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Evening Star, Issue 3661, 16 November 1874, Page 2

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HIGH WATER. To-morrow. Heads f Port Chalmers I Dohedik 8.37 p.m. | 9.17 p.m. [ 10.2 p.m. PORT CHALMERS. ARRIVED. Nouember 14.—Samson, p s., 125 tons, Edie, from Oamaru. Pa-sengers: Misses Weir, Wilson, Messrs Toll, Burton, Thomson, M'Gregor, Cox, Connor, and nine in the steerage. November 15. —Wanganui, s.s., 175 tons, Fraser, from the Bluff. Passengers : Mrs Coomesang and child, Mrs Eastwood, Messrs Gillies, Miller, Mason, Brown, M‘Kay, Lees, Springford, Farmer, Parris, Rev Mr Taylor, and three in the steerage. Beautiful Star, s.s., 146 tons, Peterson, from Moeraki. Hope, cutter, 21 tons, Scott, from Tois Tois and Waikawa, Eliza M‘Phee, ketch, 39 tons, Peterson, from Catlin’s River. Jane Hannah, schooner, 50 tons, Mason, from Catlin’s River, Nov. 16.—Mataura, ship, 853 tons, Kerr, from London. Passengers : Saloon—Mr, Mrs, and Miss Hack, Masters Hack (3), Mr and Mrs Shaw, Misses Shaw (3), Master Shaw, Messrs G. M. Walton, W. L. Walton, M. W. Gordon, Vincent, Summer ; twelve in the second cabin, and fourteen in the steerage. SAILED. November 15. —Easby, s.s., 969 tons, Kennedy, for Newcastle. Passengers : Mr, Mrs, and Miss Steinau, Mrs Elliott and two children, Mr and Mrs Poullan and two children, Mesdames Edwards, Wilson, Golding, Misses Smith, Kinkham, A. B. Wilson, M'Neil, Patterson, and twenty-five in the steerage. Euphrosyne, schooner, 75 tons, Spence, for Oamaru. November 16. Defiance, ketch, 22 tons, Burke, for Moeraki. Ladybird, s.s., 266 tons, Andrew, for Northern Ports. Passengers : For Lyttelton— Mr Attwood. For Wellington—Miss Aitkeu. For Manakau —Rev Mr Foran, Mr Aitken, and two in the steerage. tbojboted departures. Albion, for Northern Ports, November 21. Beautiful Star, for Lyttelton, November 17. Jessie Henderson, for Auckland, early. Lizzie Guy, for Hokitika, early. Samson, for Oamaru, November 18. Star of the South, for Levuka, November 19. Taranaki, for Northern Ports, November 23. Tararua, for Bluff, November 25. Wanganui, for Bluff, early. Waikato, for London, December 15. The ketch Defiance sailed this morning for Moeraki. The s.B. Ladybird sailed this afternoon for the Northern Ports. The ship Haddon Hall was removed from the railway pier into the stream this morning. The schooner Jane Hannah and the ketch Eliza M‘Phee arrived yesterday from Gatlin’s River. The repairs to the s.s. Easby were finished on Saturday forenoon, and at G a.m. yesterday she sailed for Newcastle. The p.s. Samson, from Oamaru, armed in Fort Chalmers bn Saturday at 3.30 p.m., having left Oamaru at 10.30, and made a splendid run up of five hours. The ship Wakaito was removed from the stream and taken into the Graving Dock to be cleaned and have her bottom recoated with anti-fouling composition, The cutter Hope arrived from the Tois-Tois via Waikawa, yesterday afternoon. She was two days out from Waikawa, and reports very severe weather on the coast prior to her leaving. The s.s, Wanganui arrived in Port Chalmers yesterday at 1.16 p.m. Captain Fraser re P- 'ts that he left Port Chalmers ou the 11th at 8 p.m. On the run down encountered a strong W. gale, with heavy se.i, which compelled to take shelter in Tautuku Bay for sixteen hours. Arrived at the Bluff at 11 a.m. on the 13th ; same day towed out of the New River the barque Hadda, loaded with <deepe-v for Lyttelton ; and left the Bluff, for Port Chalmers, at 8.30 p.m. on Saturday; had fine southerly weather up the coast. Passed the s.B. Easby off the Ocean Beach at 10 a.m yesterday. ARRIVAL OF THE MATAURA. Early this morning the signals at the He'd--, announced the arrival of tho N.Z.S.S Com pany’s fine iron ship Mataura, after a /cry boisterous passage, from London. The tu" Geelon" ■ proceeded down, and, under the charge of Pilot Kelly, towed the ship as far as the Quarantine Ground, she having a quantity of powder on board. Since the last visit of the Mataura to this port (she being then named the Dunfillan) she has received extensive alterations, her saloon having been made twice the former size, and a fine house placed on deck. She brings a general cargo, sixteen saloon, twelve second cabin, and fourteen steerage passengers, and a fine lot of rams. As soon as her powder is discharged she will probably be removed to the railway pier to discharge cargo. We are indbeted to Mr Gorn, chief officer, for the following report of her passage :-Left the West India Dock on the 17 th of August and proceeded as far as Greenhithe, where her com passes were adjusted, and left Gravesend on the 18th; had a strong westerly wind, and an-chor-din the Downs, and got under way next day with a light easterly wind, which continued down channel; landed her pilot, and took her final departure off Dartmouth on the 22ndthence had light and variable winds with fine weather until catching the N.E. trades, which were very indifferent, and were lost in 14 N • after which had calms and variables, with ? n H! Crossi , H! ' the equator ou the 19fcfa of September m long. 21 W The S.E. trades were got in 4 8., and carried as far as the Island of irinadad, which was sighted and passed at midnight on the 27th September Variables were then met wit> until crossin-the meridian ot Greenwich on the 10th of October • • e ?°v unußUa ;lly heavy, boisterous weather' ™high sfv™V evere , S( l ualls of hail and 5® et ‘ .Wjed and passed about five miles to the north of the Island of C ochanos, one of the Crozet or Desert Group, on the 20th of Octo- , , Un * he 2fith experienced a very heavy gale from the westward, accompanied bv hail and snow squalls, with terrific sea, the vessel at the rime bemg under the three lower topsails At 2 a.m. a very heavy sea rolled onboard over the port quarter, washing the man at the wheel on to the mam deck, fracturing his le- and making a clean sweep of everything on the ’ . breaking .the glass in the cabin other damage about the mam deck. The gale, meanwhile, increased in violence, the barometer falling rapidly and by noon stood at the imprecentedlv f range of 27.90 In all OaptaiJ Kerrs long and varied experience, he has never seen nor heard of the mercury being so low as it was on this occasion ; the gale had nqw mcreased to a perfect hurricane. The lower fore and mizen topsails, both nearly new sails, were blown clean away with only the ropes left, and the ship was scudding ‘ with nothing but the lower main-topsail, which fortunately held on and going between eleven and twelve knots, the sea rolling clean over the vessel, filling the lifeboat on the starboard side and bending the davits double. About 0 a.m the wind fell rapidly, but left a most terrific flea, the ship all the tunc behaving splendidly but rolling heavily, and straining the mast 5 ! and Tigging so much that one of the chain plates of the mizen rigging was carried away, After the gale moderated managed to get the reefed foresails bent. On the 3rd of November she encountered another heavy gale, which commenced from the S.W., with heavy hail and snow squalls, and very high sea, several breaking on board. *Onc sea rolled over the port quarter boa*, tearing her clean out of the davits and washing Captain Kerr fore and aft the m&iu deck, fortunately without causing hiin any serious injury. .Since passing the Croze ts, and till within the last few days, the Mataura met with a succession of heavy gales, or more properly speaking, hurricanes, accompanied by hail and snow, and very high seas, such as in a very long experience Captain Kerr has never before encountered. It is worthy of remark that in every instance the wind backed round against the sun* Hie Mataura’s easting for the i motf part wot run doVa between the panels '

of 45 t0475., aa the weather would permit. Made the Snares at 1 p.m, on Friday, since then had light N.E. winds and calms, with i -ja y ea^ei ’» an( l (arrived otf the Heads at LO tliis morning. Captain Kerr pronounces the Mataura a capital sea boat, and to behave as * Q heavy weather as much larger ships that he has previously commanded. The following are the names of the vessels spoken during the voyage : - .September 17, ship Ryerson, from Yarmouth to Aden, thirtv-five days out, in lat. 4.13 N., long, 20 37 W.;" September -4, ship J'ohn Duthie, from Lou’on to Sydney, thirty-four days out, in lat. 13,19, long" 27.46 Y.; October 11, ship City of Florence, from G.asgow to Melbourne, fifey-one days out, in lat. 38.41 S., long. 5.11 E.