GENERAL MEMORANDA.

Southland Times, Issue 898, 12 February 1868, Page 2

GENERAL MEMORANDA.

The ship Hydra, and barque Anna, bound fur Newcastle, N.S.W., also the barque Ethels, bound for London, sailed from the wharf to-day. In clearing the wharf, each ship in rotation, went through the usual naral honors of dipping her ensign, which was duly acknowledged by the ■hipping. The Ethels left this port with a fair wind ; it is expected that she will make a swift passage home, as she is in splendid sailing trim. The Hydra and Anna brought up at the pilot station, wind bound, but left again on Sunday morning at 9 a.m., with a fair easterly breeze. Captain Benant, of the ship Celeano, reports having left Otago Heads on Thursday, 6th Feb., at 11.30 a.m. ; encountered heavy S.W. gales, and was driven up as far as Oamaru. Whilst standing off that roadsted, being about three miles off the land, saw nothing of the ship Star of Tasmania, and Water Nymph. Had these vessels been riding at anchor in the roadsted they should have been visible. Sighted the Wm. Miskin from North, making for Oamaru. Saturday Bth, had N.E. winds, passed Otago Heads at 4 p m., on Sunday 9th, in company with the s.s. Waihopai, and ar/ived alongside the Bluff Harbor wh/irf on the afternoon of Monday, 10th, at 3.30. The splendid clipper ship Celeano, commanded by Capt. Benant, arrived in this port yesterday afternoon (10th), from London, via Port Chalmers, and will commence discharging her inward cargo without delay, after which, she will be laid on the berth for London, and will take about 3000 bales wool. The s.B, Waihopai, Captain Fraser, arrived at the wharf from Dunedin at 2 p.m. yesterday (Tuesday), after a fine run of 24 hours from heads to heads. She was near the bar at 9 p.m. on Monday night, but it was deemed prudent to stop outside for the night, the weather being thick and hazy, and the bar surge breaking right across it. The Waihopai was wind bound in Port Chalmers for 3 days owing to the stormy and unsettled weather on the coast. She brings a full cargo of general merchandise, a considerable portion being for the Lake District.