Shipping.

Evening Star, Issue 4297, 4 December 1876, Page 3

Shipping.

High Water. To-morrow, 1 Pt. CHAXMBEa. I Di Tnci'iH. 523 pun. I 603 p.ia. i 6.48 u.m. Port Chalmers. ARRIVED. December 2.—Waitaki, s.s., 228 tons, Edie, from Oamaru. Passengers; MesdamesShrimski, Taylor, Masterton, Miss Fowler, Messrs Eosrudge, Hope, Todd, Dewiss, and seven steerage. Shag, s s., 31 tons. Wing, from Shag Point. December 3.—Taiaroa, s.s., 228 tons, Petersen, from Timaru. Passengers: Professor Lewis, Messrs F. Bussell, Jones, Duller, King, Johnson, Meyer, Dawson, Bussell, Higgins, Slohr, Clarke, Hegarty Troupe (8), and five steerage. Maid of Otago, schooner, 58 tons, Bain, from Timaru. Glimpse, ketch, 38 tons, Lee, from Timaru, Defiance, ketch, 25 tons, Burke, from Oamaru. Wanganui, s.s., 179 tons, Fraser, from the Bluff. Passengers: Mrs Woodsideand child, MissWaldie, Dr. Cotterill, Captain Joss, Messrs Cotterill, M'Ewin, Lister, Brodrick, Eichardson, and six steerage. Mary Ogilvie, schooner, 72 tons, Falconer, from Timaru. December 4.—Taranaki, s.s., 292 tons, Anderson, from Wellington. Passengers: Mr and Mrs Walker, Miss Eva, and two steerage. Frank Guy, three-masted schooner, Boor, from Kaipara. SAILED. December 2.—Express, s.s , 136 tons. Christian, for the Bluff. Samson, p.s., 124 tons, Jones, for Oamaru. Ephemy, schooner, 85 tons, Boss, far Wanganui, December 3.—Otago, s.s., 642 tons, Calder, for Melbourne, via the Bluff and Hobart Town. Passengers : For Melbourne—Mrs Clegg, Miss Joyce, Mr A. Anderson, and four steerage. For Hobart Town—Mr Sargisson and child, Mr J. Adamson, aud six steerage. For the Bluff—Misses Coxhead (2), December 4.—Wellington, s.s., 262 tons, Lloyd, for Northern Porta. Passengers: For Akaroa—Mrs and Miss Cohen and family (4), Mr Nixon. For Lyttelton—Misses Langhan and Taylor, Messrs Melooy, M’Mahon, Haines, Thompson, Harris, Blythe, O’Brien, Everett, Belcher, Dawson, Hill, Brown, Digbv, Wheatley, Kirkwood, Christensen, Prophet, Halil well, and Queloh. For Wellington— Misses Anderson and Manly, Messrs Loudon, Ha’llwell, Cook, Cobberds, and Hutchinson. For Napier —Messrs Fowke and Blair, For Nelson—Mr Engel. For Manukau—Messrs J, L. Bussell. Slater, and Walters; and sixteen in the steerage for all ports.] The s.s. Otago, for Melbourne, via Hobart Town and the Bluff, sailed yesterday afternoon. The steamers Waitaki, from Oamaru, and Shag, from Shag Point, arrived on Saturday afternoon. The steamers Taiaroa, from Timaru, and Wanganui, from the Bluff, arrived yesterday afternoon. The schooners Maid of Otago and Mary Ogilvie, and the ketch Glympse arrived yesterday” with wool, from Timaiu, for transhipment to the ship Invercargill. The Union Company’s steamer Taiaroa was hauled into the graving dock this morning to bo o'.eaned and have her bottom re-coated. The ketch Defiance, with a cargo of stone from Oamaru, arrive d yesterday forenoon. The whole of the stock brought by the s.s. Southern Cross was landed yesterday at Carey's Bay, and the Southern Cross was taken in the floating dock yesterday to be cleaned and repainted. The scheoner Ephemy, for Wanganui, sailed yesterday afternoon. The s.s. Wellington, having been cleaned and repainted, was taken out of the graving dock this morning and berthed alongside the railway pier to reoeive cargo. She took her departure this afternoon for Northern Ports, The three-masted schooner Frank Guy, with a full cargo of 140,000 ft of timber from Kaipura was towed up to her anchorage off Deborah Bay this forenoon by the p.s. Iron Age. She left Kaipara on the 26th ult., had light variable winds until passing Capa Egmont an the 29th, when she got a light N.E. breeze and cleared the Straits on the Ist inst., thence light variables until passing Bank’s Penin- . aula yesterday morning, when she got a fine N. W. * breeze, which continued to arrival.

The Union Company's stsamsc Taranaki rstunad to Fort Chalmers thlß morning, after an absence of several months, during which time she has undertone a most complete alteration. She has been tted at Wellington with new surface-condensing engines, manufactured by Messrs Blackwood and Gordon, of Glasgow, and sent out to Wellington in pieces. She has also received a new boiler, measuring 12ft 6in in diameter, 10ft in length, and has a grate-heating surface of 60 square feet, with three furnaces each 3ft 3iu in diameter In addition to these alterations, her decks have been replaced, her bridge has been reconstructed, and the engine-room skylight carried up to the main deck; the poop deck has been sheathed with kauri planking, and a handsome deckhouse erected, which contains the captain’s cabin, smoking-room, and companion. The whole of the saloon has been entirely refitted, painted, enamelled, and varnished, and, indeed this part of the vessel is chastely elegant. • The forecabin has been thoroughly renovated, and the forecastle and firemen’s quarters made extremely comfortable. She has bad a new mainmast stepped, and has received a new topsail yard, besides having thoroughly new rigging. In short this favorite little boat comes into port in eveiy respect equal to a now vessel, and no doubt will prove as great a favorite as ever with the travelling public. She has been brought down the coast by Mr Anderson, her chief officer, who reports leaving Wellington at 7 p.m. on Saturday ; experienced N.N.E. winds and thick weather to arrival at the Heads at three o’clock this morning ; steamed up the harbor, and moored alongside the railway pier at 6.30, Shipping Telegram.’ t uckland, December 3.—The Zealandia arrived at 4.15 this morning, with the SanlFrancisco mail, and left for Napier and the South at three this afternoon. The City of Sydney left Auckland on the 25th September, arrived at Kandavau on the 29th, transhipped mails, left same day, and arrived at Honolulu on October 9. Arrived at San Francisco on the 18th, at 10 a.m. Light winds and smooth sea throughout. Left San Francisco November Bth, arrived at Honolulu on the 16th; arrived at Kandavu on the 29th, transhipped mails to the Zealandia, and left same day for Sydney. Favorable winds and smooth sea to Kandavu; thence to Auckland fresh breeze and beam sea up and down. Made the voyage considerably within time. Passengers for Dunedin per Zealandia : Mr Henry Wise, Mr and Mrs W, Barron, Mr G. C. Matheson, and one steerage. English Shipping. Sailed: For Otago, October 3, Inch Green, from Glasgow; October 6, Clan M'Leod, from Gravesend, off Portland, October 12; October 19. Otoki, with 107 passengers, to sail; October 25, Hopeful, for Canterbury and Bluff; November 6, Loch Dee, for Otago.