Shipping.

Evening Star, Issue 3709, 12 January 1875, Page 2

Shipping.

• Hl'tH water, To-MORROW. Heads I Port Chalmers I Euredin 6.29 p.m, I 7.09 p.m. j 7.54 p.m. PORT CHa'IMEHS. ARRIVED. January 12. —Omeo, s.s , 800 tons, Calder, fpjm Melbourne, via the Bluff. Passengers: Prom Melbourne—Mrs Remington and family V), Misses Morgan. Campbell, and Bunnell, Rev. J. C. Mountain and family (3), Messrs Coll, "Fleming, S. Craig, Crawford, (4. Ross, Orr, and seventeen in the steerage. From the Bluff Messrs Powell, ftlalughan, Manders (M.P.C.), Caffin, Haines, Mentuplay, fourteen saloon, and thirty in the steerage for other ports. Waitara, ship, 837 tons, Peek, from Lyttelton. SAILED. January 12.—Comeraug, p.s,, 125 tons, Best, for the Bluff. Southern Cross, s.s., 135 tons, Holmes, for Fiji, via’immediate ports. Lady of the Lake, s.s., 60 tons, Urquhart, for the Molyneux. Samson, p.s., 124 tons, Edie, for Oamaru. Maid of Otago, schooner, 50 tons, Bain, for Oamaru. PROJECTED DEPARTURES, Albion, for Lyttelton, January 16. Eaaby, for Newcastle, January 13. Invercargill, for Loudon, January 19. Ladybird, for Northern Ports, January 19. Maori, for Timaru, January 16. May Queen, for London, January 25. Mataura, for London, early. Omeo, for Lyttelton, January 13. Phoebe, for Northern Ports, January 30, Rangitikei, for London, early. Taranaki, for Northern Ports, January 25, Wanganui, for Bluff, January 13. Wellington, for Northern Ports, January 15, Waikato, for London, early. Waitara, for London, early.

The ship Mataura was removed to the new jetty this morning. The p.s. Samson sailed for her usual trip to Oaraaru shortly after the'anival of the 7 o’clock train this morning. The brigantine Swordfish was removed from the stream to the new pier, where she will discharge her cargo of piles and timber. The schooner Excelsior was towed from Dunedin this morning by the s.s. Jane and went alongside the barque Sunlight for transhipments. The steamers Southern Cross, for Fiji via intermediate ports, Comerang, for the Bluff, and Lady of the Lake, for the Molyneux, sailed last night. The immigrants by the ship Margaret Galbraith were taken to the Quarantine Island this morning in the ship’s boats, being towed there by the Harbor Board’s steam launch Kesuit. The three-masted schooner Euphrosyne came down fcom Dunedin this morning and anchored below the shipping. She will sail this evening for the Kaikouras, where she will take in a cargo of wool for Wellington. The brigantine Seagull which arrived from Havelock on Saturday, when off the Kaikouva passed some object in the water which was supposed to have been a vessel bottom upwards. Kaikoura Peninsula bore at the time W.S.W., and Waipapa Point N.W. by W. about nineteen miles. The Ship Waitara, belonging to the New Zealand Shipping Co., arrived in ballast last night from Lyttelton, which port she left on Friday. She had light northerly winds until yesterday morning, when she got a fine N.E. breeze which continued until arrival. She nailed up to an anchorage off Grassy Point. Messrs M’Meckan, Blackwood, and Co.’s steamship Omeo arrived alongside the railway pier at 7 o’clock this morning, from Melbourne via the Bluff, Captain Calder reports leaving Melbourne on the 4th inst., passed Bank’s Straits at 4 p.m. same day, made Preservation Inlet at 2 p.m. on the 9th, and arrived at the Bluff at 9 p.m ; experienced moderate westerly winds the first part of the passage, then a strong •S.S. W. gale with heavy S.E. sea; discharged cargo and left for Port Chalmers at 9 p.m. on the 11th ; sighted two vessels between Chasland’s Mistake and Waitara Po nt, one a barque standing to the westward. Since the Omeo’s lust trip here she has been laid up in Melbourne, where site ivceived a thorough overhaul. Her boilers have been repaired, and are now as good as new, so far as regards steaming power. Her saloon has also been re-deco-rated and additional accommodation afforded. She leaves again for the North to-morrow. We thank her purser, Mr Gibbons, for Melbourne exchanges.

THE ST. OSYTH.

This vessel has been the general topic of conversation during the last fortnight, as to whether she would come up to expectations, and Ssrform the voyage from Plymouth, via the ape of Good Hope, in the space (forty-five day-) allotted to her by the owners or not. It has turned out that she has not, but still she has made the quickest passage on record —viz., forty-nine days—allowing for difference of time In longitude, and this is within an hour of three days quicker time than it has hitherto been performed in; this reckoning also includes the stoppage of the St. Osyth at St. Jago, where she anchored for twenty-four hours, and to reach it made a detour which may count in all ft day and a-half more in her favor. Captain M‘Nabb, however, is not satisfied, and feels confident, if he makes another trip out, he will do the run in much less time. The total dis tance run was 13,247 miles, which gives a daily average of 260 miles a-day for forty-seven days fourteen horns, which is the ac'mal time the vessel has been steaming. The passage, although the quickest on record, has been pcrfoimed under very ad verso circumstances, the ship having had to contend against strong head winds and heavy seas for twenty-five days, and for five days was kept off her course to keep the sails filled. The ship was thus driven away north from the Great Circle Track, thereby considerably lengthening the distance. During the entire run out the ship has never had twenty-four hours of a good favorable wind to test her speed. The day of making the run of 313 miles the yards were sharp braced up. After passing the Cape of Good Hope a severe gale of three days’ duration •was encountered. This gave a capital opportunity for testing the sea-going qualities of the Tassel, which were pronounced excellent, and a special'Sind most agreeable feature the ship possesses is the almost entire absence of vibration. This in nearly all full-powered steamers is very considerable, but so noticeable was the absence of it In the St. Osyth that frequently questions ware asked as to why the engine had stopped, and yet at the time the ship was going over eleven knots an hour. Her horse-power nominal is 500, and effective, 2,500, which on an average consumption of forty tons of fuel gives her a speed of eleven knots, taking the voyage through. The saloon and cabins are handsome, and well fitted out. Each cabin, and indeed every part aft, communicates with the steward’s pantry by means of electric bells. A smoking-room, too, is provided, Her rig is that of a barque, with a double topsail-j aid forward, and a single but patent reefing one aft, but most noticeable it is that the great distance between the main and mizeu masts enables her to set, in addition to a large main trysail, a mizen staysail, as the aiizen and mizen topmast stays lead to the deck about half-way between the masts. The tst. Osyth i. owned by Messrs Watts, Milburn, anil Go., of London, who possess a large fleet of powerful steamers, and are prepaied at any moment to put on a monthly line. The ship is commanded by Captain R. M‘N r abb, at owe time connected with the steamer Gothenburg. —‘Age.’