Shipping.

Evening Star, Issue 4060, 1 March 1876, Page 3

Shipping.

HIGH WATER. TO-MOBEOW. Heads. | Px. Chalmees. | Dunedin. 6.15 p.m, | 6.55 p.m. | 7.40 p.m.

PORT CHALMERS. ABBIVED.

February 29.—Maori, s.s., 118 tons, Malcolm, from Wrist Coast Ports, via Bluff Harbor. Passengers; Mesdames Barues, Long ton, Westbrooke, Bunin and family (seven). Misses Finnigan, Longton, Westbrooke, Captains Edie, Orkney, Messrs Woolcbck, Cheyne, Holmes, Henry, Lee, Low, and Barker. Otago, s.s., 640 tons, Calder, from Sydney (February 17), via Cook Strait. Passengers: From Sydney—Messrs Reid, Robertson, and B. T. Paine.' From Hokitika—Mr M'Gowan. From Lyttelton— Mr and Mrs Matthews, and sixteen steerage. March I.—Express, s.s., 136 tons, Fraser, from the Bluff. Passengers; Mr and Mrs Deck, Mesdames Boyles, Aitken, Miss Conolly, Captain Bern, Mr Tunnage, and three in the steerage. SAILED. February 29.—Canterbury, 1,000 tons, -—, for London. Passengers: Saloon—Mrs Hatdstoue, Miss Hardstone, Masters Haxdstone (two), and servant, Rev. Mr Bannennan, Messrs Reichardt, Dalglish. Second Cabin —Mr and Mrs Eae, Mr and Mrs Brown and child, Mesdames Robertson, Weber, Parker and child, Messrs Brook, R. Thomson, W. Meysho, W. Mather, Crawford, Hamilton, A. Cox, and Ramsay. March I.—Taiaroa, s.s., 228 tons, Stewart, from Timaru. March I.—Franklin Belle, ketch, 88 tons, Forman, for Oamaru. Grace, ketch, 16 tons, Dickson, for Waikouaiti. The ship May Queen was removed from the railway pier alongside the new jetty yesterday afternoon.

The ship Waimate is making good progress. She has shipped over 4,500 bales or wool and 200 tons of manganese, and will sail for Loudon on her advertised date.

The Albion Company's fine ship Canterbury, for London, was towed to sea last night. She takes a full cargo, consisting of 6,262 bales of wool, 23 bales of skins, 24 casks of tallow, valued at L 111.324. Messrs M'Meckan Blackwood’s s.s. Otago, with passengers and 250 tons of cargo from Sydney, via West Coast and Northern ports, thrived alongside the railway pier at 4.20 p.m. yesterday. She left Sydney at 3 p.m. on the 17th; experienced strong S.E, winds, with heavy sea, until arriving off Hokitika at 2 p.m. on the 22nd; discharged and proceeded to the Grey, which latter place she left at 10.30 p.m. on the 23rd, and arrived at Nelson at 10 a.m. on the 24th; left again at 9 p.m., and arrived at Wellington at 11.20 a.m. on the 26th; left again at 10.30 a.m. on the 27th for Lyttelton, at which port she arrived at 8 a.m, on the 28th; remained there until 6.30 p.m., when she left for Port dialmers, arriving as above. We thank her purser (Mr Birch) for report and exchanges. The Otago leaves again to-morrow for Melbourne, via the Bluff. The Union Steamship Company have received telegraphic advices from Home to the effect that the four new steamers now building for them are making rapid progress. The Te Anan (the large boat for the Sydney trade) and the Eotomahana (the smaller Oamaru boat) will be ready early in April, and the Wanaka (for the Timaru and Akaroa line) about a month later. These boats, therefore, may be expected in the Colony about June or July, Considerable alterations have been made in the plans for the Rotorua, which will share the New Zealand coastal trade with the Hawea and Taupo. She is being lengthened and spar-decked, which will raise her gross tonnage to nearly 900 tons, and her register to nearly 600 tons. Her steam-power at the same time will be augmented to 180-borse power—twenty more than the present boats. The Rotorua is expected to he ready about August. Captain Macfarfane goes Home by the March San Francisco steamer to bring her out, Captain Malcolm, of the s.s. Maori, succeeding him in the command of the Taupo.—' Post.' SHIPPING3TELEGEAMS. Wellington, February 29.—Sailed: Phcebe, for South. Passengers: Mr and Mrs Carleton, Rev. and Mrs Pearce, Miss Jones, Messrs Bennett, Thomson, Wheeler, and Gisborne.

Auckland, February 29.—Sailed: Hawea, for South. Passengers for Dunedin: Mesdames Basley and Neville, Mr Pearce.

Hokitika, February 29.—Alhambra, from Melbourne.

Melbourne, February 28.—Arrived: Ringarooma, from the Bluff.

Newcastle, February 26,—Arrived : Easby, s.s., from New Zealand.