Shipping.

Evening Star, Issue 3807, 7 May 1875, Page 3

Shipping.

PORT CHALMERS. A-ttIUVED, May 6.—Trial, ketch, 25 tons, Kelly, from Wai kouaiti. May 7.—Beautiful Star, s.s., 147 tons, Peterson, from Lyttelton via Timaru. Passengers: Messrs Drake, Wilson, Graluun, and six in tlie steerage ortlaucl, skip, 171 tons, Smitli, from HougKon 278 Chinese passengers. Annie, ketch, 22 tons, Haswell. from ‘1 r. e Express, s.s., 136 tons, Chri« ; ... , . , Passengers ; Dr M'Cluve, Moss ~ . Oohlst-w Brindley, Author, and four hi iLs ■ yo. SAILED. May 6.—Luna, Government p.s., 198 tons. Fairchild, for Resolution Island. Wallahi„ s.s., 101 tons, Leys, for Oamaru. Grace, ketch, 16 tons, Brady, for Waikoiiaiti May 7—Taurunga, schooner, 60 tons, Divers f o v the Bluff. ’ ‘ Mallowdale, ship, 1,291 tons, Shaplaud, for Newcastle. Passengers: Mr Campbell, and twelve in the steerage. The sehooner Taurunga took her departure tin morning for the Bluff. , The ship Mallowdale, for Newcastle, was towed to sea this forenoon by the tug Geelong. The Harbor Co.’s s.s. Bruce was taken into the graving dock this morning for a thorough over The p.s. Samson hpving received a thorough overhaul, and cleaned and repainted, was taken out of Murray’s floating dock this morning, and will resume her usual trade, leaving Dunedin this evenin ' for Oamaru. , ° The s.s. Express returned from her usual southern trip at noon to-day, and steamed alongside thefchip Crusader to discharge wool. She left the Bluff Harbor at 5 p.m. yesterday, and had strong winds along the coast to arrival. The Harbor Company’s s.s. Beautiful Si tr, nnived from Lyttelton via Timoru at 9.20 this morning and steamed alongside the ship Oamaru 1o discharge gram. She left Lyttelton at 4 p.m. on the lib, with a number of immigrants from the Tintera Abbey for Txinaru, where she arrived at 10 a.m. on fheSlh i landed immapants and took on board, borides o'.her cargo, 1,245 bags of grain, and left for Port Cimlmers at 6.30 p.m. on the 6cb, and arrived as above, havin',' encountered strong winds dnrin'.- the passage. HThe ship Portland, which arrived at the Heads on the 4th instant, sailed up yesterday afternoon with

wlnd ftS *“■ ft9 tojOros# GtannaLwl^i- ™ earned Win , d faUin ‘i *** ** thl^TebSS: • • e came to anchor, and was towed up to her an cjoiago this forenoon by the tug Geelolig Besides immigrants and 150 tons M cargo for port, she brings 60i» lons of general carlo for 7; e d)oiu'no. Captain Smith reports leavinc-^-fono-fsr «>.<»»*. •xßSus' isfnt a iniiUp weather during the wnole of the nassicp and Rmved at tho Heads on too 4th inst .vnith reports the conduct,,; :he whole of SS ■; .'...is ns most coiumendnb! ■-, An-anpenicncs have .I'! Messrs Th<„ ( ~u . s.-c-eugors hy t )io s.a. J me. SHIPS BURK i’ AT SEA. The oehovuer GKsyicnwi, which arrived at San ! raucisco on the sth of N. vsmber from Tahiti brought as passengers Cap! am W. Freeman, of tli<’ Mogul, and eighteen seajueu trom the crows of the Mogul and Centaur, two vessels destroyed at sea tnrough the coal oi} hoard itikipg fire, The Mogul lett Liverpool as long ago as the 23rd of April and passed Cape Horn on tiro :.’ud July. On the 2nd of August tho coal was found to be on fire, and on the Gth it was necessary to tale the tfiree boats ahnu. don tjie }>hin ip ipdcg ii aniu south latitude, and with thirty days provisions started ou a perilous passage ot 1,400 miles to the Marquesas. No life was <«t. hj ,ie 1, it vessel was built in Maine, and was of 1,o(k) tons. The other snip, the Centaur, of l‘>ss tons bu leu, also loaJeil i a Liverpool, and MltU ilie same IE M ~f pond gt the Mq«ui, and when 101 days out; was hum ut sea in latitude 17deg ./hum south. Tho fire was discovered ou the le.h of August, and on the 19th the ship vent down, 2,500 miles from the Marquesas, for which the crew started in tha bents. Lapta l ,i Poster's boat atet the boat under command of Mr Price, second mate, kept in sight of each other until the 23rd of A ugust. On that day the captain hoisGcd a signal of distressj but, owiu o * to the strong wind and heavy sea, tho mate cmild render no help, and in fey ],Qi;ro (ha capt.dn’s boat was scou ootloiu tvptvarus, and the cuplaiu aud his wife and the crew of live men were lost. The mate and his crew of si< men were then alone in their small boat, with u Thing hut one .‘■ail, a compass, and a, school ilr . r biscuit and r, hall per ;iay, aud a voyage C; about 2,000 pines before imem. For seven days they were in great danger from a galo, and afterwards a singular rouble appeared in the shape of an imicusc sh. al of black iish, which sported and ".a, e,t ah nr the little craft, and vime very mar capsizing it. The un to discovered that the - e,i ,)]; (,v the sail ~r ii,rird then 1 ,, and so he graI'lally lowered il aud tho iish left. One of the most critical diu ics of Mr Price was to save the-water, aud to do iiiis he tied the dipper to his arm, so that 'iiiiie of the sailors could use it with jui his knowledge. He let the sailors measure oui (he he If,pint >t '■■■;!'l-r pm dies, in iht-.ir lurn, so there could be uo o.large of partiality. The biscuit he divided oiniselr. But ii suutd "lot, lialf moubtv, romdinod. ■M times some of the men were ravenously thirsty' and had there not been good discipline a mutiny a-.gut have occurred for tho possession of thowater. Only halt-a-barrc! was left when they touched land, tout the sailors behaved so cndidly, aud their good conduct in su :h trying cTv .uustances deserves oat praise. After ha ving been twenty-three day; in their boar, they lauded at Wellington Island, the mate being thus cloven miles out in his longitude and twonty-fbvee fu his lr,ati(dc,

HIGH WATER. To-morrow. HK4D3. 1 Pt. Chalmers. I Dunldii 4.17 p.m. 1 4.57 p.m. 1 5.43 p.m,