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Evening Star, Issue 4237, 25 September 1876, Page 3

Shipping.

HIGH WATBB, „ TC-HOMOW. Hum. IPt. Caimans.} Dimronr. 8 U pja. | 851 p.m. | 9.39 jjb.

POET CHALMEEa. « , . ABBIVBD. Septamber 24.—Samson, p.s., 124 tons, Eaie, from Oamaru. Passengers: Miss Pennyworth, Messrs Harrison,Taylor, Morris, Sutton: and eight in the stterage. Southern Cross, barque, 824 tons, Boon, from Hobart Town, September 13. India, barque, 292 tons, Greg?, from Hobart Town, September 15. Jane, cutter, 25 tons, Tunbridge, from Catlin's Biver.

Jane Hannah, schooner, 52 tons, Holloway, from Catlin's Biver.

Lloyd's Herald, ketch, 48 tons, Cairns, from Catlin's Biver.

Alpha, ketch, 24 tons, Keys, from Catlin's Eiver. Fanny, ketch, 25 tons, Williams, from Catlin's Eiver.

Huon Belle, ketch, 42 tons, Cowan, from Catlin's Eiver.

Good Templar, ketch, 42 tons, Currie, from Catlin's Eiver.

Invercargiir, ship, 1,250 tons, Muir, from Glasgow, June 24. Passengers: Mr and Mrs Gibson and three children, Mr and Mrs Mackie, Mrs Brown and two children, Mr Lockie j and 849 free and nominated immigrants. Taiaroa, s.s., 228 tons, Peterson, from Timarn. Arawata, s.s., 623 tons, M'Lean, from Melbourne, September 18. Passengers: From MelbourneMr and Mrs H. Guthrie, Mrs J. B. Gibsou, Miss Berghoff, Messrs Hudson, Craig, Chambers, Stcinhoflf, Bennett; and ten in the steerage. From Bluff —Messrs Ramsay, Simpson, and Poulson. Wangonui, s.s., 179 tons, Fraser, from Bluff. Passengers: Mesdames Jackson and Johnson, Mr Barr; and ten in tho steerage. Hawea, s.s., 461 tons, Wheeler, from Lyttalton and the North, Passengers -. Master and Miss]Eich, Mrs and Miss Williams, Misses Wilson and Galeß, Messrs Kettle, Smythe, M'lanes, Steggal, Madame DoMurakaand company (8), Master Macandrew; and eleven in the steerage. Beautiful Star, s.s., 146 tons, Stewart, from the Bluff.

September 25.—Kelly, ketch, 25 tons, Kelly, from Waikouaiti.

SAILED. September 84.—Wellington, s.s., 273 tons, Carey, for Akaroa and the North. Passengers: For Akoroa —Mr Bellard. For Lyttelton—Mr and Mrs Kiver, Mr Macfarlane, and Captain Essen. For Wellington—Mr and Mrs Boyd, Mr Bonn, Mr Cargill; and fifty in the steerage for all ports. September 25.—Grace, ketch, 16 tons, Dixon, for Waikouaiti.

The s.s. Hawea arrived from the North at 1 p.m. yesterday, and steamed a'ongside the ship William Davie to discbarge cargo. She left Onehunga wharf at 10 a.m. on the 19th, called at the intermediate ports, reaching Lyttelton at 1 p.m. on the 23rd, and leaving there at 5 p.m. We thank Mr Newman (purser) for report and Northern exchanges. The report of the Marine Department is published. It details the progress of lighthouses, and recounts the wrecks. There were 107 casualties reEorted to the department during the year, ninetyve of which were on the coast; ninety-six lives were lost, besides thirty in trade between the Colonies.

Captain Creagh, of the Elibank Castle, informs us that when that vessel left Greymouth the Hokitika bar was as bod as ever, the steamer Waipori reporting only five feet of water in the channel, which was along the nerth (beach, and it was with difficulty that she got into the lagoon. There was at this time no chance of the vessels at Hokitika Wharf getting out, and there are vessels in the roadstead, some of which have been at anchor waiting to get in for over ninety days. When off Cape Foulwind th« Elibank saw the schooner Maud Graham cruising about. She has been waiting to get in for ten weeks. The bar at the entrance to Greymouth is little better, the Elibank being detained seventeen days waiting for a chance to get out, and when going out struck heavily, the water being shallow anl the s:a heavy Towage is now 12s 6d per ton for vessels loaded! and for vessels going in for coal or timber, as per agreement.—'N.O. Times.'

The Eingarooma, with the Suez mails from Melbourne, via the Bluff, arrived alongside the railway pier at 6 a.m. yesterday, when her mails were landed and conveyed to Dunedin by special train The Eingarooma left Melbourne at 2.35 p.m. on the 18th inst., passed Swan Island at6.BDp.m. next day. Experienced lisrht N. winds and flue weather, and passed the S. W. Cape at 6 p.m. on the 22nd, and the Solanders at 11.35 p.m., and arrived at the Bluff at 7 a m. on the 23rd, leaving there at 4 p.m. Messrs P. Henderson and Co.'s ship Timaru aptain Taylor, left the Clyde on July 26 for Otago' with the following passengers :—Cabin—Mr James Gibson, Mr D. Cameron, Mr John M'Eae, Mr Gibson, Ealston, Mr and Mrs Matthewson, Miss Matthewson; and 355 in the steerage.

AEEIVAL OF THE INVEECAEGILL. The Albion Company's ship Invercargill, which we reported in our hist issue as having arrived at the Heads, was towed up on Saturday evening by the tugs Geeleng and Iron Age against a strong S.W. breeze and anchored in the stream until this morning, when she was berthed alongside the vailway pier. As we have on other occasions given a description of this fine vessel it will be sufficient now to say that she comeß into port in capital order, and is commanded by our old friend Captain Muir, late of the company's ship Jessie Beadman, who has with him as chief officer Mr Motfalt, who filled a similar position last year on board the Company's ship James Niool Fleming The Invercargill brings 361 souls, uader the charge of Dr Ham'lton, who was here some two years since as surgeon-superintendent of the ship Sussex, and is to be congratulated on the sanitary state of the ship, only two deaths having occurred during tho voyage, one being from extreme old age and the other from consumption. The first took place on the 14th inst., when James Ealston, aged 73, died; anJ the second occurred shortly before the vessel made the port, and was that of James Crompton, aged 15. Two births have taken place during the passage, and it is a pleasing fact that the general health of the passengers has be. n extremely good, ample space has been devoted to the use of the immigrants, and we found the several compartments neat and orderly. The number of single females, nndar the care of Mrs M'Cullum, the matron, is 90. There are 44 married couples, 86 boys,Bs girls, 6 male infants, and 4 female infants; these, added to 103 single men, make the sum total 361. During the voyage fire practice has been strictly observed, and regular watches kept on the passengers' decks every night. We ar d indebted to Capt. Muir for the following report of the vessel's passage. Left Glusgow on the 24th June with a N.E. wind, and took her departure from Inistrahull on the 28th; N.E. winds continued until the Ist of July, when they shifted to the southward and held in that quarter until the 14th, when the N.E. trades were picked up in lat. 24.17 N., and lost in lac. 18 N. on the 20th. Thenc* had S.S.W. winds and squally * wither until reaching 6 N. on the 28th, when she got the first of the S.E. trades. Crossed the equator on July 30 in long. 28 W. The trades hung well to the southward carrying her on to tha Brazilian coast and causing her to make six tacks off Pernambuco to clear Cape St. Eoqu*; lost the trades on the 9th August in lat. 20 S. Thence had variable winds until passing Tristan D'Acunha, when she got the first of the westerlies en the 19th Atums v , and crossed the meridiau of Greenwich in lat. 39 S. on the 22nd. and that of the Cape on the 24th. Had fine westerlies across the Southern Ocean, and passed the meridian of the Leuwin on the 9th inst., having run down her casting in 46 S. After passing the Leuwin bad strong easterly winds for three dayp, when it shifted to the southward, passing the Snares on the night of the 20th. Had N.N W. winds along the coast, and arrived as above. The Invei cargill brings about 1,000 tons of cargo, prircipally measurement goods, there beiDg only about 120 tons dend weight.

THE MAIL STEAMERS. A long letter addressed by Captain Forties, of the Zealandia, to tho Postmaater-General, has been published. Captain Fenies complains that iu consequence of his refusal to give up the charge of his ship to the Aucklatd pilot, he was summoned to Courfc and fined L 5. He contends that the captain is responsible for the working of a ship, the pilot's responsibility being confined to directing her course, and that no one is so capable of working a large ship 400 ft. long as her commander, who is acquainted with her peculiarities. The pilots, on the other hand, contend that they are responsible for a ship's safety while aboard, and that the captain ought not to interfere, unless the pilots are guilty of any neglect or default. In order to prevent so far as possible the recurrence of this difficulty, Messrs Turnbull and Co., as agents for the Pacific Mail Co., have applied for the exemption of the mail steamers from tho obligation to take a pilot, while Captain BendaU, the coos'al pilot, is on board. The Government has recommended the local authorities, in whose hands the control of the pilot services is veßted, to accede to this application.—* Post.'

STBANDING OF THE MATAU. [Br Tkleorafh.] Westport, September 25. The steamer Matau was stranded s x miles north of Westport at 1.30 on Saturday morning. The injury to the engine valve necessitated putting the vessel under sail during repairs, as she would not lie-to. A heavy gale was then blowing, and the wind shifting, drore her shorewards; heavy seas swept her deck, the lumber f -mling her stearing gear. Tho veesel drifted i nto the breakers, and as a hist resource the vessel was headed for the beach. She struck lightly, and lies high and dry at low water. No lives were lost. She will discharge cargo to-morrow. Tho passengers arrived here overland. She is insured for L 7.000. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. Akaroa, September 25.—1.25 a.m., Wellington, from Dunedin. Auckland, September 25.-5.45 a,m,, City «f Sydney, from Napier,