Shipping News.

Lyttelton Times, Volume VII, Issue 436, 7 January 1857, Page 6

Shipping News.

ARRIVED. January sth.—Schooner Taranaki, 91 tons, Cory, @ Nelson and Sydney. Passengers, Mr. Dransfield. — oth.^-Keteh. Emu, 34 tons, Neagle, from Akaroa. SAILED. Jan.4th.—Cutter Julia Ann,lß tons, SwansOn, for Otago. Passengers, Messrs. H. J. Le Cren, W.- Hornbrook, H. Cain, Mr. and Mrs Mollin^ son and child, and Miss Mollinson. — sth.—Schooner Southern Cross, 60 tons, G. Sustins, for Chatham Islands. Passengers, His Lordship the Bishop of New Zealand,°and Mrs Selwyn, Rev. L. Williams, Mr B T Pudley. " " IMPORTS. In the Taranaki—A. J. Alport, Agent,—ls chests and 50, | do. tea, 34 cs. -whiskey, 130 do. brandy, 5 khds. rum, 3SI bags sugar, 20 do. coffee, 17 do. rice, 4 ban-els currants, 6 cs. pickles, 1 do. peppery 10 ban-els apples, 5 bales bags, 1 truss and 2 cs. drapery, 20 bdles, rope, 9 cs. ginger, 2 do. axes, 13 cs" and 1 bale drapery, 30 boxes, N. S. W. candles, 2 boxes bonnets, 1 parcel, J. Dransfield.—l2 half-chests tea, 40 bags Cossipore sugar, 20 mats bastard do., 8 cks. 2 bundles and 1 bale groceries, E. Latter. Also, shipped at Nelson under bond—4B casks' bottled porter, 2 hhds. rum, Dransfield. Duty paid, 1 cs. clocks, 1 cs. saddlery, 10 tons coals, 8 bags coffee, order. In the Emu, H. J. Le Cren, Agent—ls cords firewood and 230 posts and rails, order. EXPORTS. In the Julia Ann, H. J. Le Cren, Agent— 65 pkges. transhipped ex Egmont, @ London, also 3 tons New Zealand ilour, 3 half-chests tea, 1 cs. tobacco, 3 bags do. (damaged), order. Deseetion of Seamed.—We r are requested to publish for general information the following clauses of the Merchant Shipping Act, relating to Seamen deserting and persons enticing to desert from any ship : — ''Clause 243—-For desertion he shall be liable to imprisonment for any period not exceeding twelve weeks, with or without hard labour, an 3 also to forfeit all or any part of the clothes and effects he leaves on board, and all or any of the wages or emoluments which he has then earned."

"Clause 257—Every person who fey ai>y means whatever persuades or attempts to per-

suade any seaman or apprentice to neglect or refuse to join or proceed to sea in, or to desert from his ship, "or otherwise to absent himself from his duty" shall for each such offence in respect of each such seaman or apprentice, incur a penalty not exceeding ten pounds ; and every person who wilfully harbours or secretes any seaman or apprentice who has deserted from his ship, or who has wilfully neglected or refused to join, or has deserted from his ship, knowing or having reason to believe such seaman or apprentice to have so done, shall for every such seaman or apprentice so harboured or secreted incur a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds." The Eoyal Charter arrived at Melbourne on December Sth, after a magnificent run of 67 days. The Minerva, from New Zealand, for Lon* don, was spoken September 10th, in latitude 32 degrees north and longitude 38 degrees west.

The Martaban, from London, for New Zealand, was spoken on the 4th August in latitude 23 degrees south, and longitude 41 degrees west,

The Eoxburg Castle, for Port Phillip, anchored off Deal September 25 ; and the Gazehound, for Moreton Bay, the same day; also the Monsoon, for ISTew Zealand.

The New Australian Line.—Southampton, September 27.—The Oneida, the first ship belonging to this new line from England to Australia, will leave this port for Melbourne and Sydney, on the 18th October, Captain Hyde, late of the General Screw Company, being appointed to the command. The Mayor of Southampton, Mr. R. Andrews, in keeping with a previous custom, invited the members of the Town Council by to meet him at the Audit House, on Thursday, to consider the propriety of paying to the directors of this new company a like compliment to that which on previous occasions has been offered to tjhe directors of other great steam companies connected with the port, by entertaining them at a public banquet, to inaugurate the commencement of the enterprise. There were, however, only seven out of the entire body present, which not being sufficient to represent the whole, the Mayor, after a short conversation, expressed his determination personalty to bestow the compliment, adding- to the invitation list some of the leading officials connected "with the town, the expenses of which he would himself defray. It is, therefoi'e, probable that a suitable banquet will be prepared by his Worship, on the 17th proximo, the day previous to the departure of the first vessel, which will be attended by the drreetors and other gentlemen connected with the European and Australian Company, and many official and professional persons interested in the progress of steam navigation.— Times, Sept. 29th,