Shipping Intelligence.

Otago Witness, Issue 747, 24 March 1866, Page 10

Shipping Intelligence.

INWARDS. March 23— Tararua, 522 tons, Ferguson, roaster, from Melbourne and the Bluff. G. S. Brodrick, sgent. OPTWAHDS. March 17— Alhambm, 497 tons, M'Lean, master, for Melbourne with cargo, gold, and passengers. Rovse, Mv ie and Co, agents. Albion, 451 tons, Kidney, master, for Melbourne, with mails, c*rgo, g li, and passengers. Cargills and M'Ltan. agents, March. 19 — Elizibeth, U3 tons, Bell, master, for Sydney, with ballast. Fisher Bros, agents. IN WARDS —COASTWISE. March 19— Geelong, 137 tons, Hart, master, from the Molyneux, wita wool. Royse, Mudie and Co, agents. Boindie, 5 1 ton 3, Proctor, master, from Timaru, with wool H. Houghtoa and Co, agents. Airedale, 286 tons, Msikleham, master, from Lyttleton, with cargo and i 8 pissengers. G. S. Brodrick, agent. March 2i. — Oamaru, 25 tons, Ritchie master, from Oamaru. H. Wurm, agent. Midlothian, 26 tons, Walker, master, from Oamaru, with lime, Keith Ratasay, agent. OUTWARDS — COASTWISE. March 17— Black Hawk, 4t tons, Elles, master, for Lyttelton, with cargo. Royse, Mudie and Co, agents. Matilda Hajes, 20 tons, Johnston, master, for Oamaru, with cargo. Keith Ramsay, sgent. March 19— Airedale, 286 tons, Meikleham, master, for the Bluff, with cargo and 3 passengers. G. S. Brodrick, agent. Canterbury, 37 tons, Yorke, master, for Wanganui, with cargo. F. Coxhead, agent. March 20— Keera, ss, 147 tons, D. Joyce, master, for Hokitika, with cargo and passengers. H. Houghton and Co, agents. Taiaroa, s.s, 51 tons, T. Robertson, master, for Port Molyneux. J. L. and C. Burke, agents. Geelong, p. 9. 137 tons, T. Hart, master, f >r Oamaru and Northern Port 3. Royse, Mudie and Co, agents. March 21. — Lord Asb>y, s.s., 296 tons, H Worsp, master, for Lyttelton, &c. with cargo and passengers. G. S. Brodrick and Co., agents. Oamaru, 25 tons, Ritchie, master, for Oamaru, H. Wurm, agent. Midlothian, 26 tons, Walker, master, for Oamaru. K. Ramsay, agent. March 22. — Enterprise, 20 tons, Hatfield, master, for Waikouaiti, with sundrie-'. W.and G. Turnoull, and Co, agents. Dancing Wave, 67 tons, Brown, master, for Oamaru, in ballast. Eisher Bros, agents. March 23 — Tararua, 522 tons, Ferguson, master, for Lyttelton. G. S. Brodrick, agent. PORT CHALMERS.— Mabch 23. ARRIVED. Airedale, s.s., 286 ton?, Meikleham, from the Bluff, 5 passengers. G. Brodrick. agent South Australian, s.s., 437 tons, Pain, from Melbourne via Bluff Harbor, geaeral cargo and 96 passengers. Cargills and MLean, agents. Taiaroa, s.s., 51 tons, Robertson, from Port Molyneux, with capgo. J. L. aad C. Burke, agenrs. John Bullock, schooner, from Stewart's Island. DEPARTURES. Canterbury, schooner, 37 tons, Yorke, for Wanganui, with cargo. F. Coxbead, agent. Elizabeth, schoomr, 113 tons, Bell, for Sydney, in ballast. Fisher, Bros, agents Eliza Simpson, Schooner, Jack, for Grey River, general cargo. AT THE HEADS. Helenslee, ship, tons, Brown, signalised from Glasgow, cargo and passengers. Cargills and M'Lean, agents. Br gantite, name unknown.

From the number of yacht 3 and rowiug boats which are being got ready to compete for the different races, the forthcoming Dunedin Regatta pronvses to be a success. The Yacht, Race and All Comers' Sailing Rice will probably be ths best of the day ; for rhe first there will be about eight competitors, and for the latter about a dozen. The several courses are not determined on, but it is hoped the Committee will arrange them, so as the several competitors can be easily distinguished from the jetties, thus affording interest and amusement on shore. It would be better to make the course a short one, and in cases where competition is fairly tested by distance, to go twice or three times round, than to send the boats to Black Jack's Point, or half-way down the Bay, where the public cannot see the race, as has been done on previous regattas in Dunedin Bvp. The Tararua has made one of the quickest taps on record, having made the passage from Sandridge Pier to Port Chalmers including her detention at the Bluff, in five days three hours. She left Melbourne one hc*ur and five minutes after the South Australian, which vessel reached the Bluff twenty minutes ah( ad of her. The severity of the weather on Tuesd >y night necessitated the Tararua being hove-to from 1 1 o'clock till daylight in j Foveaux Straits, else the voyage would have been still more satisfactory. It is satisfactory to the public to possess vessels of the Tararua and South Australian stamp, combining comfort with such extraordinary speed ; and as our friends the Panama Company have secured the mail subsidy for this port and Melbourne, it is to be hoped this regularity will be continued. The run from the Bluff to Port Ctialmers was made in the almost unprecedented space of nine hours twenty minutes. Shorrly after arrival the Golden Age con-Tt-yed her mails and passengers to Dunedin.