SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 152, 16 October 1876, Page 2

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

PORT OF OAMARtr. VEsafcMt nv k't>RT. Octoobw t«. Thraa-cauatad schoonur—Clurvun. Sahooaera - Martha Raid, Zior. Alary EU.sc. HtWARCS. OCTQBXA t'f. thx«a*masCtiti schooner. Bos, from Met* warn*. 3. tirav«, agont, wcronstt 15. BMMOa> p. 9.„ Jones. from Dunedin. 11. Aitken. inal Uor, iehooner, Bell, frora F«lorus Sound. lifter, «en«. Jfary Ellon. schooner.Smith.from Bunedin. Master, 'igcnt. I Th#thra#Mxmst»d schooner which arrived on. S*t«< lay afternoon proved to bo the Uarron, Captain tiae. (ton* Melbourne. She was at onus accouimot tared: with i berth at the wharf. and commenced discharurin:: Barty thto morning. Cap.ain tlaa reports havinsr left Melbourne oiv tha 29th ult. ; sighted 1 the Solanders on the 13th ot October, ami passed Ota(<<* Heads between dx and seven iv.ni. on Saturday. f'imj weather and tyht variable winds wars experienced throughout the fttlt* ; The Mary Elian, schooner, Captain Smith, arrived from Dunedin all uleveu o,m. yesterday, with a general ""tUTb Mut schooner Eor, Captain Bo It, fruiu Keda Bay,. pulorus Sound, arrived at noon yesterday, with a cargo ot timber consijfned to Messrs. C. I'.aii raith and Co* Captain Is el I reports that Che Zior lets Keda tiivy OlktbS IHh inat., and experienced variable windj u» the voyage. Th* union St am Shipping: f orpmy's p.?, Samson, i Captain Jones, arrived trmn UunoUtv yus- .dvy evenSi to**. brtnitind a genaral and a ioeomo.kvu. She j hit tor Kaftanui at haU-past twelve to-day, there to itolca in cargo tor Dunedin. H!« new ?.-f. Waitakt did the run to Port Chalmers on Saturday in (ivu and a-hulc hours. Shu cleared the CSmJewwtor at 12. to tutu.. and arrived at Her d'estina* Ittoß at S. tO p.m. | WOMJSJf Atfl* JfA-VLUATtON". A 88IU captain, writing 1 to the Editor of the " Womens* Buflraiffl Journal." says:~"Jtadam.— My attention Sttttbnattdrawn to a paragraph in your oj starch iisi* law, in which the name of Mrs. Taj for is mw 'tioneci. Whilo £ was in command ot the Triton. Ka.<t [lnd.'aniany t fi'i't my chronometer at her estiwibtment In tha itmvrias ditv ni tha ship's stav in London, tn |3SB%. I always used her tunar taMes when fcvkiiigr ilunar obsarvations, and pvt'iertKd tl'.eui to any nther. [J «owratt«i her on one occasion m» the sabjsct •>{ iVtrt»tioß of the compass as laid down on the charts. Jta.„ and was surprised and pleased at the knowledge «h« •■Vtncsil on the au»]ect. though t had then heen in icomoiaiut ot a ship twenty years, 'that lady. Jtrs. ; Jm|«t 'fnylnp, would have buen abte h> navi,-ate a ship ivound the word~uyw, and! far better than many tuplatna, | have known. What an anomaly for such a woman to be thought incupacitutwl for a »n!e?" i*jinoth«r corraspondent contributes the follo-.vins estraut teom an American paper: —"A nauticid school !prwideit over and conducted by a lady, wlio has, t'wltjhte the tast ten years, educated in navigation and •atronomy,, and fitted for active service at .si a. more than two* thousand youny men, the nmst of w'roav were 'o<fi«#r»in tho United States navy the rvhellion. }H.aow to active operation, under the personal superAlston ot Mrs. Cupfain l irownlow,. late t'ririi-i,.at ot thu jfiiw T«k Sauticai School, estaldished by her tather. Captain William Thomas, mote than twenty yi.ar< W