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Evening Star, Issue 3700, 31 December 1874, Page 2

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HBH WATER TO-MORROW. Heads I Port Chalmers I Dunedin 9.24 p.m. I 10.04 p.m. |10.49p.m. _ PORT CHALMERS. ARRIVED. " December 3L—Otago, s. s., 800 tons, M *Lean, from Melbourne, via Milford Sound. Paesengera: Mrs G. Hodgson, Mr and-Mrs Culling Misses Culling (2), Mrs Quinlan, Misses Quinlan (2), Mrs Hatton, Misses Hatton (2), Messrs ' Macredie, Deimiatoun, Moore, M‘Neill, and thirty-six in the steerage. Alhambra, 5.»., 560 tons, Sinclair, from Mel- . bourne, via West Coast and northern ports. Passengers from Melbourne : Mrs and Miss Hoaaer, Mrs and Miss Ward, Miss Panny Elliott, Mrs Cuthbertson, Mr and Mrs Bell, Hon. K. B. Andrews, Messrs H. R. Henderion, H. Jamieson, and two steerage. From Coast: Mr and Mrs Downes, Messrs Carnate, Maxgett, Gibbs, Burnell, O’Brien, J. B. Jackeon, Ord, Evans, Kent, Oannins, and twelve in the steerage. Sampson, p.a., 124 tons, Edie, from Oatnaru. Passengers: Mr and Mrs M‘Pherson and child, Mr and Mrs Peynall, Mrs Walken, Mrs Spence, ' . Messrs Sutherland, Stewart, Macandrew, Mas- - ter Christie. Hope, barque, 16 tons, Tyson, from Moe- ■ raid. ' Lady of the Lake, s.s., 60 tons, Urqubart, from the Molyneux. - Nelson, ship, 1,250 tons, Anderson, from Glasgow. Passengers: Mr and Mrs Tolmie, Mrs Richie and two children, Miss M'Giegor, Miss Brownhill, Messrs Mills, Adams ' (2), M‘Lellan, Gordon, Neville, Jack, and 304 statute adults. * Taranaki, s.s., 299 tons, Wheeler, from the North. Passengers: Mrs Stone, Mrs May, Miss Hondo, Jones, Lemon, Robertson, Messrs k Thomson, M‘Leod, Day, Jago, Simson, Fitzherbert, Richard, Lemon, TrestraiL ana 15 in the steerage. BAILED. , 'December 31.—Spec, schooner, 50 tons, Mad sen, for Oamaru. Wanganui, s.s., 179 tons, Fraser, for the Bluff. Uailad States war ship Swatara, 1,150 tons, Chandler, for Chatham Islands. PBOJHOTED DEPARTURES. Alhambra, for Bluff, January 2. Bruce, for Timaru, January 4. Calypso, for London, early. Express, for Bluff, January 2. Easby, for Newcastle, January 11, Invercargill, for London, early. Mataura, for London, January 15. May Queen, for London, early. Maori, for Bluff, January 1. Omso, for Lyttelton, January 7. Osseo, for New York, February 10. Phoebe, for Northern Ports, January 9. Record, for Newcastle, early. The barque India, for Hobart Town, was towed to sea by tbe tug Geelong. The American war ship Swatara toek her departure for the Chatham Islands last evening. We notice with regret the death of Captain Francis Hepburn, so long in the coastal trade of t.hia Colony—first as commander of the William Miskin, and latterly of the Rangatira. Ho had been ill for a long time. Messrs M‘Meckan, Blackwood, and Co.’s B.S. Otago arrived alongside the railway pier at 6.15 this morning, from Melbourne, via Milford Sound. She left Melbourne on the 23rd inst., and arrived at the Sound on the 28th, having experienced fair winds and fine weather during the trip, which was a most enjoyable one to the passengers, who expressed great adjuration of the beauty of the scenery, and . amused themselves during their short stay with fishing and shooting. She left the Sound at 4.30 p.m. on the 29th, and arrived at the Bluff 1 • at 2 p.m. on the 30th ; discharged cargo and left again for Port Chalmers at 6 p.m., and ’ arrived as above. We thank her purser, Mr De Leon, for report and exchanges. The s.s. Alhambra arrived at the railway piei at 4.30 this morning, from Melbourne, via West Coast and Northern ports. She left Melbourne at 3 p.m. on the 19th ; passed the Heads at 6.45 p.m., and Wilson’s Promontory at 4.45 a.m. on the 20th; exchanged signals „ with the Claud Hamilton at 8.50 p.m. on the 22nd; had westerly winds and fine weather the first two days, and then northerly and cloudy \ weather to arrival off Hokitika at 7.15 p.m. on the 24th; left at noon ; called at Greymouth, Nelson, Wellington, and Lyttelton, which port she left at 6 p.m. on the 29th; called at Timaru at 7 a.m. bn the 30th, and left for Port Chalmers at 12.15 p.m., and arrived as above. We thank Mr Miller, her puiser, for report and exchanges. We are sorry to say that her chief officer, Mr Moir, has been confined to his cabin nearly the whole of the passage with a severe attack of diarrhoea. ' , ARRIVAL OF THE NELSON. Messrs Patrick Henderson and Co’s fine new iron ship Nelson was signalled at the Heads early this morning, and the Geelong proceeded down and towed her up to her lower anchorage . off Deborah Bay, where she was immediately boarded by the health and immigration officers, :and shortly after was cleared. Tbe Nelson is a ■ ship similar to the Auckland and Invercargill, descriptions of which we have previously puhlished. Besides 1,500 tons ,of cargo, she has thirteen saloon passengers and 304 statute adults in the steerage, who have all enjoyed k : good health. There nave only been four deaths, T'r and those were of young children, and there were two births. The immigrants were under the charge of Dr Macaffer. Upon inspecting the various compartments we found them rev: markably clean, especiallyTthe single females’, who occupy the front of the poop. These were under the charge of Mrs Gibson, who was apr ' pointed matron after the vessel sailed. The . married compartment was very clean, and was fitted in the usual manner, and the ventilation was also good, which, no doubt, was v the causa of so little sickness occurring amongst I the children. The single men were forward, ■' . bat it was all bustle and confusion between v:. decks on account of their getting ready to be . • landed. The following are the names of those that died:—On October 6, Thomas Mattheson, Med six months; November 6, Agnes Bums, eight months; November 20, Thoms J. Orozier, v . tnrde sears three months; December 20, Grace / WjUiaata; two years. On November 29 Mrs J G* Willwnsoi} gave birth to and on -December 20, Mrs Franklin, of a daughter. The Nelson is under -the charge of Captain »: v Anderson, late of the Company's ship Agnes Muir, and to him we are indebted for the ■ followingreport of her passage Left the Tail . of this Bank on the Ist of October, put into ~ JBothsßfp same night on account of the heavy S.W. wind, and left again on the 4th; encoun- /> " . tered a heavy S. W. gale off Tuscar wmch drove V Her hack about forty miles, by which she lost /two days, and took nor final departure from off Tuscar light on the 17th; had strong W. winds • to this Bay of Biscay, during which she encoun- . tered'one heavy gale for twenty-four hours, the - r weasel behaving splendidly; while in the Bay pf Biscay she was. becalmed for three days, and •" ' finally.got the N. E. trades on the 12th of Octoin 30 N, ; passed the Island of St. Antonio J, on the 27th, and boarded the ship .Olive Bloom f'#- ,the«ame day; bound from Rangoon to Liverand by which Homs letters were sent: -//iMt. ; the.tradea in BN, 25 W. on the 31st; had , ‘fit winmi ’to the Equator, which was creased ilvV -dUsthe fitb November in 30 W., and than she rgW'the.SiE.' trades and carried them to 14 S, on liable winds to ■if Greenwich on ies, and passed December 4 in id, her easting rallel of 45 S,; Leuwin on the . the 21st made week continued d to the 28th i at 10.30 p.m. laylight on the i calms to the b daylight this t iceberg on De-