Shipping.

Evening Star, Issue 4076, 20 March 1876, Page 3

Shipping.

Http WATER. TO-MORROW. Heads. J Pt. Chalmers. I .Dunedin. 0.2 p.m, | 0.42 p.m. | 1,27 p.m.

PORT CHALMERS. AMOVED,

March 19.—Gloucester, barque, 551 tons, Vincent from Hovg King, January 13. Passemgers: Fortv! eight Chinese. . J Samson, p s., 124 tons, Edie, frontGanlaru • . E J,sby, 960 tons, Kennedy, from Sfydney, March 7. via Cook Strait. Passengers: Mr and Mrs Yountr Miss M Cormack, Mr-and Mrs Bohama. Messrs Sharo, M‘Neill, and twenty-eight from Newcastle and Sydney. 461 o tons > Wheeler, from Lyttelton and the North. Passengers: Mr and Mrs Barton, Mr and Mrs brown, Mr and Mrs Caldwell, Mr arid Mrs Ha!o. Mesoamcs MGlashau and two children Baucbop, Munajf, Haines, Surmuster andl child’ Captain Sinclair, Messrs M’Guan, Quarterly’ Stevenson. MAuley, Black, Hunter, Antony Rutter, Garrick, Hoskins (2), Molesworth. Clark Aldrod, Palmer, Pepperall, Hale, D. Caro. Herman Delamam. Phillips, Coombes, Campbell; sixteen in the steerage. _ Wanganui, .179 tons, Christian, from Timaru Passengers: Miss Solomon, Messrs Solomon! ftemn, Alves, Mills,. Thomssa, Ziele; four in the steerage. Taiaroa, 228 tons, Stewart, from Timaru. Passengem: Mesdamea Finlay, Sketch and son. Misses mdjay. Captain Bowden, Messrs Tnimble. Findlay, Dewley, Humphries. M’Leau, Healy Wes. on, Griffin, James, Mendershausen, Atfleld Young, Duncan, Gardiner, Barton, Lyons, Thom! sen, Spence, Stumbles, and Rose; nineteen in the steerage. Express, s.s 186 tons. Fraser, from the Bluff Passengers: Mr and Mrs Clow and family. Mrs Stewart Misses Stewart, Morrison, HaYward! Acton Messrs Su-ton,Ericson, I sson, Jones,fcro -k S..se. Hart, Roberts, and BoWeu; eleven in the steerage. . Eingaroonm, s.s., 628 t<*is, M’Lean, from Lyttel Emn PaMeii£cers : ]ile ? 9rs Rankin, Chapman, and’ SAILED.

March 19.—Janet TJameay, schooner, 42 tens -bung, »or Oamaru. * wi S,B, p 2W t ° nB ' C^ ey ’ for Lyttelton and Mr M*n J i i P T For Lyttellon-Mr WJrioU Dr noadley, Messis Chilman, For Nelson Nanier-Mr n ° kl tow-Mr 8 Longton. For 7, c ~ ; .weuty m the steerage. S Ht;rald ’ ketcl1 * 43 tens, Cairns, for Gatlin’s T y.fV»!,hefcchi 4210n5, C"Wttei Mrs Hindmowh, Mr and Mia Denbigh, Mri and Mrs Messrs Stemhoff audKeap/clcycniiftho

WRECK OP TEE FLORENCE:!

OKS Ll*s LOST. The schooner Florence, JDunedin to Wellington, in ballast, was lost in a W.N.W. squall off Banks Peninsula at two o’clock on Saturday morning. The vessel went down five minutes niter being struck. One man, Charles Jackson, was lost. The, captain and crew took to the boat, and were driven forty miles from the land. They had no oars, £&d rowed into port with pieces of the boat’s lining lashed together. They reached Lyttelton at one yesterday morning. The schoorer, which was insured in the Victoria office for LBOO, was pmyhasod here six weeks ago by Messrs M’lutyre and Co., of Wellington. She was worth about L 1,500.

THE MATAU’S TRIP,

After our second despatch per carrier pigeon was forwarded from the MaxiU on Saturday, the vessel pioceeded beyond the Heads and rounded the Wellington, lying five milek outside. Captain Thomson having ascertained that there was only one case of typhus fever on board, ordered Captain Cowan, of the Wellington, to signal for a tug, which announcement evoked hearty cheers for those on hoard the Matau from the Wellington's immigrants. The steamer then returned to port, behaving admirably under Captain Urqnhart’s command, for although there was a considerable swell on sea-sickness' Was confined to a few children. Just before reaching Port Chalmers a little speechifying was indulged in. Mr Reeves proposed the health of her builders, Messrs Kincaid and M'Qaeen, which was responded to by Mr M'Queen; who expressed the hope that local builders would before long be able to supply the whole ship-building trade of the Colony. The Mayor of Port Chalmers (Mr M'Kiuuon) in proposing the health of the intended owners of the vessel, said that great credit was due to Messrs-Kincaid andM’Queen for turning out a vessel like the Matau. He only hoped that she ' would be the fore-runner or many similar vessels. Mr Nimmo, whose name had been coupled with the toast, in replying said he was sure the owners of the steamer had to thank Messrs Kincaid and M'Queen for the highly satisfactory way in which they had turned out the vessel. -In referring to this, and, the Matin’s trial trip, he said she had been able to steam against a' strong wind and tide, and had proved herself quite equal to all that had been expected of her. Mr Stout, M.H.E., proposed “ Success to the good ship Matau in all voyages she may over prosecute,” which was drunk m.a bumper. Port Chalmers was reached shortly after four o’clock, and a stay for an hour was made. The return to town was made in 50min., the Rattray street wharf being reached at 6.15 p.m. The Matan’s keel was laid on the Ist of October, 1875, and she was launched on the 17th January last.

ARRIVAL OF THE SHIP WELLINGTON.

Tho ship ‘Wellington, which arrived off the Heads on Friday morning, was towed ap last night as far as the Quarantine Ground, where she came to anchor, and was boarded by the Health and Immigration officers, who shortly after cleared the vessel, the medical member of the Board .(Dr Drysdale) refusing to clear the ship before consulting tho Board of Health. The Wellington brings 318 souls, including fourteen cabin passengers, and during the voyage nearly aU the children suffered from whooping cough, while four cases of typhoid fevor had occurred, % oue of which is still raging. With this exception, the passengers are said to be healthy. Three births have laken place during the voyage, viz., Mrs M‘Call, Mrs M'Question, and Mrs Hunter, each of a son; while four deaths have been recorded, three children and one adult. The deaths were—December 30; John Taggote, agei seven months, from convulsions ; January 18, John Cameron, aged eighteen months, from pneumonia and bronchitis; January 28, Mrs Robert Miller, aged thirty-eight years, from pulmonary consumption; and on February 11, Thomas Smith, aged five months, from marasmus and diarrhoea. Captain Cowan reports leaving the Tail of the Bank December 18; went through the north tmssage, and cleared the land in twelve hours; thence she had a had time of it for fourteen days, the wind going round to the S.W., blowing a succession of heavy gales; the weather moderated on the 31st, and thence she had northerly winds,which took her right in to the N.E. trades, which proved light and poor and gave out in 3 N.; picked up the S.E. trades in 2 N., and crossed the equator on the 19th January in long. 25 W.; carried the S.E. trades to January 30th, and lost them in lat, 23 S.; thence she encountered a long spell of light variable weather; crossed the meridian of Greenwich on 10th February, hut was mot by adverse winds and weather, and did not pass the Cape Until the 19 th; got th*e westerlies on the 21st; passed Marian Island next Jay, and made fair running across the Southern Ocean, knocking off her easting in 48 S.; passed the Snares on the 14th inst. without sighting them, and, through thick weather, ran pnst Otago Heads, sighting her first land at Moeraki; thence she worked back and made Toiaroa Heads on Friday morning. Since then she has been detained outside by .various causes, and towed up as above.

9 SHIPPING TELEGRAMS.

Wellington, March 20.—The Terpsichore brings 390 immigrants. Eight died on the passage: from typhoid fever and eleven are now under treatment. All have been lauded ou the Quarantine Island. Auckland, March 20.—Sailed: i aupo, for the South yesterday. Passengers for Port Chalmers— Mr and Mrs IJurrell and family, Messrs Clarkson, Lewis, Whitting, and Walker.