Shipping.

Evening Star, Issue 4312, 21 December 1876, Page 3

Shipping.

High Water. IHXADB. I PT. CHALHEBB. I DnVKDIM. 6.41 pjn. I 7.24 p.m. | 809 p.m. Port Chalmers. AKBIVSD. December 20.—Waitaki, a.s., 228 tons, Edie, from Oamarn. Passengers: Mesdames Le Leivie, Glen, Arbuckle, Misses Kilgour, Cowan, Jeffreys, Messrs Bee, Johnston, Bonald, Reekiel, Sterling, Every, Bastings, Baxter, Oilmore, Scoullar and son, Millivine, Jones, Davidson; and twenty-three in the steerage. December 21.—Kestrel, ketch, 52 tons, Bern, from BluesMn. Amateur, barque, 239 tons, Tooker, from Newcastle. Friendship, schooner, 60 tons, Baker, from Havelock. Palmerston, ketch, 25 tons, Brebner, from Invercargill. Mera, three-masted schooner, 237 tons, Palling, from Oamarn. Beautiful Star, s.s., 146 tons, Bernech, from Timaru. Passengers: Mesdames Cameron, Buckingham, Captain Gora, Messrs Turnbull, Gall, Carr, Maroey, Wbittaker, Cameron, Butler, Bice, Campbell, Guest, Jackson, Johnson, Horncastle, Dawson; and twelve in the steerage. SAILED. December 20.—Samson, p.s., 124 tons, Edie, for Oamarn. Huon Belle, ketch, 42 tons, Cowan, for Catlin's Eiver. Taupo, 8.5., 461 tons, Carey, for the North. Ahandsome dessert service, suitably inscribed (pur chased from Mr Hialop, jeweller), was to-day pre■ented to Mrs Macfarlane, wife of the captain of the Botorna, by the cabin passengers by that steamer. The ketches Kestrel from Blueskin, and Palmerston from Invercargill, arrived this forenoon. The ketch Huon Belle, in ballast, for Catlin's Biver, sailed this morning. The steamer Botorua was hauled into the graving dock this morning for cleaning and repainting. The Union Company's steamer Taupo, with cargo and passengers for the Northern ports, sailed this afternoon. The barque Amateur, with a cargo of coal from Newcastle, was towed up this morning by the s s Jane and berthed alongside the railway pier. She left Newcastle on the 3rd inst.; had southerly winds until making the West Cape on the 13th, when she encountered a heavy S.S.W. gale with terrific sea, which continued for six days ; during the gale she was hove-to for forty-eight hours; passed the Solanders at 8 p.m. on the 19th; thence S. 'md S W winds to arrival. Captain Fisher reports the barque Bobycito leaving Newcastle on the Ist inst The s.s. Beautiful Star left Timaru at 7.30 p m yesterday, and arrived at Port Chalmers at 8.30 this SSwIf 8, « In a ? di * io .? *? other cargo, shebriogs 100 bales of wool for the ship Timaru and 140 bales for the ship Mataura. The three-masted schooner Mera, in ballast from •amaru, arrived this morning for the purpose of going into dock for repairs. The schooner Friendship, with a cargo of sawn timber from Haveloek, arrived this forenoon. She cleared tie Sound on the 9th inst. with a N E wind, which continued until within twenty miles of the Peninsula at 10 p.m., when the wind hauled round to the S.B. and increased to a gale, duriDtr whichshe was hove-to for forty-eight hours, and she drifted sixty-five miles north. The gale liavine moderated she had light S.E. winds, passed Banks Peninsula onthe 17th, ard got a light N.E. breeze yesterday which continued to arrival. Shipping Telegrams. Auckland, December 20.—Arrived: H M S San phireandHinemoa, from Wellington. ' Wellington, December 20.—Sailed: Wakatipu at 3.15 p.m., for Lyttelton and the South. Passengers: Miss Thomson, Miss Shaw, Messrs Oxlev Orzaond, Palmer, Abell, Earliej and fifteen in the steerage. LYrri!LTO», December 20.—Sailed : Wellington and Bingarooma, at 3.30 p.m., for Wellington.