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Evening Star, Issue 4080, 24 March 1876, Page 3

Shipping.

HIGH WATER. TO-UOBBOW. Heads. I Ft. Chalmers. I Dunedin. 2.36 p.m, I 3.16 p.m. | 4.1 p.m. AT THE HEADS. Barque Indian Chief, from Mauritius. POET CHALMERS. ARRIVED. March 23.—Taranaki, s.s., 286 tons, Lloyd, from Lyttelton and the Noith. Passengers—Mr and Mrs Wymoud, Mr and Mrs Wilson, Mr and Mrs M'Lcod and family (4); Messrs Story, Lambert, Simmons (2), Flank, Bridge, Foster, Harley, Hepworth. Evans, Richardson, Girling, Hall, Pearce, Carl, Sullivan, Lord, M'Qailkin, Holmes, Hart, Gunn, Orme, Nancarrow, Mitchell, Dean, Mullins, Dean, Dawson, M'Gregor, Hobbs, Goodwin, Davis, Thomson, Haran, Johnston, Eakdale, Hislop, Savage, Larin, M‘Quin, Sellars, Meenan, Gooder, Brown, Morris, Henderson, Hall, Callaham (2), Mace; and sixteen steerage. Sophie, schooner, 253 tons, Brnnshagen, from Mauritius February 2. March 2k—Jessie Nicol, schooner, 93 tons, Peterson, from Kaipora. Kestrel, ketch, 50 tons, Bern, from Blneskin.* sailed. March 23. —Easby, 969 tons, Kennedy, for Sydney. Passengers—Mr and Mrs R. Wood, Mr and Mrs Metciilf, Mr and Mrs Wilson, Mr and Mrs Omer Kingsley; Mesdomes Thomson, A. Lee; Misses Bose, Lion, Roberta, Mario, Gcaiie; Messrs Usher, Jobson, Shields, Herbert, Lee, Morgan, Johnson, E. Lee, Willison, Gonzales, Hadj Hamo, Davis ; and forty-three steerage. Eliza M'Phee, ketch, 33 tons, Beid, for Wanganui.

The schooner Jessie Nicol arrived at Port Chalmers with a full cargo of timber from Kaipara. The ketch Kestrel, in ballast from Blneskin, arrived this morning and sailed up to Dunedin. The N.Z.S.S. Company’s steamer Taranaki, from the Northern ports, arrived yesterday afternoon, and continued her course to Dunedin without stopping at the port. She left Onehunga at 1 p.m, on the 16th inst., called nt. Taranaki, Nelson, Picton, Wellington, and Lyttelton, which port she left at 11.30 a.m. on the 22nd, arriving as above. The Taranaki is the largest steamer that has berthed alongside the Rattray street wharf. She draws 12$ ft. aft, and did not scrape the ground. She was brought up under Pilot Louden’s charge.

THE LOSS OP THE FLORENCE,

At two on Saturday morning, with the Lyttelton Light hearing W., distant about nineteen miles, the Florence lying perfectly becalmed, a terrific squall from the W.N. w., struck her abaft the beam, heel* ing her over on to her beam ends. Captain Macfarlane, who was lying reading at the time, rushed on deck and put the helm hard up, the main sheet having been let run to the bare end, but owing to the vessel having no way on her she would not pay off, but continued to heel over more, until masts and sails were in the water. The boat was on the main hatch keel down, the lashings being loose, as the boat had been painted that day. The lashings were soon cut adrift, and by dint of great exertions the boat was got clear of the vessel and baled out with an iron pot, which fortunately happened to be in her. The captain then called to the men to get into the boat as the vessel was sinking, all hands being then on deck. The mate and two of the seamen, together with the captain, succeeded in getting into the boat. The cook, named Charles Jackson, was endeavoring to get an car, and did not respond to the captain's order. Considerable difficulty was experienced in extricating the boat from the vessel’s stays, when the captain again called to the cook to get into the boat, but he appeared to be stupificd. The vessel at that instant gave a tremendous heel over, and went down headformost with a noise like a great whale spouting; the unfortunate man was then clinging to the rigging, and crying for help, which those in the boat were unable to render, owing to their being driven through the water, and without any means of propelling the boat in the direction of the drowning man. Captain Macfarlane, Chas. Klein (the mate), Walter Benzing and Olsen (the two seamen), were thus left adrift in the boat without oars, water, or provisions and were drifting at the rate of about four knots an hour_ before the south-west gale that was then blowing, the wind having instantly shifted to that quarter, with the sea rising rapidly. In order to keep the boat’s head to the sea, the lining was tom out, and a portion of it bent on to the painter, those in the boat paddling her with other portions of the lining as best they could. The boat behaved grandly, and, in spite of the heavy se&s that broke over, rode out the gale, though twice she was almost filled. At 6 a.m., the sea was at its highest, and then both wind and sea’ gradually abated, and finally came to a dead calm. The boat drifted some forty miles, the Peninsula being just visible. The occupants then constructed some other paddles out of the lining, lashing the pieces together with yams from the painter, and with these temporary aids commenced their long pull for shore, a N.E. wind and sea assisting them, the men using their shirts as sails. The Heads were entered about eleven o’clock on Saturday night. The survivors lost everything belonging to them, and it is really almost miraculous that they escaped as they did, os the vessel went down not five minutes after the squall struck her.—* Lyttelton Times.’

SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. • Auckland, JMarch 23.—The ship Broderick Castle, with 300 immigrants from Plymouth, is signalled. Wellington, March 23.—Arrived; Gothenburg, from Hamburg, 160 immigrants. Fine weather; passage of ninety-six days; one birth; no deaths ; all well. Sailed: Taupo, for Lyttelton and Dunedin. Passengers—Captain Featheraton, Messrs Maud, Somes, Turton, and Mrs Hill. Bluff, March 23.— Sailed, at 4 a.m.; Bingarooma, for Melbourne. 1 p.m.: Waitara, New Zealand Shipping Company, for London, with twelve passengers, and 4,255 bales of wool, 29 bales skins, and 23 casks bides; valued at L 90,000.