Shipping News.

Lyttelton Times, Volume IX, Issue 561, 20 March 1858, Page 4

Shipping News.

ARRIVED. March 17, schooner Emerald, 35 tons, Sedcole, from Wellington. Passengers, Mr. and Mrs. Kebble. March 18, schooner Canterbury, 37 tons, Bowton, from Wellington. Passengers, Mr. and Mrs. Daniels and 5 children, Mr. and Mrs. Moffat, Messrs. Wood, Keene, Dransfield, and 4 in the steerage. SAILED. March 19, barque Matador, 250 tons, Lindsay, for Otago. CLEARED. March 19, brigantine Acis, 94 tons, Thompson, for the Chatham Islands, in ballast. import s. In the Emerald, Miles, Kington & Co. agents; 2 bales corn bags, 10,000 ft. timber, 2 tons rope, 8 doz. tether lines, Kebble; 4 casks ale, Gould and Miles; 1 cask apples, 1 bale corn bags, Nathan. . . - In the Canterbury, Genet, agent; 2 \ tierces tobacco, 2 qr. casks rum, 4 chests tea, 30 cases stout, Latter; 43 cases sweetened gin, Genet; 2 cases merchandise, 1 bale, F. N. Campbell & Co; 1 case, 1 trunk, Dransfield; 1 case, Cookson; 2 hhds. coals, 4 hhds. porter, 2 pkgs. merchandise, 1 bale gunny bags, 24 mattrasses, Order. EXPORTS. In the Matador, R. Waitt & Co., agents; part original cargo from Hobart Town. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. For Wellington, schooner Canterbury, the 23rd instant. For Sydney, brig Mary Clarke, the 22nd inst. For London, ship Glentanner, and barque Oriental, with despatch. ARRIVAL OF WOOI. COASTWISE. March 17, per Julia Ann, from Amuri, 40 bales. The Canterbury left Wellington on Wednesday, and arrived in this harbour on Thursday evening with a large number of passengers. The Jeanie Dove had brought the December mail from Melbourne after a passage of 22 days. There was no other late arrival in Port Nicholson. The wreck and total loss of the French whaler Elizabeth, Captain Painblanc, at the Chatham Islands, on the 13th ult., is reported. The crew were all saved and brought to Wellington in the Seine, American whaler.

ENGLISH SHIPPING. The Montmorency sailed from Gravesend for Wellington and Canterbury, Dec. 15th. The following vessels were loading and would have quick despatch:— For Otago and Canterbury, the Nourmahal. For Wellington and Canterbury, the Ambro • sine. For Otago, from * the Clyde, the Strathfieldsaye.