Shipping.

Evening Star, Issue 3789, 16 April 1875, Page 3

Shipping.

(HIGH WATER. To-kobbow. I Pt- 1 Cealmes. I Dtobdut. 1.11 pan. | 1.51 pan. | 2.36 p.m. TORT CHALMERS. arrived. Tit^i 6 ~^ edron ' ba iqoe, 373 tons,Mann,from Liverpool. Passenger: Bfr Walton. ,ti£ Cb ’ Bohoon er.6s tons, Francis, from HoldfromftmiS 1, 6dl0 “* d * « tons. Peterson. Hope, barge, 25 tons, Tyson, from Waikouaiti. Siam. Wallabi, 8.8., 101 tons. Leys, for Oamaru. 8 ’- 60 tonB * Vrquart, for the Samsom p. 8., 124 tons, Edie, for Oamaru. p i Sf ana p Q ’ s - s -» 298 tons. Uoyd, for Northern Ports. Passengers: Saloon-Pot Lyttelton—Mrs Eraser and three ohildren. Miss Hopkmson, Messrs Teend, Shepherd, and Heony. For Wellington—Mr Robertson, and ten In the steerage for all ports. 1 ■, PBOraOTBS mrABTUBXS. Wnuganul, for Bluff, early. Wallabi, for Oamaru, early. WeUington, for Northern Ports. April 21. Waitara, for London, early. The N. Z. S. S, Company’s s.s. Taranaki took her departure this forenoon for the Northern ports. She takas the racers Right Bower and Rory O’More to Xiytcelton. During the heavy north-east gale that sprang up early this mommg. the barque Southern Cross (winch would have been towed out for Lyttelton this monung) dragged her anchors, hut 'the other vessels in the stream hung on well to their moorines and the schooner Peerless took advantage of the breeze to sail to Dunedin. Harbor Bteam Company’s steamer Samson made the run from Camara to Port Chalmers, on Wednesday morning, in less than four and threequarter hours. She left Oamaru at 11.30 a.m. and arrived at Port Chalmers at 4.12 p.m., thus performing tho trip in the above remarkably short tiwa, ? “ : rmmmg with the new floats since the 10th March: the voyages made with the common floats, immediately preceding tho use of the patent ones, took seven hours and six hours respectively. The company deserve praise for their spirit and onterpnse,and this shows theywereiustifledinMoptine f he new improvement. We are informed she steams against q, bead wind Infinitely better, and her steermg and towing qualities are greatly improved. Messrs Sparrow and Co., engineers, are constructing entirely new wheels for her on Stevens’s patent principle. THE SEARCH POR THE EUPHROSYNE. Tb? schooner yacht Jessie Nicol,, which, through thekhidnesj other owner, Mr John M'Lean, was placed at the disposal of the Government tosearoh tor the missing schooner Euphrosyne, of which no /fn&teJT 1 r^°, die left this port on the 13th of March for Oamaru, returned to port yesterday afternoon and anchored off Deborah Bay. Bvcm- effort has been made to obtain a clue to the Euphrosyne, but without success. The yacht took her departure from Port Chalmers on the 25th of March, and bore away to the N.B. until daylight of the 21st, when she commenced waving & ziarzasr course to northward and eastward, keepingfrom twenty to thirty miles outside the steamers’ tracks, a map hdng kept at the mast-head during the day. and a flaw light shown at intervals of thirty minutes during the night. The course was kept until in latitude of Castle Point, when the wind veering to the northward, the Nicol stood away ror Chatham Islands. After encountering a strong S. pie, during whn& the vessel was hove-to,and being detamed with Bght baffling winds near the Islands, die arrived to Waitangi Bay at 5 p.m. on the sth, where Pilot Stevens landed and made every possible inquiry, hut the Euphrosyne had neither been seen nor heard of in any part of the Islands. TheNioolleftat4 a.m. on the 7th, with a light westerly wind, which continued until arrival. ARRIVAL OP THE BARQUE KBDRON. The barque Kedrou, which was reported in our last issue as having arrived at the Heads was towed up to her anchorage last night by the tug Geelong, after a rather protracted passage of 123 days from Liverpool, She left Liverpool on the 13th of December, discharged her pilot off Bell Buoy, and took her final departure from the Tuscan on the 10th, with a light S.W. wind, which increased to a strong gale, and lasted for twelve hours, during which a heavy sea broke on board, and washed away the cases of acids which were lashed on deck The wind moderated and shifted to the E.S.E. and so continued until picking up the N.E trades on the 29th of December in lat. 28 n! These trades, which were moderate, were lost on the 7th of January in lat.. 6.34 N.; thence had light variable winds until crossing the equator on the 16th of January in long, 27 W., crossed tho meridian of Greenwich on the 13th of February ; on the 30th of January spoke the barque Allen, of Liverpool: from Langarra to Falmouth, seventy-one days out; and on the 31st, the barque Vale of Neath, from Eton Francisco to Queenstown, ninety-one days out. The meridian of Greenwich was crossed in lat 41‘40 S. had strong N.W. and westerly winds until passing the meridian of the Gape on the 24th of February, when she got the westerlies, and on the Bth of March encountered a heavy S.W. gale,' with a tremendous cross sea; hove the ship to under a close-reefed maintopsail, and on the 9lh at 10 p.m. a heavy sea broke on board, washing away a man from the wheel and a 5 seaman named James Cook overboard. Neither man was seen again. The sea smashed the skylights, half filled the cabin with water, carried the bulwarks on both sides from aft to midships, smashed the long boat, carried away foresail and staysail, and started the chain elates, besides severely straining the vessel. Upon sounding the pumps it was found the ship was making water. From that time the pumps had to he kept frequently going. The gale moderated on the 10th, N.W. to N.E. winds were experienced until the 4th April. On the 11th the wind again increased with thick weather; hove the vessel to until the 13th, then made sail, and passed Stewart’s Island without sighting it; the first land, about the Nuggets, being seen at noon on the 14th. Her easting was rundown between the parallels of ,45 and 47.

SHIPPING TELEGRAMS,

Cheistchtjech, April 15.— The New Zealand Company's ship Wsimate sailed to-day, her advertised date, with forty passengers and a full cargo:—2,4oo bales wool, 1,000 tons wheat. The cargo is valued at L 70.000. Wellington, April 15.—Sailed: Wellington, for the South. Passengers: Mr and Mrs Moseley and three children, Mrs and Miss Campbell, Mr and Miss Bowles, Dr Boss, Messrs Duncan, Sims, Powell, Cross, Lewis, Melville, Spry, Gollindge, Cotterill, Roberts, M'Carthy, Lambre, Bowles, Jeffrey, Prance, Gilligan, B. and N. M‘Rae, Dickson, Silcock, Alexander, Master Brown, Misses M'Kay, Colt, M’Laughton, Mason, and Renan, Mrs Baues, and Mrs Marriott, Sergeant EnSsell and two prisoners. April 16.—Arrived: Tararua, at 9 a.m. She will not leave till Sunday morning at 7.