Shipping.

Evening Star, Issue 3738, 15 February 1875, Page 2

Shipping.

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HIGH WATER, To-morrow.

PORT CHALMERS’. ARRIVED. February 13.—S.'unsoa, |'o., 124 tons, Ivlin, Tom Oamaru. Passen.cv.i; Mr and Mrs Martin, Mr and Mrs Cassell and three c’ff!■lron, M ias Newham, Messrs Clailfc, Birder, Newell, Eubb, Walsh, and nine in the steerage. Easby. s.s., 959 tons, Kennedy. from Newcastle, February 2, via W< Uingtou and Lyttelton. Fassengeis ; IVlism-: F dug;'mid, M/Crlaslnn, Griffin, Mows H-suuing, Aden, West, and nine in the steerage. Jane, cutter, 23 tons, Brown, from ;ihag Point. February U.-‘-Wanganui, s.s., 179 tons. Fraser, from the Bluff. Passengers: JTv and Mrs Swan, Mr and Mrs Blanchard, Mr and Mrs Jleogh, Mrs Reid, Mis Mitc’iel. l , Miss Walker. Judge Ward, Messrs Graham, Anderson, Andrews, Sheen, IN her Gun, Mooney, Tennant, Clay field, Logan, Drake, Jacobs, and the Steel and Keogh Dram.a,tie Company. Mnrv Ogilvie, schooner, 72 tons, Falconer, from Hokitika. SAILED. February 13 —Express, s.s., 130 ton?, Christian, for the Bluff. Hope, cutter, 21 tons, Scott, for Tei Tois. Bruce, <j.s , 202 tons, Jones, fur Lyttelton vb Timaro. Calypso, ship, 1,011 tuns, tons. Leslie, for London. Passenger—S ilo.u; ; Dr mo I Mrs Webster and family, Mbs G:nv. Air Stemmc-H; in the s Peerage ; Messrs Elia.-: and Crueso. February 13.—IIuou Belie, ketch, 12 ton?. Currie, fur Nelson. PRO J r.CTEI) DU CART 0 R ICS. Albion, for Lyttelton, February IG. Circe, for Hokitika, early. Comerang, for Bin If, early. Easby. for Newcastle. February 17. Express, for Bluff, February 17. Florence, for Newcastle, early. Harriet Annitage, for Auckland, early. Mataura, for London, early. May Queen, for London, Felmury IP, Osseo, for New York, early Ltar of the South, [or Lcvuka, February 2G. Tararua, for Bluff, February 17. Wellington. for Northern Port,-', February 21. Wallabi, lor .olufl, February IG. The s.s. Wanganui arrived from her usual trip to the Bluff yesterday, and passed the Port to Dunedin. The s.s. Wallabi arrived from Kakanui on Saturday afternoon, and steamed alongside the ship Auckland to discharge wool. Ihe Harbor Co.’s p.s. Samson arrived from Oamaru at G. 30 p.m. on {Saturday, and steamed alongside the ship May Queen to discharge. The fine new ship Calypso, with a fuF cargo and six passengers, was towed to sea early this morning from the railway pier by the tim Geolong.

The passengers l oy the ship G.-irelocli were removed from the vessel to the Quarantine Island yesterday, they Doing cctivovcd hy a lighter towed by the steamer Peninsula. The s.s. Maori, which loft Port Chalmers on Friday last, arrived at Nelson tlv.s morning, and was to leave again at d o’clock this r-.frev-noon for Westport and ether V/coo Coast mr-rC. The new steamship St. Osvfch sailed* firc-i Melbourne on the 31st nit. for London via Cape ot Good Hope, with seventy sabon rasssngers, 150 in the second cabin, intermediate and steerage. ’ The ship Florence, for Newcastle, will be toy/ed to sea this evening, having been detained since Saturday on action nt of an accident happening to her windlass. The feu whig are the nnna.es cf her passengers: -Mr an I'Mrs Kobiiiion and family'(s), and Mr .“ioivi t. , V- 3 - arrived at Melbourne on the 26th ud., having experienced head winds :-T the way from Hokitika. She thus has 'beaten the T tram a again, and had roacheu. M-di or.rm l two clear days before the P. and (;. sleamelh appointed date of departure with ihc Imrward Suez mail. Tbs Albion f U ;-;h.v ii.-i.l accomplished the feat, unpreee-TnL-!, we CPost’) believe, of completing the round of the New Zealand ports from Melbourne and b-ck to that port in fifteen and a-half days, or 220 miles per day, including all stoppages at seven places of call. Her actual travelling time was twelve days seven hours, which, for a distance of 3,000 miles gives an average speed of eleven and a-nalf knots per hour on the whole rum At the railway pier the barque Chaudicve. from New York, has part of her cargo for this port discharged. The ships Wild 1). m and Margaret Galbraith are discharging the remainder of their cargoes, which consist of railway iron. The crew and a number-of men were employed this morning at the shin Sophia Joaknn in dn-eaarping a large punching and bonng machine, weighing ten tons, which will .be conveyed to Dunedin by twin. In the stream the barque Cathaiina lias more than halt ot her Yankee notions for this port discharged, and the ships Candidate and City of lighters faSt dischur S in o tllcil ' cargoes into

The s.s Easby from Newcastle via Lyttelton, which arrived at the Heads ou daturda" forenoon and came to anchor on account of sis feeing ebb tide, steamed up aloimsidc the mb way pier the same evening, k'he arrived* rt Newcastle an the 27th, received quick dispatch, tier detention there being only three days notwithstanding that she took in 1,401) tons' nf coal besides other cargo; left Sydney for Wed!in . ton at / p m. on the 2nd, had fiesh N.E. and b L. Winds to Cape Farewell, thence to Cook btr.m, b. Vs . and arrived at Wellington at 4 pun. «n the 9th ; left again at 0 p,m. on tha lltlb at , L ; yrt h U ', U at 11 I >,Ul - on the Ii * or - LOrt; Chalmers at 1 p on the 12ih, and arrived at the Heads as above changes nk ( " <aptam for report and oxSOMETHING LIKE A FIRE.

American ship Horatio, with a camo of 10,000 cases of kerosene, 30 tons of coal and so- c general cargo was totally destroyed in the river at Hong Kong, on December 10. When the was at its height the scene is thus described bv the G\erland Mail ’lhe deck around the mainmast, the mizemnast, cabin, and taffnil were now one mass of fire, which, seizin" hold oi the lower, standing, and rmminy leaped from rope to rope with grcaUmced and intensity, until botn the main mid tons y/cre in flames and burning furioualv, presentmg a scene that in the darkness of night world have been one of much grandeur, ami vs even lurid and awe-inspiring in face of the no- m’-.-Bun v”,. And after an unsuccessful aitenrV'?scuttling - The flames were raghiy ‘wCh momentarily increasing fury fore and aft. ami priG ioremast was roou biu?;!; niAw-i 'i l m its turn, as ' the (.there -had “w before it, the fire also exteudim-- to the bowsprit and the foretoo, and running from clew-line to bunt** fine" from stay to lanyard, in manner marvellou’ for its swiftness, and painfully suggestive of •he hoi Tors of such a catastrophe at wt About three o’clock the flames had nearly done their destructive work on deck, and downwards to the lower m.rfis <.f (he craft, reached the magazine, which blew vn ■with a flash brilliant in the extreme as ; wcu against the comparative dull rod of 'ho com'Egration around it. The buret of ii!u . followed the explosion was a sickly "icen wbil ithat from the Mazing v.ood. hen! v tIX ■ " oil, presented varied in.'.et l , from. dtu?-! I ' - 1 - i- ( 'j light grey, the volumes tango' great biAmm.l sailing away grandly aeainst the half-Eoi'd-Vl sky. At 3.46 the foie:cast (vent by lL bomv falling over towards the Pool,end shore and throwing up the most sparktim: coruscations while from the forecastle there shot U o f,,--some distance flames and blazing framnentd-o large and fierce as to cause a shudder "at ° th" thought of what was going on below deck. No lives were lost. SHIPPING TELEGRAM. !2. -Arrival: XMitia,