Shipping.

Evening Star, Issue 4066, 8 March 1876, Page 3

Shipping.

HIGH WATER. XO-MORROW. Heads. I Pt, Chalmers, I Dunedin. 2.13 p.m, | 2.53 p.m. | 3.38 p.m.

POET CHALMERS. ARRIVED.

March 7.—Alhambra, s.s., 496 tons, Eawden, from Melbourne, via West Coast and Northern Porta. PassengersfromMolboume: Mrs Ward, Miss Ward, Messrs Voisey, Williamson, Morrison, Rev. Father Eiordan. From the coast: Messrs W. Field, Usher, Tompkins, Lewis, and child, and 9 in the steerage. Jane, cutter, 25 tons, Ramsay, from Shag Point. Pioneer, schooner, 25 tons, Matheson. from Shag Point. Thomas and Henry, brig, 218 tons, Samson, from Kaipara. SAILED. March7—Taiaroa, s.s., 228 tons, Stewart, from Timaru. Wanganui, s.s., 179 tons, Christian, for Timaru. March B.—Granada, R.M.S., 2,572 tons, Cavarlv, for Ban Francisco, via Northern Ports. Passengers : For Lyttelton—Messrs HubertjWebb, and Moore. For Wellington—Messrs Evans and Brown. For Napier—Mr Ramsey. For Auckland—Mr and Mrs Smith, Mrs White, Messrs Moreland and Sampson. For San Francisco—Captain and Mrs Millon, Captain Macfarlane, Rev. Mr Coleman,' Miss Coleman, Messrs M’Mnster, Anderson, Crow, Groig, Lindsay, Low, and 5 iu the steerage. Alhambra, 496 tons, Bawdcn, for Melbourne. Passengers for Melbourne: Mr and Mrs Ashton and 2 children, Mr and Mrs Potter add servant. Mrs W. H. Cooper, Mr A. T, Stuart, and 23 in the steerage. For the Bluff—Messrs Lusk, Herbert, and Popham. •

Messrs M'Meckan, Blackwood, and Co.’s s.s. Alhambra, from Melbourne via West Coast and Northern ports, arrived alongside the railway pier at 7 p.m. yesterday. She left Saudridgo railway pier at 2.30 p.m. on the 23rd, and cleared the Heads at 6 p.m.; passed Kent’s Group at 10 am. on the 24th. Experienced N. and N.W. winds, with fine weather, until arriving off Hokitika on the 29th, at 1.30 a.m.; left again at 3.30 p.m., and arrived at Grey mouth at 6 pm!.; left again at 2.30 a.m. on the Ist inst„ and arrived at Nelson at 7.30 a.m. on the 2nd; left again at 1 a.m. on the 3rd, and arrived at Wellington at 2.45 p.m. same day; left again at noon on the sth, and arrived at Lyttelton at 7.15 a.m. on the 6th; left again for Port Chalmers at 9.30 p.m. same evening, arriving as above. ExEerienced fine weather along the coast. We thank er purser, Mr Gibbons, for report and exchanges. The schooner Pioneer, with cargo from Shag Point, arrived yesterday afternoon. After transhipping eleven bales wool to the ship Nelson she hauled alongside the s.s. Alhambra to discharge 100 bags of oatmeal.

The cutter Jane, with cargo from Shag Point, arrived yesterday afternoon. The Albion Company’s s.s. Taiaroa came down from Dnne lin yesterday afternoon, and steamed alongside the barque Theseus for transhipments, and took her departure Inst night for Timavu. The Union Company’s s.s. Wanganui, after taking on board transhipments from the Corona, sailed last evening for Tlmaru. The barque Frederick Basaell was token into Murray’s floating dock at high water yesterday for overhaul and repairs. Messrs M'Meckan Blackwood’s s.s. Alhambra took her departure this afternoon for Melbourne via thq Bluff. ’

The Australian Pacific mail steamer Granada with the outward malls, via San Francisco, took her departure this afternoon.

Messrs Houghton and Company’s s.s. Express with cargo and passengers, will sail this evening for her usual trip to the Bluff, "

The race (if it may be called such) between the Hawea and Arawata yesterday was'an easy victorv fox-tlio latter. The Hawea left Port Chalmers at 3.18 p.m. and reached Lyttelton at 9,30 this mornmg; the Arawata left Port Chalmers at 3.47 p m yesterday and was in Lyttelton at 7.45 this morning thus beating the Hawea by two and a auarter hours. 1 ‘ SHIPPING TELEGRAM. Wellington, March B.—The ship Avalanche cleared for London, with a cargo of 6,411 hales of wool and sundries, valued at L115,6i3, and a large number of passengers, including the Hon. Dr Kenwick, Mrs Renwick, and Colonel M'Donnell.