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Evening Star, Issue 4113, 3 May 1876, Page 3

Shipping.

HIGH WATER. To-kosrow.

AT THE HEADS. Yarra, schooner, from Melbourne.

PORT CHALMERS.

ASBITOD. May 2.—Frederick Bassell, barque, 342 tons, Robinson, from Newcastle. Jessie, ketch, 29 tons, Lyders, from Waikouaiti, May 3.-—Taranaki, s.s., 299 tons, Lloyd, from the North. Passengers: Mesdames Jamieson, Kelly, Howard, Naylor; Misses Rich, Connolly, Parker, White; Messrs Nixon, Wenery, Walter, Wendell, Stewart, Bell, Watkins, Thomson, Green, Warren, Rose, Word; and thirteen in the steerage. Bencleuch, schooner, 66 tons, Francis, from Kaipora. Beautiful Star, s.s., 179 tons, Peterson, from Lyttelton via Timaru, Passengers: Three in the steerage. SAILED. May 2.—Taiaroa, s.s., 228 tons, Stewart, for Timaru. Palmerston, ketch, 25 tons, Brebner, for Waikouaiti. Nautilus, ketch, 29 tons, Cross, for Stewart’s Island. Gatlin, ketch, 41 tons, Marks, for Lyttelton. May 3.—May Queen, ship, 733 tons, Tatchell, for London. Passengers: Misses Brandon and Colebrook, Rev. Mr Leeson, Dr Welsh, Mr G. A. Bird. Second cabin: Mrs Gill, Miss Moore; Messrs H. Schmahl, C. Pearson, Linklater, Williams, B. Carson. Owake, 63 tons. Arndt, for Wanganui. The barque Stillman B. Allen was towed from the stream lo the railway pier yesterday afternoon, to discharge her Dunedin portion of cargo. The flue clipper ship May Queen, with a full cargo and twelve passengers for London, took her departure this morning. As she is in flue trim she no doubt will make a good passage Home. She was towed clear of the land by the Geelong. The schooner Bencleuch, with a full cargo of timber, arrived this morning from Kaipara, which port she left on the 25th ult. Had westerly winds until the 28th, when it shifted to the S.W., which continued until arrival.

The Uniou Company’s steamer Beautiful Star returned from Lyttelton, via Timaru, and steamed alongside the ship Rakaia to discharge 1,295 sacks of grain. She left Lyttelton at 1.30 p.m. on Monday, arm ed at Timaru at 5 a.m. on Tuesday, and left at 8.30 o’clock same evening. Had moderate westerly weather to arrival at 10 this morni. g. The barque Frederick Bassi I', with a full cargo of coal from Newcastle, was towed up to an anchorage off Carey Bay yesterday afternoon. She left Newcastle on the I6th ult., having been detained for three days owing to strong easterly winds and heavy sea. On leaving Newcastle she encountered a strong S.W. wind, which incre ised to a gale, blowing heavily for five days, during which she head reached under lower topsails. She snipped several seas, whieh washed away part of her bulwarks, when the gale moderated, the wind shifted to the N. W. for two’Jays, and veerr d round to the S.S.W., blowing with, tremendous violence for five days, she being hove-to for three days. On the 29th it shifted to the N.W., and she passed the Splendors on Sunday night. Had light W. winds through the Straits. The Wellington-owned whaler Isabella has returned empty to port after a year’s absence. She left Wellington on the 10th of April, 1875, and having taken her try-pots on board at Poirua, coasted along the east side of the Middle Island for six months, without seeing any whales. She then called at Lyttelton, and having shipped a fresh crew, left on Octol ec 15th, for the Chatham Islands and cruised in that neighborhood, but saw no fish until December 25th, when sperm whales were seen, and one was harpooned, but it had to be let go in order to save of the boat, which latter was being dragged ttder water. Three days later another sperm whale*was speared, but it attacked the boat and the mate, who was therein, having three of his ribs broken. She next put into RusseU, and left that port for home on April 6th, being detained on the run down by adverse weather. The Isabella spoke the following t ca Jl whalers: —The Lagador, Captain Lewis, of Now Bedford, three years out, with 140 in soU • the Gazelle, five years out. with 500 ban-els; the Ii ry n J Fr,ls ? r ' out, with 500 barrels; and the Magellan Cloud, ten weeks out, 11 barrels.— 1 'Post, April 24.

The New Zealand Company’s steamer Taranaki, w “h cargo, thirty-three passengers, and the Otago portion of the San Francisco mail, arrived at 9.30 this morning, having made the ran from Ouohiingn, including detentions, in the short space of three onM? a Ji d twenty honrs. She left Onebunga on the 49th alt., nt 1.15 p.m., arrived at Taranaki at <5.30 a.m. on the 30th, called at Nelson, Picton, Wellington, and Lyttelti n, where she left at 3.80 p.m. yesterday We thank Mr Edminston (purser) for report and exchanges.

TAE CAUSE OF DETENTION OF THE CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO AT CALIFORNIA.

The Sunday Chronicle' of the 2nd inst. has the following: —“ The Pacific Mail steamship City of San Francisco has not yet sailed for A Jstralia, and the company a-e cither paying the expenses of the passengers in our principal hotels or boarding them on the steamer. The mysterious cause of the steamer’s delay has formed the topic of discussion in mercantile circles since Wednesday lasl, the day on which she was advertised to sail. A. P. Bacon, the general agent of the company, professes to be entirely ignorant of the real cense of her detention, but says that orders have be n received from the home office in New York not to send her to sea until instructions are received from there This fact was given to the readers of the ‘Chronicle’ mst Friday, and therefore is no news to them. Now comes the question what is the real cause of the detention of the City of San Francisco ? The Railway World ’ says that on the 13th of last Much a bill of sale was executed to S. V. White and B. F. Ham, trustees of the following steamers: C ty of Peking, City of Tokio, City of San Francisco, City of Sydney, City of New York, City of Panama, Colon, Acapulco, Orauada, and Colima. The hill of sale is to secure the company’s bonds given to the trustees, which amount to 4,000,000d01. The indentures provide that the bond shall be surrendered when the company has duly signed, executed, and delivered 10,000 registered or coupon bonds for I,OOOdol. each, or 10,000,000d01., the bonds having ten years to run, interest at seven per cent, per annum, payable March 12 and September 13 each year. It further provides for the application of a sinking fund by requiring :, he ,„. c , 0 . m P an y to i )a V to the trustees on thelSthJof March each year 200,000d01. cosh, which the trustees are to invest by buying in the open market the bonds of the company, if less than par • if not, to draw 200 (200,OOOdol.) bonds by lot. The general impression among San Francisco merchants is that the Pacific Mail Company is a thing of the past, and that it will now be merged into the Occidental and Oriental Steamship Company. The Pacific mail agents here say that they are utterly ignorant of any such scheme on the port of their managers, and that the City of San Francisco will sail at noon to-morrow. E. T. Bacon, the passenger agent, states that the detention of the steamer is owing to an order from Sir Daniel Cooper, of the New South Wales Government. The nature of this order has not yet been made public.”

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