Shipping.

Evening Star, Issue 3692, 22 December 1874, Page 2

Shipping.

HIGH WATER, To-morrow. Heads | Port Chalmers | Ddhedik 2.20 p.m. I 3 0 p.m. j 3.50 p.m. PORT CHALMERS. AT THE HEADS. Barque P.C.E. Duke of Edinburgh, barque, from Newcastle. ARRIVED. December 22—India, barque, 202 tons, A. Greig, from Launceston, Passengers: Mrs W. Wdfon, jun., Mrs Dunann, Messrs Symmond (2), and 5 in the steerage. Woodville, barque, 302 tons, Arnold, from Newcastle. Passenger : Mrs Condy. Jessie, ketch, supposed from IVaikouaiti. SAILED. December 22-Acacia, barque, 233 tons, Harvey, for Hobart Town. Endeavour, schooner, 60 tons, Dick, for Cam aru. •T&ue, cutter, 25 tons, Brown, for Shag Point. Pioneer, schooner, 22 tons, Mattheson, for Shag Point. Flenr de Maurice, barque, 339 tons, Gallaher, for Kaipara. Thoimm and Henry, brig, 215 tons, Clark, for Oamarn. Stranger, brigantine, 249 tons, Brown, for Newcastle. Falcon, three-masted schooner, 195 tons. W. BenclalL for AloerakL Lizzie Guy, brigantine, 117 tons, Paine, for Hokitika. Kate Brain, brigantine, 118 tons, Gay, for Wellington. . Cora, schooner, 50 tons. Russell, for Wellington via Oamaru. Margaret Scoliy, cutter, 16 tons, Bowers, for Kakanui. Eanny, ketch, 25 tons, Andrews, for Catlin’s Juror, PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Alhambra, for Bluff, December 31. Easby, for Newcastle, January 11. Express, for Invercargill, December 26. Invercargill, for London, early. Ladybird, for Northern Ports, December 29. Maori, for Bluff. January 2. May Queen, for London, early. Osseo, for New York, February 10. Otago, for Lyttelton, December 31. Tararua, for Bluff, December 23. * Wellington, for Northern Ports, December 24. Wanganui, for Bluff, December 23. The p.s. Luna will sail this evening for the South. The barque Southern Cross passed the Heads this morning, bound North. The barque Bobycito was taken into the Graving Dock this morning. The Albion on her last outward trip made the fine passage of four days twelve hours from Hokitika to Melbourne. The Albion ran 278 knots on the first day, 305 on the second, 270 on the third, and 273 ou the fourth. This was very good steaming. The wind shifting to the S.W. enabled the following vessels to sail:—Pioneer, and Jane for Shag Point; Endeavor, Thomas and Henry’ for Oamaru ; Margaret Scoliy, for Kakanui • Lizzie Guy, for Hokitika; Kate Brain, and Cora, for Wellington ; Fleur de Maurice, for Kaipara; Stranger, for Newcastle, Falcon, for Moeraki; and Fanny, for Catlin’s River. The ship Ballochmyle, from Lyttelton, arrived at San Francisco on October 27. Dr Smythe, surgeon of the ship, was drowned on the voyage. It appears that he was hauling in a large albatross which he had caught, and he fell overboard, the ship at the time being under full sail. Life buoys were thrown over, the vessel brought to, and the boat lowered, but nothing could be seen of him, and not being able to swim, he sank before assistance could be rendered. Dr Smythe was welWcnown in Lyttelton, and his name will long be remembered for the services he rendered to the late Garvin Hart, of the s.s. Beautiful Star. .The barque Woodville, from Newcastle, was signalled at the Heads this morning, and the Geelong towed her up to her anchorage. She left Newcastle on the sth inst. ; had fine northerly winds till within 100 miles of the nmrth of the Solanders, when she encountered a heavy gale from the E. to E.N.E.. and made the Solander next day; had a succession of easterly gales for three days, head-reaching under lower topsails, and got through the Straits on Friday night; had strong N.E. winds till off the Nuggets at 2 p.m. yesterday! when she got a fine breeze from the S.W which continued till arrival at the Heads at 2 a.m. this morning. On October 26th Messrs Scott and Co launched, from the Garvel shipyard at Cartsdyke, an iron sailing ship named the Oamaru, . , e £ lbi ° n Shipping Company, Messrs Patrick Henderson and Co.’s line of London and New Zealand packet ships. She was taken in tow by one of the Clyde Shipping Company’s tugs, the Flying Spray, and berthed in the Victoria Harbour, and will there be fitted and completed. The following are the dimensions : Length between perpendiculars, 230 ft.; breadth of beam, 29ft. 10in.; depth of hold, 22ft. 3in.; towage, 1,492^0113; demi-female figure-head, elliptical stem, long poop, large deck-house, with topgallant forecastle.—European Mail The barque India arrived at the Heads this morning and was towed alongside the old jetty by the tug Geelong. Besides a quantity of produce she bangs thirty-four fine draught horses, ali m good condition, and fifty merino rams, fifteen rams having been lost durin- the passage, which has been rather a long one.° She left Launceston on the 2nd of December, with easterly winds, and cleared the land on the 4thhad winds from the S.E. to N.E. all the wav across; on the 10th encountered a heavy N.E. gale, and was hove-to under lower maintopsail for forty-eight hours, when the wind shifted “S®. * he .eastward, and held there until of the West Cape, when she NW. w d? d sighted tb / c * turday, having been in the straits for two days • thence east winds until 10 a.m. yesterday when arrival" & S ’ W ‘ wind * which c °ntinuJd until