SHIPPING.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 4162, 21 June 1875, Page 2

SHIPPING.

POKT CHALMERS. June 19.—'Wmd, light, variable : weather, fine, clear, frosty. S a.m.—barometer, 2i>.So; thermometer, 35. 1 p.m.—Barometer, 2!) do'; thermometer, 54. 5 p.m. —Barometer, 2« SO; thermometer. 43. June 20.—Wind : uvH-niny, light, variable; afternoon, N.E., lijit. Weather : fine, clear, frosty. 8 a.m.—Barometer, 29.55; theimometer, 34. 3 p.m.—Barometer, 29.00 ; thermometer, 59. 5 p.m.— Barometer, 29 SS; thermometer, -13. Hiirh water on the 21st:—At the licails, 4.0; at Port Chalmers, 4.4(5; at Imnedin, 5 31. POKT CHALMERS OBSERVATORY. Latitude, 4J.4S 55 south; longitude, llh. 22m. 375. east. Time ball drops daily (Sundays excepted) ot 1 p.m. lort Chalmers mean time, or Hi. 37m. 235. aim Greenwich mean time. ARRIVALS. Transport, briir. 307 tons, Fox, from Newcastle, May lSth. Miist-r, iiient. ElizaAl'Phee, ketch; 39 tons, Peterson, fromTiniaru. G. F. Reid, agent. Dauntless, schooner, 72 tons, Poulson, from Kaipara. Guthrie ami Larnach, agents. Comerang, p.s., 152 tons, Best, from Oamaru. G. S. Brodrick, asreut. Sea Gull, bri^autine, 122 tons, Veal, from Pe'orus Sound. H. Giichrie, agent. Dolly Vardeu. cutter, 20 tons, Williams, from Waikawa. Master, agent. Cora, schooner, 42 tons, Russell, from Havelock, via Wellington and Waikouaiti. Keith Ramsay, agent. Spec, schooner, 31 tons, Jladson, from Havelock. Keith Ramsay, agent. .Lady of the Luke, s.s., GO tons,- Urquhart, frim Port Molyneux. G. F. Reid, agent. Samson, p.s., 124 tons, Edie, from Oamaru. J. Mills, agent. Passengers: Mr and .Mrs Lees, Misses Hudson, Paul, Lees, Hon. M. Holmes, Messrs Barrett, Colhns, -M'Giivin, Buchanan, M'Lean, Jamieson, Sutherland, Hodgkius, Thomson, Traves, and 7 steerage. June 20.—Melanie, schooner, 130 tons, Creagh, from Kaipara. Neil and Co., agents. Bruce, s.s., 204 tous, Jones, fromTiniaru. Harbour Steam Co. agents. Passengers: Airs Christie, and i children, Misses Dodd (2), Messrs Buchanan, Mills, Detective Henderson, and S steerage. Wanganui, s.s., 179 tons, Fraser-, from the Bluff. H. Houghton and Co , agents. Passengers :Mr and Mrs Sanderson, Mrs Quiuu, and son, Messrs Hume, Toms, Newman, Kawortb, Richardson, Graham, Baird, Hay, Jenkins, Turubull, Coxhead, Hamilton, Archibald, Dewar, Quelf, and (3 steerage. Agnes, briijantiue, 128 tons, Short, from Auckland Waster, agent. DEPARTURE. Express, s.s , 13G tons, Christian, for the Bluff. H. Houghton and Co., agents. Lochnagar, barguc, 404 tons, Kelly, for Newcastle. Cargill, Uibbs, aud Co., agents. Comerang, p.s , 152 tons, Best, for Invercarsfill. G. S. Brodriek, agent. Catlin, ketch, 46 tous, Hannah, for Nelson. H. Guthrie, agent. June 20.-G,impse, ketch, 31 tons, Sheppard, for Moeraki. G. Muuro, agent. Daginar, .•■ehooner, 45 tons, Connor, for Catlin's Kiver. Keith Ramsay, a^ent. Beautiful Star, s.s , 14U tons, Peterson, for Timaru Harbour Steam Co., agents. CUSTOMS ENTRIES. KWARD3. Wellington. 2C2 tons, Carey, from Lyttelton, with cargo. J. C. Cannon, agem. Shag, 31 tons, Whig, from Oamaru, with cargo. Martin and Watson, agents. Comeranjr, 152 tons, Best, from Oamaru, with car»o G. S Brodriek, agent. ° Mary Ellen, 2!) tons, Dawson, from Timaru, with grain. Keith Rwnsay, agent. OUTWARDS. Glimpse, 3S tons, Shepherd, for Oamaru, with car^o J. Munro agent. ' Beautiful Star, s.s., 13G tons, Paterson, for Timaru with cargo. J Mills, agent. Robert Jones, 257 tons, Owen, for Guam, in ballast. Cargill, Gibbs, and Co., agents. .Express, 136 tons, Christian, for Bluff Harbour, with cargo. H. Houghton and Co., agents. IMPORTS. Per Samson, from Oamaru: 11 ba-^s, Dooliii" ■ 1 case. Mills ; 7 do, Massey and Gallagher ; 1 do, °Sargood ; 1 do, Ma heson aud Co ; 100 bigs. Aucerson ; 1 case, Weir and >amson ; 14 bags, Biown ; 1 do, Gillies aud Street; 25 i do, Anderson and Uowat. Per Lady of the Lake, from Port Molyneux ; 371 packages, G F Reid ; 14S do, Wright, Scephenson, and Co; 2.3 do, Driver; 7S do, R Wilson and Co; 100 do order ; 6 do, W Wilson : 11 do. Banks. Per Bruce, from the Coast: 93 packages, Russell Ritchie, and Co; 15 do, Irvine ; 1 do, Haye; 1 do Koyse ; 3 do, Ho.-gand Hutton ; 2 do, Patterson; Ido Harbour Company ; 1 do, Harris ; 1 do Saville ; 2 do Palgety, Nicho s, and Co; 20 do, Mackerras; 3 do, G F Eeid ; 1 do, Mi?s Fisher : 14 d"o, Scriiusbj*. Per Melanie. from Kaipara: 53,000 feet of timber Neill and Co ; 42,000 do, Sargood, Son, and Co. Per Wangauui, from the Bluff: G tons rails, order ; 40,475 feet timber, Gu line ami Larnach ; 2 packages,' Railway; 2 do, Matthews ;12 do, Tunnage. Per Comer.mg, from All Day : 627 sacks, order. Per Com, from Havelock: 10,0u0leet tinitjer, Captain Russeli. Per -Seagull, from Haveloek : 75,000 feet timber Guthrie aud Larnach. ' Per Transport, from Newcastle : 320 piles, 10,000 feet timber, Hawkins ; 670 packages, order. Per Eliza M'Phee, from Timaru : 540 bags, order. Per Agues, from Auckland: .110,000 feet timber, order. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. Wellington, June 19th. The s.s. Phoebe will not leavo before 10 o'clock tojf orrow morning, owing to a strong south-easter blowing. Passengers for Lyttelto.i and the South : Messrs Cottre-1, (Jlarke, Smith, M'Lean,- Robinson Ferrier, Seymour, Henry, and Rev. ilr Simmons. Avckland, June 19th. Arrived.—R.M.S.S. Cyphrenes, from San Francisco, via Honolulu. She took 12 passengers from Auckland. Grevmoltu, June 19th. Arrived.—Maori, s.s., and sails to-morrow morning for Dunedin, via Bluff and Jackson's Bay. Lyttelton-, June 19th. Sailed. —Omeo, s.s., for Oamaru and Dunedin. It was the Transport that was signalled to on Friday afternoon, and a light breeze from N.E. springing up • after dark she came in under canvas, and fetched the Port about 9 p.m. Her passage from Newcastle occupied thirty days, and was so protracted by a prevalence of light variable weather after the New Zealand coast was reich^d. She left Newcastle on the ISth May with a light S.E. breeze, which degenerated into va- - liable airs, aud su held until the 23rd, then settling at • S.W., and increased to a heivy gale, with a high cross sea. The brig was then hove-to and kept by the wind for 12 hours, but did not make the best of weather of it She laboured heavily and shipped one sea, which, dropping fair on the main hatch, smashed it. The gale was succeeded by another spell of variable weather, and then a sou-wester took her to Cape Farewell by the" 4th inst. A;;ain she was muzzled by variables, and iiad reached no farther than Stevens Islaud by the 6th. There the wind weut suddenlj into S.E. and blew a hurricane for six hours, blowing away her foretopsail and foretopmast-staysail. On the following day it moderated, and thence to her arrival she contended with light variable airs and calms. The Transport has brought a cargo of hardwood piles and timber, to be used in the Rattray street Jetty extension. ■ The ketch Eliza M'Phee returned to Port on Saturday from Timaru with a cargo of grain. She left Timaru on Tuesday night, K and was detained on the coast by light variable winds and calms, until the Heads were sighted on Friday evening, when a northeaster fetched her in. The handsome topsail schooner Dauntless arrived from Kaipara on Saturday, with a cargo of kauri timber consigned to Messrs Guthrie and Larnach. She left Kaipara on tho 9th iust., aud having a fresh S.E. breeze, that allowed her to lay along the coast with a free sheet, she passed Cape Eymont on the following night. There the bjeeze failed, and the remainder of the passage was made with the lightest and moat variable winds. She waited an hour or t.vo at the Port for tide, and then was towed to Dunedin by the steamer Portobello. The fishing cutter Dolly A'ardeir, which we have alluded to in former issues as havim; been purchased from an Auckland firm by Mrlnues, of Port Chalmers, for the fishing busine s, arrived at the Port on Saturday. She came full-handed with a cargo of timber, shipped at Waikawa Mills, iv :he Thames Estuary! Auckland. The Dolly Varden is an Auckland-built craft, about two years old. She is a substantial, powerful vessel of her eliss, of 20 tons register, and we should say, is eminently suited for the work before her. Ths Dolly Varden left Waikawa on the 22nd ult. ; rounded Cape Colville next day, and did very well until the 25th, when she was stuck up by heavy S.W. weather, and had to lie to. The gale lasted on and off for six days, and was attended by a very heavy sea. The cutter behaved admirably,' but as her jib and staysail blew away, she had to run to Napier, the nearest port under her lee, t > obtain new sails. Lay there until the 11th, then made ano.tb.er stars with a fresh northerly breeze, which carried her to Banks Peninsula by the 13th. He cc she contended with light battling airs and calms. Captain Williams reports thai on Sunday last, the cutter then being about 50 miles east of Hanks Peninsula, a large ship, with fore and niizuu-topgallant mas:s gone, was sighted. She had painted ports, and wae standing to the N.E. before a light S.W. breeze. The brigantine Sea Gull returned to Port on Saturday, bringing a cargo of timber, shipped at Havelock. She had been absent since the 23rd of March, hence going to the Bluft" with a cargo of railway iron, there loaded timber, and went to Wellington." From Wellington she ran across to tlavelock, and shipped 75,000 ft. of timber and a vertical saw frame, weighing 14 tons She cleared out of Havelock on the 4th inst." but as the weather was ex;eedingly threatening, she ran up to Kuiti Bay, at the head of the Sound, and brought up with two anchors down. That night the gale came on to blow with hurricane fury. Luckily she had clear water astern of her, for, the anchors not holding, she was slowly driven right across the Sound, a distance of four miles. The weather having .slightly moderated ou the 3th she got underweigh, but the gale freshening up again, she sought the shelter of Guard Bay, and remained until the 10th. Cleat ed out with a light wind, and thence crawled along the coast with variibU: airs, what progress she made in the right direction being due to light land breezes at night. She fetched the Heads early on Saturday morning, and, with her boat ahead to keep her end oii, drifted up harbour on the flood tide later in the day. The ste.uner Express Isft for the Bluff On Saturdaj' evening. During the day she transhipped a quantity of railway iron from the ship Timaru. The steamer Beautiful Star came down from Dunedin on Saturday and transhipped from the Jane Hannah 230 bags of grain for the ship Rangitikei at Lyttelton. She siiled for Lyttelton and other ports . yesterday. The schooner Cora returned on Saturday from a round trip to'Oamaru, Wanganui, and HavelocK: Wellington, and Waikouaiti. She had been away a couple of months, took cargo hence to Oamaru, there loaded flour for Wa..ganui; and thence ran across to Havelock, to take timber for Waikouaiti and this port. She left ou the 30th ult,. and her troubles commenced when she fell in with the heavy southerly weather that commenced on the 4th inst. She was then off the Kaikouras in company with other vessels, and hove-to to the gale; and kept by the wind for two days; The gale and current drove her across the Strait to Palliser Bay—the handling she received meanwhile being of the roughest. Her mainsail and foresail were biown to ribbons, and other sails damaged. To escape the peril of a threatened leeshore at Palliser, and also to replace sails, she w^s kept away for Wellington, and reached that port in due course. Left again on the 11th, had exceedingly light weather up the coast, and fetched Waikouaiti on Friday evening. Discharged 25,000 feet of timber, and left at noon on Saturday, arriving off Port Chalmers iv the evening. She brings 10,000 feet of timber on master's account. Toe steamer Comerang returned to Port at an early hour on Saturday morning, and ran up to Dunedin at 8 a.m. She loic here Ust Wednesday morning for , O.i>nam, disclii-god :■- t.«j of cement there, a-.idon- i Friday morui g ran round to Al'day Bay, shipped 027

sacks of grain, and left at 7 p.m.—arriving at the Port shortly after midnight. v She went to town, ar.d discharged, and started on a trip to Southern ports lato on Saturday night. The Harbour Company's steamer Samson, Captain'!' Edie, returned from Oamaru on Saturday night, and passed on to Dunedin. She is to leave again at the usual hour to. morrow morning. ' Tiie barque Lochnagar toi)k her departure for Newcastle on Saturday afternoon, and was towed clear of the port by the tug Geelong. : The ketch Palmerston came down from Dunedin on ; Saturday, and is to load railway iron at the new pier for Oamaru. The schooner Spec, timber laien, from Havelock, came in late on Saturday night and went on to Duucdiu with the flood tide. The three-masted schooner Melanie, which had not made this a port of call since August hist, came in yesterday morning with a cararo of "timber shipped at Kaipara. Until some four months ago she was engaged in the coasting trade in other parts of this Colony, aud then was laid up at Wellington for repairs. In hercafe they were tUorouglCand nearly converted her into anew vessel. She received a new ceiling, new deck beams and decks, new staunchions, bulwarks, aud covering boards, aud was overhauled generally from keel to trucks. Captain Creajjh still commands hr, and has supplied us with a full" report of the schooner's passage from Kaipara. This is her first trip since she was laid up, and it lias nrowd somewhat unfortunate, tbe full brunt of the late lie ay weather having fallen upon the schooner by the way. She left Kaipara on the 23rd May, rounded Cape Egmuiit ai da> light on the 25th—wind strong from S. \V. When she was within ten miles of Kapiti, the wind new in:o the S.E., and freshened toa heavy gale, compelling the schooner to bear up to Blind Bay for shelter. Lay there two days and then made another start, but again was compelled by adverse weather to Scieic shelter, and found it iv Port Hurdv. Put to sea I again on the 20th with a liyht S.W. bree"ze and fetched Mana Island, but being there headed by another he. vy I southeaster, she made for the anchorage, and brought jup on the morning of the 30th. During the ensuing four days it blew hard from the southward, hauling to | S.E., and a very heavy sea ran home. The wind veer- | ing to N.W. on the 4th she made another start, ■-•leared the Strait, and reached as far south as Waipapa Point, midway between Cape Campbell and the Kaikouras. There the wind hauled Ito S.W. and blew up a furious gale, raising a i tremendous sea. The weather being very tnick -shutting in the land—she had to keep the offing, andso hove-to on the starboard tack under balanccd-ricfed mainsail. Next morning there was a deceitful lull for about 20 minutes, and then it blew up h irder than ever, and as tne schooner's position \vs then well-de-fined, she waa kept away dnder lower foretops.iil aud foresail for Wei iugtou, and gained the harbour at 2 p.m. Whilst running she gassed a quantity of either white pine or kauri timber, apparently part of a vessel's deck load. The Melanie was lucky iv weathering the gale without sustaining much damage, her hurts being confined to the splitting of the lower forctopsail and foresailandcarryingaway the niiin gaff—thN,too,in weather pronounced by the Wellington people to have been the heaviest experienced during fifteen years Southerly winds detained her at Wellington uiuil the llthinstant, when she put to sea with a N. W. wind, made a good run of 21 hours to Banks Peninsula, and then crept along with light, variable airs and calms to Purt. She was within sight of the Heads four days before arrival. Her cargo consists of timber consigned to Messrs Sargood, Son, and Co., and Messrs Neill and Co. She is to discharge at Duuedin. The brig Elliots was accommodated with a discharging berth at the Railway Pier on Saturday morniii". The barque -obert Jones, which hauled u'ff to make room for her, took up another b ; rth at the .Now Piei, there to complete rigging hew mizen-ma--t. The Harbour Co.'s steamer Bruce, Captain Jones arrived at the Port yesterday, at 7.30 a.m.. a id went alongside the hulk to be ready to coal first thing this morning. This, her latest, trip to Lytteltou and internudiate ports, was marked by fine weather and smooth water' throughout, but, in consequence of a break-down which befel the steam-engine of thu Timaru lauding service (the private Company), she was unable to complete her upward engagements with that port, and so has brought on original cargo shipped at Lyttelton. She left here on the 14th inst called at Timaru next morning-, discharged cargo, and went on again in the evening, arriving at Lyttelton on the morning of the lGth. Discharged and shipped a considerable cargo, and left at 10 a.ln. on the lath called in at Akaroa and left ngain the aame afternoon '• reached Timaru at 9 a.m. on the 19th, put out some cargo, and then, owing to the above mishap, had to leave without receiving freight, and arrived here as aioresaid. She is to leave again on the same round on Wednesday. The ketch Glimpse, loaded with iailwav iron transhipped from, the Karl of Zetland, lea for Moemki yesterday, but wind and tide faiiiii"-, she brought uo iv the Cross Channel. or The schooner Dagmar left for Catlin's River yesterday fore-oon, bu-. had to anchor at the head of the Cross Channel to wait for wind and tide. Messrs H. Houghton and Co.'s .steamer Wanganui Captain Fraser, returned from the Bluff yesterday morning at her usual time. .Mie has made an average trip—since Wednesday evening I-,.st-aud brin's back a cargo of timber and sundries. Very tiuc weather was experienced both ways. Captain Fraser reports that a barque, bound North, passed the Blurt* ou Saturday. The steamer Express, goiiv Smith was passed off the Nuggets at 1 a.m. yesterday ' The Wanganui leaves again for the South "on Wednesday. The ketch Catlin sailed for Nelson on Saturday. * The brigantine Agues is here once more and'a-ain from Auckland, witli a cargo of timber. Uliat between heavy weather, contrary wiwis, and li;,'ht weather her passage hus been of the longest; otherwise, she is but on a par with other late arrivals. She left \ui-l;liud on the 20th ult., and ran to Cape Colviil with a b.H. brecz-j, which then went round to thu cast -md freshened to a gale. The brisfantine was run b-u'k to Slaurangi for shelter, and lav there until the -'nd inst • then putting to sea, had a moderate S.E. breeze 10 the Last Cape, which she passed on the sth, and thence to lablsCape, worked up against a S.W. breeze very I light. The wind then chopped to S.E., and blew up ! another gale; and after lying by the wind under storm canvas for 12 hours, the Agnes was run back to the iiast Cape, and anchored under the lee of Kawa Kawa I Left again ou the Sth : ran to Palliser, with a fresh I XE. breeze, and there had to heave-to in a heavy 3S W gale for 4S hours ; kept away as the gale moderated '• passed Banks Peninsula on Tuesday last; and thence to Port met with nothing but light," variable weather A quantity of wreckage, consisting of masts yards" and timber was passed off Tolsra Bay to the southwaid of the East uipe. The Agnes is to discharge at Dunedni; ° The s.s. Lady of the Lake arrived at Dunedin at. a quarter to 1 o'clock ou -unday morning, she left lort Molyneux at 2 o'clock on Saturdav'tow iv out the Edith Reid, bound here. The Reid was off the Ucean Beach last night. We understand the cutter Manraret Scollav arrived at Fortrose, Toi Tois, two days before the gale of the tnat' erio f caping the bad weath«r which prevailed at The barque James Hannell was moored at the Rattraylstreet wharf on Saturday, where she will finish discharging her cargo of timber.