Shipping News.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XI, Issue 670, 9 April 1859, Page 6

Shipping News.

ARRIVED. . : ' April .7, s.s. Armenian, 790 tons, D. Fowler, from Calcutta, via Mauritius and Sydney. Passengers: Mr. and Mrs. J. Cracroft Wilson and servants, Mr. and Mrs. R. Ewan and 3 children, Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Wearing, Captain Heatheote, Messrs. S. Bealey, S. Pike, Cochrane, Manghan, Corcoran, Morrisy, Antcliffe, Handle, Williams, and Morgan. • CLEARED. : . ' s April 6, schooner Jane Peata, 22 tons, Scott, for Wellington. ' .-..•'• April 7, schooner Ocean Queen, 18 tons, Simmonds, for. Akaroa. ■ .' . . . Same day, schooner Salopian, 40 tons, Plight, for Wellington.- . ■ . „ ... ; ■.;'■. ..... .IMPORTS. ' ..■■ „ v ... .' ; In the Armenian, Master, agent: from Calcutta: 287 bags gram, 2 bales gunnies, 1 tjndl. nose bags, 1 bale head-stalls, 60 pkgs. furniture, 2 tubs jars, 4 bales mats, 15 cases wine, I do. whips, 6 jars dates. From Mauritius and Sydney: 6l.bags sugar, 5 csks. brandy, 2 hhds. geneva, 10 do. rum, 45 cases geneva, 4 hhds., 12 qr.-casks wine, 30 casks bottled beer, 320 bags bastard sugar, 20 half-chests congou tea,. 4 cases drapery, 30 boxes candles, 53 horses, 1 baletobacco, 1 kegdo.,-2 cows, 4 calves,3 cases saddlery,.; 65 bales hay, 21 bags bran, 1 pony cart, 10,000 feet;' hardware, 39 pkgsi wooden houses, .1 hhd. 2 casks.; .40 cases, 19 kegs, aaid 3 bundles hardware, 341 bars and I tori iron,, 17,000 shingles, 26,511 pieces timber, 25 pkgs. wood work, 6 drays, 2 waggons, 69 tons coal, and sundry other merchandise, order. ''■■:, EXPORTS. - ••■•: In.the Jane Peata, E. Genet, agent; 119 bushels wheat,-Webb; 96 do. do., Scott. ;

In the Ocean Queen, F. N. Campbell & Co. agents; 1 pkg. shot,.l case tobacco, 8 bags sugar, 1 chest, 2 half chests, 5 1)0X68 tea, Dalgety, Buckley & Co.; 33 bushels oats, 9 do. barley, Jones; 99 bushels wheat, Hodgson; 3 tons potatoes, Macintosh.

In the Salopian. Craig, agent; 54 bales, 16,284 lbs., wool, Cook son, Bowler & Co.; 6 casks cheese, 909 lbs., Latter.

The arrival of the steamship Armenian is an event in our. port. The history of her visit is also unusual. She has been chartered by Mr. J. Cracroft Wilson, (formerly a resident in this settlement and well known for his services in one of the most disturbed districts of India,) to convey himself and his family from Calcutta to this colony, where he intends for the future to take up his residence. Calcutta was left on the Ist January, and thence the Armenian went first to the Mauritius, taking to that colony 500 Coolies, part of a number of 57,000, who havii been imported into the island by the enterprise of its Government. There, where the laws between master and servant are specially adapted to the case, the importation has been of- the greatest service in developing the resources of the colony. In Port Louis the Armenian remained a week, and thence sailed with a sugar cargo for Sydney, which port was reached in 31 days, a passage almost unprecedented. In Sydney Mr. Wilson remained three weeks taking 55 horses and sundry cargo on board the steamer for this port, and, sailing on the 29th, reached Lyttelton harbour in exactly nine days, during only one day and a- half of which time she was under steam. Three horses only died on the passage, and the rest are landed in excellent condition. Indeed it would be strange if horses were not safely imported in such a vessel. The Armenian isa particularly fine ship, full rigged, and fitted with auxiliary screw power equal to 60 horses. She is new, and with a sister vessel, belongs properly to the Calcutta and China trade. Her engines are of peculiar construction, having been built at Hartlepool Ironworks, Durham, by Thomas Kichardson and Sons, on a design of Mr. G. W. Jaffrey, to whose abilities the performances of the vessels fitted with his engines bear the highest testimony. They are on the . three-cylinder principle, first applied by Mr. Jaffrey, of. which the essence is that three piston rods, instead of two, connected with corresponding cranks, work at equal angles to one another, and insure perfectly uniform action, an increase of power, and a saving in wear and tear. In the case of the Armenian a pressure of 20lbs of steam is kept up with I3lbs vacuum, and though a 1000 ton ship (registered exclusive of'engine room at 790) with her small horse power she manages to steam 6£ and 7 knots per ho^ur without canvas: The screw is 11 feet in diameter and 15 feet in pitch. The voyage throughout its three months duration has been a most pleasant one, and though no doubt much of the merit of pleasantnesss 3s due to the sea-going qualities of the ship, which, are represented as' being < unsurpassed, still the 'unanimous praise bestowed by those who have made the passage upon Captain Fowler and his officers proves that the essential requisites for a comfortable voyage have been fully enjoyed; ' Mr. Wilson, who performed the most dangerous services against the rebels in India without a scratchj has been so unfortunate as to break his- collar bone on the voyage by a fall down the hutch-way before reaching Mauritius. In the disturbed state of the country there was no opportunity for obtaining the specimens of deer and other game and animals vvhich Mr. Wilson had intended to bring; and the only zoological specimens from India are, on this occasion, two hares and a Bokhara jackass. "Our fellow settlers will remember the arrival of the Akbaj*. the ship in which Mr. Wilson first arrived'here* we need not say that his return is a testimonial of some weight to the advantages of this country as a

. place of residence and an opening for occupation for pur fellow-countrymen tired-of-India. The Armenian returns to Sydney in a few days, and Mr. Wilson goes with her to send 150 brood mares, which arc being obtained for him there, up to Calcutta for cavalry stud purposes. He himself returns then to this place. ' , , ; ■ The following vessels are reported as loading at , London for: New Zealand' in the ' Home News' of January" 17th. For Auckland, and New Plymouth, Caducous,' Traveller, Swordflsh; for Canterbury, Victory and Airedale; for, Nelson, Keullura* for Otago, Henbury; for Wellington, Queen of the Avon and ' Margaretha Roesner. The Mariner sailed for Nelson on the 29th of December.