PORT CHALMERS, SEPTEMBER 25TH.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 240, 26 September 1862, Page 4

PORT CHALMERS, SEPTEMBER 25TH.

v" Witidat noon, N.W., increasing breeze; wither dull and cloudy; barometer, 29 40; thermometer, 55. High water on the 26th instant at Port Chaliuera 4.38 a.m., and 4.57 p.m.: at Duaedin an hoar later.

AKEIVAIS.

. Lightning, snip, 1,769 tons, Johnson, from Melbourne Sept. 16, 803 passengers. Dalgeiy, Rattray, and Co., agents. ; ' City of Melbourne, fhip, 1,828 tons Jones, from Melbourne Sept, 16, 709 passengers. Dalgety, Rattray, and Co., agents. .-..,..'

Result, ship. 1,463 tons, Dickinson, from Melbourne Sept. 16, 656 passengers. ,

DEPAETOaES.

William Buchanan, bar»iue, 155 tons, Aldred, for Newcastle, in ballast. T. W. Uamford, agent. "Lombard, schooner, Harding', for Wellington, in ballast. Driver, M'Lean, and Co., agents.

PAS3ESGER LIST.

Per Jane Lockhart, from Sydney: Messrs. Chas. Bankes, Chas. Higga, J. Lariki, Jacob Falk, and Eobinson, and 28 in the steerage. Per Lightning^-firom Melbourne: Mrs. Beck and family, Mrs. and Miss Jones, Mrs. Croft, Messrs. Athidge, Staite, Croft, Cavenagh, Morison. Lyons,Coleman (SVBarnett, Wallack, Jones, Smith, and Wood, and 785 in the steerage, i •; Per Boanerges, from Melbourne: Mrs.- Young, Misses Young (2)^ Mrs, J. W. Smith and -<hild, Messrs. T. Glahcy, F. Sefton. W. Wright, James Bawson, A. Merfiby, T. E. Young, J. Brook, J. W. Smith,and 494 in the steerage. : :..- ~ : t Per City of Melbourne, from Melbourne: Mrs. Crogan, Mrs- Brogan, Mrs. Nash, Miss South, Mr. and Miss M'Callum, and 697 io the steerage.

EXPECTED ABRIVAL3. i ; v .;T

Prom Melbourne. — Despatch, Jane, Jspanese, Dragon.. From London--Planter. From the Clyde-—; Jura, Cheviot. From Newcastle—Time and Truth.

"■'■ PEOJTBCTED DEPARTUBSB.

Success, for the Molyneux, early. • Star, for InycrcargiH, early. Sylph, for Auckland, early. Boanerges, for Melbourne. Sept. 29. Benjamin Heape, for Melbourne, Ist Oct. Lightning, for Melbonrne, 27t\ Sept. Result, for Sielbourne, 26th Sept.

VESSELS IH PORT. ■ *"

Carlotta. barque, from New York. Grasmere, barque, from Glasgow Killermont, brigantine. from Melbourne Margaretha Roesner, ship, from Newcastle Bombay, ship, from London Pilot, schooner, from Stewart's Island - Mary Thomson, schooner, from Lyttelton Rebecca, schooner, from Auckland. : ..,., Isabella; barque, from Hobart Town, Robert Henderson, ship, from Glasgow. Metaris, barque, from Newcastle. Alpha, cutter, from Auckland Gannet, cutter, from Waikawa ." Traveller's Bridfi, cutter, from Chatham Islands Alfred Letnont, barque, from Melbourne. Thames, brig, from Newcastle. Boanerges, ship, from Melbourne. Cincinnati, barque, from Newcastle. Dunedin, schooner, from Auckland. •Sylph, schooner, from Auckland. Mary, schooner,* from Auckland. * -: Valiant,, brig, from Wellington. r Remark, brig, from Wellington. Benjamin Heape, barque, from Melbourne. Marchioness, brig, from Melbourne. W. B. Dean, brigantine, from Wellington. Jane Lockhart, schooner, from Sydney. City of. Melbourne, ship, from Melbourne. Lightning, ship, from Melbourne. Result, ship, from Melbourne.

'As previously reported, the Black Ball ship, lightening, arrived at the Heads on Wednesday, and dropped anchor on the usual anchorage ground, outside, where the steamers, Samson and Ruby, have ?been receiving her passengers all day, and conveying ; them direct to town. In consequence of heavy head ■weather, the Lightning was unable to l»"ave Port -Philip; until the forenoon of the 16th, and ori the morning of the same day, the Result and the City of Melbourne sailed, having come down in ; the-other channel. After : clearing the land, ; the Lightning made a splendid run otitj and, but for the'thickness of .the 'weather, and having to beat up a considerable distance, to make the Heads, the would have been in oh the evening of the -23rd. Out'of the large number of paseengers on bourd, the majority were on the Otego diggings'last year, and have returned on re.ceipt of private advices from friends. r They, one and all,. expressDergonally, as wellas generally.'in a testimonial to Captain Johnson, itheir high satisfaction with the ship, the Captain, and officers, and the manner in which they -were provided. The only Tdrawback, to ressels of such a class as the lightniog, is the 'circumstance of their not" coming 1 inside the Heads.; 'Fortunately, to-day, the weather -was very favorable for the transhipment of passengers, butthe conveyance of so large a number in lifeboats, -which is the plan adopted, is necessarily tedious," inconvenient, and apt to be attended with accident. In the case of the Lightning, the Ruby and the Samson •swung ast«ni.i)f the vessel, the boats being drawn from ship to steameralong a hauling line, and in this way about; 700 Tiaaserigers, with their swags, were isafely.taansferredv:Brid despatched to town, , The remamder^^broughtup this evening or on Friday. One of the pfesengere by the lightning, It appears, committed, suicide while laboring under delirium . tremens, ■or some -other' descriptibriof temporary Insanity, shortly after the vessel had left Port Phillip -Heads.l He wasnotlcnown to any of the passengers, but is suppp^d to have been a man who had lived forsome time in ; the colonies; and had hot led a very good life. Some hours before hecommitted the fash ;act;" some of his fellow passengers detected in Mb speech some iucpb'ereney, which ihSicat&'sdmetlilrig < like mental aberration, but had "no suspicion of bisJ intentions,; and they were shocited l>y Ifihdirieihim' lying'v in lone: of J:he bunks, Vi inflictinga second* wound" mv:., his -throat,^ in whieE-i He had already ? made, a .fearful gash with a;i largt! knife, of wliich he had obtained possession. He; w^ immediacyiattendediby the surgeon,, i who; dressed the wound;which the deceased made several; attempts' to r^>pen, but after lingering for £ dayor?twflhtetfied; lln the interval he made'jK?em *iua-j 'bHng^temenißAbout nia connectionswim (iardmert aad^hU gang, but it is possibje they are • ajtribn^ble! merely to the delirium from which be was softering/i

-He was buried at sea on the moraing a^ter Ms death. Captain ; M'Lell«UK late of Mbrig Tyr»,w temporanty acting^ officer on.bo^rd. the Aidingaon the i ; pre*ent occas*onof her visiting- Otago" * > r• i, I The Kesult and the City of Melbourne botH arrived very shortly after the Lightning,- having also hove-to for sometime. They are anchored a short dtetance to the northward, and have b^en and are now dischargII s ■^ eir.P asscnge^, the one into the^^.Lyttelton.and the other nto the Lady Baikly ; Tne othersteamerff proceed also alongjiide in the morning to convey'up the rerawnder. The gross number sofftpassengers brought by the'three vessels Is; according to the official reckoning,.no.fewer than2loß, and, includingaddi-f tiona to the crews, stowaways, and others, it may be,'! computed as being considerably* more^ • > -1 '