Shipping News.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 523, 7 November 1857, Page 4

Shipping News.

*■** ARRIVE©.

Nov. 4fh, schooner Mary Thomson, 52 tons, ■Thomson, from Wellington. Passengers, Messrs. Solley, Smith, and Collier.

Nov. sth, schooner Kate Kearney. 85 tons, Dixon, from Otago. Passengers, Mr. and Mrs. Walden, Edward Russell, Joseph Master, William Churchhill, William Doekety, J. Brown, William Lambert, Benjamin Wilson, Joseph Young, J, Sturry, aud Alex. McPherson. Nov. 6th. schooner Canterbury, 37 tons, Bowten, from Wellington. Passengers. Messrs. Ro"bsrts, Broughton, Fenton, Southam, Newley, Eades, Hodge (2), Warburfcon, and Shelly. CLEARED. Nov. sth, schooner Gazelle, 108 tons, Ashton, for Melbourne. Passenger, Mr. Chas. King. In the Mary Thompson, Cookson, Bowler and Co., agents; general cargo from Sydney. In the Kate Kearney, R. Waitt, &.Co., agents; 1 qr.-cask lime juice, 2 casks washing soda, R. Waitt, & Co.; 1 case geneva, 1 cask bottled ale, 1 case bonnets, 1 case slops, Order. In the Canterbury, E. Genet, agent; 3,824 foricks. Miles, Kington, & Co.; 16 case 3 bottled beer, and general cargo, Order. EXPORTS. In the Gazelle, Miles, Kington, & Co., agents; 12 bales tobacco stems, under bond; produce of New Zealand, 3,220 bushels wheat, 15 tons potatoes, 81 casks black oil, 812 sheepskins, 17 hides, 9 cases cheese, 615 !65., Miles, Kington, & Co. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. [N.B. —Mails will be forwarded by these opportunities.!] For Sydney, brigs Mountain Maid and Mary Clarke, in a few days. For Wellington and Nelson, Mary Thomson, Nov. 9. For Wellington, Nelson, and Auckland, Kate Kearney, Nov. 9.

The European has at length arrived in a very crippled state. Her machinery being very much out of order, so muoh so that with anything of a strong head-wind it wa3 impossible to obtain anything like the speed that she has at all times performed, prior to this voyage. The Columbian was sighted on the Ist September, entering the Bed Ssa,— Age, Oat. 16.

ENGLISH SHIPPING.

Departures from the Downs for New Zealand. August Ist, Gleaner; August 7th, Ashburton; August 10th, Duchess of Leinster, Eastfield; August 15th, Eosworth. ■■--■••-:

Vessels loading, with probable dates of sailing. For Auckland, William Watson, August 12th; .Tarnar, September lOfch; for Otago and Canterbury, George Canning, August 12th; for Weir lington, Acasta, August 31st: Cress well, September 10th.

The brig " Content," Captain Robertson, left Sydney on the 20th of September, with a general cargo, including houses and rams. Next day she experienced a terrific gale from S. to S. S. E., which continued with unabated violence till the morning of the 25th, causing the loss of 29 horses daring that time, lying to under a closereefed maintopsail. On the 27th the first mate died, after 4 days'illaess. Daring the remainder of the passage experienced continual head gales, which prevented the arrival of the " Content "<till Saturday, the 17th. October. The los 3 of the horses, most of which, we are told, were heavy draught mare 3, selected expressly by Messrs. Fuller and Teshmaker, is a disappointment to many parties here who were depending on them, as" well as a loss of £1500 to those gentlemen, and those interested in the shipment.— Colonist, Oct 23

The schooner Jane Peata", Captain Mortimer, put into Porirua Harbour on Wednesday, the 21st Ihst., in. distress, haying lost her compass overboard, arid been for six days buffeted about in gales of wind. The Jane Peata started from New Plymouth on the 14th October, with a general/cargo and 17 passengers.bound for the AorerS Diggings. The same evening, after leaving the anchorage off Taranaki, she shipped a

heavy sea, which washed the binnacle overboard, she then encountered a succession of gales of wind, and was driven out of sight of land several times, having nothing to steer by but the sun, and even that was frequently invisible through the thick cloudy weather On Wednesday the 21st Inst., she fortunately ran into Porirua Harbour, after having experienced a succession of the most severe gales of wind, and tremendous sea, such indeed as Captain Mortimer never remembers witnessing since he has been to sea. Fortunately there was an ample supply of provisions on board, or the case would have been desperate. She has since obtained a new compass and proceeded to her destination. — Independent, Oct. 31.