Shipping.

Evening Star, Issue 4054, 23 February 1876, Page 3

Shipping.

HIGH WATER. TO-MORROW. Heads. I Pt. Chalmers. I Dunedin. 2.45 p.m. | 3.25 p.m, | 4.10 p.m.

POET CHALMEES. _ , ARRIVED. February 22.-Mary Ogilvie, schooner, 72 tons. Falconer, from Greymonth. ’ February 23.—'Taiaroa, s.s., 228 tons, Stewart, Passengers: Mrs Eayner, Miss Kpbb, Messrs Benjamin, Knott, Mockay, Kennv Plante, Money, and live steerage, J ’ Palmerston, ketch, 25 tons, ; Brebner, from Moeraki.

Theseus, barque, 98t tons, A. Matthews, from .Loudon. No passengers.

SAILED. February 22.—Emma, brig, 173 tons, Jesselsen. for ttuam. Guam White * bri san tine » 551 tons, Thombs, tor

February 23.—Wiltshire, ship, 1,461 tons. Davidson, for Point de Galle. 3Ringarooma, 600 tons, M'Lean, for Melbourne Passengers: For the Bluff-Mr and Mrs Mockay,' Mr Nicol. Mrs Livingstone. For Melbourne— Messrs W. F. Downes, A. B, Lyster, Napier, Watson and nineteen steerage. ’ Hawea, 461 tons, Wheeler, for the North- Pas. sengers : For Lyttelton-Mrs MTherson, Misses Evans and MTherson, Messrs Weeks, Tolmie, Butterworth, Meek, MTntosh, Lawrie, Hombrookl Donagby. For Wellington Mesdames Maine! M Lauchlan, Misses M'Laucblan, Cooley, Youne and Scott; Messrs Scott, Lyons, J, Young. A ¥‘ F^ dyu ’ Quick. Storey, and. Charles White. For Nelson—Mrs Allen and two children Messrs Ashcroft, Greenfield, Cross, and Pickerim?’ For Manakau—Mrs Spencer, Mr Skene, and thirteen in the steerage for all ports.

.„ . ' projected departures, Albion, for Sydney, February 24. Alhambra, for Melbourne, March 6. Express, fer Bluff, February 26. Otago,ifor Melbourne, March 1, Taupo, for Wellington, February 29.

A Dunedin telegram in one of the Southland papers states that Captain Macfarlane, of the Taupo, goes Home next San Francisco mail to brine out the Rotorua.. Captain Malcolm will probably take command of the Taupo. 9

The Union Company’s s.s. Hawea, having been cleaned, was taken out of tue Graving Dock this morning, and sailed this afternoon for the Northern ports.

The brigantine Ned White, with part of original cargo for Wellington, was towed to sea yesterday afternoon hy the tug Geelong. The barque Harriet Armitage and the schooner Estelle were towed to Dunedin in the afternoon, the first hy the Geelong and the other by the Jane. * The ship Calypso, having completed her loading was removed from the railway pier and anchored fa the stream yesterday, Messrs M’Meckan, Blackwood’s fine s,s. rooma took her departure this afternoon for Melbourne via tho Bluff.

Tim b nr.fif io - n ß o « pany,s 8 ?- Tairoa returned from +L and steamed alongside the ship Nelson to discharge wool. She left Tiuiaru at 7.30 p.m. yesterday S e lelt . Maiy Ogiivie, with a full cargo of coal and coke from Greymouth, sailed up yesterday. Sh6 loft Greymouth on the 15th instf, after crossing the bar shaped to the southward, had light, and variable winds, with heavy S.W. sea to the vun d +? f the Solnnders, which were passed on the 19th, thence to arrival at the Heads on Monday had strong southerly winds with tliick weather. J

ARRIVAL OF THE BARQUE THESEUS FROM LONDON. f „ T , hO S V^;^ i “f. that prevailed the whole of yes-. te.day shifted this morning to the*N.E„ enabling • the barque Theseus, which arrived at the Headilast evening from London, to sail upas Quarantine ground, where she came to anchor al she has on board 650 barrels and 34 packages’ of powder. The Theseus is a very handsome iron. «0 tons register, her masts and being of iron, and is comparatively *

new vessel, having been built at Snnd&f land in 1874 by Robert Thomson, jun., of Sunderland to the order of her owners, Messrs Livingston, Briggs, and Co., of London, under the supervision of her present commander, Capt. Matthews. She is fitted with all the latest modern improvements, including Hatfields patent sceam windlass.md was built expressly for the India trade. She commenced her career by making a voyage to Ceylon, Point de Galle, and Colombo, and back to London, when she was chartered by the New Zealand Shipping Company. She left London on the 2nd of November, and Gravesend, where she took her powder on board, on the 4th, with a S.E. wind. Anchored in the Downs the same night, owing to a heavy S.W. gale, and remained there for eighteen days, weighing anchor on the 22ud, with a N.E. wind. Cleared the Channel at noon on the 23rd .taking her final departure fro Ine Lizards the same day. Carried the northerly wind for a few days, and passed inside Capo de Verde Islands in company with several ships; thence until the 16th December had variable winds, on which day she pic)- ed up the N.E. rtades in 7 N. Doldrums were then experienced until crossing the Equator on the 19th in long. 25.30 W., and got the S.E. Trades on the 21st in 3 S., and carried them to 25 S. on the 30th. Thence had variable and N.W, winds crossing the meridian of Greenwich on the 10th January in 41 51 and that of the Cape on the 15th, when she got the westerlies, which were modern 4 © until reaching 65 E. on the 28th January, when she got strong winds, principally from the N.W. to S.W. to the Snares ; passed Tasmania on the 15th inst.; on the 18th she encountered a heavy gale, and passed the Snares same night, having run down her easting between 45 and 46 ; thence strong winds, accompanied with rain, until arriving off the Heads yesterday, and sailed up os above. She is about three-fourths full of cargo, in addition to which she brings two short-homed bulls in splendid condition, consigned to Messrs M‘Lean and Co. No ice was seen during the voyage, [SHAPING TELEGRAM. Auckland, February 23.—Sailed, from Kaipara. for Dunedin, the brig Pakeha, with baulk timber, one the brig Thomas and Henry, with sawn timber*