Shipping.

Evening Star, Issue 3630, 10 October 1874, Page 2

Shipping.

HIGH WATER To-morrow.

Heads I Port Chalmers I Dunedin 3,39 p.m» I 4.4 p.m. ( 4.49 p.m.

Monday.

3.56 p.m. | 4.41 p.m. |. 5.16 p.m.

PORT CHALMERS, ARRIVED.

October 10. —Beautiful Star, s.a., 146 tons, Peterson, from Oamaru. Passengers— Mr and Mrs Taylor and family, Mrs Brown, Miss Morrison, Messrs Bussell, Nelson, Mack ay, Douglas, Winter, Murray, Hammer, Rickard, Smith, 0. Rickall, Bates, Mr and Mrs l iueh. Phoebe, s.s., 419 tons, Worsp, from tbe North. Passengers—Mesdames Hall, Henry, and Gregg; Misses Henderson and Gaff; Messrs Liddle, Matthews, Adams, Heale, Haywood Hope, Stevenson, Hulton, Paterson, Henderson ; and six in the steerage. Blanche, H.M.S.S., 1,755 tons, Captain Carland H. Simpson, from the South West Coast. Passengers—His Excellency Sir James Fergoson, Mr Le Patpurel (aide-de-samp), Mr Excelsiw% top-sail schooner, 92 tons, from Piston v& Lyttelton.' Owkake, top-sailfschooner, 64 tons, Eamdt, from Havelock.

PROJECTED DEPARTURES,

Albion, for Northern Ports, October 24. Bruce, for Lyttelton, October 12. Beautiful Star, for Oamaru, October 12. Comerang, for Bluff, October 12. Columbus, for London, October 30, Easby, for Newcastle, October 25. Maori, for Lyttelton, October 12. Otago, for .Northern Ports, October 15. Otago, for London, early. Peter Denny, for London, early. • Parsee, for San Francisco, early. Samson, for Oamaru, October 13. Taranaki, for Northern Ports, October 12. Tararna, for Bluff, October 28. Waikato, for London, early. Wallabi, for Bluff, October 12.

The barque Acacia, from Hobart Town, commenced to discharge her cargo into lighters this morning. The p.s. Comerang, having nearly completed her repairs and painting, will proceed to Dunedin at high water. The steamers Maori and Bruce, from Lyttletonand intermediate ports, are due at Port Chalmers to-morrow merning. The s.s. Taranaki, having finished her overhaul and been cleaned and painted, was taken out of the Graving Dock this morning. The Harbor Co.’s s.s. Beautiful Star arrived from Oamaru at 2.30 this morning, and steamed alongside the barque Columbus to discharge 4J casks of tallow. She left Oamaru at 7 p.m. yesterday. The s.s. Phoebe arrived from her northern trip at 11 o’clock this morning. She left the Manakau at 4.15 p.m. m the sth, called at Taranaki, Nelson, Picton, Wellington, and Lyttelton, and arrived as above. We thank her parser (Mr Barbour) for report and files. The topsail schooner Owkake arrived this morning from Havelock, which port she left on the 4th. Had strong southerly winds, and was hove-to off Banks’s Peninsula for six hours; then N.E. winds till off Oamaru; from thence S.W. to arrival She brings a full carge of timber.

The topsail schooner Excelsior, from Picton, via Lyttelton, with a full cargo of timber, arrived at Port Chalmers and passed up to Dunedin to-day. She left Picton on the 20th ; had strong S.S.E. winds, during which she • carried aw_, ’her mainsail, and could not weather Banks’s Peninsula. Put into Lyttelton for repairs, and had baffling winds to arrival

ARRIVAL OF H.M.S. BLANCHE,

Early this morning the signals at the Heads announced the arrival of H.M. s.s. Blanche, with his Excellency Sir James Fergusson on hoard. She was immediately boarded by Pilot Kelly, and steamed up to her anchorage efl Carey Bay. Since her last visit to this port the Blanche was recommissioned in Sydney on the 12th of October, 1871, and Monday next will be her third anniversary of her re-commis-non. There are 190 on board, including officers and crew, the following being the names of her officers: Captain, Cortland H. Simpson • lieutenants, Waiter B. Bridges, F. W. B. Prade, W. D. Walker; navigating lieutenant, H. W. Campion; staff surgeon, W. H. Adams; paymaster,, A. D. Nettleton ; chief engineer, E. Brown ; surgeon, W. F, Sweetman; assistant paymaster, W. H, F. Kay ; sub-lieutenants, J. W. Border Author, F. Graves, Henry J. Davison; navigating sublieutenant, H. B. Hswkshaw; midshipman, J. C. Fame; engineers, H. Scott, W. G, Parsons, R. Balcomb; boatswain, P. Hollatifl; gunner, B. Hill; carpenter, J. Murphy. We are indebted to Mr Kay for the following report of her cruise from Wellington :—Left Wellington at 9.30 a.m. on the 4th of September, but through stress of weather, anchored in Hasaey^Bay; left again at 6 a.m. on the sth, and arrivedat Picton at 2 p.m., where she remained until 6.15 a.m. on the 7th, and came to anchor again in Ship Cove, Queen Charlotte Sound, where she remained until 7.30 a.m. on the Bth, and anchored again at Port Le Gar, Pelorus Sound, same day; left there at noon on the 9th, and went through the French Pass, arriving at Nelson at 7.15 p.m. next day, went up into the inner anchorage on the 10th. TheGovernor arrived in Nelson in his yacht Blanche on the 22nd. Remained at Nelson nntil the 26th, when both vessels got under way at 8.30 a.m. on the 26th, and on getting . clear of the harbor, took the yacht in tow. The wind then commenced to freshen, and •t 3.40 p.m. the hawser which was - ra&de fast to the yacht carried away* Both vessels then bore up for Tongar, anchorage where the steamer anchored at 6 p.m., the yacht dropping anchor ten minutes afterwards. The weather at this time being very bad, his Excellency thought it advisable for the yacht to • return to Wellington, which she did, and his Excellency, Captain Le Patourel, A.D.0., and Mr Gully, of Nelson, artist, who has taken a number of sketches during the trip, went on board the Blanche. Weighed anchor, and proceeded to Milford Sound, reaching Fresh Water Cove on the 30th, and made the vessel fast by the stem to a tree. Had good fishing but poor shooting; and the same remark applies to all the coves visited. At 6 a.m. on the 2nd got under way, and came to anchor in Anchorage Cove, George’s Sound, at 4,10 p.m. same day ; at 5.30 a.m. on the sth got under way again and anchored at 2 p.m. in Richards’s Sound, and at 3.65 a,m, on the sth felt a shock of earthquake. At 6 a.m. on the 6th left, and at 3.15 p.m. anchored in Duck Cove, Dusky Bay. Left again on the afternoon of the Bth, and arrived at the Heads aa above* SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. Wellington, October 9—Arrived: The Cartvale, 102 days out from Falmouth, with 418 immigrants, including 79 families, 31 single girls, 30 Germans and Danes, all well Auckland, October 9.—The tender of L 3,75 for repairing the dismasted ship Condaren/has been accepted.