Shipping.

Evening Star, Issue 3751, 2 March 1875, Page 2

Shipping.

HIGH WATER. To-morrow, Heads I Poet Chalmbbs I Ddkbddj 1,02 p.nu I 11.42 p.m. | 0.27 p.m. PORT CHALMERS. A* THE HEADS. Swordfish, brigantine, from Hobart Town. ARRIVED. March 1. —Alhambra, s.s., 497 tons, Sinclair, om Melbourne, via Cook Strait. _ Passengers : Cesdames Asher, Phillips and child, M'Queen, ainish, Post and family (4), Wallace, Mr and jrs Clark and family, Mr and Mrs Moss, liases Rattray, Black, Messrs Brown, Cowie, :eid, Waiter, River ; 22 steerage. March 2. Dunedin, schooner, 66 tons, tewart, from Wellington SAILED. March I.—Ladybird, s.s., 266 tons, Andrews, >r Lyttelton and the North. Passengers : frs Naskelski and two children, Messrs De •oissac, Sale, Dixon, Jacobs, the Girards roupe (7); and three steerage. March 2.—Bruce, s.s., 205 tons, Jones, for yttelton, via Timarn. Shag, 8.5., 42 tons, Wing, for Shag Point. Alhambra, 497 tons, Sinclair, for Melbourne, ’assengera: For Melbourne—Misses Farra i) and Calvert, Messrs Keogh, Anthor, J. ■halzell, Wyndham, Lotbin; and twenty-seven a the steerage. For the Bluff—Mrs B. H. iolomon, Misses Kay, Carr, and Monthagn, Messrs Solomon, Albert, Adam, R. Matthews, Cameron, Attwood, Fisher; and two in the steerage, PROJECTED DEPASTURES. Bruce, for Timaru, March 2. Easby, for Newcastle, April L Harriet Armitage, for Sydney, early. Maiaura, for London, early. Maori, for West Coast, March 13. Otago, for Lyttelton, March 3. Phoebe, for Northern Ports, March 18. Taranaki, for Northern Ports, March 5. Wallabi, for Bluff, early. Wanganui, for Bluff, March 4. Wellington, for Northern Ports, March 13. The ship Wild Deer was removed from the railway pier this morning by the tag Geelong, and anchored below the shipping. The topsail schooner Dunedin, from Wellington, sailed up this morning, and passed up to Dunedin with a fine N.E. breeze. The were no less than six vessels in full sail off the Ocean Beach at one time this morning, five of them being in a cluster for a considerable period. The barque Thomas Brown was removed from the stream alongside the railway pier this morning and will discharge her cargo Into the railway trucks. The barque Freetrader, which took the ground in the cross-channel while being towed up to Dunedin, will discharge part of her cargo into lighters, and when sufficiently lightened will be towed to Dunedin, where she will discharge the remainder. The directors of the N.Z.S.S. Company have determined to fit the s.s. Wellington with compound engines, and being anxious to have the work done in the _ Colony have invited tenders for the construction of new engines on this principle fiom the various firms in Auckland, Wellington, and Dunedin in a position to undertake the execution of such a job. The B.s. Alhambra arrived alongside the railway pier at 7.20 p.m. yesterday, from Melbourne via the West Coast and Northern ports. She cleared Port Phillip Heads at 2.30 p.m. on the 17th, reached Hokitika on the morning of the 23rd, called at the Grey, Nelson, Wellington, Lyttelton, and Oamaru. At the latter place loaded 1,100 bags of wheat for Melbourne. The schooner Owake, from Havelock, arrived early this morning with a full cargo of timber. She left Havelock on the 23rd inst., had N.E. winds until the 26th, when the wind shifted to the S.E. and increased to a gale, and was hoveto for four hours ; it then moderated, and she made the Heads last night and sailed up as above. Reports the brigantine Seagull loading at Havelock for this port.