SHIPPING.

Evening Star, Issue 4653, 29 January 1878, Page 3

SHIPPING.

I Por>"C "sunset it, January 29.—Samson, p.s., 124 tons, Jones, from OaTiaru. Grace, ketch, 16 tons, Dixon, from "Waibonaiti. County of Peebles, ship, 1,614 tons, F«T<lyce, from London. PaasergeTs : Mr and Mrs M'Kenzie, Mrs Wilson, Messrs Niobollß, Grmt, Hogwood. Second Cabin—Mr nnd Mrs Johnaon and thron children Mr and Mrs Paitley, Mr ~nd Mrs MK.jl.bon, Mr and Mrs Martin, Miss Moijrnn, Mossrs Swallow. Jones, Martin, Dividson, PoUnck, IKenyon, M'Cammen, Bpillon, Spratt, Von Gpraud, Fonth- y (8), Steeds Loy Leoe, Appleford, Addison 8011. SAILED. January 2*.—Vixen, barquentine, 180 tens, Stephens, for the 'Ylnimkoti. Maori, s,a, 118 lons, Berneoh, forTimaru. January 20.-Wait*ki, n.i., 228 tons, Eclle, for Oamaru. Besntlful Star, e •., 146 tons, Peterwn, for Tim»:«. The only sailing vrssels berthed at the Rattrny ■treet wharf to-day were the Barque Acacia, the topsail schooner Annie Hill, and the foreand-after Awarua. Messrs Dalgety, Nichols, and Co. have received a telegram informing them that, owing to a defect in her machinery, tbo p.s. Albion will not be able to make her nsunl monthly trip from Melbourne via the West Oast this month. The ba>quentino V.x»n, in 1 a'.last for the Mannkau, sailed yesterd :y afternoon. The Union Compary's steamer Maori sailed yeste'dny evening, witli cargo and passengers for Timaru. The three-masted schooners Anne Bow and Gaorge Noble pnssed the Heads yesterday afternoon, bound North. The p.s. Sur.eon arrived early this morning from Otroaru, and steamed alongside the ship OiaM to tran hip woo'. s s. Waitnbi sn'tled this morning, with cargo and passengers, for O.imatu. 'l'he burque a-'ast Lothiau was hauled alongside the hulk Don Juan in readiaeaa to discharge her cargo of Baltic timber,

ARRIVAL OF THE COUNTY OF PEEBLES. This magnificent vessel, which ar;i:ed off the yesterday afternoon too late on the tide to be towed up during the evening, wi\a brought up to the anohorige off Deborah Bay this afternoon by the tug Koputat. Tiie County of Peebles la the first four-masted full-rigged ship that has visited this port, tho only other vossel with four masts that has been seoo in our waters bch g the ship Paltuorstop, wbich arrived fouio three years sinco—although she w 9 not full-rigged. The County of Peebles is a very handsome vessel of I.6Ut.ons register, and was constnn ted iu 18*5 by Messrs Barkley, Curie, and Co., of Glasgow, to tiie order of her owners, Messrs R. and J. Craig, of the same city. She is built of iron, with lower masts and topmasts of the same material, and she is fitted with all the latest improvements. Her measurements are: Length of keel, 26Gft; beam, 38ft 7in; depth of hold, 23ft; and her present, draught of water, with 3 200 tons ef cargo on board—l,3oo tons of which are dead weight—is 20ft, liu. The County of Peebles, which is now on her third voyage, having previous'y made two trips to Calcutta, comes oonsiened to Dalge.y, Nicholß, and oo„ and brings nn addition to our population of thirty-sovon souls. We are isdebted to Captain Fordyce for the following report of her passage :—Lef t Qravesend on November 3; was dotained in the Channel by terrific westerly gales, and consequently did not clear the Liz >.rd until the 15th ; had light variable winds across the Bay of Bifcay, and picked up the N.E. trado in latitude 22deg. N. on December 2 j this was light bnfc steady, and carried the ahip to latitude 7deg. N., longitude 24deg. W., which point was reached on December 7; variable winds were then st-uggled against to latitude Sdrg. N. on the 10th, when she got the S.E. trade; crossei ihe Equator next day in longitude 28deg. 20min. W.; the trade was frefdi, and continued until reaching latitude 20deg. SOmin. S, longitude Sndeg. 54min. W., on the 17th December; Tris'au D'Acunha was sighted on the 21st, and the westerlies wero <rot on the 22nd ; crossed the meridian of Greenwich on the EGth in latitude •Mdeg. 18min. S., and rounded the Cape of Good Hope on the 30th in latitudo 43deg. 50min. S. j fresh N. and N.E. winds were thet experienced; on January 4 in latilude 40deg. Bmin. S. and longtude 45deg. 46min. E. passed four large icebergs ; had N. and N.W. winds right across the Southern Ooean, and passed th« meridian of tho Leeuwin on the 21at January; thence had W.N.W. winds until mahing the Sua es 01 the 26t.b; had S.W. winds along the ooast and arrived off the Heads yesterday afternoon, where the came to an i.nohor owing to the ebb tide and the large amount of water she was drawing. Her easting was run down on tho high parallel of 5C S., and to show how this beautiful packet can travel it may be mentioned that, during the run from the meridian of Cape Leeuwin to the Snares she logged on an average 820 miles per day. Her best day's work was on the 6th instant, when she travelled 337 milts ;n the twenty four hours. Reckoning the passage as from anchor to onclior, the rn«a ent occupied eighty-six days; but if allowance is made for the twelve days' bnffetting wbich she got in the Channel, the passage of this famou3 clipper may be accounted an exoeedingly go xi one. SUpplng Telegran s Auckland, January 28.—The Apelles, from London, has arrived. She left Loudon on October 16, and brings 250 immigrants ; all woll. Sydney, January 28.—S .iled: Easby for Wellington.

'Water. To-mokhow. HlBAl>8, 1 Ft. CwALMEna. 1 Ddnrdir. 0.83 r.m. 1 113 p.m. i 1J8 p.m.