MELBOURNE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 649, 16 January 1864, Page 4

MELBOURNE.

Arrived'—January 6, Sunrise, from Newcastle ; Tcherhaya, from Hong Kong; Brilliant, from Foo-(Jbow-Foo; Success, from Newcastle ;. Pilot, fr>m Hobart Town; Sydney "Griffiths, team Nhwrss le ; Kosciusko, rom ■-London January 7 John iVJ'I). Hewart, from Table Cape; Mo arch from Newcastle. Bailed.—January 6, Clarendon, for Nelson Aii'l Wellington. Friends, for Invercargill; ' Black' Hjiwk, for S*n Francisco ; Ota«o, for jyduey m.d Now Z-aland ; Commodore Perry ,_ for • Otago via G« long; * dith Smith, for Adelaide. January 7 Viceroy, tor Twofold Bay ; Miranda, fir i)uuerli'i ; C ssiha, for Duutdin ; Xli Whitney, for Ota*o, vk Portland. January 8— Pavid and Je<sie, for Hobart Town; Mediator, ]• i.ondoii. .■ • '.■ ■*■''' '"■ Bntbkeb Oot.—Aurifera, for Otago, via Two-

fold Bay; Greyhound, for Calcutta; Pilot, for Invercargiil. From the Heads.—January (—Gamecock, j Vanguard, Rosslyn, for Otago. i . v— — ■ : ■— '' - The ss Aldinga, which arrived in port at 6 a.m. left Melbourne on the Evening of .the 9th— _ " a day earlier than usual. Had light winds throughout the passage. Called at the Bluff on Thursday, at 3 p.m, leaving at 6'p.in. Up to the hour of her departure, there had been lio teleeram of the English mail. The latest departures from Melbourne for Otago were >he Gamecock, Vanguard, and Roslyn. The Champion of the Seas, from Otago, arrived on the 6th, aud ;On the same day, the Piiot, from Invercargill. The Swordfish left Port Albert on the 81st ult. At that date there wer<? no other vessels loading stock. On her pnssßge, she put into Preservation Inlet for the safety of her ; stock during a strong gale and very high sea from the tf. P. E., and remained there for tour days< Her freight consists of fat stock, and has been brought without the loss of a single head. The brg Jane sailed from Hobart Town on the night of the 2nd instant. Made a first rate run • to the Eiolander, which was reached on Friday last. On the 10th, in the Straits, spoke the barque India, from Invercargill to Launceston • n deck the Jane has four head of cattle, with some calves, and crates of geese and poultry Bhe discharges part of her cargo before proceeding to town. The barque Laughing Wfter, already reported, bad fine weather after leaving port Louis, on sth December, then strong waste ly winds, wi'h a heavy cross sea, at d was a week from the (Snares with light cortheily wind?. Her passengers are Messrs lleid and Ambrose Trie American baique Panama left Geelong on the 29rh ult., but on the fir. t night out. she ' encounteied heavy sou'h-easf.erly weather, during which the shet-p fittings gave way, and from that cause and others she lost 4!iO sheep put of the I*2oo shipped. Returning to Queenscliff she dis charged the rarcases of the .'•heep. and again set saii on *he 3rd inst., experiencing fa^r weather for the first four days, subsequently strong win'ls from different parts of the compass, and for the last two days calms, after a great deal of lightning and rain. Cut ot her shipment she has Jos? altogether 800 sheep, but she h ought all her horses 40 in number, alive and in good condition. ' The schooner Mary Jane, which, with other crafr, was in a critical position at Oamaru during a heavy swell and surf on the shore there, parsed up to town iv the afternoon. She reports the arrival at Oamaru of the schooner Waver.y. with timber, from Auckland. In con fequence of the heavy s if, the Star of Tasmania bsd very great difficulty in shipping the wool which she had gone to Oamaru for the Durpose of loading. Numbers of extra hands had been cinplryed, but only a small number of bales could be got on board each day; and it is understood that. the has yet 6110 ba'es to ship. Numerous instances occur in which seamen deserting their ships exhibit an amazing amount of coolness, but the fol owing leter received by Ciptain Cowan, of the Dauntless, must excel, in these paiticulars, anything that has come under a ship-masters notice for some time :—" Capt. Cowan. Sir,—lt has come to our knowledge that you have in your possession some lett-rs belonging to us, and, feeling well assured that you have no wish to detain the letters, they being of considerable consequence to us, and of none to yourself, we write you this note hoping that you will be kind enough to leave them for us at tbe Post-Office. Dunedin, until ie is convenient for us to call f»r them. That, of course,'will be i when you have departed for Callao, and we sincerely "wish you a happy New Y^-ar,. and every success to you on the passage. -rYours respectfully. The Sincere Well-wishers and Departed Starboard Watch of the Dauutless." ; . ' The ship Phcebe Dunbar, which was towed up at 9 30 p.m , has had a passage of only nine days from Newcastle, whence she brings 178 head of cattle, upwards of 251) sheep, 10 calves.and 30 pigs. Among her cattle she has only had a loss of seven head, that num* er haviDg died be/ore the vessel's ■ departure, during the prevalence of exceedingly licit weather ; none having been lost by stres3 of ! weather during the passage. A majority of them are fat stock, and arrive in superior con- ' | ition to any that have been imported for a i conside'able time past; the cleanliness and vpnti* lation of the ship being unexceptionable. When < the ship sailed, the Dubrook was beginning to ' load lor this pot. ' ' Melbourne --H.M.C.S. "Victoria left Hob- ' son's Bay on Wednesday evening for Port ' Phillip Heads, whfre she will be e-igaged in 1 blowing up a rock she lately discovered there. The schooner Willine Las*, at present on : Wright's patent-slip, Williarnstown,_ is undergoing a very ex'ensive overhaul, being entirely refastened aDd thoroughly rebolted throughout, ■ also caulked and recoppered; and is now as good ; a vessel as v hen first off the stocks. ■ A very pretty little vs'el has lately been built | at the Marine Yard, Williamstovvn, unler the supervision of Mr Elder, and is intended as a re- ' ■venue cruiser for Western Port She has very | fine lines and will doubtless prove very fast. She ! is being rigged a? a fore-and-aft schooner, and having been coppered, was yesterday launched i from Wright's natent-slip. ■ The Bl ek Ball ship Champion of the Seas ha 3 been towed to Geelong, where she will receive her ] homeward cargo. ; The celebrated clipper yacht Brilliant, once , the prtfe of the Royal Yacht squadron, anchored- ] in -Hobson's Bay yesterday afternoon, after a ; splendid run of but thirty-eight days from Fov . Chow Foo, bringing a full cargo of tea. The ', Brilliant is one of the prettiesc vessels that has j ever anchored in our bay. The ship Golden Fleece, bound for this port, would* leave Foo- , Chow shortly after the Brilliant, having been, de- J tainei on her passage from Hong Ko g ; . ' , The s.B.s. Otago left for Sydney yesterday after- , noon. In getting underweigh. she ran foul of ■ the barque Prince Arthur, an>l broke part of her , stern frame, transom, and taffrail. The steamer , did not appear to have sustained much damage. ] The Aldinga.—ln due course the Aldinga ( stopped her engines to receive on board the ship- ( Dine: reporter, in exactly forty-seven and a hal j hours from Melbourne, after being under steam J throughout the passage. It was imagined that a : la'e arrival from England had aided to th* colo- j nial steam fleet, a faster vessel than the ALinga, . but on her last voyage to New Zealand she was found still to bear away the palm. •' South Austra'ian Regi«t°r,'' Jan. 2. ] Hobart Town. —The birque Derwent Hunter has been chartered for the i:onveyance of cattle from Welshpriol to New Zealand, und as som aHer watpr-ensks have been filled up, and she has t shipped about 40 tons of hay, she will leave this port. . The schooner Annie, which has arrived from . Melbourne j|is a vessel recent'y purcha-ed by Captain W. Fisher, for the Queensland trade, j She appears to be a powerful ship of considerable . carrying capacity, and is fitted with ve'y first-rate pvsensrer Bfcommodation. The Annie will be ] slipped immediately, to be examined, coppered, • and tho ousrhly overhauled, and when again j launched will be placed iv charge of Captain Hopkins. ■■ The schooner Camilla, from Lyttelton, arrived : on the Ist, after an average passage Captain j White reports tha the Windhover, brig, fop this , port, sail d on the 9ih, bavins! on boavd instructions and copper for the repdrs of the barque , Tndus, now laid up in Sandy Bay. The Daniel j Watson, for Wreck Keef, left on the same day.