Shipping News.

Lyttelton Times, Volume VIII, Issue 487, 4 July 1857, Page 4

Shipping News.

AESITED. June 30, schooner Southern Cross, 70 tons, G. Sustins, from Auckland. Passengers, their Lordships the Bishops of New Zealand and Christchurch; and Mr. B. Dudley. July 1, schooner Salopian, 4& tons, Bain, from Wellington. Passengers, Messrs. Forbes, Taylor, and Freeman. Same day, schooner Star, put back. Same day, schooner Helen, 200 tons, Hugh Clarke, from. Wellington and Auckland. Passengers, Mrs. and Miss Clarke, Mrs. Winteringham, Mrs. West, and six natives. Same day, schooner Canterbury, 37 tons, Hall, from Wellington. Passengers, Mr. and Mrs. Daymond, Messrs. D'Oyley, Brown and Levy. SAILED. July 1, schooner Comet, 92 tons, Cook, for Sydney. Passengers, Messrs. Stevens, C. B. Eobinson, Cox, Hanmer, Davis, Marks, and Captain Charlesworth, and sixteen in the steerage. IMPORTS. In the .Helen, Waitt & Co.: under bond, 5 hhds. brandy, 2 cases Geneva. Duty paid, saddlery, rope, iron, oil, oatmeal, pearl barley, leather, &c. 60,000 feet timber, and 10 hhds. ale, New Zealand produce, E. Waitt & Co. In the Canterbury, Genet, agent: under bond, 1 hhd. brandy, R. Latter; 2 qr.-casks brandy, Bowland Davis. Transhipped ex Alma@ Liverpool, under bond, 1 case T. Sanderson, salt, gunny bags, drapery, carts, oilman's stores, butter, &c. EXPOETS. In the Comet, 52 hides, 24 bales wool, 73 sheepskins, 17. bags oats, 13 ditto wheat, 57 cheeses, 50 tons potatoes, Waitt and Co.; 2 tons potatoes, 1 case drapery, J. Dransfield; and part original cargo from Sydney.

We learn from the latest private advices, dated the 30th of June, that the Mimmie Dyke had arrived in Wellington with the English mails of April, tut the bags were not then delivered.

The Mountain Maid sailed from Sydney for Nelson and Port Cooper on the 31st May, and the Ocean Queen was advertised for early departure for the same two ports at the departure of the Cheetah on the 3rd June. The Great Eastern.—The report of: the Eastern Steam Navigation Company states that the total calls may amount to £606,019, on which £413,642 has heen received, leaving £192,377 to be paid. With regard to the progress of the vessel, and the expectation of its being launched early in the ensuing summer, the directors remarked: — " The works were resumed towards the end of May last, under the direction and control of the engineer and officers of the company, and have proceeded continuously, and the progress made in every department is such as not only to give the directors great satisfaction, but likewise to afford the expectation that the ship may be launched. early in the ensuing summer. The progress of the work has left no alternative to the directors but to make calls with promptness and frequency. These calls have been more rapid than the directors could have wished, and they regret to add that the necessity for them has been increased by the failure on the part of some of the proprietors, to meet their share of the burden. But the directors have felt it indispensable'to the interests of all to complete the ship, as the only means of making the outlay incurred profitable. Interest warrants for the year ending the 31st December last have not been issued, the directors considering the policy of continuing to pay interest to be a matter for the consideraiton of the meeting. The directors have to express their confident conviction that before the next half-yearly meeting the ship will be launched, and the purposes of the company so far realised."— -Times,-, Feb. 20.