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Evening Star, Issue 4301, 8 December 1876, Page 3

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High Water. TO-MOKBOW. HhumJ. I Ft. Chalmebs. I Ovsr.ms. 9.17 pja. | 9.57 p.m. | (10.42 p.-n. Port Chalmers. 1' ABBIVEB. December 7. —Josephine, barquentine, 598 tone, Stahl, from New York August 14. Passengers: Messrs H. Stackpole and F. Lister. Pakeha, brig, 173 tons, Home, from Eaipara. A.P.M.S.C. 5.9. Zealandia, 1,715 tons, Ferries, from Kandavau November 29, via Coast Ports. Passengers: Mr and Mrs Barron, Mrs Hodgson, Messrs Matheson, "Wise, Holder, Hercus, "Webster, Mudie; and two in the steerage. December B.—Samson, p s., 124 tons, Jon:s, from Oamaru. Passengers: Messrs Scoollar, Kennedy; and two in the steerage. SAILED. December B.—Waitaki, s.s., 228 tons, Edie, for Oamara. Kestrel, ketch, 52 tons, Bern, for Invercargill. Franklin Belle, ketch, 38 tons,' Foreman, for Timaru. Fanny, ketch, 25 tons, "Williams, for Catlin's Biver. Isabella; ketch, 52 tons, Fnrdie, for Catlins's Biver. Huon Belle, ketch, 42 tons, Cowan, for Catlin's Biver. Catlin, ketch, 48 tons, Hannah, for C&tlin's Biver. The p.s. Samson, from Oamaru, arrived this morning with wool for transhipment to the ships Mataura and Invercargill. The brig Pakeha, with a cargo of kauri logs from Kaipara, arrived yesterday afternoon and was towed np to Dunedin by the Iron Age. She left Kaipara on the 30th nit. The Zealandia arrived at the Heads at 4.20 p.m. yesterday, the Iron Age with the mails reaching the railway pier at 6 p.m. The Zealandia shortly after steamed over the bar, and anchored off the Quarantine Ground at 7.80 p.m. She will sail on Wednesday next with the outward San Francisco mails. ABBIYAL OF THE JOSEPHINE. The barquentine Josephine, with a full cargo of Yankee notions from New York, part of which is for this port and the remainder for Lyttelton and "Wellington, was signalled at the Heads yesterday afternoon. There being a fine breeze from the N.E. she sailed up and anchored «ff Carey Bay. The Josephine is a fine vessel of 600 tons register, and •was built at Waldsborough, State of Maine, in 1874. She left New York on August 14, with an easterly wind, which continued for fifteen days; thence had S.W. to S.E. winds; met with no N.E. trades, but got the first of the S.E. trades on September 24, in lat. 5 N. Crossed the Equator three days later, in long. 30 "W., 44 days out. The S.E. trades, which were good, carried the ship to Lit. 26 S.; thence baffling weather until picking up the westerlies On October 14, in lat. 39 S., long. 10 W. Crossed the meridian of Greenwich on the 19th in lat. 40 S., and that of the Cape on the 25th. "While running down her easting she experienced one or two heavy gales. Passed the meridian of the Leeuwin on November 22, and carried westerly winds until passing the Snares, on the sth inst. Had S.W. and S.S.W. along the coast, and sighted the Heads at 6 a.m. yesterday. No ice was seen during the passage, and the only vessel spoken after crossing the line was the ship Tobago, from London for Melbourne, on November 29. Shipping Telegrams. ■Wellington, December 7.—Sailed: "Wellington, for the South, at 8 a.m. Passengers: Mrs Tucker, Misses G. Waterhouse and Cotter; and twelvelin the Bteerage. December B.—Arrived this morning, ship Avalanche, from London, eighty-nine days out, with sixty-one passengers, all well. Mr Words- I worth, one of the Strathmore survivors, ia among the passengers. December B.—Sailed: Easby, for South: Passengers : Mr and Mrs Joun Hall (comedians) and CE. Hanghton. Thirty tons of cargo for Lyttelton, and the balance for Dunedin. Post Office Notice. MAOB OLOBZ. Nobthxbn Poets op New Zealand.—Per Taranaki, on Saturday, December 9, at 1.50 p.m. Lyttelton, Chbistchubch, Westland, and Nelsojt.—Per Maori, on Saturday, December 9, at 4.20 p.m. Per s.s. Zealandia, on Wednesday, December 13, as under : Northern Ports of New Zealand, Fiji, Sandwich Islands, America, West Indies, United Kingdom, and Continent of Europe, &c., via San Francisco, at 9.30 a.m. Newspapers, at 8.80 a.m. Late letters bearing one additional single rate at 10 a.m. Money orders, on Tuesday, December 12, at 4 ?>.m. Registered letters, on Tuesday, December 12, at I Note.—A Post Office has been opened at Havensbourne. Mails will .be despatched daily at 6 a.m., and will arrive at 4.20 p.m. Note.—The names of the following Post Offices have been changed:—West Taieri will in futnro be named Outram, Waitahuna will be named Wnitahuna Gully, and Havelock will be named Waitahuna. ' British and other mails, via Suez, will close at this office on the 20th inst. Signed) A. BABB, Chief Postmaster Chief Poßt Office, Dunedin, December 8,1876.,