Shipping News.

Lyttelton Times, Volume X, Issue 617, 6 October 1858, Page 3

Shipping News.

SAILED. Oct. 2, schooner Canterbury, 37 tons, Bowton, for Wellington. Oct. 3, schooner Palinurus, 15 tons, Drummond, for Akaroa. Oct. 4, schooner Uira, 25 tons, Toomey, for Wellington. EXPORTS. In the Canterbury, E. Genet, agent; 145 bushels wheat, 426 do. oats, Cookson, Bowler, & Co.; 195 bushels wheat, R.-Waitt & Co.; 186 do. do., Aikman; 1£ tons flour, Latter; 6 bags pepper, Mason. In the Palinurus, Master, agent; 341 bags wheat, v. & G. Rhodes; 36 do. do., Miles, Kin"--ton, & Co. ° In tea Uira, Cookson, Bowler, & Co., agents; 785J bushels wheat, 220 do. oats, Cookson, Bowler, & Co.

Another smart trip of our local steamer needs record. On Saturday, she started at half-past six in the morning for Kaiapoi, with a full cargo, including a heavy deck-load, all which she discharged there, and returned to Lytteiton in the afternoon, having made the complete trip during daylight. Captain Swanson reports that the river now runs straight out, but that the bar is still, very shallow. It will, no doubt, deepen rapidly from the force with which the stream is now running. . . ■ ■

■ The Nubia.—The 'Bengal Hurkaru ' says:— Among the feats of the Peninsular and Oriental Company's vessels, the last voyage of the .Nubia outstrips all their precedents. It is simply the fastest trip on record. We are well aware that, in all these cases, it is not merely the horse but the rider also that deserves notice; it is not the ship but its captain who gives us these results. The Nubia in her last trip, landed her passenger and mails at the port of Calcutta in twenty-nine days and eighteen hours from London, and at Madras in twenty-four days and seventeen hours. She passed Saugor Light at ten minutes past 6 o'clock on the evening of the 23rd of June, and anchored at Kedgeree at 7, p.m. before dark. The night of the 22nd and morning of the 23rd were so thick and squally, under torrents of rain, that the Nubia, although close to the pilot vessels, had to use extreme caution while cruising in their track. Had the weather been lesl adverse, she would have received the pilot before daylight on the 23rd, and, thanks to the tide, have arrived at Calcutta about 2, p.m. the same day. We are assured by passenger's that every effort was strained both by the captain and all on board, from the day the Nubia left Suez to deliver the mails on the 23rd. During the thick weather near the Sandheads the former never left the deck for nearly forty hours ; and when the lead was hove he always'took the line in his own hands, so anxious was he to be quite certain of the depth of water. As it is, this is the quickest mail that ever yet was landed from England in Calcutta. The entire time from Suez to our port was nineteen days and twenty hours, including all stoppages. The Nubia, nevertheless, was forty-four hours at anchor, and ten hours and a half were lost while waiting for daylight at Galle, and while proceeding at dead slow pace up the Hooghly, so as to arrive at high water slack tide at Garden Reach. And this is leaving out of the reckoning the cruise off the Sandheads. In short, the net passage from Suez consisted of seventeen days, fourteen hours only; this, too, with a bottom so clogged as to necessitate docking the Nubia, a measure taken with her on last Monday. Captain Caldbeck received the thanks of Government in Eebruary, 1855, for assistance rendered to the 10th Hussars in the Red Sea, when the flotilla was crippled by stress of weather, and cavalry was at the same time urgently needed in the Crimea. In March last year, he again received the thanks of the Government for the embarkation of H.M. 84th Regiment at Rangoon, and their conveyance to Calcutta a whole week before they were expected, at a moment when we had only one weak European regiment in the face of several thousand sepoys. He flew Lord Elgin's flag for three months in the Ava, and received both the warmest acknowledgments from the Ambassador and the thanks of the Indian Government, for the manner in which the service was performed. The P. and 0. Company have not an abler or worthier servant than this excellent officer. We understand that lie proceeds to Europe by this mail on six months'leave.