Shipping.

Evening Star, Issue 4154, 20 June 1876, Page 3

Shipping.

HIGH WATBB.

POET CHALMEBS. ABBIVXD. June 19.—Taupo, s.s., 461 tons, Worsp, from Northern Ports. Passengers: Mcsdames Bold (four children and servant), M'Kay, Tendas and family (3), Bare, Miss Harbin, Messrs M'Kenzie, Beid, Baker, Wright, Eva, Hooper, Allan, Findlay, Jack, Love, and Bare; fifteen in the steerage. Oheron, ship, 1,103 tons, Dunn, from London. Nardoo, barque, 370 tons, Paul, from Newcastle. June 20. Orpheus, 1,461 tons, Olass, from London. Passengers: Mr and Mrs YanHaythusen, Messrs Prior, Maeredie, Macmnrdo, Oox, Wickham, Hyndman, Benskin, Wilson, and Jackson; twenty* eight in the steerage. Beautiful Star, e.s., 146 tons, Peterson, from Ly telton, via intermediate ports. _ Passengers: Miss Warner, Messrs Warner, Derrick, M'Auley, M'Kellar. Otago, s.s., 800 tons, from Sydney, via the Coast. Passengers: From Sydney—Mr, Mrs Cowie, and two children, Mrs Ferguson, Miss Peter and servant; and in the steerage from Lyttelton—Miss Daly, Messrs Boyd, Hester, and Woods. asn.Ki>. June 19.—Dagmar, schooner, 46 tons, Connor, for Catlin’s Elver. Good Templar, ketch, 42 tons, Carrie, for Fort Molynenx. June 20.—Samson, p.s., 124 tons, Edie, for Oamaru.

The Union Company's s.s. Beautiful Star re. turned to port at 1 o'clock this morning from Lyttelton via intermediate ports. She left Lyttelton at 3 30 p.m on the 10th. The p.s. Samson Bailed this morning for Oamaru. The schooner Dagmar, for Catlin's Biver, and the ketch Good Temp'or, for Port Molyneux, sailed yesterday. The Union Company's a.s. Taupo arrived at 19.50 p.m. with passengers and cargo from the North. She left Ouehunga on the 12th, and experienced strong winds throughout the passage. Wu thank Mr Ponsonby (purser) for report, &c. The schooner Mary Ellen, with conls from Shag Point,, arrived this afternoon, and continued her course to Dunedin.

Passengers by the Taupo will leave Dunedin by the 2.30 p.m. train to-morrow, instead of the 12.15 p.m. train as previously announced. The barque Nardoo, with a full cargo of coal from Newcastle, was towed up yesterday evening by the tug Geelong. She left Newcastle on the 4th inst., with an easterly wind, which shifted on the following day to S.S.E., and blew with tremendous force for twenty-four hours; on the 10th a S.W, gale blew heavily for forty-eight hours; on the 12fch she shipped several tremendous seas, filling her decks with water, and at midnight the wind shifted suddenly to the S.W., blowing with hurricane force, tremendous cross seas continually breaking on board. On the 17th she again encountered a heavy mile from the N.N.W. to W.N.E., and on the following day from N.W. to N.8.W., accompanied by heavy seas, one of which carried away part of her bulwarks and swept her deck fore and aft, AEEITAL OF THE OEPHEUS. The Orpheus was towed up to the Quarantine Ground by the Geelong this afternoon, after a passage of oighty-three days from land to land and ninety days from port to port. She is a fine iron ship, and is on her second voyage. She brings 2,500 tons of dead weight and measurement; and has on board thirty tons powder stored in a properly constructed magazine. She is chartered by Shaw, Saville and Co., and is consigned to Briscoe aud Co.

AEEIYAL OP THE OBEEON. The handsome clipper ship Oberon, which we reported as having arrived at the Heads on Friday, was towed up yesterday afternoon by the tug Geelong, and anchored in the Quarantine Ground, having powder on board. The Oberon is not a strangers to these waters, she having been here some three ye irs ago. She has made a splendid passage of seventy-five days from land to land, or sevonty-nine days from her departure until anchoring off Otago Heads, where she was detained for three days owing to the late heavy weather. The Oberon brings a fml cargo of about 2,000 tons dead weight and measurement consigned to the New Zealand Shipping Company, and she ii under the command of Captain Dunn, who supplied us with a report of the vessel's passage. She left Loudon on the 28th March, and had fine weather until the 10th inst., when she experienced violent gales from N.W. and S.W. with high sea, accompsnicd by thick weather and rain. Owing to this no observations could be taken for five days. The ship was kept running before it, and on the 14th sho encountered a terrific gale, the barometer being down to 28.58. After being hove-to for 86 hours the weather cleared, and she anchored oft Otago Heads at 3 p.m. on the 16th. Next day, owing to the heavy weather, she parted her. starboard cable at 45 fathoms, and stood off and reached the Heads again on Sunday, and towed up as above.

SHIPPING TELEGRAMS.

Auckland, June 20. Arrived; Hero, from Sydney. Wellington, June 20.—The Jessie Niccol arrived from Moeraki and Dunedin. The City of Francisco arrived last night at 8.30, and sailed at 11.45 for the South. The schooner Julius Vogel. which arrived from "Waitara under jury masts, will bo offered at auction this week.

To-xosoew. Heads. | Pt. Chaldees, 1 Dchkmb, 1.45 p.m. 1 2.85 p.m. | 8.10 p.m.