SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Auckland Times, Volume 3, Issue 139, 6 September 1845, Page 2

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

ARRIVAL. September 4. Pocahontas, American Whaling Ship, Manter, from the Whaling Grounds, with 450 Barrels Sperm, end 500 Banels Black Oil, and 1000 lbs. bone ; out 15 months, DEPARTURES. September 1. Terror , sohooner, Dunning, for Sydney, with Copper Ore, Kauri Gum, and soudries, Passenger—Mr. Loathes. 4. Deborah, schooner, Wing, for Mercury Bay, in ballast. Another American whaler was said to be outside the heads last night. The Light for all Nations on the Good* vvtn Sands. —Dear Sir, 1 have the satisfaction to inform you that I and my worklueu have taken possession of our new residence in the round-house built on the summit of the column for iny new light on the Goodwin, and it is my intention to reside here until 1 hare succeeded in ascertaining strata beneath the sand, should the weather continue favorable. That being done, I shall proceed to complete the lighthouse by fixing the lantern. 1 think 1 may fairly state that another inhabited island is now added to Her Majesty’s dominions, in the bowels of which are embodied many treasures, and which will form a nucleus for batteries and fortifications, or for a harbour of refuge in Trinity Bay, in the Downs; and, when completed, be the key of the British Channel, and thus form a second Gibraltar. As so many unfounded reports have been in circulation respecting this undertaking, I will thank you to send this information to the London jonrnals, I am, dear sir, yoms truly, William Bush William Clay, E-q,, at Lloyd’s. P.S.-—1 have commenced boring to ascertain the sub-strata of the Goodwin, and at 50 feet beneath the platform have found nothing but bard sand, nearly as solid as rock itself Times, April 14