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Evening Star, Issue 3677, 4 December 1874, Page 2

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HIGH WATER. 'I’O-MORKOW. Hkads { Port Chalmers I Dowedih Q 0.31 p.m. I 1.11 p.m. 1 1.56 p.m. PORT CHALMERS, AT THE HEADS. Barque. ARRIVED. December 4.-Maid of Otago, schooner, 60 tons, Bain, from Allday Bay. Good Templar, ketch, 41 tons, Divers, from Riverton. E dth Reid, ketch, 75 tons, Saunders, from Hokitika. Bruce, s.s., 202 tons, Macfariane, from Lyttelton and intermediate ports. Pasxengers : Mrs Lewis, Mrs Burke and 3 children. His Honor Mr Justice Ward, Captain Malcolm, Messrs Ba l, Sj eight, Chapman. Mills, Ambleton, Shinnies, Caruthers, Montgomery, and 7 in the steerage. SAILED. December 4. —Beautiful Star, s.s., 146 tons, Peterson, for Lyttelton via intermediate ports. Samson, p.s., 124 tons, Edie, for Oamam. Firefly, brig, 179 tens, Downing, for NewMstle. Glimpse, ketch, Scott, for Moeraki, Freetrader, barque, Miles, for Hobart Town. Owake, schooner, Arndt, for Wanganui. A'hambra, s.s., 487 tons. Sinclair, for Melbourne. Passengers: Mrs Maitland, Miss Murphy, Mr and Mrs Anderson and family (4), Captain Fothergill, Messrs Robert Tooth, H, S. Smith, Aynesley, and eighteen in the steerage. For the Bluff—Mr Salter. Wellington, s.s , 262 tons, Carey, for the North. Passengers: For Lyttelton Messrs Braid, Wlntely, Goodger, and Day. For Wellington—Rev. Dr Stuart, Rev, Dr Chisholm, Mrs Creighton and family, Airs Aitken and family, Mr and Mrs Strain, Miss M'Kenzie, Messrs B 11, Rennie, Cowper, Thwart, and Anderson. For Nelson—Mrs Atkinson, and six in the steerage for all ports. The s.s, Wellington sailed this afternoon for Northern Ports. The p.s. Samson sailed this morning for her Usual trip to Oamaru. The s.s. Alhambra sailed this afternoon for Melbourne, via the Bluff. The brig Firefly sailed this morning, with a S.W. wind, for Newcastle. The s.s. Beautiful Star sailed for her usual trip to Lyttelton, via intermediate ports, last night. The steamship Easby passed the Bluff at 9.30 this morning. Vhe may be expected at Port Ch >lmers by daylight to-morrow. The topsail schooner Maid of Otago arrived last night. She left Alhiay Bay, where she took in 600 bags of wheat, on the 2nd, and had light S.E. winds and thick weather to arrival. The barque Moneynick was towed down by the Golden A ge, and the bai ques Free Trader and Glencoe by the Geelong, yesterday from Dunedin, and anchored in the lower anchorage. The Harbor Co.’s s.s. Bruce arrived from her usual trip to Lyttelton and intermediate ports at 7 o’clock this morning, and steamed alongside the ship Alay Queen to discharge 175 bales of wool. She left Lyttelton at 2.45 p.m. on the 2nd, called at Akaroa,Timaru,and Oamaru, and arrived as above, having had fine weather during the trip. The Good Templar, another ketch built by Mr John Wilson, of Southport, Tasmania, to the order of Mr G. F. Reid, arrived this morning with a full cargo of timber from Riverton. The Good Templar is a vessel of 41 tons register, built 'of blue gum with Huon pine decks, is 68ft over all, with 19ft beam, and sft Sin depth of hold. She left Hobart Town for Greyraouth. and after discharging she left for Riverton, where she took a full cargo of timber and left on Saturday. Had N.E. winds until arriving off Cape Saunders last night, and arrived as above. The Edith Reid, a very handsome ketch, bxiilt by Messrs Hinchca and son, of Huon River, Hobart Town, under the superintendence of Captain Saunders, to the order of Mr G. F. Reid, of this City, arrived last night with a full cargo of timber from Hokitika. The Edith Reid is a vessel of 75 tons register, her frame and bottom being of the best blue gum, with top sides and decks of Huon pine. She is 75ft on her keel, being 85ft over all, with 22ft beam and 7ft depth of hold. She left Hobart Town on the Ist of November with a full cargo for Hokitika, where she arrived on the 7th ; discharged and took iu a full cargo of timber, and left at 7 p.m. on the 21st with heavy .N.E. winds, which continued as far as Milford Bound, where she encountered a heavy y. W. gale, and was under double-reefed mainsail for thirty-six hours, a terrific sea running during the time and the vessel laboring heavily. She then bore up and passed through Cooks Straits on the 26th ; from thence had light winds, with thick weather, until arriving at the Heads, and beat up the harbor and arrived as above.