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Evening Star, Issue 3740, 17 February 1875, Page 2

Shipping.

HIGH WATER. ’l’ O-MOHP.O R'. Hates 5 Poet Ghalmkbs I Dchboin 1.24 p.m, | 1.59 p.m, 1 2.44 p.m. PORT CHALMERS. ABHIVED, February 17.—Zior, schooner, 67 tons, Bell, from the coast. Oamaru, ship, 1,305 tons, Stuart, from London, with 280 immigrants. p SAILED. February, 16.—Samson, 124 tons, Edie, for Oamaru. , Albion, R.M.S.S., 800 tons, Underwood, for Melbourne, via Cook Strait. Passengers : For Lyttelton—Mrs and Miss Herman, Mr and Mrs Jones, Mr and Mrs Alves. Misses Sale. For Wellington—Mr ami Mrs •rdro i, iv Knight, Mr Logan. Ivr ai-ki-ik*-- '■’m Melbourne Messrs Birks, DuL.ne, Dunkham, and four steerage. February 17. Glimpse, ketch, for Moeraki. Osseo, brigantine, 454 tons, Lowry, for Wellington. Florence, ship, 800 tons, Houston, for Newcastle. Passengers : Mr and Mrs Robinson and family (5), and Mr Morris. Wanganui, s.s., 179 tons, Fraser, from tho Bluff. gflTararua, 552 tons, Clark, for Melbourne, via the Bluff, Passengers for Melbourne— Captain and Mrs Shand, Mrs Index-, Messrs Eakdale, W. G. Neill, Wilson, Hill, T. Reynolds, H. Whitman, and twenty-two in the steerage. For Bluff—Messrs Johnson and Raphael. PROJECTED OAPASTORES. Brace, for Timaru, February 21. Circe, for Hokitika, early. Comerang, for Bluff, early. Easby, for Newcastle, February 18. Express, for Bluff, February 20. Wellington, for Northern Ports, February 21. The ketch Geelong sailed for Moerakd this morning. The s.s. Wanganui sailed this aftemoen for the Bluff. The brigantine Ossco sailed for Wellington this afternoon. The schooner Zior arrived from the Coast last night, and passed up to Dunedin. The ship Florence, for Newcastle, was towed to sea this morning by the tug Geelong. The s.s. Albion sailed last evening for Mel bourne, via Northern and West Coast Ports. The s.s. Tarama, with the outward Suez mail, sailed for Melbourne, via the Bluff, this afternoon. The ship Margaret Galbraith will be the next vessel to go into the Graving Dock, where she will be cleaned and re-coated with anti-fouling composition. The new steamer Brisbane, of the Torres Strait mail line, on her first voyage delivered her mail in Brisbane in forty-nine days from London, or five days before contract time. On leaving the capital of Queensland for the south, she steamed across the bay —a run of thirty miles —in two hours and thirty minutes.

MORE ABOUT THE LA PLATA. Shortly after the news arrived of the foundering of the La Plata, a. story was current to the effect that the overloaded state of the vessel if had been noticed as she lay in the river. From a correspondence which has just been published between Mr Plimaoll and the Board of Trade, it appears that several persons had observed how dangerously low the ship lay in the water. As long ago as April 10, Mr-Plimsoli sent to the Board of Trade a letter, unfortunately anonymous, in which the peril • was pointed A “Lover of Justice” addressed the “sailors’ friend,” in spelling obviously that of the pre-School Board period. Because he could not give his name, and because anonymous letters are very properly suspected, no steps were taken to prevent La Plata from going to sea with a great addition to her bidden. We all know the result-sixteen men have been saved out of a crew of seventy-four. It is sad indeed to think that Mr Plimsoll received letters purporting to come from * several correspondents who all foresaw what must happen and who could not afford to endanger their places by giving their names. If there are shipowners who neglect to take proper precautions, and trust to the chapter of accidents, to save a few hundred pounds, the Daily News ’ says they must be told that they are engaged in i traffic much worse than the slave trade, or the profession of piracy. Her Majesty, on reading of the loss of La Plata, and of the heroic conduct displayed by Captain Dudden, caused an inquiry to be made as to the circumstances under which Mrs Dudden was left, intimating her desire to mark her opinion of the husband’s bravery by rendering assistance to his widow. In thanking her Majesty f® r her generous offer, it was announced that Mrs Dudden was not in any want, and that the firm interested in the ship and cargo had already resolved to make provision for her, THE WRECK OF THE BLENCATHRA. This vessel went on to the rocks on pngs Island on the 3rd of February during thick weather. The fog was thick when night set in, and the wind shifted round to the north, so that both the direction of the wind and the current had a tendency to drive St,? 68 ?*!*? % e eaß . t - °»Pt»in frequently went aloft in the mizen rigging for the purpose of dookmg out. At about 10 o’clock the weather cleared up somewhat, and the captain wad he saw from the mizen-mast a light ahead, though no one else descried it. This fin-ht only appeared occasionally, and induced the’captain mu the revolving light of Cape Otway. The ship had been under easy canvas, but when the weather cleared up somewhat Thifl « ? rderS were given to spread more sail. S ™ P t rfcia F y a ™ ed out when the man on the look-out cried “Land ahead.” AU hands were at once called on deck and three distinct attempts were made to nut the ship about, but she would not wear. P lt was attempts did not succeed, for if the vessel had not missed stays she would have struck some outlying rocks, and aU bauds would have been lost. Orders were then hastily given to let the anchors go. They were dropped with great, jiromptitude, but they bit suddenly on strain abruptlyput ou tfeables was too sudden, and they urtS Just after the cables snapped the ves?el strack —bsrhtly at first but with more violence gff S 7, i a ? daftPr a few concussions she w£ flu l / Fluted idem on to the rooky bottom of the beach ot Kui"’; rn., ri i J . , , 1 thr*. miles to Admiral was wrecked, about 100 yards south of Currie Harbor, and within a stone’s throw from, the shore. The Blencathra vZ, a C " bont ARRIVAL OF THE OAMARU. Tlie fine iron ship Oamaru of 1 on- . Heads at'B li,a proceeded down carlv +bL ™ 4 4l1 " * ■ !;< -lorg •her uu as far as theVuaran+l' 11 'p" !l!K - tou ' ed • Health, Immigratioiu^iui^fllei^Mc^Off'^^ o Trent down, and in ; lc aiance Officers tiens Captain Stewart In® USUfd h’lev been three deaths on board le .J* there had but not from any h,For< :, (J *. young children, .iM a™, „ **M sunstroke. and one that ,l£d J I tlev from »00,,. There tal £& W the voyage. There wot,. . wuee buthsduung the first appeared on the 17lh°Demthe patient was conv-d. eC£ , er . a nd also two cases of scarlatina* theffi-sl c it ‘ U ’ its appearance on the dlh’of I’d 4 making cases were very mild • , hj 1 l ’ ru,ir y- flolh of those who la’,T> b'i a V i ,he clothing troyetL a has been deshaving P been vm v ' 1^1 1 V°° d hplllt, ‘. thduring the pai jra tt amongst the,.-, ordered the yelhvw health Officers then decision of the BoardVf uu itc(l P° ndi »B the the vessel being placed tb - Un account of tumble to fttrnW| l our rLa? fiuaranth o, we are °t TQUd’g paewge but r w Wlth a . f H u rt port but we we indebted to

Captain Stuart for the following p articulars Jhe Oamam left Greenock on the 30th of November, with 280 passengers, and cleared the Channel on the 2nd of Decern' ber. Had N. and N.E. winds until about the 3 ith, when she had light variable winds until crossing the Equator on the 26th, in long. 27.: 38, where she picked up the S.E. trades, whicl i were moderate, and got the westerlies on the 11th of January in 11.41 S. 15 W, , cro ssod the meridian of the Cape on the 18th, he> i steady westerlies until reaching the Tasmani an coast, since which she has had light baffling w finds, and ran down her easting in about 46 ; made the land, Chasland’s Mistake, at noon on Monday, and arrived off the Heads at 8 p.m’- last night, having had a fine weather passage of 78 days from port to port. Captain Stuart reports passing an iceberg during the passage.