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Evening Star, Issue 3655, 9 November 1874, Page 2

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HIGH water* To-morrow. Heads I Port Chalmers | Dunedin 3.23 p.m, 1 4.3 p.m. | 4.48 p.m. PORT CHALMERS. ARRIVED. . November?.—Wallabi, s.s., 101 tons, Leys, from the Bluff. Passengers : Captain Brown and Mrs Palmer, and two in the steerage. Samson, p.s., 124 tons. Eclie, from Oaniaru. Seagull, brigantine, 122 tons, Bern, from the Bluff. Lady of the Lake, s.b., 60 tons, Urquhart, from Molyneux. November B.—Beautiful Star, s.s,, 146 tons, Peterson, from Oamaru. Wanganui, s.s., 179 tons, Fraser, from the Bluff. Passengers : Miss Show, Mr and Mrs France, Messrs Thompson, Livingstone, R. Campbell, T. Barrie, Butcher, Lockwood, Beaver, Braid, Constable Hushes, and five in the steerage." November 9. —Arbour, barque, 233 tons, White, from Mauritius. SAILED. Novembers.—Phcebe, s.s., 417 tons, Worsp, for the North. Passengers: For Lyttelton— Misses Wilson, Davis, and Sibbald, Messrs F. Roberts, Johnston, Wilson, Dalgleish, J. G. Smith, BuMenvorth, How. Allen, Moore, Oliver, Alexander, Mendershausen, Solomon, and Sibbald, Mr and Mrs Strain. For Wellington—His Honor Mr Justice Chapman, Mr Hesford. For Manukau Messrs Gilchrist and Wallace. Five in the steerage for various ports. Maori, s.s., 118 tons, Malcolm, for Lyttelton, . via Tina am and Akaroa. Lloyd’s Herald, ketch, 48 tons, Halford, for Gatlin’s River. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Beautiful Star. forMoeraki, November 10. Bruce, for Lyttelton; November 12. Craigellachie, for Bluff, early. Easby, for Newcastle, November 12. Jessie Henderson, for Auckland, early. Lizzie Guy, for Hokitika, early. Lady of the Lake, for Port Molyneux, November 10. Otago, for Northern Ports, November 13. Samson, for ®amaru, November 10. Star of the South, for Levuka, November 19. Wanganui, for Bluff, November 11. Wellington, for Northern Ports, Nov. 13. Waikato, for London, December 15. The Wanganui arrived at 4 p.m. yesterday, having made her usual trip to the Bluff. Captain Fraser reports having left Port Chalmers at 6 p.m. on the sth, and arrived at the Bluff at 2 p.m. next day; discharged and loaded a full cargo of timber, and left again for Dunedin at 1.30 a.ra. yesterday, arriving as above ; experienced fresh westerly winds in the passage. We thank her purser (Mr Herbert) for files of the Southland papers. The barque Arbour was towed up by the Geelong this afternoon. She left Mauritius on the sth, carried the trades to 32 S. on the 11th, which were strong and squally, with rain. W. and S.W. winds were mostly experienced through the passage. She passed Cape Leuwin on the 27th, in 40.30 S., made the Snares on the morning of the Bth, and arrived at the Heads this morning. Part of her cargo is for Lyttelton. DANGERS OF WHALING.-LOSS OF LIFE. About two months ago, the Natives belonging to . Rawhiti, about twelve miles south of Russell, made preparations for whaling along the coast between their settlement and the north entrance to the Bay of Islands. From various causes they had been quite unsuccessful in their undertaking, when on Friday, the 16th ult., four boats were out. One made fast to a whale, and followed by two of the other boats, was towed out to sea by the whale. The fourth boat killed a calf (young whale), and, after taking it ashore, proceeded after the other boats; but being unable to find them, returned. Th® others killed the whale Just before sundown, when they found themselves out of sight of land, and all three hooking on commenced to tow the whale for the shore. But in the night a fearful gale sprang up from the south-east, accompanied by thunder andlightningand torrents of raia, and a heavy sea began to run. In spite of all, hungry, wet, tired, and cold, the men held on to their prize with a bravery that deserved success till about three in the morning, when exhaustion and the terrible sea compelled them to let go and make for the shore. The crew of the boat which had first made fast to the whale were most worn oat, two men utterly . failing and lying down in the boat, leaving only three to pull and one to steer, and the others called t« them to abandon their boat and come into the other two—half into each beat. But the head man of the now missing crew said he would rather die in his boat, and this is the last that is known of that crew up to the present time. All Saturday, without food or much clothing, the two other crews toiled on exposed to a cold and pitiless rain and a pitiless sea. They saw a sail floating belonging to the missing boat, and some of the wooden poles for her harpoons. Saturday ni°ht still at sea, many of the men failing, and °on Sunday morning, just before reaching the shore, one man (a Kanaka lately discharge.! from the Emma C. Jones) died. On Sunday forenoon they reached the beach near the Cayalli Islands, where they found shelter and assistance, and where they buried their dead ccmrade. It is thought one perished in the other boat.—Auckland paper.

SHIPPING TELEGRAM. Nelson, November 7.—Ocean Mail, eightyone days from London, with 400 immigrants Lyttelton, N o vember 7. - Elizabeth Graham, 114 days from G.avesend, with fifteen passengers. r . November 9.-The Oneco has just (9.50) arrived from Dunedin.