Shipping.

Evening Star, Issue 4127, 19 May 1876, Page 3

Shipping.

HIGH WATER. To-MOEEOW. Heads. I Ft. Chalmers. I Dunedin. 0.17 p.m. I 0.57 p.m. | 1.42 p.m.

POET CHALMERS. ABUTTED.

May 18.-—Floral Star, schooner, 241 tons, Evans, from Adelaide.

May 19.—Otago, s.s., 642 tons, Older, from Melbourne via the Bluff. Passengers: From Melbourne —Mr and Mrs Hislop, Mr and Mrs M'Doagal, Mrs A. Holmes, child and servant. Misses A. Waldie, Tomkin, Messrs Gibbs, S. Weeny, S. D. Baker, D. Petrie, G. Clark and nine in the steerage. From the Bluff—Mr and Mrs Stevens, Mr P, Francis andjfamily, Dr Coombe, Miss Holmes, Professor Lewis, Master Hardy, Messrs Mattheson, M'George, Hill, Qeasham, Cowell, Walker, Callender, M'Oonald, Holmes, and three in the steerage. SAILED. May 18.—Defiance, ketch, 22 tons, Burko, for Oamaru. Jane Anderson, schooner, 90 tons, Saunders, for Oamaru, Anna, ketch, 26 tons, Stout, for Gatlin s Eivor. Trial; ketch, 25 tons, Kelly, for Wnikonaiti. May 19. Samson, p.s,, 124 tons, Edic, for Oamaru. Stillman B. Allen, barque, 559 tons, Toylor, for Lyttelton. Shag, s.s., 31 tons, W ing, for Shag Point. Denbighshire, barque, 482 tons, Williams, for Newcastle. The barque Denbighshire, in ballast, for Newcastle, sailed this forenoon. The barque Stillman B. Allen, with part of original cargo from New York, sailed this morning for Lyttelton with a strong S.W. wind. The ship Wild Deer completed her loading yesterday, and will take her departure for London tomorrow afternoon.

The N.Z. Company’s steamer Wellington, with cargo and twenty-three passengers from tho north, era ports, arrived alongside the railway pier at 1 45 pm. yesterday. She left the vTauukau at noon ou the 12th, called at Taranaki, Nelson, Pictou, Wellington, and Lyttelton, which latter port she left at 1.15 p m. on the 17th, having experienced strong variable winds and heavy sea throughout the passage. We thank Mr M'Cormack, tho purser, for report and exchanges. The Wolingtou steamed up to Dunedin this morning to take in cargo, and will leave for the Northern ports to-morrow. The following is the report of the Otago’s passage across:—Lett Port Chalmers at 4 p.m. on the 30th ult, and arrived at Bluff Harbor on the Ist May at G a.m.; loft the same day at 1.30 p.m., on c[ a f tei . clearing the land had a strong westerly gale for three days and heavy seas, and latter part of the passage moderate winds. Passed Wilson’s Promontory at 3.30 p.m. on the 7th, and arrived iu Hobson’s Bay at 6 a.m. on the[Bth. Messrs M’Meckan, Blackwood’s tine steamer Otago, from Melbourne via the Bluff, arrived at 7 this morning, 'he left Sandridgo at 11 a.m. on the 13th, cleared the Heads at 2.30 p.m., and passed Wilson's Promontory at 11.30 p.m. Experienced light S.E. winds first part of the passage thence strong S.W. gales; passed the Solauders at 4 a.m on the 18th, and arrived at the Bluff at 10 a.m.; discharged and left again at 7 p.m. same day; expen. enced lerrific S.W. gale, accompanied with high sea, along the coast to arrival. We thank Mr Birch (purser) for report and exchanges. We understand there is some probability that Messrs M‘Meckan, Blackwood, and Co.’s steamers Ringarooma and Arawala, which, for some time past, hive discontinued trading to Greymouth and Hokitika, will also cease to visit Nelson, but will make Wellington their terminus, the Ringarooma bringing the inward Suez mails via the Bluff to Wellington, and returning to Melbourne the same way; while the Arawata will perform a similar double journey, taking the outward Suez mails. By this plan the perils of I'e'ays of Cook Straits with its fogs, and Nelson with its incouveui- nt harborinaccessible save at high water—would be escaped. The contract fo’p.lelivery o. the Suez tnai's only extends as far as Wellington. The Nelson and West Oo st trade with Melbourne would be amply supplied by the Otago, Albion, and the Alhambra, without risking the large boats.—* Post.’ There was a very fair race from Wellington to Lyttelton between the Haweaandthe Ringarooma ou their last down trip. The former started first, but as she towed the ship Hurunui to the Heads, both boats took their departure from that point almost together. A good deal of interest was felt in the race, which was considoi ed more even than usual between these two steamers, notwithstanding their disparity of steam power, from the fact that there was a strong fair breeze, which was in the Hawea’s favor, as she could set a good spread of square canvas which her rival did not carry, in fact, tho Hawea had both her upper and lower topsails set before she passed out of sight. The Ringarooma, which left at 3.40 p.m., arrived at Lyttelton at 5.30 this morning, making the run in thirteen hours fifty minutes, and beating tho Hawea by two hours —lbid.

lu connection with the missing ship Strathnaver, a very strange tnle was told in Wellington a few weeks since. A man named Thomas Hubbard formerly a messenger at the Government Buildings) but a sailor by profession, went to Sydney from Wellington in the Strathnaver. His statement, on a recent visit he paid to Wellington, was that he and the carpenter left the ship at Sydney because the carpenter was of opinion that the ship was so ill found that she could not contend with the first heavy weather she met.— ‘ N. 0. Times.’ The three masted schooner Floral Star, with a full cargo from Adelaide, was towed up yesterday forenoon by the s.s. Jane, and anchored off Mansford Bay. 'I he Floral Star is a sightly looking vessel of 241 tons register, aud was built at Pet. rhead, and came out to her owners, Captain Wells and Mr Cawe, of Port Adelaide, about two years and a half ago, since which she has been employed in the intercolonial trade chiefly between Sydney and Melbourne. The Floral Star left Adelaide on the 3rd instant; experienced light variable winds until the Bth instant, when she gotafine SE. breeze and passed Cape Otway same day, King’s Island at Ipm. on the 9th, ond cleared Bass’s Straits the following day, and took her departure from the Eddystone Light same day with a northerly breeze which continued for 24 hours; thence light variables until the 12th, when it shifted to the westward, which increased to a gale at midnight with heavy sea; the gale moderated next day. West.’ rly winds continued, and sighted the Solanders on the evening of the 16th j had strong winds through Foveaux Straits, which was cleared on the following day, when she encountered another heavy gale, with high seas, the vessel running before it under closedreofod lower topsail and foretopmast staysail. During the gale a heavy sen broke on board smashed the galley stove, and stove the long boat’, also part of bulwarks. The gale continued along the Coast, and she passed the Nuggets at 7.40 y.m on the 17th; hovc-to off Cape Saunders at midnight until daylight, arrived off the Heads yestcrdiy moruinsr, aud towed up as above. After lightening she will proceed to Dunedin to discharge the remainder of her cargo.