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Evening Star, Issue 3666, 21 November 1874, Page 2

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WATER. To-morrow. „ I Port Chalmers I Ddsbdim 12.36 p.m. | Ll6 p.m. | 2,1 p.m, Monday. 1.23 p.m. 1 2.3 p.m. | 2.48 p.m. PORT CHALMERS. ARRIVED. November 21.—Somerville, brig, 251 tons, J. Eynow, from the Mauritius, Express, s.s., 136 tons, R. Nicoll, from Melbourne. Chevert, barque, 312 tons, Martin, from Newcastle. Auckland, shin, 1,250 tons, Stevens, from Glasgow. Passengers—Saloon : Rev Mr Paterson, Mr and Mrs Tait, Mr and Mrs Young and family (7), Rev Mr and Mrs Wright and family (3), Miss Clifford, Miss Donaldson, Messrs Anderson and Barkley, and 392 souls, equal to 357£ statute adults. SAILED. November 21.—Samson, p.s., 124 tons, Edie, Jbr Oamam. Jessie Henderson, schooner, 72 tons, Robinson, for Auckland. Pioneer, schooner, 22 tons, Matheson, for Shag Point. Jane, cutter, 25 tons, Brown, for Shag Point. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Albion, for Northern Ports, November 23. Bruce, for Lyttelton, November 22. Helena, for Auckland, early. Lennox Castle, for San Francisco, November 23. Lizzie Guy, for Hokitika, early. Moneyniek, for Auckland, early. Osseo, for New York, early. Samson, for Oamaru, November 24. Star of the South, for Levuka, November 23. Taranaki* for Northern Ports, November 23. Tararua, for Bluff, November 25. Wanganui, for Bluff, early. Waikato, for London, December 15, The barque Chevert, with a full cargo of'-coal for Messrs Guthrie and Larnach, arrived at the Heads this morning, and sailed up Wher an chorage with a fine N.E. wind. She left Newcastle on the 2nd inst. The brig Somerville, reported in our last Issue as having arrived at the Heads from the Mauritius, was towed up last evening by the tug Geelong and anchored off Observation Point. Her lengthy passage of fifty days is attributed to the heavy weather experienced, ahe having met with gale after gale from the N.N.W. to S.W., during which she hove-to twice. _ The s.s. Express, which has been for some time trading between Melbourne and Geelong as a passenger and cargo boat, and lately purchased by Messrs Houghton and Co. for the coastal trade, in conjunction with the steamers Wanganui and Wallabi, arrived early this morning under the charge of Captain Nicoll, after a passage from Melbourne of seven days, during which she was hove-to for twelve hours. She is a boat well adapted to the trade, as she will carry a large cargo, and has accommodation for a number of passengers, having a fine large saloon and ladies’ cabin. Captain Nicoll reports leaving Bort Phillip Heads at 8 a.m. on the 13th instant.

ARRIVAL OF THE AUCKLAND. * The Auckland, one of the new vessels built “by Messrs Patrick Henderson for the New Zealand trade, arrived at the Heads this morning, and was shortly afterwards towed by the Geelong to an anchorage off the railway pier, where she was boarded by the Customs, Health, and Immigration Officers. The Auckland is a vessel similar to the Invercargill, and is commanded by Captain Stevens, late of the E. P. Bouverie; Mr Fitzer, late of the City of Dunedin being chief officer. The compartments of the vessel are fitted similar to other immigrant ships, the single females being in forepart of her poop, the married couples amidships, and the single men forward. There are 392 Government immigrants, equal to 357 A statute adults. The number comprises thirtyfive single women, who were to be conveyed to the barracks this afternoon, 110 single men, and fifty married couples. There were three deaths and five births during the passage. The first death was of a child shortly after its birth on the 25th September; On October 6 a child of Mr and Mrs Ste vens, aged sixteen months, died from bronchitis; and on November 2 George Murray, five months, died from peritoaitis. The births were—September, the 3rd, Mrs M‘Cormack of a boy, and Mrs Thompson of a boy; October 27th, Mrs Walker of a girl; Mrs Macallision of a I boy; November 20th, Mrs Young, saloon passenger, of a toy- The immigrants are under the charge of Dr Allan. The following is a report of her passage : Left the Tail of the Bank on the 27th August; landed the pilot off Dublin on the 28th; beat down channel against a strong STV Wind, and took her final departure from the Scdiy Mands on the 3rd of September; |ad baffling winds from the W. and S.W., which the ship had to work agamst to catch the N.E. trades, which were caught on September 14 in lat. 28 30 N and lost in 17 N, ; thence had the S.W. m<msoon through the doldrums belt until lat. 4 N She picked up the S.E. trades on the 29fch‘ Mossed the Equator on the 30th in long. 25.41 W., and the meridian of the Cape on the 20th in lat. 45 S.; sighted the Crozets on the 26th, passed the meridian of the Leuwin on the Bth of November, and made the Solander mi the 17th, with N.E. weather; beat through Foveaux Straits, and signalled at the Bluff on toe 19th, and beat the whole way up the ooast was 1,111 down on a general parallel ot 47 thus completing her run from the Equator to the Solander In forty-seven days.