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Evening Star, Issue 4128, 20 May 1876, Page 3

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HIGH WATER. Monday. 1.25 p.m, | 2.05p.m, | 2.50 p.m

PORT CHALMERS, aßß»vv;i'.

May 19.—Easby, s.s., 969 tons, Kennedy, from Sydney, via Wellington and Lyttelton. Passenger: JM r J. Gillies.

Matau, s s., 104 tons, Urqnbart, from Oamaru. Passengers: Mr and Mrs Sinclair. Messrs T. C. Dennison and Boyd; nine in the steerage. Franklin Belle, ketch, 38 tons, Forman, from Waikouaiti.

Beautiful Star, s.s., 146 tons, Peterson, from Lyttelton, via Timaru. Passengers: Mesaames Ble?zc, Graham, Messrs J. Bleeze, Rutter, and three in the steerage. sailed. May 19.—Wanganui, s.s., 179 tons, Christian, for Timam. Taiaroa, s.s., 228 tons, Stewart, for Timaru. Passengers : Messrs Hawley, Connor, Tansley, Gibbs, Mason, Brough, and Jonas; two in the steerage. Wellington, s.s., 264 tons, Carey, for Northern Ports. Otago, s.s., 624 tons, Caldc, for Sydney, via Northern and West Coast ports. Messrs M'Meckan, Blackwood’s s.s. Otigo took her departure fi om the railway pier this afternoon for Sydney, via Northern and West Coast ports. Mr Fulton’s s.s. Easby, from Newcastle and Sydney, via Wellington and Lyttelton, arrived alongside the railway pier at 6 p.m. yesterday. She left Newcastle with 1,200 tons of coal on the morning of the sih, and arrived at Sydney the same evening, at which port she took cn hoard 250 tons of genei al cargo, and left at 11 p.m, on the 9th; experienced W.S.W. winds, with fine weather, during her passage across; sighted Cape Farewell at 5 p.m. on the 15tb, and arrived at Wellington at 12.30 p.m. on the 16th; discharged 300 tons of cargo, and pushed on for Lyttelton at 3.15 p.m. on the 17th, at which port she arrived at 12.30 p.m. on the 18th; discharged cargo, and left again at 4 p.m. the snuie day, with fine weather, which continued until off Oamaru, at 9 a.m. yesterday, when she encountered a heavy S.W. gale, with heavy S.E. sea, which continued until arriving off the Heads yesterday afternoon, and steamed up as above. We thank Captain Kennedy for report and exchanges. We understand that in future the Easby will call at Oamaru to load grain for Sydney. The s.s. Matan arrived last evening from Oamaru, and steamed alongside the new jetty to discharge cargo.

Tnc ketch Franklin Belle, with cargo, from "Waikouaiti, beat up the harbor this morning, and hauled alongside the new jetty to discharge. Tue brig Thomas and Henry was towed up to Dunedin yesterday by the tug Geelong. The Union Company’s steamer Beautiful Star returned to port this morning at 10.40 from her usual trip to Lyttelton, via Timaru, and steamed alongside the s.s. Otago to discharge 986 sacks of grain. She loft Lyttelton at 6,30 p.m. on the 18th, arrived at Timaru at 9 a.m. on the 19th, took on board besides other cargo, 986 sacks of grain, and left at 630 p.m. Encountered strong westerly wind with heavy S.E. sea to arrival.

An extraordinary piece of news reaches us by the s.s. Easby. An American whaler has rescued a gang of convicts from Perth. Western Australia, and got dca. off with them. The whaler went to a place about 10 or 1> miles from Perth and anchored, and her boat appears to have gone on shore and, by arrangement apparently, the whole ebam-gang of prisoners escaped, and were immediately pulled off to the ship, which went to sea forthwith. A vessel called the Georgette was armed and despatched with a body of prisoners in pursuit. After cruis ng for a day or two she fell in with the whaler, tho skipper of which, defied them, as she was not a man-of-war, and she returned to port. The Yankee has got clear off. It is anticipated that an international difficulty between England and America will arise out of this.