, Edie, from Oamaru. Maori, a. s., 118 tons, Malcolm, from Lyttelton via Tinsaru. Syren, brig, from Bay of Plenty. SAILED. September 17.—Devana, ship, 795 tom, Thomson, for Guam. Lady of the Lake, s.s., 60 tons, Urquhart, for the Molyneux. Caroline, ship, 901 tens, Clyma, for Hong Kong, with 170 Chinese passengers. PHOJSOTKD DEPARTURES. Beautiful Star, for Lyttelton, September 21. Bruce, for Lyttelton, early. Easby, for Newcastle, September 21. Ladybird, for Northern Forts, September 21. Mary Ogilvie, for Greymouth, early. Maori, for Lyttelton, September 18. Otago, for Northern Ports, September 18. Peter Denny, for London, early. Samson, for Oamarn, September 18. Star of the South, for Fiji, October 4. Tararaa, for Bluff, September 30. Vision, for Auckland, early. W anganui, for Bluff, early. Wallabi, for Bluff, September 21. The s.s. Lady of the Lake sailed last night for the Molyneux. The p.s. Samson arrived from her usual trip to Oamaru last night. The ship Devana was towed to sea yesterday afternoon by the tug Geelong. The cutter Margaret Scollay arrived from Kakanui, and passed up to Dunedin. The ketch Glimpse sailed this morning with a cargo of railway iron for Moeraki. The coasters Mermaid from Waikouaiti, and Defiance from Moeraki, arrived last night The ship Otago commenced to bend sails this morning, and will shortly be ready for sea.

# Tke schooner Tauranga, from Moeraki, arrived with stone for transhipment to the s.s. Otago. Tne schooner Oreti has finished taking on board a cargo of sleepers for the barque Colusa, and will sail this evening for Moeraki. The Harbor Co.’s s.s. Maori arrived from Lyttelton, via Timaru, at 8.15 this morning, and continued her course to Dunedin.

Messrs M'Meckan, Blackwood, and Co.’s 8.8. Otago, from Melbourne, left the Bluff at 6 30 this morning, and is due at Port Chalmers this evening. The ship Caroline, with 170 Chinese passengers for Hong Kong, commenced to unmoor this morning, and was towed to sea this afternoon by the tug Geelong. The schooner United Brothers, having received an overhaul, was launched of Isbister’s slip, and sailed alongside the ship Tweed to load transhipments for Camara. The s.B. Beautiful Star, having been cleaned and repainted, was taken out of the floating deck this morning, and towed to Dunedin by the p.s. Golden Age. As soon as the Star was taken out, the Ladybird, which has been waiting at the head of the dock for the last two days, was taken in, and will be cleaned and recoated with antifouling composition, and sail for her usual trip to Northern ports on Monday. The following is an extract from a letter received from Captain True, of the ship Lauderdale, which sailed from this port for Shanghai, and dated 11th July:—“l arrived here after a splendid run of thirty-five days, beating the famous Thermopylae seven days, and the Cutty Sark over twenty days, and I have made by far the quickest run of the season, and within a day or two of the fastest from Sydney. Should any of your nautical friends ask what route I took, ion can tell them, up between the Solomon slands and New Ireland, through the Carolines and Ladrones, entering the China Sea by the Loo Choos.”— ‘ Sydney Morning Herald.’ The six largest steamers in the world are the Groat Eastern, owned by the International Telegraph Construction and Maintenance OomHr, 674 ft long, 77ft broad ; the City of Pekin, y launched on the Delaware river, Pacific Mail Steamship Company, 6,000 tons, 423 ft long, 48ft broad; the Liguria, Pacific Steam Navigation Company, 4,820 tons, 460 ft long, 45ft broad ; the Britannia, White Star, 4,700 tons, 455ffc long, 45ft broad; the City of Richmond, Inman, 4,600 tons, 453Jft long, 43ft beam ; and the Bothnia, Cunard, 4,500 tons. 425 ft long, 42£ ft broad. . A little the biggest ship projected in modem times, or since Noah’s famous ship, is the one mentioned in the following item, which we find going the rounds of the PressAn enterprising citizen of Philadelphia, has proposed to build, in time to use at the International Celebration, a ship capable of carrying 10,000 passengers. It is to combine a steam railway, a racecourse, theatre, shooting gallery, circus, and every imaginable modem attraction. He claims that his plan is complete, and has been approved by some of the ablest engineers. He proposes to moor it in the Delaware, and convey it at intervals to the different cities, ports, and watering-places of the Continent. It will make a «>out six miles an hour, and will be three or four times larger than the Great Eastern. The brig Syren was signalled at the Heads this morning, and sailed up with a fine N.E. wind this afternoon. Her captain reports leaving the Bay of Plenty on Sunday week, and in being towed out by the steamer got on the bar, which necessitated 17,000 ft. to 20,000fi •f timber being thrown overboard. TTa-d westerly winds to the East Cape; thence N.W winefe to Banks’s Peninsula. At two o’clock on the morning of Sunday last had a strong gale from the south, and hove-to for two days during its continuance ; thence had light winds to arrival at the Heads this morning. For the present the Syren is anchored in the lower anchorage, but will be towed to town to-morrow to discharge 90,000 ft. of timber.