Shipping.

Evening Star, Issue 4028, 24 January 1876, Page 3

Shipping.

HIGH WATER,

PORT CHALMERS. AEEIVED, January 22.—Shag, s.s., 31 tons, Wing, from Shag Point. January 23.—Beautiful Star, s.s., 146 tons, Peterson, from Timaru. Passengers: Miss Cooper, Messrs Duukley, Gaune, Sujune, Hexlcy, and seven steerage. Mnori, s.s.. 115 tons, Malcolm, from Pamoru. Passenger.- Mr Sinclair. Samson, p.s., 124 tons, Edie, from Oamaru. Passengers : Mrs Hamilton, Misses Broonie, Curie, Miller, Messrs Thompson, Edwards, Gillies, Daniels, Parker, Usher, Cook, I’aulin, and three steerage. Express, s.s., 136 tons, Kraser, from the Bluff, Passengers; Mr and Mrs Marks, Mr and Mrs Sew Hoy, Mesdames Weston, Walker, Misses Kennedy, Kiddy, Leonard, Dr Mark, Messrs Aldridge, George, Jack, Jones, Gardner, Jamieson, Cottersley, Jefferson, Leith, Moir, Forrest, Campbell, and five steerage. Hawca, s.s., 461 tons, Wheeler, from Lyttelton and the North. Passengers: Mr and Mrs Hudfield, Mesdames Raima, .Storey, Orr, Griffiths, Ritchie, Allan and two children., O’Connell, Misses Mouoghan, Edwords, {Storey, Knight, Jones, Eae, Whitcombe, Holmes, Warren, Revs. Messrs Dean and Blackpool, Captain Wing, Messrs M'Derinid, Vealc, orton, Harper, King, Shaw, Jennings, Ford, Keele, Dalton, Gilchrist, Gordon, Garrard’ Jones, Carty, Brown, Garlaue, G.' W. Geddes, Kennedy, Puddieomhc, Ross, Fidlor, Esther, Froggart, Thomson, Niven, Crowther, and seventeen in th« steerage. SAILED. January 22.—Comerang, p.s., 124 tons, Best, for Southern Ports. January 23.—G00d Templar, ketch, 42 tons, Currie, for Port Molyneux. Edith Reid, ketch, 74 tons, Munro, for Port Molyneux. January 24.—Bobycito, barque, 432 tons, White, for Newcastle. Kedrou, barque, 374 tons, Maun, for Guam. American Lloyds, barque, 510 tons, Park, for Lyttelton.

Messrs Houghton’s s.s. Express arrived fr#m her usual trip to the Bluff at 10 a.m. yesterday, and steamed past the Port to Dunedin. The new s.s. Taiaroa steamed up to Dunedin on Saturday afternoon, for the purpose of receiving cargo, and will leave to-morrow for Lyttelton via Timaru.

The steamer Shag returned ou Saturday afternoon from Shag Point and Moeraki, and after transhipping -46 bales of wool to the Auckland steamed up to Dunedin.

The Union Company’s s.s. Maori arrived yesterday morning from her special trip to Oamaru, and steamed alongside the ship Calypso to tranship n quantity of wool.

The Union Co.’s p.s. Samson left Oamaru at 1.50 p.m. on Saturday, and arrived off the Heads at 6.15 the same evening; but, owing to the heavy fog, anchored for the night; weighed anchor at 7 a.m. yesterday, and in steaming up the harbor touched the bank below the second red buoy, where she remained for a short time.

The barque Anna Dorathoa will be taken into Murray’s floating dock to-morrow for overhaul and repairs, after which sin* will be fitted up for the conveyance o? Chinese passengers to Hong Kong, The schooner Mary Wgilvie will sail this evening for Grcynionth. The Union Company's s.s. Beautiful Star, from Lyttelton via intermediate ports, returned yesterday morning. She left Lyttelton at 3 p.m. on Thursday; encountered a strong N.E. gale to Timarn. at which port she arrived at 7 a.m. on Friday, and left at 11 a.m. on Saturday. Beached the Hoads at 11 p.m., but remained outside until the fog lifted. The barque Bobycito, in ballast for Newcastle, was towed to sea this morning by the tug Geelong; and the barque ICedrou, for Guam, towed to sea by the s.s. Juno.

The barque American Llyods, with part of original cargo, from New York, for Lyttelton, took her departure this morning, being towed clear of the land by the tug Geelong. The p-s. Samson, after discharging her wool this morning, was taken on to Murray’s Floating Dock to be cleaned.

The Union Co.’s fine s.s. Hawca, with sixty-nine passengers and a large cargo, including (103 bales of wool from the Northern Ports, arrived alongside the railway pier at 1 p.m. yesterday. She left t in; Maimkan at 3 |>.m. on (be 18th, Nelson at 2 pan. on the 20th, Wellington at 3.30 p.m. on the 21st, meeting with a N.E. gale until arrival at Lyttelton, which port she left at 3.30 p.m. on Saturday, with a light N.H. wind and thick fog, which continued until arriving oil' Oauiaru. Wo thank Mr Ponsonhy (purser) for report and exchanges. On November 13, the last vessel on the stocks at the yard of Palmer’s Shipbuilding Company, at, Jarrow, was launched. She is an iron sailing ship, named the Watroa. and has been built for the New Zealand Shipping Company. On November 15, Messrs John Elder &

launched from their shipbuilding yard, at Fairfu r i a magnificent iron screw-steamer, named v., Australia, 2,800 tons gross, and of the. following dimensions: —Length between perpendiculars, 37‘) feet ; breadth, moulded, :}?§ feet ; depth, 201'eef This vessel has bon designed and constructed f< c thcnc.v mail line or sicameis between San Fnr.cisco, New Zealand, and Australia. The engim. ■ will bo 500-horsc power nominal. When linishc.i. the vessel will be fitted up in a very elegant manner, having accommodation for IVO first-class, 30 secon, and lod thiol-class passengers, while cselnsiie iliiarlers will be pvovlilt d for the officers ami ciw. y0 in number. T> c saloon is 4211. long, by 37/t wide. This|vcsscl is a sister ship to thcZealnmlia, launched by the same linn for the some lino on the 18lh October Inst. _____ SHIPPING ToLEGEAifS. Lyttei.TOn, January 22—The Wailaugi s iled lo<lay, and the wool ships Moropo and Zen land ia leave f o-morrow for London. It is expected to he a close race between the three ships.

Heads. TO-AIOBKOW. 1 Pt. Chadmeks. 1 Dunedin 2.26 p.ni. 1 3.06 p.ui. | 3.5i j).m,