SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. PORT OF OAMARU.

North Otago Times, Volume III, Issue 48, 19 January 1865, Page 2

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. PORT OF OAMARU.

ARRIVALS. Jan. 13. — Geeiong, p.s., Turnbull, from Dunedin. Jan. 14.— Matilda Hayes, from Shag Point. Jan. 15.— Undine, from Waikava. Jan. 16.— Geelong, p.s., Turnbull, from Dunedin.

DEPARTURES. Jan. 13.— Geelong, p.s., Turnbull, for Dunedin. Jan. 13.— Iona, for Dunedin ; 120 bags lime. Jan. 13.— Gannet, for Dunedin. Jan. 13. — Anne, for Dunedin. Jan. 16.— Matilda Hayes, for Dunedin; 182 bags lime. JAN 17.— Geelong, p.s., Turnbull, for Northern ports.

"VESSELS IN PORT. Star of Tasmania, Chilbert, loading with wool. Expects to leave in ft few days. Malay, Peters, loading with wool. Gazehound, Andrew, discharging. Undine, waiting orders.

IMPORTS. Per Geelong, from Dunedin.— 1 case, Anderson; fencing wive, Campbell and Low ; 5 bdls wire, 1 bag bolts, Cftrgill and Co; 1 cs boots, 1 parcel, Traill, JRoxby and Co ; 8 cases, 1 truss, 1 parcel, Shrimski aud Moss ; 1 parcel, Dansey ; 12 cart boxes, 1 parcel, Ogilvie ; 1 coil rope, 1 parcel, Sewell ; 1 package, Mrs Poole ; 5 cases, J>algnty. Rattray and Co ; 1 pianoforte, Cargill. Per Matilda Hayes, from Shag Point. — 109 bags coals, France ; 56 do do, Hutcheson. Per Undine, from Waikava.— 17,000 feofc timber.

The Geelong arrived here on the 13th insfc., about 2 a.m., and left again at noon same day, with about 150 bales of -wool for the Celoeno at Port Chalmers. She arrived here again on the evening of the 16th, and left the following day at noon, for Korthern ports. The P.N.Z. and A.R.M. Co's s.s. Airedale arrived at Port Chalmers on the 17th. She left the Manakau at 4 p.m. on the 8th, and arrived atTaranaki on the 9fch, at 7 a.m. Left at 6 p.m.. and arrived at Nelson at 9 a.m. on the 10th. Left Nelson at 10 p.m. on the 12th, and arrived at Picton at 7 a.m. on the 13th. Left again at. 11 a.m., and arrived at Wellington at 3.25 p.m. Left Wellington at noon of the 14th, and arrived at Lyttelton at 5.40 a.m. on the 15th. Left again on the 16th at coon, and arrived at Port Chalmeis as above. Has experienced fine weather throughout. The Phoebe arrived at noon of the 16th, at Lyttelton. The P.2J.Z. and A.R.H., s.s. Lord Ashley, Captain Randall, left Auckland on the 3rd, and arrived at Poit Chalmers on the 12th, at 12 30 p.m. Experienced fine ■weather until near the Heads, when it came on very foggy, and she wa3 obliged to go ahead slowly from 7.30 a.m to 10.30 a.m. The ship Mataoka, from London, was entering Auckland harbour as the Ashley w.is leaving, crowded with emigrants. The s.s. Titania arrived from Invercargill at noon on Sunday, proceeding direct to town. Captain A. A. Harper, who returns by her, reports having arrived at the Bluff on Friday morning with tho ship .Lansdowne, which is appointed to load wool at that port for London. — Times. The members of the Pilot Board met at Dunedin on Friday; present— W. H. Reynolds, Esq., T. Taylor, Esq., Captains Thomson, Robertson and M'Kinnon. The minutes of the last meeting having been read and confirmed, the President read a letter from the Provincial Government, stating that the pilots had offered to take over the pilot service, and that the Government acceded to this, on the understanding that the pilots should keep and pay tho two pilot apprentices. It was stated to the Board that the pilots objected to the payment of salaries to the two apprentices, and that, if the Government would relive them of the expense, they were willing, in all due respects, to take over the service. The Board, after consideration, recommended that the Government should either concede to the terms proposed by the pilots, or otherwise retain the service in their ovn hands as at present. It further resolved that they could not undertake the duties connected with the Board, unless the Government would place a sum of £200 per annum on the Estimates for the expenses of the Board:. They also recommended that the Provincial Government should urge on the General Government the necessity of altering the thirty-eighth clause of the Marine Board Act, so as to make it compulsory on all masters of vessels to take pilots, or, failing that, to pay pilot dues, with the customary exceptions. At the request of the Board, the chairman (Mr Reynolds) agreed to forward copies of these general minutes to the Provincial Government and the meeting adjourned.— Times. We understand that the Otago Steamship Company (the present contractors for carrying the English mails ) ■will in future land and receive the Southland portion at Bluff Harbor Wharf. Although the contract is precisely the same as the former one, viz :— "To call at the Bluff Harbor, weather permitting," — the Company admit the injury done to the Province by the above clause, and will as far as possible endeavor to avoid putting the colony to the expense, and the Province to the risk of receiving its mail as it ha3 hitherto done. — Southland •Times. The ship Maori, Captain Wm. Ashby, arrived at Auckland, after a good passage of 45 days from +he Cape of Good Hope. The Maori took her departure from Table Bay at noon on the 8th November, with a light northerly wind, and experienced moderate weather throughout the passage; made the Three Kings on Thursday last, and had a strong north-easter down the coast. £3he passed the brig Reihersteig, which sailed from the Cape on the 26th October, with 150 adult passengers, near North Cape. — Southern Cross.