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New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4448, 22 June 1875, Page 2

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GEEYMOHTH, Monday. Aiuuved Awarua, schooner, from Invercargill. Sailed : 'Last night, the Charles Edward, steamer, ior Nelson; and the Maori, for Dunedin, via Jackson a Bay and The Bluff; and at noon to-day, the Fiery Cross, schooner, for Lyttelton. LYTTELTON, Monday. Ar.mvED : Phoebe, from North. Sailed : Phcebe, for South, at 2.30; Clematis, for Hobarton ; Jessie Henderson, for Waikato. PORT CHALMERS, Monday. Sailed; At 4.30, Wellington, a.s., for Northern ports, with passengers and 74 tons cargo. NELSON, Monday. The schooner Julius Vogel, sixteen days out from Waitara to Foxton, put In here yesterday. She experienced the heavy gale a fortnight ago, and was blowing for five days to westward ; one agnail struck her and laid her on her beam-ends for a quarter of an hour. Spoke the schooner Toreah on Friday, a month out from Kaipara to Taranaki. The Taranaki sails North to-night. 'The Time-ball may be used to-day for rating chronometers. A chronometer true on Greenwich time ■would show 12b. 30m. when the ball drops. Any difference is error, plus or minus, of the chronometer. Some extraordinary statements concerning the sailings of the N.Z.S.S. Company's boats were published somewhere last night. We have been requested to give the necessary corrections by mentioning that the Jtangatira has been detained for the purpose of having her compasses adjusted, aud not for the arrival of the Ladybird with the English mail. The latter boat left the Manukau at 7.80 yesterday morning, and consequently is not likely to be in Wellington before Thursday, and as the Eangatira sails on Wednesday, cannot be in time for her. • The p.s. Manawatn, Captain Evans, crossed the Wanganui bar at 9.15 a.ra. on the 21st inst., and arrived at Wellington at midnight, having experienced light N.W. winds and heavy westerly sea during the passage. Messrs. McMeckan and Co.’ss.s. Alhambra,Captain Bowden, arrived from Melbourne via the West Coast yesterday at 9.45 a.m. She brought about 210 tons of cargo for Wellington and several transhipments for Tfapier and Wanganui. The Alhambra will sail for Melbourne via The Bluff, calling at Timaru. at 2 p.m. to-day. We have to thank Mr. Miller, purser, for the report of the passage and our Melbourne exchanges Left Hobson’s Bay at 2 p.m. on the 12th, and cleared Port Phillip Heads at 6.30 p.m. ; passed Wilson's Promontory at 4 a.m., and the Sisters at 11.30 a.m. next day; experienced light westerly winds for the first two days, and moderate south and southwest winds and fine weather for the remainder of the voyage ; arrived in the Hokitika roadstead at 3 a.m. on the 18th. Left at 10.15 a.m., and axrive&off Greymouth at 12.30 p.m. Left at 1 p.m., a strong south and south-east wind preventing her being in time for the morning tide at Nelson, and arrived there at 11.80 ,a.m. on the IDth. Left at 9 p.m. on the 20th, and arrived at Wellington at 9.45 a.m. on the 21st. Captain Johnson, of the Marine Department, proceeds to-night in the s.s. Ino, to the entrance of Tory Channel, to decide on a suitable site wheron, we understand, it is intended to place leading lights for the guide of vessels entering this channel- It is needless to say that such will be highly valued by shipmasters trading to that locality. . The s.s. Uangatira, Captain Griffiths, arrived from the East Coast at 2 p.m. yesterday, with a number of passengers and a few packets of merchandise. She left Poverty Bay at 4.15 p.m. on the 18th, and encountered thick weather and strong S.E. breeze, arriving at Napier at 5 a.m. on the 19th : left Napier at 12.30 p.m. same day, but the S.E. gale increasing, took shelter under Cape Kidnapper at 3.30 p.m., and remained at anchor until 2 p.m. on, the 20th, when she proceeded on her voyage, arriving alongside the wharf as above. The Rangatira will not sail for the East Coast until 2 p.m. on Wednesday, as she has been detained for adjustment of compasses. The topsail schooner Marmion, Captain Bowton, arrived from the Kaipara yesterday with about C7,oooft. of kauri timber. She cleared the Kaipara Heads on Wednesday morning, the 10th inst.. In company with the schooners Southern Cross and Mercury, which vessels, however, put back owing to the severe weather experienced in crossing the bar. She passed Cape Egmont on Friday last, and experienced strong S.E. and N.W. winds until arrival. The topsail schooner Bonny Lass, Captain Gilbertson. arrived from Pelorus Sound yesterday afternoon, with a cargo of timber consigned to Mr. Compton. The brigantine Hannah Broomfield cleared outwards in ballast yesterday for the Kaipara. The barque William Ackers cleared out In ballast yesterday for Newcastle. Since her arrival in port she has had new main atarboahl chain plates, in lieu of the ones carried away on her voyage from Newcastle to here. Captain Davies intends completing the necessary repairs on the vessel’s arrival in Newschooner Dunedin has cleared outwards in ballast for Havelock. . . , „ i The regular Blehheim trader, the ketch Falcon, sailed last night with a general cargo. The ship Hannibal and the barque -Mary Miller came up from the fairway yesterday morning, and hauled alongside the wharf. The Hannibal took berth No. 2, and the Mary Miller berth No. 4. The Mary Miller commenced to discharge her cargo of breadstuffs. _____