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Evening Star, Issue 3722, 27 January 1875, Page 2

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HIGH WATER. To-morrow. Heads I Port Chalmers I Dukedis 6.53 p.m. | 7.33 p.m. | 8.13 p.m. PORT CHALMERS. ARRIVED. January 27.—Sophia Joachim, ship, 1,084 tons, Thompson, from London. Passengers : Mias Agues Brown, Messrs G. G. Brown, B. Brown ; eleven in the second cabin, and twenty in the steerage. Cleopatra, schooner, 92 tons, O’Brien, from Lyttelton. Phoebe, s.s., 416 tons, Worap, from the North. Passengers :Mr and Mrs Stains, Mr and Mrs Harrison and family, Mesdames Young, Blackadder, Gibbs, Skillion and family, Misses Mathias, M‘Donald, Reid, Kilgoux, M‘Lennon, Roseby, Menzies, and Maxwell, Major Palmer, Captain Ogilvie, Captain Leslie, Messrs Dalgleish, Elliott, Reed, Broadhent, Mitchell, Errington, Cook, Letham, Louden, Hogg, Bruce, Leask, Innes, Taylor, Moir, Dick (2); and fourteen in the steerage. SAILED. January 27.—Maori, s.s,, 118 tons, Malcolm, for Lyttelton, via Timaru. 6amson ; p.s., 124 tons, Edie, for Oamant. Wallabi, s.s., 101 tons, Leys, for Camaru. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Alhambra, for Bluff, January 29. Beautiful Star, for Timaru, January 31. Calypso, for London, early. Circe, for Hokitika, early. Comerang, for Bluff, January 30. Easby, for Newcastle, February 13. Laatitia, for Hokitika, January 28. May Queen, for London, early. Mataura, for London, early. Osseo, for New York, February 10. Otago, for Lyttelton, February 3. Phoebe, for Northern Ports, January 30. Samson, for Oamaru, January 29. Seagull, for Wellington, January 18. Waikato, for London, early.

The steamers Mao? ifor Lyttelton via Timaru, and Samson and Wallabi for Oamaru, sailed last night. The Phoebe arrived from the North at 2 p,m. to-day. She left the Manakan at 5.30 p.m. on the 21st, called at Taranaki, Nelson, Picton, Wellington, and Lyttelton, which port she left on the 27th at 4.30 p.m. The topsail schooner Cleopatra arrived from Lyttelton last night with a full cargo of 699 casks of cement, and sailed up to Dunedin this morning. Captain O’Brien reports leaving Lyttelton on Friday last. The ship Sophia Joachim was towed up last evening as, far as the Quarantine ground, she having powder on board. Besides a large cargo she brings three saloon, eleven second cabin, and twenty steerage passengers. She left Gravesend on the 6th of October, sighted San Antonio on the 3rd of November, and crossed the equator on the l£th in long. 31.28; on the 25th December encountered a heavy N.W. gale with high seas, one of which broke on board, and carried away a portion of the starboard bulwarks; crossed the meridian of the Leuwiir on the 11th, and arrived off the Heads on Monday morning; was blown off the land and made the Heads again yesterday morning. The Candidate, ship, 765 tons, J. Wright, was towed up yesterday, after a splendid passage from London of eighty-one days, or seventysix days from land to land. She is consigned go the New Zealand Shipping Company. Besides a good cargo, and four saloon and twenty■bj steerage passengers, she brings six rams and thirty-seven ewes, out of forty-nine shipped, six having died during the voyage. Her passengers have enjoyed good health during the voyage, there being only one death. Mrs Kirby, a steerage passenger, died on the 13th November. From the log-book it appears the ship left Gravesend on the 6th of November, and took her final departure from Cape Ushant Light on the 9th, with light N. and N.E. winds, which continued throughout the trades • they were lost on the 26th November in lat 9.48; then had variable winds to the S.E. trades, which were caught on the 2nd of December in lat. 1.20 N. ; crossed the Equator on the 3rd, in long. 31.65; lost the trades on the Uth, in lat. 16.33 S.; had northerly winds, varying to the westward till the 20th, which led into the westerlies; crossed the meridian of Greenwich on the 22nd in lat. 40, and that of the Cape on the 26th ; had fine westerlies, and run down her easting on a general parallel of 48; crossed the meridian of Cape Leuwin on the 14th Inst., and made the Snares on Sunday night. Her best day’s work while running down her easting was 314 miles, and she often made from 270 to 300 miles ; had moderate S.E. winds along the Coast until arrival at the Heads. She was anchored off Deborah Bay.