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Evening Star, Issue 3773, 29 March 1875, Page 2

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HIGH WATER. TO-iIOKKOW. Heads. j Pt. Chalmers. | Pvnedin. 7,38 p.m, | 8.18 p.m. J 9.03 p.m. POET CHALMERS. ARRIVED, March 27. —Samson, p.s., 134 tons, Edie, from Oamaru. Passengers: Mrs Thomson and son, Messrs Coggins, Bailey, Booth, and fifteen in the steerage. March 28.—Jane, cutter, 25 tons, Graham, from Shag Point, Dunedin, schooner, 66 tons, Stewart, from Timaxa. Wanganui, s.s., 170 tons. Eraser, from the Bluff. Omeo, s.s., 660 tons, Whitburn, from Melbourne, March 20, via Bluff. Passengers ; From Melbourne —Mr and Mrs Briggs, Messrs Cargill, Findlay, Childs, Rowe, Mitchell, Orr, Chapman, Peacock, and thirty in the steerage. Prom the Bluff—Messrs Carden, Gellatchy, Carr, and five in the steerage. Agnes, schooner, 128 tons, Short, from Auckland. Passengers: Captain Stewart, Mrs Edwards. Olive Branch, ketch, 16 tons, Brebner, from Waikonoiti. Defiance, ketch, 21 tons, Burke, from Kakonui. SAILED. March 28.—Kestrel, ketch, 51 tons, Berne, for the Bluff. Jessie, ketch, 31 tons, Lyders, for Waikonaiti. Gatlin, ketch, 46 tons, Hannah, for the Bluff. Taranaki, s.s., 286 tons, Lloyd, for Lyttelton and the North, Passengers: For Lyttelton—Mr and Mrs Delamain, Miss Pye, Messrs Caro, Campbell, Hines, Jamieson, Richardson, Cutts, Webb, Davis, Kirkpatrick, Whiteley, Kershaw, Drake. For Wellington—Mrs Hoskins and two children, Miss Fisher, Messrs Field, Hogg, Fisher, Cornish, Carroll, Street, Orr, Ward; Griffiths, For Manakau—Mr and Mrs Thomson, Messrs Quarterly, M'Beath, Lusk, Wheeler. For Napierr-Mr O’Shannassey. For Greymouth—Mr and Miss Strike, and twenty in the steerage. Beautiful Stax, s.s., 146 tons, Peterson, for Timaro. Shag, s.s., 45 tons. Wing, for Shag Point. Express, s.s., 136 tons, Christian, for the Bluff. Lady of the Lake, s.s., 60 tons, TJrquhart, for the Molyneux. Hope, entter, 20 tons, Scott, for Moeraki. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Alhambra, for Bluff, April 1. Bruce, for Lyttelton, early. Beautiful Star, for Lyttelton, early. Cdmerang, for Bluff, early, . Crusader, for London, April 9. lasby, for Newcastle, April 3.Lffltitia, for Napier, early. Maori, for Timarn, April 1. - Maori, for West Coast Ports, April 13. Margaret Galbraith, for London, early, Oamarn, for London, early. Omeo, for Lyttelton, March 80. Itago, for Lyttelton, April 3. Star of the South, for Fiji, April 14. Samson, for Oamaru, March 30. Tararna, for Bluff, April 12. Caranaki, for Northern Ports, early. Waitara, for Loncon, early. Wanganui, for Bluff, early. Messrs M’Meckan, Blackwood and Co.’s fine steamer Omeo arrived at PortChalmers’at 8.30 a.m. yesterday. In consequence of the severe indisposil tion of Mrs Calder, Captain Calder remains in Melhonme this trip, his place being supplied by Captain Whitburn, The schooner Agnes arrived at 10 a.m. yesterday ■with a full cargo of timber from Auckland. She is a new vessel of 128 tons register and of the following dimensions Length of keel, 81ft 6in; beam, Sift Sin, with a depth Of hold of 10ft 7in, and was built to the order of Captain Short by Mr Darragb of Auckland. ’ The Durham, on her late run from London to Melbourne, did not put m at the Cape as the St Osyth did, hut m idn the passage out direct in forty 1 eight days twelve hours. Sh. averaged 261 knots a day, or nearly eleven knots per hour, her best day’s work being 320 and the least 174 miles. The Great Britain was sixty-three days on the passage, having met with hod weather the first five days out, during which time she only logged 400 miles. To-day was observed as a holiday by nearly the whole ,of the vessels in port, the only vessel discharging at the railway pier being the Omeo. There -were no arrivals, and the only departure was the cutter Hope, for Moeraki. The p.s. Golden Age after landing a number of excursionists at Portobello, proceeded down to the Port with the remainder, the chief attraction there being the ship Weilington in the Graving Dock. The p.s. Samson which was liberally patronised, made an excursion to the Heads.