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Evening Star, Issue 3760, 12 March 1875, Page 2

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HIGH WATER. To-morrow. Hums. I Ft. Chalmers. I Dunedin. 6.22 p.m. | 7.02 p.m. | 7.47 p.m. TORT CHALMERS. ARRIVED. March 12.— Albion, s.s., 800 tons, Underwood, bom Melbourne, via the Bluff. Passengers: Mrs Inder, Mr and Mrs Wright, Miss Fenner, Messrs J. Wright, Baker, Francis J. Pulton, W. G. Neill, W. S. Cook, Herbertsbn, and 35 in the steerage and 20 passengers for other ports. Pelican, schooner, 73 tons, Hanning, from Oamartu Glimpse, ketch, 82 tons, Shephard, from Kakanni. Olive Branch, ketch, 16 tons, Brehner, from WaikouaitL SAILED, March 12.—Thomas Brown, barque, 272 tons, Murdoch. Kate Brain, brigantine, 118 tons, Gay, for Stewart s Island. Samson, p.s., 124 tons, Edie, for Camara, PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Crusader, for London, April 9. Express, for Bluff, March 13. claaby, for Newcastle, April 1. Mataura, for London, March 16. Maori, for West Coast, March 13. Margaret Galbraith, for London, early. Nelson, for London, early. Oamaru, for London, early. Phoebe, for Northern ;Ports, March 18. Thomas Brown, for Sydney,'early, Taranaki, for Northern Ports, March 28. Tararua, for Bluff, March 17. Wanganui, for Blnff,.March 16. Wellington, tor Northern Ports, March 13. ' The p.s. Samson, after towing down edin thd brigantine Sea Gull, sailed for Oamaru shortly after the arrival of the 7 o’clock train this morning. The ship Sophia Joakim having been cleaned and had her bottom recoated, was taken out of the Graving Dock this morning, and the .ship-Crusader taken in for repairs. . During a gale on the 19th ult., a heavy sea broke across the bar at Catlin’s River, and the figurehead of the Surat was washed away from the wreck. Little by little this once noble ship is disappearing from human ken'; indeed the ordy wonder is she has stood so long the heavy action of the se t, with which this part of the coast is visited. Messrs M'Meckan, Blackwood’s fine s.s., Albion, from Melbourne via the. Bluff, .arrived alongside the railway pier at 8 o'clock this meriting. ; She cleared Port Phillip Heads at 9.3orP.in. on the 6th inst., and passed Swan Island'at 7 p.m. the J following day. Had moderate S.E. first two days, then light N. E. winds and fine weather throughout the passage.. 'Passed-the Solanders at 6.30 *, m. ou the 11th, and arrived at the Bluff at 10.30 «.m., having made the run across in four days' eleven hours. Discharged 120 tons of Cargo and left for Port Chalmers at 7.30 p.m., and arrived as above. She brings 850 tons.of cargo and 33 bags of mail for this Port. We thaiik her purser, Mr Robert Jones, for report and exchanges. The topsail schooner Pelican arrived from Oamaru this morning. She isafine handy schooner of 73 tons register, built by A. Newton, of TVTa.™i™ g River, to the, order of, Mr. H, Aitken, of Oamaru, and is of the following dimeiisiona':—Length overall, 78 feet 7 inches, with a beam of 19 feet, and depth of hold 7 feet 9 inches. She was launched in the latter part of October last, and left the TWaTining River for Wellington in November, since which she has been employed in the West Coast trade, her last trip taring, been from Pelorns Sound with a cargo of timber for Oamaru. Having discliarged h.er timber, die took on- board 173 bags of wheat, and left Opmarttfor this port at I‘p.m. yesterday, and arrived as above; She;;will be taken into the Gravmg Doqk for the purpose, of being caulked and alterations made. Captain Hanning reports the schooner Dagmar leaving in ballast for this port. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. Wellington, March 12.—Arrived, Phoebe, from Ndson, with the ’Frisco mail, at 3.30 a jn.; she leaves for the South at 4 p.m, , -