PORT CHALMERS.

Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3046, 19 November 1878, Page 2

PORT CHALMERS.

Monday. The Augusta, barquentine, has arrived, 45 days from the Mauritius, with a cargo of sugar.

The Dunediri, ship, has arrived, 86 days out from Londdn. She brings 32 passengers, and 2,200 tons of cargo and 40 tons of gunpowder. She spoke the following Teasels :—September 14, lat. 14.5, north, long. 24.40, west, the ship Cornia, from London for Wellington. October 4, lat. 27.41, south, long. 32.41, west, the ship Loch Fleet, from' London for Auckland. Captain Withon reports that, off Start Point, on August 27, Alexander Galbraith, an ordinary seaman, while engaged, dragging the foresheet, slipped on the rail and fell overboard. Two life buoys were thrown to him. -Robert Cathcart, an able seaman, jumped overboard to his assistance, and the boats were at once lowered. After 20 minutes' search Cathcart was picked up, but there was no trace of the poor boy. The night'was pitch dark. It-is imagined he sank immediately. A second disaster occurred on October 19/ Louis Kentish, an apprentice, who was at the main-top-gallant-mast head, lost his hold, and fell (the ship at this time was going from 10 to 11 knots), striking the outrigger crosstrees and main sheet before he fell overboard. The ship was immediately brought too; no appearance of the poor lad* There was a heavy cross sea at the time. It was not deemed prudent to lower the boat. '