Shipping News.

Lyttelton Times, Volume IX, Issue 577, 15 May 1858, Page 5

Shipping News.

ARRIVED. May 12th, schooner Canterbury, 37 tons,.Bowton, from Wellington." Passengers, Mr. and Mrs. Porter and 4 children, Mrs. Matthews and child; Captain Mallock, Messrs. Lawrence, Bragshaw, Kitson, Gregory, Bell, Earle, Brown, Mcßeth, and six in the steerage. Same day, brigantine Spray, 109 tons, Anderson, from Auckland. Same day, schooner Maria Elizabeth, 20 tons, Flight, from Wellington. May 13th, brigantine Albion, 84 tons, Irvine, from Sydney. Passenger, Mr. Avery. CLEARED. May 13th, schooner Lady of the Lake, 40 tons, Mackenzie, for Wellington. . IMPORTS. In the Canterbury, E. Genet, agent; 3 halftierces tobacco, 2 octaves and 1 qr.-cask sherry, 2 qr.-casks rum, 3 qr.-casks sweetened gin, 16 bags sugar, 6 half-chests tea,-Latter; 70 bags sugar, Cookson, Bowler, and Co.; 20 chests and 20 half-chests tea, 30 bags sugar, 1 bale merchandise, 1 trunk, Dransfield; 1 case, 1 trunk, Moss; 2 bales gunny bags, 300 do. loose, Waitt; 1 case drapery, 6 hhds. beer, 4 tins confectionary, Abrahamson; 4 pkgs. ironmongery, Gundry; 1 pkg., Bayfeild; 1 case, Longden; 4 cases, 1 bale, Nathan; 1 case,F. N. Campbell & Co.; 5 pkgs. groceries, Fyfe; 3 bales corn sacks, Mcßeth. Produce of New Zealand:—s hhds. lime, Banks; 6 coils wool lashing, Latter; half-ton apples, order.

In the Spray, Miles, Kington, and Co., agents; 60,000 ft. Kauri boards, 15 tons firewood, 20 merino lambs, order. . In the Maria Elizabeth, Master, agent; 1 hhd. and 10 cases whiskey, 1 hhd. brandy, 25 casks bottled beer, Hart; 4 pkgs apples, Mcßeth; 35 camp ovens, 4 pkgs. ironmongery, Gundry; 1 case currants, 35 ovens, 2 boxes candles, order.

In the Albion, Dransfield, agent; 54 bags sugar, 10 chests 20 lialf -chests and 40 boxestea, Cookson, Bowler, & Co.; 32 chests tea, 3 hhds., 1 qr.-cask wine, 19 pkgs drapery, 36 camp ovens, 18 pkgs. ironmongery, 3 cases fish, 1 case clocks, 3 pkgs. boots and shoes, 3 bales leather, Dransfield; 10 qr.-easks British gin, 10 cases cherry brandy, 50 cases and 10 half-cases Geneva, 1 case hats, 3 trunks boots, 37 kegs nails, 2 cases floorcloth, 30 boxes candles, 2 cases looking glasses, J. Davis & Co.; 14 tons sugar, Gould and Miles; 5 tons sugar, J. T. Peacock & Co.; 5 cases drapery, 1 case candles, Skillicorn; 1 bale leather, 45 barrels of flour of sulphur, 39 casks soda, 21 bars copper, R. Waitt & Co*; 3 chests, 8 half-chests, and 4 boxes tea, 20 mats sugar, 25 pkgs. oilmens' stores, 4 coils rope, 10 mats coffee,. T. R. Fisher & Co.; 1 box bank notes, 1 iron safe, Union Bank of Australia; 15 mats and 6 bags sugar, 1 crate, 4 cases, 1 bale, 1 case drapery, 1 case lobsters, order. EXPORTS. In the Lady of the Lake, R. Waitt and Co., agents; 290 bushels wheat, Cameron; 610 bushels wheat, R. Waitt and Co.; 177 bushels barley, Gould and Miles. ARRIVALS OF WOOL COASTWISE. May 12, per Flirt, from Kaiapoi, 4 bales. May 13, per Planet, from Christchurch, 62 bales. May 13, per Emu, from Christchurch, 50 bales. The Spray, Capt. Anderson, arrived in harbour on Thursday morning, having left Auckland on the 14th ult. She fell in with the whole of the boisterous weather which prevailed during the last month, and which Capt. Anderson reports to have been unequalled in severity within his experience on the coast. The Spray was hove-to for eighteen days without a lull of more than three or four hours? being chiefly in the neighbourhood of the East Cape. No accident occurred to spars or rigging, but five out of a lot of twenty-two maiden ewes of Mr. Rich's celebrated merino flock which were on board, were j drowned by a sea shipped. The rest have arrived in safety. The Mary Clarke from this port arrived in Sydney on the Ist of April. The passenger trade from England to Australia and New Zealand is represented as indifferently supported. The Strathfieldsaye sailed for Otago from Greenock on the 25th January. The Nourmahal from Gravesend for Otago and Canterbury on the 27th January. The Ambrosine^was to sail for Wellington, Canterbury and Nelson on February 15. The Maori for the same ports March 10; and the Harkaway to follow. The Sebastian, Egmont, and Three Bells are laid on for other ports of i New Zealand.

A ship, doubtless the Montmorency, was signalled outside yesterday, but had not arrived at the anchorage at tjhe time of our going to press. j