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Evening Star, Issue 3704, 6 January 1875, Page 2

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HIGH water. To-morbow. Heads I Port Chalmers j Dunedin 2.28 p.m. | 3.08 p.m. | 3.53 p.m. PORT CHALMERS. ARRIVED. January 6.—lsabella Anderson, schooner, 85 tons, Paterson, from Timaru. Southern Cross, s.s., 13(5 tons, Holmes, from the North. Passengers: Mrs Boyd, Mrs Basch, Messrs Fenton, Kerr, Henderson, and 1 in the steerage. SAILED. January 6. —Lady of the Lake, s.s., 60 tons, TJrquhart, for the Molyneux. Fanny, ketch, 25 tons, Andrews, for Waikouaiti. Thomas and Henry, brig, 215 tons, Walsh, for Kaipara. The ketch Fanny sailed yesterday for Waikeuaiti. W The s.s. Lady of the Lake sailed for the Molyneux last night. The brig Thomas and Henry sailed this morning for Kaipara. The ship Nelson will be removed alongside the railway pier to-morrow. The ship Janet Cowan was removed from the lower anchorage to a more convenient discharging berth, as she will discharge her cargo into lighters in the stream. The schooner Isabella Anderson, which arrived at the Heads from Timaru on Sunday, was towed up yesterday afternoon alongside the ship Calypso, where she discharged her wool. She left Timaru on the 31st ult. |&This afteruoonMr Blair, in company with Captain Thomson, Harbor-Master, and the diver, proceeded in the harbor launch to between the railway pier and the new jetty, where the diver went down to look at the rock there, for the purpose of blasting the same, as it is very much iu the way of berthing vessels at the piers. The travelling public along the coasts of New Zealand will receive with some regret the announcement that Captain Wheeler, of the Taranaki, is about to leave the service of the N. Z. S. S. Company. It has for some time been expected that a lucrative offer from the Harbor Company of Dunedin would interfere with Captain Wheeler’s relations with the N, Z. S. S. Company, and yesterday he sent in his resignation of the command of the Tara naki, having determined to accept the offer of the Harbor Company to proceed to England to bring out their new steamer for the Dunedin trade. From the time of his connection with the Panama Company, Captain Wheeler has always enjoyed a favorable reputation amongst the travelling public, who will miss one of the most popular commanders of the N. Z. S. S. Company’s fleet. It is not quite certain when Captain Wheeler proceeds on his mission to England.— ‘ N. Z. Times,’ December 30. She s.s. Southern Cross arrived at 8 o’clock this morning from Auckland, via intermediate ports, and steamed up as far as Murray’s floating dock, where she was shortly afterwards taken in for the purpose of being cleaned and her bottom recoated. The Southern Cross is a screw boat of 136 tons register, and was built by Messrs Pattison and Atkinson, of New-castle-on-Tyne, in the year 1874, to the order of the Auckland Steam Packet Company, expressly for the cattle trade between Napier and Auckland. She arrived iu Auckland on the 21st of June, under the command of Captain Holmes, late of the New Zealand Steam Shiping Company, who is still in command of her. She is 135 ft 2in overhaul, with a beam of 23ft 7in ; her depth of holu jeing 9ft; her engines are 50-horse power nominal, with the latest improvements and direct-acting surf condensers ; the dimensions of her cylinders being 3Gin and 18$ in, with a 2ft stoke. Mr William Steddart is her chief engineer. She has a very nice saloon amidships, and accommodation for twenty-seven passengers; also, a ladies’ cabin, with accommodation for seven passengers, aft. She left Auckland on the 28th of December, called at Napier, Wellington, Lyttelton, and Akaroa, and arrived as above, having had fine weather during the whole of the trip, with the exception of a gale between Lyttelton and Akaroa. She will leave here about the 10th instant for Levuka, via Northern Ports.

FOUNDERING OF THE BRIG WINDHOVER.

The ‘ Sydney Morning Herald ’ reports that this vessel, under the command of Captain Reels, sailed from Sydney on the afternoon of the 11th inst., bound f-r Lyttelton, N.Z., with a cargo of timber. The same evening she sprang a leak, and was abandoned on the 13tb inst., the crew being taken off from the sinking ship by the barque Saxon, from Newcastle, bound South. Captain White, of the latternamed ship, furnishes the following particulars : —“ Sunday, 13th December, 1874, at 4.30 a.m., strong gale from S.S.W., sighted a brig ; brig bore away for us, with signal of distress flying; at 7 a.m. the captain of the brig (Windhover, iof Sydney) spoke and reported fivr o” six feet of water in the ship, with all starboard bulwarks and stanchions washed away, and asked me to stand by him; wore ship, and stood to W.N. W,, in company with the brig, ■for the land. At noon, the Windhover, apparently becoming very heavy and low in the water, bore down on her, and the captain reported the water gaining on them, and the boat stove by the sea. The brig now had a very deplorable appearance, the tea running right over her. Hove ship to, and sent the lifeboat in charge of Mr A. Bankiei, chief mate, to cotnmunicate with and seve the crew, the brig apparently sinking. At half-past one p.m. succeeded In getting the captain and crew safely on board, with some effects.” SHIPPING TELEGRAMS, Wellington, January 6 —The Easby leaves for the South at noon to-day, San Francisco —The following vessels have arrived from Otago and obtained charters: — Hindostan, loading wheat for Liverpool; Mairi Bahn. (From our own Correspondent.) Hokitika, January 6.— The b.s, Maori crossed Hokitika bar at 9 o’clock this morning, and leaves again to-night for Greymouth. There was a heavy sea all the way from Bluff Haribor. The Maori passed Martin’s Bay without calling.