Shipping.

Evening Star, Issue 4203, 16 August 1876, Page 3

Shipping.

HIGH WATER.

POST CHALMERS. ■ ASXrVED. August 15th.—Ada Wiswell, barquentine, 657 tons, Wiswell, from New York, April 29th. Otago 5.8., 640 tons. Colder, from Sydney, via Cook strait. Passengers: From Sydney M rs Hears and child, Miss Adshead. From the Coast— Rev. Mr and Mrs Edwards and family, Mrs Glass, Captain Sinclair, Messrs Larnach, M.H.R., Bastings, M.H.R .Gordon, Gonrlay, Coutts, Oarrnthers, Sheppanon, Master Larnach, and six steerage. Isabella, brig, 263 tons, Friend, from Newcastle, August Ist. August 16th.—Franklin Bell, ketch, 88 tons, Forman, from Shag Point. Cora, schooner, 46 tons, Russell, from Felonts Sound. Hope, barge, 24 tons. Jnlier, from Waikonaltl. Maggie Paterson, schooner, 92 tons, Paterson, from Timarn. Dauntless, cutter, 16 tons, Mnssen, from Waikouaiti. Wellington s.s. 264 tons, Carey, from Northern ports. Passengers—MrsHowartb, Misses Howarth, M'Lean, Messrs Rae, Liggina, Carter, Reas, Arthur, Deginan, Hannah, A. Kohu, Captain M’Conville, and twelve in the steerage, BAILED. August 15th.— I Talaroa, s.s, 223 tons, Peterson, for Timaru. Beautiful Star, s.s. 146 tons, Stewart, for the Bluff. Wanganui, s.s., 179 tons, Fraser, for tho Bluff. August 16th —Orpheus, ship, 1,462 tons. Glass, for Java. Otago, s.s. 612 tons, Colder, for Melbourne via tbe Bluff. Passengers: For Melbourne—Dr and Mrs Sorley, Misses Sorley (2), Messrs J. Mills, Smith, Hudson, Sorley, W. Johnstone, ond twelve in the steerage. For the Bhiff—Mrs Twentou and family (4). The ship Orpheus, in ballast, for Java, took her departure this morning, being towed clear of the land by the tug Geelong. The schooner Cora, with a full cargo of timber from Pelorus Sound, sailed up this morning, and continued her course to Dunediu. She left the Sound on the 7th. The cutter Dauntless and barge Hope arrived this morning from Walkouaiti. The schooner Maggie Paterson, with part cargo, from Timaru, arrived this morning, having been compelled to put to sea on Monday in company with the barques Isabella Ridley, Amateur, brig Moa, schooners Wild Wave, Herald. Friendship, Jane Hannah, and ketch Gatlin, owing to the strong southerly breeze and heavy sea setting iu at that port. The brig Isabella, with a full cargo of coal from Newcastle, was towed up last evening by the s.s. Jane, and anchored below the shipping. She left Newcastle on the Ist inat. The ketch Franklin Belle, with a full cargo of coal from Shag Point, arrived this forenoon. Capt. Forman reports that the heteh Lloyd’s Herald put into Moereki on Sunday with loss of both anchors, having lost one at WaikonoiU and the other at Kakanui. Messrs M'Meckan Blackwood’s s.s. Otago, from Sydney via West Coast and Northern ports, arrived at 4 80 p.m. yesterday. She loft Sydney at 4 p.m. on the 2nd inst. We thank Mr Birch (purser) for report and exchanges; The steamers Taiaroa, for Timaru, and Beautiful Star and Wanganui, for the Bluff, sailed last evening. The s.s. Express was taken into the floating dock at high water yesterday foe her periodical overhaul. The s.s. Otago, for Melbourne, via tho Bluff, took her departure from the railway pier this afternoon. The s.s, Wellington arrived from the Northern ports this afternoon and steamed into tho Graving Dock for tbe purpose of being cleaned and recoated with anti-fouling composition. She left tho Manukau at noon on tho 10th inst. and called at ’fcranaki, Nelson, yictou, Wellington, aud Lytteltbn. We thank her purser for report and exchanges.

AEBITAL OF TBS BABQTTENTINE ASA WISWELL, FBOM NEW YORK. The barqnentine Ada Wiswell arrived off tine Heads shortly after noon yesterday, when the (Sg geelong proceeded outsidi and towed her up to er anchorage, off Carey Bay. The Ada Wiawell is a very handsome vessel of 557 tons register, and is the property of her commander, Capt. L. Wiswell. She is comparatively a new vessel, now on her second voyage, having been bnilt at Bangor, State of Maine, in 1875. She brings a full cargo of 930 tons measurement, part of which is for this p rt and the remainder for Wellington. The Ada Wiswell left New York on the 26ih April, and experienced westerly winds until reaching latitude 28 N., when she picked the N.B. trades, which continued until crossing the equator on the 24th Mfly in long. 29 W.; she met the first of the S.E. trades in lafc. S S., which hung well to the southward; lost the trades on Juno 3rd in lat. 19 S„ and thence variables ware experienced until the 16th, when she fell in with the westerlies j crossed the meridian of Greenwich on the 26th Jp lat. 40 S., and that of the Capo on the Ist of July, on which day she encountered a heavy westerly gale, the vessel running before it under close reefed canvas. Thenoe until passing the Snares on the 13th instant had a succession of heavy weather with high seas, some of which broke on board, fortunately doing no damage. From the Snares she experienced westerly winds, and arrived off the Ilea is, having ran down her easting between the parallels of 46 and 47 8 latitude.

To-kobbow. Heads. I Ft. Cbalkzbs. I Ddkkdib. 0.41 pan. I 1.21 p.xo. I 2.06 pjn.