Shipping.

Evening Star, Issue 4155, 21 June 1876, Page 3

Shipping.

HIGH WATEB. TO-MOEttOW.

POST CHALMEBS. AaaiVKD.

Jnno roce i ketch, 16 tons, Dixon, from Wai k< Se/cutter, Frew, from Shag Point. Wanganui, s s.. 17» Christian, from toe Bluff. Passengers: Miss Messrs Kelly, Cuttcn, C. H. 0. Eobin, Thomas; 2 nd m the steerage. T _ , City of San Francisco, s.s., 3,009 tonfl, <j. Waadell, from Kandavnu vii the Coast. Passenger*; Eev. Mr Coleman, Mr and Mrs Sturrook, Messrs Creigh, W. J. Hall, W. G. Huffs, H. Cliffs, T. E. Proctor, Warner, and Austin. SAILED. June 20.—Taiatoa, s.s., 223 tons, Stewart, for Timaru. Maori, s.s., 118 tons, Malcolm, for Lyttelton, via Timaru.

Shag-, 5.8., 31 tons, Wing, for Shay Point. Ino, e.s., 28 tons, Wing, for Port Molyneux. Palmerston, ketch, 25 tons, Brebner, for Waikonaiti Juno 21.—Taupo, s.s., 461 tons, Worsp, for the North. Passongors : For Lyttelton Miss Marshman, Messrs Hobday, Jollio, Hayman, Trestrail. For Wellington—Mcsdames Von Heythersen, Dick, Miss Cornelius, Messrs D. Reid, M.H.8., Von Heytherseu, Deckell, M. Cohen, Seed, Williams, Marcy. For Rapier—Messrs Bennie and Chandler. For Hokitika—Mr Wickham. For Nelson —Mr Wilson. For Manukau Messrs M'Lellau and Walcot.

Loch Awe, ship, 1,053 tone, Weir, for San Francisco.

Olago, s.s., 462 tons, Calder, for Melbourne, via the Bluff.

The ship Horsa was removed yesterday from the siroam and moored at the railway pier to discharge. The Union Company's steamer Taupo was undockod yesterday afternoon and hauled alongside the railway pier to take in cargo, and took her departure thia afternoon for Northern Ports. The steamers Taiaroa, for Timaru, Maori, for Lyttelton via Timai-u, Shag, for Shag Point, and Ino, for Port Molyneux, sailed last evening. The ketch Talmerston sailed yesterday for Waikonaiti.

The ketch Grace, with 284 bags of grain, arrived this morning from Waikouaiti. Mr Fulton informs us that' the Easby did not sail fiom Sydney till yesterday. The ship Loch Awe took her departure tbis morning in ballast for San Francisco, being towed clear of the land by the tug Geelong. The cutter jane, with 40 tons of coal from Shag Point, arrived this forenoon. The s.s. Wanganui, with a full cargo, arrived a--10.20 this morning and steamed alongside the ship "Wellington to discbarge seven casks of tallow. She left the Bluff at 4 45 p.m. yesterday, and had light N. win'ls to arrival.

The ship Oberon was removed this afternoon from the Powder Ground and moored alongside the railway pier to discharge. The Australian Pacific Mail steamship City of San Francisco, with the Otago portion of mails, arrived at the Heads early this morning. Owing to it being ebb tide, and the City of San Francisco not being able to cross the bar until this afternoon the s.s. Jane was chartered to proceed outside for her mails and passengers, and returned to port in time for the mails to be forwarded to Dunedin by the II a.m. train. TOTAL WRECK OF THE ELIZA MTHEE. Telegrams were received at Oamaru on Monday night to the effect that the ketch fcliza M'Phee, which sailed from Oamaru for Wanganui, via Allday Bay on the Oth inst., had been totally wrecked at Patiti. Her cargo from Oamaru was batons flour, and 60 sacks grass seed, shipped,by Messrs Hay and Barr. We (‘N. O. Times’) are unable to state what cargo was shipped at Allday. The vessel and. cargo are a total loss.

AEEIVAL OP THE OEPHETJS. The Orphens, which wo reported in our lest issue as Laving been towed up to her anchorage in the powder ground, is a magnificent iron vessel of 1,461 tons register, and of the following dimensions Length, 253 ft, with a beam of 38ft. and depth of hold 22ft. She was built by the well-known bui’ders Messrs E. Steele and Co., of Greenock, owned by Messrs J. J. Graham and Son, of Greenock, and was launched in November, 1874. She is chartered for this port by Messrs Shaw, Saville. and Co., and took in a cargo of about 2,500 tons dead weight and measurement, cous'gned to Messrs Briscoe and Co. The Orpheus is a half-poop vessel with iron lower masts and bowsprit and iron lower and lower topmast yards at the foro and main. She is fitted with patent windlass steam winches, which when necessary can be used cither for the windlass or the pumps. In addition to her cargo she brings eleven saloon and twenty-eigh. steerage passengers, who have presented Captain Glass with a testimonial. Wo are indebted to Captain Glass for a report of the vessel’s passage, which it will be seen has occupied ninety-one days from anchorage to anchorage, and eighty-one days from tho Lizard to the Snares. The Orpheus left Gravesend on the 20th of March, crossed the Equator on the 18th in long. 22, and experienced fine weather until passing Tasmania on the 11th June, when she experienced very dirty weather from the N. W to S.W., the vessel running before it until the Hth, on which day she passed the Snares without sighting them, owing to tho thick weather; hove-to same day until the 16th; encountered a heavy N.E. galo and stretched off the land; and made the Heads on Sunday, where she anchored, and was towed up ns above.

Heads. 2.40 p.m. I Pt. Chalmebo. I 8.20 p.m. 1 Dttnedik 4.5 p.m.