PORT CHALMERS—APRIL 30.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 143, 1 May 1862, Page 4

PORT CHALMERS—APRIL 30.

Wind at noon, S.W., light breeze ; weather clear and fine. Barometer 29-63 ; thermometer 60. High ■water to-morrow, at Port Chalmers, 4.34 a.m., and 4.5S p.m ; at Dunedin, an hour later. ARRIVALS. Vistula, three-masted schooner, 133 tons, Souter, from Auckland, timber, and 6 passengers. DEPARTURES. Omeo, s.s., McLachlan, for Lyttelton, part of original cargo, from Melbourne, — passengers. Dalgety, Battray, & Co., agents. Mctaris, barque, 244 tons, Buckley, for Newcastle, in ballast, 13(3 oz. gold, no passengers. , EXPECTED ARRIVALS. From Melbourne. —St. Jean, Streamlet, Missier, Ellen Simpson, Sea Breeze, Lallah Rookh, Belle Vista, Evelina, Rutter, and William Buchanan. From Sydney.—Jane Lockhart. From New Bedford, U.S. —Omega. From London.—Black Swan, James Booth. From the Clyde. • -Lady Egidia, Zambia. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Glutha, for Auckland, May 8. "White Swan, for Lyttelton and North, May 10. Northern Light, for Brisbane, May 2. Chariot of Fame, for London, May 8. Mary E. Hay, for Melbourne, May 1. Omeo, s.s., lor Melbourne, May 5. VESSELS JN PORT. Flying" Cloud, schooner, from Auckland. Mountain Wave, ship, from the Bluff Clutha, schooner, from Auckland Eureka, ship, from Melbourne British Trident, ship, from Melbourne Chariot of Fame, ship, loading for London Dona- Anita, barque, from London Oliver Cromwell, ship, from London Akbnr, ship, from London Witch of the Tees, barque, from Newcastle Colonist, schooner, from Glasgow. Sebiin. schooner, from Melbourne. Sea Nymph,.brig, from Geelong Boomerang, schooner, from Hobart Town Lombard, schooner, from Melbourne | Mary B. Hay, barque, from Melbourne. Joshua Bates, ship, from Melbourne Ellen Lewis, barque, from Newcastle Northern Light, schooner, from Hobart Town. Geeloog, p.s., from Oamara Janet, cutter, from Waikara Vistula, schooner, from Auckland

The Omeo sailed at half-past one p.m., with nn increasing wind in her favor. Her stay at Lyttelton will be protracted by a pleasure excursion to tJie Heads in whieli she is to be employed, but she is advertised to sail hence, for Melbourne, on the sth instant.

The Metaris, which sailed this afternoon, discharged her cargo into lighters at a poin'. some distance south of the Islanrisjber draught of water being too great to allow her to reach Dunedin. She sails for Newcastle, having been chartered to return to this port with a careo of coals.

The Vistula, from Auckland on the 17th, with a cargo df timber, nppecred at the Heads this morning, and in the course of the afternoon came to the usual anchorage at Port Chalmers. She left Auckland subsequent to the heavy gale which inflicted so much damage among snipping there, but encountered some heavy weather off Cook's Straits. She sighted a number of vessels after leaving port; spoke none. Reports very little doing at the Coromandel diggings. Brings papers with further accounts of the wrecks during the recent gale at Auckland, by which it appears that the damage inflicted upon the shipping there was even more serious than was at first reported. The Flying' Cloud, which arrived on Monday from Auckland^ brought up on the Dunedin side of the Islands, and as the weather sinct! noon has altered considerably, the wind blowing very strongly from the S.W. with showers of rain at intervals, her arrival, as ■well as that of other vessels on the way up, will likely be delayed for some days. She fortunately escaped the general fate of shipping at Auckland during the late gale, but encountered a heavy gale off Cook's Straits, and about thirty miles south of Bank's Peniusula was caught in a severe gale, which split every sail, drove her back for about a hundred miles, and employed those on board for five days in mending the injured canvas and putting the rigging to rights. She brings about 35,000 feet of timber; was to be succeaded by the Success and Zillah, with the same description of cargo, for Otago In a letter received by the Clutha, from Auckland, the writer say 3 :—" We arrived at Coromandel after a passage of nine days from Otago, having beat the Canterbury by five days The Briton arrived also on the same day, and the Zillah came in two days ago, after a fine run of seven days. The Briton has gone round to Manakau for timber. The cargo for the Success is all ready, but timber is very scarce, and not one-half of the crafts will be able to load."