Shipping News.

Lyttelton Times, Volume IX, Issue 590, 30 June 1858, Page 4

Shipping News.

ARRIVED.

June 28, schooner Jessie, 134 tons, Ritchie, from Sydney, lltti inst. Same day, brig Swan, brigantine Harp, and schooner Shepherdess from Otago, merely reported at the Customs, having only called in on their way elsewhere. CLEARED. June 28. ship Westminster, 731 tons, Westgarth, for London via. Wellington. Passengers, for London—Messrs. Younger and Pry, Mrs. Raynor and child. For Wellington—Mr. and Mrs. Hargreaves and 2 children, Major Brown, Mr. Morris, Mrs. Campbell and child. June 28, barque India, 213 tons, Harries, for Hokianga, in ballast. IMPORTS. In the Jessie, J, T. Peacock & Co., agents; 12 half-chests, 4 chests, 20 boxes tea, 5 hhds. rum, 5 qr. casks whiskey, 1 trunk, 10 bales bags, 25 brls. apples, 43 cases.brandy, 27 cases, 3 trunks, 3 bales drapery, 5 flagstones, 21,042 ft. timber, 3 cases salmon, 563 bundles shingles, 1 case brushware, J. T. Peacock & Co.; 2 boats, Provincial Government; 224 mats sugar, Order. In the Swan, 2 hhds. brandy, 2 pockets hops. _Miles, Kington & Co. EXPORTS. In the Westminster, Cookson, Bowler and Co., agents; 1,202 bales wool, 21 casters oil, 1 bale, 1 bundle sheepskins, 3 hhds. tallow, 4 boxes, 7 cases, I trunk, 1 parcel apparel, 1 bundle shovels, 1 hhd. rum. Eor Wellington, 213 bags potatoes, 150 dol barley, 100 do. oats, 1,141 do. wheat. The hon. Mr. Harris, and Mr. Taylor, the new member for the Dnnedin district, are passengers from Otago by the Swan which sailed yesterday hence for Auckland. The Shepherdess which has put in here from Otago is bound for Wellington. She has four passengers on board for the same destination. Although the Harp has been merely reported at the customs, her destination is yet uncertain, as, we understand, she is open for charter, and may probably await orders for some days. (jy* \^f" PASSENGERS PER MAORI. We have been favored by the agent for the Maori with the following classified list of immigrants on board of her, intended for Canterbury.

Markied Couples.—James Barker, wife and 3 children; James Bishop, wife and 7 children; Wm. Bland, wife and 1 child; Jas. Aldridge, wife; Alfred Chillingworth, wife and 2 children; Enoch Cole, wife; Henry' Cousins, wife; Wm. Ekin, wife; Benjamin Ellis, wife and 5 children; James Flint, wife and 2 children; Thos. Hardcastle, wife and 7 children; .Win. Hall, wife and 1 child; Mark Judson, wife; Calel Maslip, wife and 5 children; Arthur Miller, wife and 2 children; John Moss, wife and 1 child; Wm. Moody, wife and G children; Thos. Peake, wife and 3 children; Thos. Pearee, wife and 3 children; Henry Pratt, wife and I child; Ecfward Scott, wife and 1 child; John Stansell, wife and 6 children; John Strange, wife and 1 child; Peter Tucks, wife; George Turkey, wife and 2 children; John White, wife; Robert Woods, wife; Thos. Widdowson. wife and 1 child; John Webb, wife and 3 children.

Single Men.—Samuel Barwell. Wm. Bennet, John Brown. John Bell, Thos. Bell, Rd. Cousins, Henry Daws, James Dearsley, Godfrey Evans, John Hughes, H. R. Hughes,'Henry King, Walter King, Ambrose Moody, Thos. Pearee, Henry R. Pratt, Chas. Turner, James Tiffin, Joseph Ward, Richard Wallis, George "Watling. Single Women.—Caroline Alder, Maria Barnard, Elizabeth Carrell, Harriett Collis, Edith Cullen, Sarah Flint, Elizabeth Flint, Maria Flint, Emma Flint, Harriett Hughes, Dinah Jones, Maria Page, Christina Pearse, Elizabeth Pearee, Amelia Pratt, M. Ann Pratt, Lucy Rainbow, Mary Sawtell, Mary Stocks, Harriett Sawyer, Elizabeth Turkey, Emma Turkey.—Total souls, 161.

Zinc Ships. —It has for some time been proposed to construct vessels of zinc. A zinc vessel, while it is hardly inferior in strength to one of iron, is said to possess many advantages over the latter. It will cause no deviation of the compass; the plates not being liable to corrode or rust, do not require painting; in ordinary cases of collision, while iron would in all probability crack or break, causing a leakage in the vessel, zinc would yield and bend without endangering the safety of-the vessel and hands, or interrupting her in her course; in the event of standing near shore, and in a position and under circumstances allowing salvage, the zinc hull might be cut or sawed in pieces, having a real value, while the iron hull would he abandoned and comparatively worthless for the various reasons above mentioned.-— The Builder.