SHIPPING NEWS.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume II, Issue 117, 22 May 1863, Page 2

SHIPPING NEWS.

ARRIVED. May 16— Maid, cutter, 15 tons, from Mahia, with a cargo of produce, principally maize. Passengers,—Mr. and Mrs. Morris, Mr. Campbell, Mr. James Chapman and several natives.— Master, agent. May 17 — Gipsy, ketch, 15 tons, Baxter, from Wairoa, with cargo of maize, order.—Gf. E. Gr. Richardson, agent. May 17 — Hero, schooner, 15 tons, M’Donald, from Mohaka, with 3000 feet timber, 8 boxes apples 6 cwt' onions, order. May 18— Taicera, schooner 55 tons, Lewis, from Auckland, with 2 kegs, 1 box and 3 cases tobacco, 10 cases whiskey, Gr. E. Reid ; 1 qr.-cask whiskey, 1 qr.-cask sherry, 2 qr.-cask sherry, 2 qr.-casks port, Watt, Kennedy, & Watt; 200 bags flour, 2SO bags sugar, 5 casks cordials, 5 casks, ale, 5 bags grass seed, 26 cases sundries, 15 cwt. rice, 10,200 feet timber, 16000 shingles, order ; 4 tons potatoes, E. W. Knowles ; 2 tons potatoes and 10 cases oranges, W. Denholm. Passenger,—Mr. Q. E. Reid.—Walt, Kennedy, & Watt, agents. May 20— Kauri, schooner, 37 tons, Shearer, from Auckland, with general cargo.—S. Begg, agent. May 21 —Storm Bird, 105 tons, Mundlo, from Wellington with general cargo.—V. Janisch, agent. CLEARED. - May 19 — Hirondelle , brigantine, 95 tons, Bedford, for Sydney, with 62 bales wool, (17,713 lbs), 564 sheepskins, 10 hhds. tallow (48 cwt.) 40 hides, Samuel, Begg; 11 bundles flax (£ ton), Kinross & Co.—J. H. Van tier, agent. f The schooner Excelsior is discharging her cargo of wool on board the Novelty, for Sydney, and will sail for Napier about Wednesday next. —Daily Southern Cross, May 9. The schooner Sea Breeze, from Napier, with cattle, arrived last night, fourteen days out, having put’into Hick’s Bay, and laid there five days. She brings sixteen head into port, having lost five on the passage. H.M.S. Sloop Eclipse, Commander Mayne, arrived in the Manukau, yesterday morning, from Taranaki, bringing the intelligence of the murder by the natives of two officers and six men. She leaves again for there this day, with 200 men of the 40th, and 50 of the 70th Regiment. H.M.S. Sloop Eclipse, Commander Mayne, was (dotaiued insido the barton Tuesday on account of

tho tide. Crossed on Wednesday forenoon, and arrived at New Plymouth same night. About six o’clock observed a strange fire, which at first was supposed to be a ship on fire; altered course and stood in for the light, which was discovered to be on shore. On arriving at Taranaki they learnt the particulars of tho massacre. Could this light have been a beacon fire to apprise the natives at a distance of the commencement of the war? The Eclipse sails again to-day, and will return on Sunday.— lbid.