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Evening Star, Issue 4311, 20 December 1876, Page 3

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High Water. To>kobbow. Hk&ds. j Pt, Ohalmkbs, I OIINJSDIB . 6,05 ,ro- I 6,45 run, | 7.80 p.m. Fort Chalmers. ASBIVED. December 19.—Beautiful Star, s.a., 146 tons, Bemech, from Timaru. Passengers : Messrs Fraser and Seager, and two steerage. Hope, barge, 25 tons, Jolier, from Waikouaiti. Waiwera, schooner, 50 tons, Bashell, from Mercury Bay. Isabella, ketch, 52 tons, Purdie, from Catlin’s Biver. Comerang, p.s., 199 tons, Fraser, from the Bluff. Passengers: Misses Kinsland, Thomson, Perkins, Jones, Messrs James Low, Sandies, BoneyS, Power, Ashton, Kingsland, Badger, Thatcher, Herbert, Hunter, Crlpps, Ashton, and Boper. December 20.—Express, s.s., 136 tons, Christian, from the Bluff. Passengers: Mrs Hooper, Misses Brady, Campbell, Messrs D. M'Kerrow, M'Leod, Douglas, Coventry, and six steerage. Botorua, s.s., 576 tons, Macforlane, from Glasgow. Passengers : Saloon Mesdames Young, Gall, Blackodder and family, Greig, Deck and family, Stevenson, Paterson, Misses “Wheeler, Jarvis, Stevenson, Paterson, Messrs Bhodes, Gall, Blackadder, Stevenson, Watt, Gilbert. Second Cabin— Mrs Maggs and family, Messrs M. J. Emmett, A, E, Houge, Mitchell, Horne, Hamilton, Connor, Nimmo (two). Arawata, s.s., 642 tens, Underwood, from Nelson, via Wellington and Lyttelton. Passengers: Mr and Mrs Hill, Mrs May, Misses Harris, Smith, Kennedy, Hutchings, M'Kenzie, Caldwell, Gofton, Logan, Howrah, Deck, Master Leonard, Messrs Leonard, A. Smith, Wilson, G. G. Simpson, Poole, Thomas Fownes, H. Davis, Bose, and one in the steerage. William Gifford, barque, 272 tons. Bishop, from the Bluff. SAILED. December 19. Blngareoma, s.s., 623 tons, M'Lean, for Nelson and intermediate ports. Passengers: For Lyttelton—Five steerage. For Wellington—Mr Baker and two steerage. Beautiful Star, s.s., 146 tons, Bemech, for Timaru. December 20. Muir, for London. Passengers: Saloon—Mrs A. Bathgate and two children, Bev. J. H. M'Naughton and three children. Second cabin—Mrs Simp, son and two children, Mr and Mrs Mackie and infant, Messrs H. J. Gagers, J. Perritt, D. Bobertson, W. Mudie, J. Watson, J. Coghten. Arawata, s.s., 642 tens, Underwood, for Melbourne, via the Bluff. Passengers: For the Bluff —Misses Maloney and Gillon, Dr Biohardson, Mr Clapperton, and one in the steerage. For Melbourne—Mrs M’Neil, Misses Donovan, Spedding, and M'Neil (2), Bev. J. Donovan, Messrs Adamson, M’Neil, H. Clarke, Tolmie, Petrie, and twenty-flve in the steerage. The s.s. Arawata arrived at 10.30 this morning from Nelson via Wellington and Lyttelton. She sailed again this afternoon with the outward Suez mail for Melbourne via the Bluff. The barque William Gifford, from Melbonme via the Bluff, arrived at the port this forenoon. The Battray street wharf presents an animated appearance just now,, there being quite a fleet of ships alongside. There are the steamers Taiaroa, Wanganui, Comerang, and Samson, the barque Waratoh, brig Pakeha, and the schooners Countess of Errol, Wagrina, and Isabella. MOEE ABOUT THE WILLIAM ACKEES. The barque, which struck a rock about a mile from the snore, is now close to the land, and is a total wreck, only a few of her spars being visible at low water. Her cargo of timber is to be found scattered along the shore for a distance of eight miles. The names of those who perished with the wreck are David Lindsay, master; W. Cantley, second officer, and brother of the first officer; and Japes Sydney, Georgs Campbell, Charles Araott, James M‘Donald, Charles Charles, a Finnlander, able seaman, and John Leister, cook and steward. All the lost men were unmarried, with the exception of Captain Lindsay and George Campbell, of whom the last has a wife and family at Timaru. The three survivors are said to have swum ashore, but Mr Cantley, the chief officer, does not know how he reached land, as, on recovering from a state of insensibility, he found himself lying on the beach, greatly exhausted, and having his shirt in his hand. He is still in a weakly condition. Captain Joss and Eiley also sustained considerable injuries in reaching land. All three survivors would have perished hod it not been for the kindness and hospitality of a party of five miners, who spared no pains in attending to the three castaways. It is worthy of note that Captain Lindsay had a black dog on board which, when the reef was struck, was repeatedly thrown overboard, but returned and stuck to the vessel till it drifted ashore, and would not leave till it went down. The dog is now with the survivors, who were to leave Waipapa on Sunday, either by the s.s. Halcyon or by horse overland for Wyndham. AEEIVAL OF THE STEAMBE EOTOEUA. This steamer, the atost addition to the Union Company's fleet, arrived alongside the railway pier at 4 o’clock this morning, after a passage of sixtytwo days, including two days’ detention at St. Vincent and tbe Cape. The Botorua, which is rigged as a brigantine, is an extremely handsome vessel of the following dimensions:—Length, 225 ft; beam, 27ft; depth, 21 ft. She is classed 100 A 1 at Lloyd’s, and has been const: noted with the greatest caie. Her engines are surface-condensing compound, of 180 horse-power nominal, the indicated power being 500 hor: e. Her low-pressure cylinder is 60in, while the high-pressure is 35in, with a stroke of 3ft 6in. Her boiler weighs sixty tons, its mean diameter being 13ft 7sin and 17ft long; she has s.x furnaces, the inner diameter of each is 3ft 4in, She is fitted with one of Griffiths’s patent propellers with 18ft Sin pitch; she has a fonr-bladedscrew 12ft in diameter; her steering gear is also worked by steam, and she is fitted with the latest improvements, and a steam windlass with endless chain. compartments aft are fitted up in a similar style to those of the Hawea and Taupo, while forward she has a most excellent secondclass cabin with a ladies compartment. The whole of the second cabin is well lighted and ventilated, and furnished in a superior style. One of the moat noticable features of the Botorua is her spar deck, which runs fore and aft the vessel. Ample access to the main deck is gained by several . companions, while the officers, engineers, and stewards have comfortable rooms on the main deck, , She is also fitted specially for the conveyance of horses, the fittings being removable at pleasure. She has a novelty in the shape of her davits i which are close in to the deck - house) ■ and by a simple contrivance are lowered , on to a kind of skid, from which the boats are launched without fear of accident When not required for use the boats are by mcna of these davits kept on board, thus precluding accidents by seas striking them. She left Glasgow on October 19 ; had strong head winds to St. Vincent on the 31st; coaled and left same evening, crossing the Equator on November 7; experienced strong S.E. trades, and reached the Cape on the 20thleft next day, and thence had strong westerly winds 3 across, with the exception of two days’ easterly weather; ore used the meridian of the Leuwiu on the 9th inst.; passed the Solanders at 8.30 a.m yesterday and Dog Island at 2.30 p.m,, maktof the Heads at 1 a.m. this morning, and steamcl ■ p the harbor at daybreak.

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0 Wellikqton, December 20.— Sailed: Wakatlpu >. for the South, at three p.m. Passengers: Miss e Thomson, Miss Shaw, Messrs Oxley, Onaond, Palmer, Abell Earle, and fifteen in the steerage.