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Evening Star, Issue 3676, 3 December 1874, Page 2

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HIGH water TO-MORROW, Hwads I Port Chalmers ] Doheoih 11.48 p.xn, I 0.28 p.m. 1 1.13 p.m. IPORT CHALMERS. ARRIVED. DecemLer3. —Samson, p.s., 124 tons, Edie, from Oamarn. Passengers; Mrs Orr, Mrs Young, Messrs Holmes Ramsay, Rcpson, Barry, and six in the steerage. Pioneer, schooner, 22 tons, Mattheson, from Shag Point. Ladybird, s.s., 267 tons, Andrews, from the North. Passengers; ilrs and Miss Barrett. Mrs and Miss Smith. Mrs Mayo, Miss Brunton, Messrs G. Cook, T. Conk, Alcorn. Aldridge, E. Rich, Jeffreys, Eaton, De Beer, Tooth, and four in the steerage. Wallabi, s.s., 101 tons, Leys, from the Bluff. SAILED. December 3.—Lady of the Lake, s.s., 60 tons, TJrquhart, for the Molynenx. Wanganui, s.s., 179 tons, Eraser, for the Bluff. RRO.TEOTEI > I >EPARTHURS. Alhambra, for Bluff, December 4. Christian M'Ausland, for London, early. Claud Hamilton, for Northern Ports, December 12. Eashy, for Newcastle, December 10. Fleur de Maurice, for Auckland, early. May Queen, for London, early. Maori, for West ('oast Ports. December 5. Osseo, for New York, February 10. Samson, for Oamarn, December 4. Vision, for Auckland, early. Wellington, for Northern Ports, Dec. 4. The p.s. Samson arrived last night from Oamarn. The brig Firefly will sail for Newcastle this evening. Toe s.s. Wallabi arrived from the Bluff at 1 p.m. and passed up to Dunedin, The s.s. Eashy made the passage from Port Chalmers to Newcastle in five days twenty-two hours, arriving there on the 2’st wit. She was to sail from .Sydney on the 30th. The ship Invercargill was taken out of the Graving Dock this morning and moored along side the new jetty, and the ship Calypso was taken into the dock at high-water. The s.s. Maori was taken out of Murray’s floating dock last evening, and the schooner Bencleuch and ketch Huon Belle were taken in. The pioneer of a new line of steamers left London, for Melbourne, on November 5. The a a. Osyth is a new full-powered screw steamer, of 3,600 tons register, and engines of 500 horsepower, capable of working up to 2,500 h.p. She belongs to the Orient line, and is described as being the most powerful steamer ever placed in the Australian trade. She is expected to solve the problem of a forty-five days’ voyage from the Thames to Hobson’s Bay. The saloon must be a magnificent apartment, as it occupies the whole breadth of the ship. m-A Messrs M’Meckan, Blackwood’s s.s. Alhambra arrived at 3 p.m. yesterday from Melbourne, via West Coast and Northern Ports. She left Melbourne at 2.30 p.m. on the 21st November, and cleared the Heads at 6,35 p.m.; arrived at Hokitika at 2.30 p.m. on the 26th ; at Greymonth at 6 p.m. ; at Nelson at 8.30 p.m. on the 27th ; at \\ ellington at 8.80 p.m. on the 28th; at Lyttelton at 0.15 a an. on the Ist, leaving for Port Chalmers at 4.45 p.m., baton account of the heavy fog her engines were stopped from 11.30 a.m, until 1 p.m., and she arrived as above. The N.Z.fe.S. Co.’s Ladybirrd arrived alongside the railway pier from the North, at 12.45 this morning. .She left the Manakau at 1.30 p.m. on the 28th arrived at Taranaki at 4 a.m. on the 29th; left at 9.15 the same morning and arrived at Nelson at 11.30 the same night: left at 1.30 p.m. on the 30th, arrived at Picton at 10 p.m.; at Wellington 530 a.m. on the Ist; left at 4.30 p.m. the same day, and arrived at Lyttelton at 11.30 a.m. on the 2nd, leaving at 2.30 p.m. and arriving here us above. Experienced fine weather throughout the passage, with light N.E. winds. We thank her purser, Mr Wm. Dougherty, for report and files. There will be no steamer from Melbourne for the next ten or twelve days. The Claud Hamilton will be the first, leaving Melbourne on the sth instant, and coming by way of the Bluff. On this occasion the Claud takes the place of the Otago, which goes into dock for the purpose of being overhauled and having some alterations made. Her speed since she received her new boilers has not realised the anticipations formed. Her furnace bars will probably be lowered, and a change made in her masting. The fire lines of the Otago should make her the fastest vessel in these waters and probably the improvements now to be made upon her will bring about that result, although in her old rival the Albion she will always have a very formidable competitor, The first of Messrs M'Mcckan ami {Blackwood’s pair ot new fourteen-knot steamers may be expected in New Zealand about the month of May next. SEVERAL VESSELS MISSING-. The Auckland ‘ Star ’ says—When we said a few days hack that it was possible we had not yet heard of all the disasters caused by the lute fearful weather round onr coasts, it frill be seen we did not speak without a warrant for our words. Of the non-arrival at their respective destinations of the barque Eleanor and the schooner Ivanhoe, our readers are fully aware, as they are also of the small hope which exists of either of them turning up safely. Two other vessels are now missing, and their long detention beyond their due dates is beginning to cause grave apprehension in the minds of the owners and friends of the crews. The barque Helen Malcolm left here on the 21st September, for Sydney, and bad not arrived on the 24th October, the day on which the Macgrcgor left for this port; this makes her at 0 least thirty-three days out. The last missing vessel heard of is the Speedwell, a fine iron barque, which left Lyttelton nearly six weeks ago for Kaipara, and according to latest reports had not yet arrived. THE MEDORA IN A TYPHOON. The following respecting the barque Medora, of Lyttelton, is extracted from the ‘ Hong Kong Times’ of October 9 The British barque Medora reports ;—Left Foo-chow, September 19, bound for Dunedin. At 6 p.m. on September 28 strong gusts of wind came on, furled mainsail, during which time spilt upper fore-topsail, shortly after foot rope of foresail blew away ; 8 p.m.. ship under two close reefed topsails; 11.30, wind veered to N.N.E., wore ship, could not start the sails, or they would have blown away, ship being only twenty-five miles off shore of Yama Island, which was hearing S.S.E., and on a lee shore ; stove in bulwarks, and started spars on deck, sea making a complete breach over all ; 29th. 6 a.m.,"lower fore-top-sail blew away ; 8 a.m., ship on her beam ends, lee side of her combings being under water ; at 10 a.m., bar. 28.30, wind still increasing and barometer falling very rapidly, the typhon increasing with such lury, had to cut away mizen and main-topmast which righted the vessel a little, then cu 1 ; away fore-topmest ; at 9.30, barometer began to rise and blew so hard that had to batten all hands down below, ship right under water with nothing but the three lower masts standing: 2 p.m., when the barometer had risen four-tenths it blew something terrific, it was supposed that the fore and main yards had gone away during the time; 5 p.m.,’wind talcing off a little ; midnight, squally, with terrific sea ; 30th, gale decreasing rapidly, sea ■very high, all hands securing fore, main,’and mizen masts, bar. 20.40. After this the weather commenced to clear, and made all possible sail for this port, and had fine weather, with N.E. monsoon to arrival, SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. Newcastle, November 21.—Arrived ; Easby and Duke of Edinburgh, from Dunedin. Lyttelton, December 2.— The Inverallen has cleaved with a cargo valued at L 56,000. Wellington, December 2. —Arrrived : Ship Soakar, from London, 194 days out, with 432 souls on bdgird, all well. Five deaths occurred on the voyage, all children. The vessel was totted in by the Phoebe.