Shipping.

Evening Star, Issue 4044, 11 February 1876, Page 3

Shipping.

HIGH WATER.

POET CHALMERS, ABKIVKD.

February 10.-Oxford, ship. 1,282 tons, Vans, from London November 25. Passengers: Messrs Devonport and O'Donnell. Second cabin: Mr and Mrs Osborne, Messrs Brockbauk; Bourden, Moi vis Ellis Third class : Mr and Mrs Jeflavd and child, Mr and Mrs Jones, Messrs Johnson, White, Cosbarn, Pullock, He3ter, Bellamy, Newall, Liggers, Sloans. Phoebe, s.s., 410 tons, "Worsp, from Lytteltpu and the North. Passengers: Mr and Mrs Harris, Mrs Barker Misses Bott (2), Murphy ; Messrs Reichardt, Cottrell, Whitley, M'Kenzie, Howe, Harper, Baillie Heath, White, Mitchell, Kalph, Peterson, Campion : and 48 in the steerage. Easby, s.s., 969 tons, Kennedy, from Syduoy via Coast ports. Passengers; Miss Donkiu, Messrs Metcalf, Medlicott, Master Kennody; and 13 in the steerage. Maggie Paterson, schooner, 88 tons, H. Taterson, from Kanaparn, Pelonis Sound. Anne, ketch, 29 tons, Kamsay, from AUday Bay. Wanganui, schooner, 84 tons, Blaner, for Kaikouras. ~Conierang, p.s., 156 tons, Best, from Invercargill and the Bluff. Passengers: Misses M'Giliavray (2) Emily Oldham, and Bellamy, Master Brodiick (2) Mes rs Brown, Atkinson, Anderson, Thompson, M Intyre, Johnston; and five in the steerage. SAILED. February 11.—Samson, p.s., 124 tons, Sinclair. for Oamaru. PEOJECTED DEPABTUIIIiS. Arawata, for Melbourne, February 16. Albion, for Sydney, February 21. Comerang, for Biverton, February 12. Expieas, for Invereargill, February 12. Easby, for Sydney, February 15. Hawea, for Wellington, February 22 Otago, for Melbourne, March 1. Eingarooma, for Melbourne, February 23 Taupo, for Wellington, February 15. Waimate, for Loudon, February 29.

The barque Queen of the South was removed from the stream and moored alongside the railway pier to discharge her Dimedin cargo of sugar. The p.s. Conierong returned at teu thiß morning from Ler usual southern trip to Invercargill and tha Bluff, and steamed past the Port to Dimedin The topsail schooner Maggie Patterson, with a full cargo of. timber from Pelorus Sound, arrived yesterday afternoon, and passed the port to Dimedin, with a fine N.E. breeze and flood tide. The ketch Aune arrived last night from Moeraki and Allday Bay. On Monday, while loading at Allday Bay, she was compelled to clear, i.t consequence of the heavy easterly gale and high sea, and v.ut into Moeraki for shelter, which port she left on Wednjsday evening. The topsail schooner Wanganui, with 212 bales of wool, returned from her trip to the Kiikoras this morning. She left Port Chalmers en the 3rd inst had strong S.S.E. and B.W. winds, and arrived at the Kaikouras after a splendid run of thirty hours • discharged, loaded, and left again on Tuesday evening: had light S.E. and N.E. wiuds to arrival. The New Zealand S.S. Company's steamer Phoebe arrived at the new pier, Port Chalmers, at 4 p m yesterday, from the North. She left the Manukaii at 3.46 p.m. on the sth inst., arrived off Taranaki at 11 a.m. next day, landed a quantity of cargo, and left at 2 p.m. for Nelson, a riving there at 7.30 a.m. on the 7th. Left again at 5 p.m., reached Pietoii at 2.30 a.m. on the Bth, and remained there one hour, and then pushed ahead for "Wellington, raining it at 8.30 a.m. Went on again at 4.39 p m" arrived at Lyttelton at noon on the 9th; left at 4.30 p.m., and arrived as above. We thank her purser Mr Barbour, for report and exchanges. ' The s.s. Easby, with 1,200 tons of coal and a quantity of general cargo, arrived from Sydney, via Wellington and Lyttelton, at 4.30 p.m. yesterday She left Sydney at 9 p.m. on the 2Sth. Fresh head winds and fino weather marked the run across, and on the sth inst. she reached Wellington; discharged coal and general cargo, and landed a number of passengers, and left for the South on the evening of the 7th inst; arrived at Lyttelton at 5 p.m uext day; left again at 1 p.m. on the 9th; had strong head winds and sea coming up, and arrived at -1 ;>0 p.m. yesterday. We thank Capt. Kennedy for the report and delivery of our exchanges. * ! AN OCEAN RACE. ! The New Zealand Shipping Company's fine new vessel, the Otaki, and Shaw, Saviile, and Co.'s fine ship Crusader, arrived in Lyttelton on the Btii in*t each after a niuety-uino days' passage fr .m Lonl don. The 'Lyttelton Times' says the Crusader left the Start three hours after the Otaki, and east anchor in Lyttelton harbor exactly three hours after her. It is a very remarkable fact that two vessels should, after a voyage of 16,00:) miles j arrive in the same time, nud should have uten, ps they were, in company with each other for a few days, and then lost sight of for so long a time That the Otaki is a fast siiler may be judged from the fact that she travelled 3,009 miles in twelve days, and that then her trim was too much by the stem. ARRIVAL OF THE SHIP OXFORD. The ship Oxford, which arrived at the Heads on Wednesday morning, was towed up yesterday afternoon and anchored off Deborah Bay, where she will remain until discharging some thirty tons of Eowder the has on board. Tho Oxford is a very andsome irou ship of 1,300 tons register, built at Sunderland in 1869 for her present owners, Messrs Temperley, Carter, and Dark, of London and traded in the India and China trade until last year, when she made a voyage to' Auckland. She brings besides a large cargo of 1,600 tons of general cargo and 600 ton 6 of dead weight, twenty-two passengers, and has raado a splendid of seventy-four days from port to port, and seveutytwo from laud to land, which is the best passage of any of the Home ships this season. As showing htr sailing capabilities we may mention that shortly after leaving the-: Channel with a leading N.E breeze she logged 280 to 320 miles por day Tie Oxford is under charter to Messrs Shaw, Saviile and Co., and comes consigned to Messrs Guthrie and Larnach. She is commanded by Captain Vanx, whose last visit to this port was a fow years ago in command of the ship Ironsides. The Oxford left Graveßend on the 25th of Novemberpassed through the Downs next day with an easterly

breeze, and took her final departure from Start .Point on the 28th, when the wind shifted to the went ward, *iid held between W. and N.N W licdit across the Atlantic v.-ULo.it uie-jtiri? the umal n"e ii-a.lPßimiHcJos.Jio tl..' Line, aud'thy wind l-sini westerly she hu.'ged (ho Af.ir.iu . ,1113!. ull the wy uowu, ].a'siii;f inside Cape de Verde Ulaiioa When slie reached 15 N. the wind shifted more to the northward, and held until c-rossiog the K.uator, in long. 27 W., on the 20th Decemher, on whhm dav sne picked up the S.E. trades, which proved' o-ood « ■£ «? C£U-r i«l to 24 S. on the 80th, when it shifted theN.W., and to gradually settled to the steady westerlies, she heiug then in 80 H. She crossed the inend an of Greenwich ou the Oth of Jai uarv and that of the Cnpo on the 13lh in lat. 15 H with a lino moderate breeze, vcerijig hetween N.\V and ~'ii •' . Bi '?o ß:l ' 3 , e R oino jr-io-1 rimuiiijr, shuwiugVo miles to 818 miles vvr day, the klicr boins hovbrst day s run. On ihy 17lh January, when pissili* between Prince Edward and Marion JshuiW the water was considerably discolored, but Ouptoiu \niix found a good p.-.«vn.ge some fifteen miles wine. lbo discoloration of the w;ik:r induced Jiim to try for s umdings, but no bottom could bo loiind with .seventy fathoms of line i '* e k ' cber S was passed in lat, 48 .14 S., long. 77.20 E., which was the only ice seen during the passage. Passed the mcridiau ?l tS Leuwin on 30th January, and Tasmania on tne «n mst., having run down her easting hetween the pa. allels of ; >0 and «1. On the 7th inst,, dmlng a strong breeze, she carried away her topgallant sails and royals Made Stewart's Island on the ?&• "f nd ,? ass 1 0 ' 1 l i ,e Nn.we«s at midnight, arriving oft the Heads at noon nest day. The ouly ship spoken durin;< the passage was the Hawkesburv bound to Lmlou, on the 20th December, which desired to be reported. « »«.-u SIIIPPINQaTdLEGRAiT. Bmtff, Fobninry 11.-Airived, on the lOib P.almaterial^ 110 ' fl '° m Suntlei ' laa '• will ' ™»way At-oELAND, Fehnury 11.-Arrived, Marathon barque, from New York, with 7,ooocases of ; W

Heads. 4.44 p.m. TO-MOEBOW. 1 Pt. Chalmeiis. I I 5.24 p.m. J DUNEPIN 6.09 p.m