Shipping News.

Lyttelton Times, Volume VIII, Issue 491, 18 July 1857, Page 4

Shipping News.

ARBIVED. July 17th, schooner Palinurus, 15 tons, Johnson, master, from Akaroa. Passenger, Mr. Joyce. SAILED. July loth, schooner Taranaki, 92 tons, Browning, master, for Wellington. Passengers Mr. Wilson, and Mr. Wright. July 16th, brigantine Helen, 200 tons, Hugh Clark, master, for the Chatham Islands. IMPOSTS. In the Palinurus, Genet, agent; 40,000 shingles, 2,000 ft. timber, 94 cheeses, Order. The Queen of Perth arrived yesterday evening from Sydney, bringing dates to June 29. The Dart and Spray had then arrived, but the date is not given. The Dart was laid on again for this port; the Spray for Nelson and this port; both to meet with quick despatch. The steamer LaPlata, which arrived at Southampton, on the Ist of April, with the West India mail, brought home, among other cargo, a large quantity of indigo from the west coast of Central America. The produce of that part of the world has hitherto been sent to England by the long roundabout way of Cape Horn ; but now, by arrangements made by the enterprising managers of the Panama Railway, it is shipped on board a coasting steamer, provided by them for that purpose, sent thence by railway across the Isthmus to Colon, and there put on board the West India mail steamers for England. The resultis, as in the present case, that the produceis home, and probably sold, at a time when, under-the old system, it could scarcely be expected, even under the most favourable circumstances, to have reached the neighbourhood of the stormy Horn. Shipping is scarce in England owing to the Chinese war. The vessels taken up for the Government Emigration service have obtained high rates in consequence. Those engaged during the week ending March 28 were the Maldon for Sydney, £16 19s. 3d.; the Medina for Melbourne at£l7 55.4 d ; the Summer, for Adelaide, at £17 Bs.; the British Empire, for Portland Bay, at £18 ss.