MISCELLANEOUS.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume IX, Issue 471, 18 April 1867, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

The cutter Sea Shell, Stanley, master, sailed for j the Fiji Islands on Monday last, with sundries and one passenger. She would call in at cue of the Auckland saw-mills to fill up with timber. The Panama Company’s s.s. Lord Ashley, Captain Worsp, steamed for Wellington and Souther* Ports at noon on Tuesday last, with the English mail via Suez, a general cargo, and 23 passengers. The Colonial Government gun-hoat Sturt, Captain Fairchild, steamed for Poverty Bay at 1 p.m. on Tuesday last. From there she will proceed to Wellington with the Hon. Colonel Haultain, who appears to be in very bad health. The cutter Agnes, Smith, master, cleared at the Customs yesterday, and will sail for Poverty Bay tills morning with a miscellaneous cargo. The ketch Emerald, Whitby, master, will leave for Canterbury during the course of the day.

The schooner Annie, a trim little oraft of about 25 tons builders’ measurement, recently built by Mr Bristow, at Arapawanui, is now in the Iron Pot loading for Wairoa, and will probably sail in a day or two. Captain Loverook, of the schooner Blue Bell, which arrived here yesterday in a disabled state, reports the arrival at Lyttelton of the schooner Success, Captain Erost, lienee with a cargo of wool, niter a four days’ run. The Success was taking in a cargo of oats for Napier when the Blue Bell left. She may, therefore, be expected to arrive here in a day or two. The fore-and-aft schooner Banshee changed hands yesterday, having been purchased by Capt. Kean, late of the WTecked brig Venus. She discharged her ballast yesterday, in order to fill up with cargo for Napier, sailing on Wednesday.—. Southern Cross, April 13. [Captain Kean is no stranger to Napier, and we shall be very glad to see him trading to our port once more.] The schooner Rose Ann, M'Kemie, master, was to have left Auckland for Napier on Tuesday last. The cutter Rose, Dustin, master, which left Napier for Auckland on the sth inst., with a carof wool, arrived there on the 10th.

The new brig Flying Cloud has been fitted for sea, and some 130 passengers have taken berths in her for San Francisco. She has been announced ready for sea a week ago, but has not yet sailed. The cause of her detention we are not prepared to state. She has been fitted up without consulting her commander, Captain Seon, who is an old and experienced navigator, and was inspected by the Collector of Customs, and the Emigration Officer, Captain Williams, who acts under the direction of the Customs authorities, and passed.—Southern Cross, April 12.