Shipping. PORT CHALMERS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 223, 9 May 1872, Page 5

Shipping. PORT CHALMERS.

Mhubsday. A brigantine, supposed to be the Maggelan Cloud from Sydney, arrived at the beads this afternoon, and was sailing up to a discharging berth at 4 p.m. The p.s. Wallace arrived from Oamaru and the s 8. Beautiful Star sailed last evening for Lyttelton, via intermediate ports, with passengers, cargo, and mails. A ketch, supposed to be the Defiance for Moeraki, beat out from the Heads this forenoon, and proceeded on her voyage, The s 8. Keera sailed at 1 55 this afternoon for Auckland, via intermediate ports of calL Friday. The barque Bengal which left here on April 1, arrived at on the 19th, and the fclydra which sailed from Port Chalmers on the 2nd, reached Newcastle on the 18th. The barque Mendoza has been chartered by the New Zealand Meat Preserving Company to load at the Bluff, where 800 tons of cargo a waii shipment. The brigantine Magellan Cloud, from Sydney, arrived last evening with cargo. The s.s. Albion, from Melbourne via the Bluff, arrived at 8.15 this morning, having experienced strong S. ti. gales on the passage from Melbourne to the Bluff ; thence to six o'clock this morning N.W. winds acd thick weather, followed by S.W. winds, which freshened to arrival. Monday. The brigantine Swordfish from Hobart Town, with a cargo of timber, fruit, onions, and bark, consigned to Messrs Dalgety, Nichols, and Co., sailed upjto an anchorage this forenoon, and pioceeds to Dunedin to discharge her cargo. Capt. Harvey reports leaving iObart Town on the 26th, proceeded to sea on the 27th, and met with light baffling airs for three days, afterwards moderate S.W. winds, passed the Solanders on the 4th at 4 p.m., and arrived at the Heads last evening. The s.s. Maori, on her passage from Lyttelton on the 4th inst., collided at midnight with the schooner Coronet. The latter vessel receiving damage, was towed by the Maori to the Port. An investigation and survey will shortly be held. The barque Alma, Captain Finlay, arrived at the Heads last evening with 230 tons of coal, consigned to Messrs Dalgety, Nichols, and Co. She left Newcastle on the 19th, and on the 21st experienced a eye one which lasted thirty hours, the wind rotating from N.E. toS.S. W., causing a heavy confused sea. Made the land to the northwar-1 of the West Cape on Friday last ; passed the Solanders on the 4th at 9.30 a.m. ; Dog Island at 8 p.m., and arrived at the Heads last evening. A laden brig, supposed to be tha Star of the Mersey from Newcastle, was sailing up to an anchorage at 2 p.m. this afternoon.