Shipping News.

Lyttelton Times, Volume VII, Issue 463, 11 April 1857, Page 6

Shipping News.

• ARRIVED. , ' . ' April Bth—Schooner) Canteibury,. 32 tons, Hall, from Wellington. Passengers, .Messrs. Donaldson, Hewitt, Warburton, Mcßeth and Wright. April 9th—Schooner, Phoebe, 25 tons, Canty, from Wellington, at the Heathcote Ferry. ' ' SAIIiED. April 9th—Ketch Emu, 34 tons, Reynolds, for Wellington,-: from the Heathcote Ferry. , April 10h—Brig Mountain Maid, 192 tons, Peacock, for Sydney. Passengers, Messrs. Buchanan and Turner. .IMPOSTS. In the Canterbury, E. Genet, Agent; 3 hhds. mm, 5 chests tea, 10 half-chests do., 2 qr-casks brandy, 2 halftierces tobacco, 16 qr.-chests, 6 cases currants, 2 bales sacks 6 cases fruits, 4. casks oatmeal, 1 case, 9 cnses oilman's gtoref, 9 casks vinegar, l'cuse axes, 2 eases dorks, 1 case tacks, 30 iron pots, 12 barrow wheels, 1 case ironmongery, 10 inattrasses. EXPOBTS, - In the Emu, R. Waitt & Co., Agents, li2o bushels wheat, X,. Waitt and Co. ' WELLINGTON. The Harcy sailed on March 31st for Massacre jbay, with abont 20 passengers.. The ship Indian Queen sailed for Hobart Town on March 27th, and the Oliver Lang for Liverpool on the 28th. We shall give her passengers and uargo in our next issue. LOSS OP THE WILLIAM DENNY. We (Wellington Spectator) extract the following paragraph from the ' Wanganui Chronicle', April 2nd, received by'this morning's post: . , By the Euphemus which arrived at Taranakionthe 28th we 1 earn that thp William D«nny steamer on her way to Sydney from Auckland went oa shore at the North Cape, and fears were entertained that bhe will not be got off, her hull being stove in three places.

; ThebarquerAnn-Wilson,.Captain Biuherford}, arrived in this harbour, on Sunday; morning, last;from ;Liyerpcol, after a passage- of ]20 days'. , She • went ' considerably ,to 'the south, thinking to make a quick passage; bat hot meeting with the\ winds, she: -was unable to do "so.- She has 'been very unfortunate with her passen.gers,rhaving losteighteen on:the passage, viz., 4.adults, and. 14 children. The passeugers Very'niTich of the want'of provisions and water,' and ' also'•' the -waut of" medical! comfbrts, and those whoHrere landed' on Sunday;were in a weak"and debilitated state,- and .were. conveyed; to the Colonial Hospital in carriages. ■•Immediately .on the intelligence of 'the,, distressed state of the passengers and emigrants reaching shore, a'subscriptionjwas entered1 into, and * Laing's shop and others were soon cleared of a!l comestibles,- and conveyed on board, to the no small delight of the "emigrants, .who really; appeared almost - famishing, j T he. agent of, ',. the .vessel, Messrs. Hcrvey, .Smith, & Co., used every exeitioii in obtaining supplies^ and pHVate parties seemed to vie with each other in the endeavour to supplythewants of the distressed. The; English news'received by this opportunity is , ilot so recentas that .which had previously, come to hand.by.way of Sydney.—'lndependent'April'l. \ .'V „' Th:e Citiyßli 'IiAKG.-—This vessel sailed on Saturday afternoon with" a light ■ air from- the :N;, W.: In weighing anchor, she fouled the Myrtle, and inconsequence of her cross-jack-yard.catching the, flying; gib-stay .of the latter vessel, and the impossibility of clearing'br'eveh cutting'it sufficiently quick,' (being made of wire, j the' ford-top-gallant mast and flying jib-*boom -were carried away. The Myrtle has repared the damage, and, will; leave Jot Singapore to? day,—lbid. •. , ... , :••*';■'.'.■ .'■■:. . ".

Ere Atom, —An error of the press was allowedjtb creop into oar leading article of Wednesday, which oar readers will have seen'makes nonsense of the context. The beginningof the fpnrth sentence of the first paragraph instead of " General Government" Arc, should have been " Good Government is of more importance than r any form of Government." " t