PORT CHALMERS, MAY 9.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 151, 10 May 1862, Page 4

PORT CHALMERS, MAY 9.

Wind at noon, N.E.. fine breeze. Weather clear, and fine. Barometer. 30.S ; therriiomer, 01. AIIRIVALS. Mam-ai-etta Roesner, ship, 429 tons. Hyde, from Newcastle, April 14, sheep, horsss, coal, Sep., 4 pas- j senders. Cargill and Co., agents. • I Cosmopolite, briar, 145 tons, Lewis, from Hobarfc ' Town, April 30, 19' horses and produce, 3 passengers. 1 Yarrow^hrig, 259 tons, Scott, from Wellington, April 3. 115 head of cattle, 3 passengers. Master, "Ellen Simpson, barque, 297 tons, Poole, from Melbourne, April.29, general cargo, 05 passengers. M Keiizie and Poole, agents. . Glcnshee, barque, from Newcastle, coals. DEFAIITUIftSS. Guiding Stnr, s.s., Fi-aser, for Invercargill. General cargo and passengers. EXPKCTED ARRIVALS. From Melbourne.—Sea Breeze, Bella Vista, Evelina llutter, Streamlet, Prince Albert, and Abbot Laurence. Prom New Bedford, U.S.—Omega. From London.—Black Swan, James Booth. From the Clyde.—Zambia. projected DEPAr.nmns, Rainbow, p.s., for Sydney, May 10. Chariot of Fame, for London, May 15. Kureka, for Melbourne, earlyj . W, B. Dean, for Wellington, May 10. • ■ White Swan, s.s. for Lytlelton, May 12. St. Jean, for Sydney, May 14. Mountain Wave, for Melbourne, May 11. Joshua Bates, for Melbourne, May 10. Margaret, for Canterbury; May 13. . VESSELS IN POM.' W. B. Dean, schooner,,from Wellington, Success, schooner, from Auckland. Jane Lockhart, schooner, from Sydney. Remark, brig, from Newcastle. Flying Cloud, schooner, from Auckland^ Mountain Wave, ship, from the Bluff ■ Clutha, schooner, from Auckland ■^Eureka, ship, from Melbourne Chariot of Fame, ship, loading for London Dona Anita, barque, from London Oliver Cromwell, ship, from London Akbar, ship, from London Colonist, schooner, from Glasgow. Sebim, schooner, from Melbourne. Sea Nymph, brig, from Geelong Lombard, schooner, from Melbourne Joshua Bates, ship, from Melbourno .Ellen Lewis, barque, from Newcastle Northern Light, schooner, from Hohart Town. Janet, cutter, from Waikara Vistula, schooner, from Auckland Missie, brig, from Melbourne. . United Brothers, schooner, from Melbourne. Wild Wave, schooner, from 'W'aikouaiti. Challenge, schooner, from Waikouaiti. Lady Egidia, ship, from London. Wild Wave, brig, from Hobart Town White Swan, s.s. from Melbourne. St. Jean, barque, from Melbourne. Ellen Simpson, barque,-from Melbourne. Yarrow, brig, from Wellington. . 1 Cosmopolite, brig, from Hobart Town. Margarettha Roesner, ship, froM Newcastle. The Ellen Simpson was towed up from the Heads to'the Port this morning by the Lady Barkly, and her passenger* proceeded at once to town. Her number of passengers was equal to 55 adults, not 75, as stated in the Melbourne papers, and a considerable proportion of the number were females and children. Favored by fair wind, though the weather was heavy, she made one of the most rapid passages that have yet been made between Melbourne and Otago. She proceeds to Dunedin to discharge. The Cosmopolite brig sailed from Hobart Town on the 30fch April, and brings Hobart Town papers of dates up to the 29th. In addition to her freight of Tasmanian produqe, she brought 19 horses, without any loss on the passage, notwithstanding her having encountered some very heavy weather1. In the conveyance of horses, the Cosmopolite has been particularly fortunate, .Capt.' Lewis having lost ouly one horse during the four years has been, more or less, in the trade. One horse was, however, drowned today while swimming ashore from the sliip's sideAfter discharging her horses she was towed fron? her moorings to the channel, and proceeded to town. The Margarettha JRoesner, from Newcastle with stock, reached Port Chalmers this forenoon. She had had a somewhat protracted passage; having left Newcastle on the 14th April, hut she encountered some very heavy weather, and had twice to seek the shelter of the coast, with the view to the' safely of her life freight. .Within three days after departure, Captain Hyde had jsade half his distance, but lie was subsequently for seven days. becalmed, or was met by light S.S.E. winds, ' and did-not make during that time more than 180 miles. While making through Cook's Straits he was also .twice obliged to run under the lee of Mount Egmpnt, for the safety of his stock, being met by heavy winds, which carried away some of his canvas. He passed through the Straits on the 3rd, since then had light airs of wind, and for the last four days has been within twelve hours' sail of the Port. In consequence of this protracted passage all the horses and sheep had for the last six days been on half allowance of water. The loss amounted to 355 sheep, and 5 horses. For the discharge of the remainder, she has been brought up to the usual berth for stock vessels, and will pro- . ceed early to.disembark. The Yarrow, from Wellington, brings 115 head of cattle, with a loss of only one. Captain Scott reports that-the brig Tyra, recently reported as being on the strand, was likely to become a -wreck, as well as the ' American vessel, Mary Merrill. The Fanny a Garriques was chartered to go to Port Cooper with stock. The steamer Storm Bird \vaa expected to leave Wellington for this and other Southern Ports on Tuesday last. : : The Guiding Star, in coming down from Town yesterday, got aground on the bauk which, forms the eastward boundary of the channel, and was delayed in sailing till a late hour at night. The advantages ■which must accrue to the establishment of telegraphic communition between Port Chalmers and Duuedin was illustrated by the circumstances of the departure of the Guiding Star on this occasion. The White, . Swan brought on the Southland mails, having been unable to land them at the Bluff. Immediately on receipt they were sent to town, to be transferred to the Guiding Star. In the meantime the Guiding. Star sailed, but, having been delayed all day at the Port, there was sufficient time, had the telegraph teen in operation, to have notified the circumstances, and had the mails returned. As it was, there was no means of rapid communication, only two of the steamers running, and these only one trip each way, and the consequence was a further and unavoidable delay of the mails. Ther« arc many similar occur, rences 'in . the course' of every week, affecting both official and general business, which show the absolute necessity of telegraphic communication between the two places.

PORT OF HOBART TOWS. (From the Hobart Toivn Mercury, April 29th.) The Plying Squirrel arrived yestarday morning from Otago, having left that port on Good Fri lay, the 18th inst/ Captain Pie has the credit of having made the fastest trip of any sailing vessel out of this port to New Zealand, having been exactly four weeks from the day he left this harbor until he again dropped anchor yesterday. "Captain Pie saw no vessels on bis passage up. , The Isabella,' Capt. Copping, arrived yesterday afternoon from Dunedin, naving left on the loth instant. 'Captain Copping reports light baffling wind, all the passage up, saw no sailing vessels. Ihe barque Akbar from London, arrived the day before Captain Copping left, and desired to be remembered in Hobart Town. The Isabella met the City of Hobart in Favaux Straits on the 17th inst., but at too great a distance to speak her; the City of Hobart left Melbourne on the 17th inst, so that she ha 3 made n, gool run down. . -■ The bii" Cosmopolite, for Dnncdin, with a valuable, cargo of timber, fruit, and horses, cleared out yesterday and left the dock in the afternoon, but in consequence of the threatening state of tee weather. Captain Lewis came too in the Cove, and will sail this morning, weather permitting. Shipwreck op tee Huguenot.—The Colombo Ooerlaud Observer of the 15th March gives the accompanying particulars of the wreck of this vessel :— This fine vessel, which left here on the 9th of November last, made a splendid run of 61 days from Colombo to Dungeness, in the Channel. On the 28tli of January and following days, the fogs were so dense that no observation could be taken, and the captain kept constantly heaving- the lead and examining his charts, when on Thursday i the 30th January, at noon; breakers ahead were seen, and before the ship could be veered she struck heavily on a sand-bank. So dense was the fog that no signals made on board could be'seen, and she kept on bumping Tvith fearful violence. As no helf from shore coufd be obtained, the boats were got out, and the second officer sent off first/ with thT passengers and apprentices, followed by the captain with the remainder of the crew. ' All reached land in safety, though, from the grounding of the boats, they had to get cut.-and wade ashore for some distance up to their middle in water They took refuge on a kind of guard-house, ami found they had been wrecked on the csast ot Boulogne, not far from the village of Mirlemout. ■ The; soldiers soon raised the neighbourhood, and hundreds came flocking- to the secne of disaster; but the utmost order prevailed, and the most generous hospitality was mauifested. by,the inhabitants as well as tha military. The next morning the wreck was boarded ;the afteiv part of the ship was found" knocked to pieces, and it was evident she was breaking up fast/ A few articles were saved from the hold, but the coflee was, all' destroyed, 'the casks having burst open, and it was expected that little or nothing could be saved t.of the . of the general cargo beyond a'portion, of coeqanut oil. Many ..of the packages ibi the Great Exhibition were seen smashed to pieces. Most providentially there was not much wind, otherwise there might have beeu a sad tale of woejto relate, for she struck upon a very : dangerous NsoastJ where many a gallant vessel lias beeu wrecked. The loss1 of the articles intended for the Great Exhibition is n sad misfortune. The general cargo included 4942 cwb plantation coffee, and 1064 native: 1830 "cwt of cocoanut oil, etc.