Shipping.

Evening Star, Issue 4043, 10 February 1876, Page 3

Shipping.

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POET CHALMERS. ABBIVXD. February 9.—Samson, p.s., 124 tons, Sinclair, from Oamaru. Passengers—Mr and Mrs Conyers and family, Mr and Mrs Armstrong, Mesdames Shaw, Newey, Misses Beranger, Wait, Messrs Gray, Cameron, Padget, Wyles, Clark, Hunter, Proudfoot, Richmond, Constable Henderson, three prisoners, and eighteen in the steerage. Queen of the Sou*h, barque, 876 tons, Adair, from the Mauritius. February 10.—Martha Reid, schooner, 80 tons, Peterson, from Port Molyneux. Wild Deer, ship, 1016 tons, Malcolm, from Glasgow. Passengers: Saloon—Dr and Mrs Thompson and servant, Mr and Mrs Campbell, Messrs Johnstone and Eyre, and twenty-five in the second cabin and'steerage. SAILED. Kerns, for Catlin'aßiver. Shag, s.s., 31 tons, Wing, for Shag Point and Moeraki. , Edith Reid, ketch, 75 tons, Munroe, for Port Molyneux. Fanny, ketch, 25 tons, Williams, for Catlings River. ; Isabella, ketch, 32 tons, Purdie, for Catlin'a River. February 9.—Jane Hannah, schooner, 52 tons, Shields, for Catlin's River. . ; Beautiful Star, s.s., 146 tons, Peterson, for Lyjttelton, via Timaru.

Wanganui, s.s., 179 tons, Christian, for Bluff Harbour. February 10.—Grace, ketch, 16 tons, Brady, tor Moeraki.

PBOJECTEDIDEPARTUBES. Arawata, for Melbourne, February 16. Albion, for Sydney, February 24. Comerang, for Riverton, February 12. Kxpiess, fer Invercargill, February 12. Easby, for Sydney, February 15. Hawea, for Wellington, February 22. Otago, for Melbourne, March 1. Ringaroon:a, for Melbourne, February 23, Samson, for Oamaru, February 11. Taupo, for Wellington, February 15. Waimate, for London, February 29.

The Union Company's p.s. Samson arrived last night from Oamaru, and steamed alongside the new pier to discharge wool, her passengers being conveyed to Dunedin by the p.s. Golden Age: < The topsail schooner Martha Reid, with a full cargo of wool, grain, and coal, arrived early this morning from the Molyneux. , \ The topsail schooner Owake, with a full cargo df timber from Pelorus Sound, arrived on Tuesday. She| left that port on November 9 for Oamaru, from which port she proceeded to Wanganui, thmde to Havelock, from there to Wellington; she then proceeded to Manama and took lon board 42,000 ft of timber, and lefb for this port on the 31st; experienced fresh E. and S.E. winds to arrival. Cap* tain Arndt reports the schooner Jans Anderson leaving the Pelorus for this port on the 26th ult. \ ■ Captain Hayward, the Deputy Harbour-master at Catling River, has been presented by over thirty of the master mariners frequenting that port with an address in recognition of the many valuable services and kiadnessss rendered by him to those trading to the port during the many years he has held his appointment there. We agree with the • Clutha Leader' that i; is seldom that a more deserving or better earned testimonial has been presented to anr one.

The barque Queen of the South, which arriTed at the Heads yesterday afternoon from the Mauritius, was towed up last evening by the Geelong. She I brings a full cargo of sugar, 13,234 packages being I for this port, and the balance of 8,940 packages for Lyttelton. The Queen of the South has made a very good passage of thirty-eight days, she having l left the Mauritius on the Ist of January, with the usual S.E. trade winds, which were light, and were carried to 41 S., on the 19th, when she got the westerlies,, which held light and moderate until within twelve • miles of Stewart's Island. Then the wind'- shifted to the N.W., and freshened to a heavy gale j but the barque rah before it, and made the S.W. end of Stewart's Island on the morning of the 7th. Thence to arrival had light southerly and westerly winds. The following coasters are lying at the Heads waJvl' 11 * ' or a s "tft o' wind to proceed South : Brfganw ll6 Seagull, sclioone- Jane Hannah, ketches Lloyd'* jfcu"rald, Fanny, Edith Eeid, and Isabella.' ABEIVAL tf? THE SHIP WILD DEEE. : Messrs Patrick Henderson and Co.'s ship Wild Deer, with thirty-nine passengers and 1,400 tons of cargo, was towed up this alSeraoon by the Geelong after a passage of 103 daya irom Glasgow, which port she left on the 4th of November- She took her departure from Tuskar on the 7th, and had steady N.W. winds until getting the N.E. trades to lafc. 25.36 N.; on the 24th November, fjghted San Antonio on the 27th. The trades were very light, and were lost in lat. 6 N. ; thence had a spell of doldrums for a week, and crossed the equator in long. 30 W. en the 7th .of December: '-hence calms until the 11th, when she met in lat. 2 S. the S.E. trades,, which continued until the 23rd December in lat. 22 S., then experienced variable winds and got the steady westerlies on the 27th. On January lßt, while (iarryinggallantsails, and the vessel was running ab#ut ten knots an hour,'one of the ship's boys, named Bobert Robertson, fell overboard from the main rigging. ' The Vessel was immediately hove-to, and a life-boat lowered 1 . In endeavoring© to rescue the boy the boat capsized,!and by the time a second boat was lowered and got alongside the capsized one, two of the men were drowned, named Andrew Kirkwood and Duncan M'Kenzie. Crossed the meridian of Greenwich on the 2nd January, and that of the Cape on the 6th, and kept the steady westerlies until making the land, having run down her easting between the parallels of 45 and 48 S. Made the Snares at 7 p.m. on the Bth, had S.Wj winder along the coast, and arrived off the Heads at 11 a.m. yes-

terday. ■ SHIPPING, TELEGBAM. Lyttelton, February a.m., City of Son Francisco, from Port Chalmers. Nelson, February 10.—Sailed at 10 a.m., Arawata, for Wellington. '•.-;'

TO-MORUOW. Heads. I Ft. Chalmbes. 1 Dtjnedin 4.03 p.m. 4.43 p.m. 1 5.28 p.m