SHIPPING.

Lyttelton Times, 26 August 1858, Page 1

SHIPPING.

ARRIVED. August 25, steamship Queen, 1.31 tons, G. H. Wilson, from Melbourne, via Wellington, with the following passengers:—From WellingtonMr. Trolove, Mr. and Mrs. Campbell, Mr. J. M'lntosh, Captain Capel, Mrs. Capel, Mr. Crawford, Mr. Bargain-, and eleven in the steerage. Erom Melbourne—Mr. M'Andrew, Mr. Sydney James, Mr. H. P. Anersty; Mr. T. Cridge, Mr. Geo. Buckly, Mr. and Mrs. Renshaw, Mr. Hall, Mr. Hamilton, Mr. J. Liscomb, Mr. W. Liscorab, Mr. J. Marshall and servant, Mr. J. Gibson; and two in the steerage. August 25, schooner Canterbury, 37 tons, Bowton, with a number of passengers. August 25, brig Mountain Maid, 192 tons, Woods, from Sydney ori the Bth inst. IMPORTS. In the Queen; 3 bales paper, 8 cases furniture, materials of weighing bridge, 125 coils rope, Miles, Kington, & Co.; 8 cases hardware, Young a,nd Co.; 1 case drapery, H. Moss; I box copper coin, Union Bank. The remainder of the cargo, including twelve horses, is for Otago. In the Canterbury, Genet, agent; 3 qr.-casks brandy, 2 hhds. do., 9 qr.-casks wine, 47 cases sweetened gin, 2 qr.-casks gin, 4 do. rum, 2 do. sweetened gin, 6 qr.-casks whiskey, 16 bags sugar, 2 cases cherry cordial, 5 cases whiskey, 1 trunk, 3 cases, 1 package pictures, 3 cases hottled beer, 2 cases merchandise, 1 bale, 2 canvass packages, 1 bundle hoop iron, 1 paper parcel, 1 nest tubs, 1 roll canvas, -4 cases sundries, 1 bale woolpacks, 1 package bedsteads, 1 do. ehairs, 1 trunk, 6 cases soap, 1 tin coffee, 1 case saddlery, 1 table, 36 empty sacks, 1 keg butter, 8 hhds. ale, 36 mattresses, 3 bags grass seeds. The steamship Queen leaves to-day for Otago. The Maori arrived at Wellington on the 12th instant. The Westminster sailed for London on the 14th instant. She had shipped 320 additional bales of wool, making a total of 1407 hales. The total estimated value of her cargo, which includes 1,532 ounces of gold, amounts to £45,950. The barque Harkaway from London, which

had sailed from Deal on the 21st April, arrived, via Australia, at Wellington on the 14th inst., with 97 passengers and a full cargo for that port and Nelson. ENGLISH SHIPPING. The Zealandia was to sail on the 10th June, with a party of 300 emigrants, for this place exclusively; The Clontarf was to follow the Zealandia for Lyttelton, and would sail in August. The Chieftain, for Nelson and Canterbury, was to leave London in May. The "Leviathan."—A meeting of the shareholders of the Eastern Steam Navigation Company was held on the 19 th April, Mr. Hope presidiug, when the report was adopted, and the resolution passed authorising the directors to raise £220,000, of which £100,000 was sanctioned at the meeting in July, in such manner as they think fit, including the power to re-issue the forfeited shares. It was stated that by the specifications and tenders procured it will require about £172,000 to equip the Leviathan for sea, that the liabilities amount to £91,282, inclusive of £50,000, for temporary loans, for which the directors are responsible, and that the available assets are estimated at £52.000. The amount actually required is thus—£2ll^2B2, or, with the addition of £8718 for contingencies, £220,000. The total cost of the vessel will consequently be £804,522, being at the rate of about £35 per ton, taking her capacity at about 24,000 tons. The Board consider the preliminary voyages to America will prove profitable, and enable the ship to be satisfactorily tested without expense. Stress is laid upon the preference she will command over other vessels from her great capacity and speed, and upon her value to the Government under circumstances similar to the late-events in India. It is not expected that she will be completed before autumn, when her preliminary trips will be performed, prior to the opening of the early spring trade of next year.—- Times.