Shipping News.

Lyttelton Times, Volume VII, Issue 444, 4 February 1857, Page 8

Shipping News.

ARRIVED. January 31st, schooner Paliriurus, 15 tons, Johnston, from Akaroa. Same day, ship Oliver Lang, 1,224 tons, Mundle, from Nelson. Passengers, Mrs! Muiidle, and two children, Mr. and Mrs. P. M. Hervey and child, Mr. Pike, and Mr. Cox. Februaiy. Ist, schooner Mary Thomson, 52 tons, Thomson, from Nelson. Passengers, Messrs. Lee and Smith. Same day, schooner Canterbury, 37 tons, Hall, from Wellington. Passengers, Messrs. Young, Briggs, Lamb, Hopwood and Daymend. Same day, s.s. Zingari, 148 tons, Millton, from Akaroa and Timaru. Passengers, Mrs. Millton, Mr. and Mrs. Westenra aud child. Mr. and Miss Dampier, Messrs. Watson, Greaves, Roberts, LeCren, Cain, Banks, Cooper, Mason, King, Miss M. A. Scott, Miss Smith, Monsieur Berland, J. Anderson. February 2nd, ship Mariner, 683 tons, C. Fraser, from Otago. Passengers, Messrs. W. May, W. Donald, and G.'Gandin. . February 3rd, schooner John Bull, 71 tons, Steel, from a sealing voyage.—From Melbourne, 4th Nov. Last from the Auckland Islands. Same day, schooner Eclair, 30 tons, James Bryant, from Hobarton. Passengers, Mr. and Mrs. Mills aud two children, Misses Mills (2) Mr. Mills, jun. and Mr. Sykes in the cabin. SAILED. F" February 2nd, s.s. Zingari, 148 tons, Millton, for Wellington. Passengers, Mrs. Millton, Rev. G. H. Eyre, Messrs. P. Gandin, Collier, Grant, and J. C. Aikman. Same day, schooner Canterbury, 37 tons, Hall, for Timaru. Same day, schooner Mary Thomson, 52 tons, Thomson, for Timaru. imports. • In the Palinurus, Genet, agent, 8,000 feet timber, and 60 cheeses. In the Oliver Lang,Cookson, and Co. agents, Part original cargo from .Liverpool. Also, shipped, at Wellington and Nelson, for Liverpool, 217 bales wool, and 42 bundles bone. In the Canterbury, Genet, agent, 2 casks, 3 cases, 36 oars, F. N. Campbell and Co.; 2 cases, Nathan ; 6 casks N. Z. Ale, Alport. In the Zingari, Cookson and Co., agents, from Timaru, 112 bales wool. . ■ In the Mariner, R. Latter, and H. J. LeCren, agents, part of original cargo from London. (See ' Lyttelton Times,' Dec. 6, 1856.)

WELLINGTON. ; In the Rose of Sharon, Worsley and Co., j agents. — • : Canterbury Cargo.—l 3 casks, 74 casks glass, Cookson & Co.; 1 packet agricultural j implements, 1 pair shafts, 10 hales, 1 case. Order ; 5 hales, 7 cases, Order; 1 stoam rniguie. 3 cases, W. Caddin ; 1 box, 13 casks, 9 cases, 4 iron tanks, 1 crate, A.' J. Alport; 8 octaves wine, R. Latter; 3 packages, 20 cases claret. 22 casks wine, 2 cases arrowroot, 2 bags corks. , Heywood ; 9 packages, J. Milne ; 1. case,l case < private effects, 1 do pictures, 1 case picture, M•packages, 1 bundle, 1 case apparel, 5 pkgs. <i ; cases, 2 tierces, 5 crt ?, 1 case, 1 bale, 4 wheels, j 2 axles, 1 case, 4 do. apparel, J. Williams ; 21/ $

pkgs., Order j 33 kegs, 4 pumps, 8 pipes, 1 cask, 5 cases, 1 bale, .5 kpgs, R. Latter.—lndependent. "■

''■': ■ ' ' \' AKAROA. ■ ' ■';; ". ■'" ■' "' Aeeited, Jan. 26, the French. Whaling ship Caulaincourt, 657 tons, 44 men, Capt. Laurent Labaste, of arid from the port of Havre, whence she sailed oh the 16th. day of September, 1856; 230 barrels whale oil, 20 barrels sperm, and 3,000 lbs. bone. The passage through the Northern Hemisphere was much prolonged by. continued calms and squalls; crossed the line on the 22nd day of November, in 30 degrees west longitude ; from thence steady S.E. trades, and the great speed of this beautiful ship resulted iii a speedy passage to the islands of Tristan d'Acunlia, off which whales were seen several times, and many U.S. ships, amongst which were spoken the U.S. clipper barque Huntress, of New Bedford, "Captain. Allen; and U.S. barque Osceola (second barque)j Captain Hosmer, of, the same 'port.j.' Also .spoke the U.S. ship Samuel Robertson, on the'llth of Noveihber^steering East. On the 23rd of September, off the island of St.. Paul; spoke the Bremen ship Goethe, Captain Austen, having taken two right whales; and; the U.S. barque Cherokee, Captain Smith, 261 tons, of New Bedford, with 45 barrels of sperm. These two last named vessels parted company from the Caulaincourt, steering for Desolation Island. According to their report, all the whaling ships fishing in the vicinity of the. island; had met with very bad success. On the 7th January spoke the French whaling ship General Teste, of Havre, Captain Lemercier. 100 barrels sperm, and 120 \vhale ; arid on the 22nd instant, 120 miles to the eastward of Banks' Peninsula, the U.S. ship Milo, of JSTew Bedford, 401 tons, Captain Soule, having taken no oil since leaving Akaroa.