Shipping News.

Lyttelton Times, Volume X, Issue 615, 29 September 1858, Page 4

Shipping News.

PROJECTED DEPASTURES. For Wellington, this day, schooners Canterbury and Salopian. Mails close at 4 o'clock. For Sydney, to-morrow, brig Mountain Maid. Mails for the Australian Colonies, London, and India, close at 11 o'clock, a.m. A brig was signalled all day yesterday, but had not arrived at the time of our going to press. She is probably the Spray, from Sydney via Nekon. . ■ " Oa the 20th instant, the steamer Queen, the schooners Mary Louisa, Emerald, Henry, and Mary Jane, and on the following day the Uira, arrived in Wellington from this port. The brig Burnett, Captain Scaplehorn, arrived in port yesterday forenoon, after a very rapid passage, bringing Sydney papers up to the 11th instant. She left Sydney on Sunday morning, the 12th September, and anchored under the Lighthouse off Pencarrow Head on Monday last at haK-past three, a.m., having made the passage.in seven days sixteen hours. The average of the Burnett's last six trips from Sydney to Wellington has been under ten days. We regret to learn that the brigantine Bristol, from Taninaki, with a cargo of poratoes for Sydney, was picked up on the 22nd ultimo, off Wilson's Promontory, by Captain Sydserff, of the steamer Storm Bird, and towed into Port Albert. The following is the report, as furnished by Capt. Sydserff:—On the 22nd Aug. observed a vessel dismasted | b'ing at anchor off the Promontory, boarded her, and found that she had been abandoned, the captain and crew having taken their effects with them ; slipped one anchor, purchased the other, and took her in tow as far as Port Albert. There were thirty fathoms of water where she was anchored, her foremast gone about half-way down, and all her sails torn to pieces. The crew are safe in Port Albert.— lndependent, Sept. 22.

The schooner Brothers, Captain Carman, is also a wreck. This vessel sailed from Sydney for Wellington on the 24th August, pnt back to Sydney on the 30th ult., having on the morning of the 26th been struck by a sea on the starboard fore-rigging, which carried away her bulwarks and stanchions, the vessel being at the time under close-reefed sail, and standing to the eastward. Sounded the pumps, and found the vessel was making water rapidly ; wore ship, and made for Sydney with all speed. On arrival at Sydney a survey was held, and *he was condemned. The Brothers was intended for a coaster, hailing from this port, and was to have been placed in charge of Capt. Scoones.— lbid.