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Evening Star, Issue 3678, 5 December 1874, Page 2

Shipping.

high water . Hbads I p To -^kow : nr P,n *' li33p.ni, I ( Doredin ' I 2.20 p.m. from To?To^f''^ 0r .LMERS. dJthf 157, *>2o' -ved. Tankard Ron 60 - ,e ’ SU^a * f J tons, Kennedy, from Newgers Mrs Benson, Messrs . -Daceas' >am (2), Simpson, Slater, Logan, *or Mo- Jteen in the steerage. D eJ> SAILED. oer s,—Hope, barque, 25 tons, Tyson, craki. .ance, ketch, 22 tons, Burke, for Moeraki. argaret Scolly, 16 tons, Bowers, for MoeA. Otago, barque, 346 tons, Bicknell, for Auckland. Glencoe, barque, 159 tons, Jasper, for Hobart Town. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Bruce, for Timaru, December 7. Christian M'Ausland, for London, early. Claud Hamilton, for Northern Ports, December 12. Comerang, for Oamaru, December 8. Easby, for Newcastle, December 10. Fleur de Maurice, for Auckland, early. Ladybird, for Northern Ports, December 11. May Queen, for London, early. Osseo, for New York, February 10. Samson, for Oamaru, December 8. Taranaki, for Northern Ports, December 13. Vision, for Auckland, early. Wanganui, for Bluff, December 8. Wallabi, for Port Molyneux, December 5. The barque Free Trader sailed yesterday, and the Glencoe to-day, both for Hobart Town. The barque Otago, with part of original cargo from Melbourne, took advantage of the S.W. wind and sailed this moraine for Auckland. The barque Glimpse, from Newcastle, with a cargo of coal, was towed up yesterday afternoon by the tug Geelong. She left Newcastle on the 16th November; had moderate westerly winds and fine weather until the 24th, she then being off the West Cape, where she had very light baffling winds until making the Solanders on the 29th ; she then got a S.W. wind, which carried her as far as Stewart’s Island; the wind then shifted to the N.E., with thick weather ; came through Foveaux Straits on the 30th; N.E. winds continued until yesterday morning, when she got a fine S.W. wind which brought her to the Heads, and was towed up as above. The s.s. Easby arrived alongside the hulk California at 2 p.m., having arrived outside the Heads at 10 p.m. last night, after a passage of six days two and a-half hours from Sydney, which port she left last Saturday evening. This trip has been altogether the quickest she has yet made ; she has been barely twenty days absent, although she was detained for five days at Newcastle and two days at Sydney. Moderate weather has been experienced on both her upward and downward runs. She brings a very large cargo, consisting of coals, fruit, and general goods, besides about twenty passengers. The Bobycito left Newcastle, for Dunedin, on the same day as the Easby. Captain Simpson, of H.M.S. Blanche, before leaving Wellington, wrote to the Commodore as follows “In compliance with your order of 30th December, 1873, relative to the trial of the New Zealand phormium, I have to report that, as the ship was such a short time at sea during the first three months that the rope was rove for trial, I deemed it desirable to give it a further trial of three months before reporting upon it. The general result of the trial, in my opinion, is that the fibre_ of the New Zealand rope, when subject to a direct and steady strain, is stronger than that from which navy rope is made, but that it is more brittle aiid easily broken if kinked, and that its great inferiority to the navy rope, through its stretching and swelling, is, beyond this, due almost entirely to the manufacture.”