Shipping News.
•AttKIVED,
April 22. ketch Juno, 48 tons, Buxton, ifrom Hobart Town, with a full cargo of timber and shingles to order.
CLEATtED,
'April 21, barque Malay, 269 tons, Peters, for Newcastle, N.S.W.; with part original cargo from Melbourne. Passengers—Mrs. Peters and child.
The little Juno left Hobart Town on the sth inst.-* a,nd had a fine run from land to land, but up the coast the winds were not.in favour of rapidity. She reports having seen two large vessels, not whalers, in the neighbourhood of Akaroa on Wednesday evening and again on Thursday morning when they were at anchor in shore, there being no wind. The position and movements of these ships are not very clearly described, but those on board the Juno are certain of their having been English ships and of a -very large size. There was no signal hoisted by either. The Juno brings no news from the Australian Colonies.
Th§ barque Acasta, Captain Holliday, from London, arrived in this harbour yesterday morning, After a rather protracted passage of 1.17 days. -She was ten days at anchor in the Downs, and encountered six days adverse winds in the Channel; the passage from laud to land was made in ninety-four days. She anchored off the lighthouse on Sunday night last. Archdeacon Hadfield and his lady are passengers by her, as well as Mr. Adam Cockroft and his family. The Alfred the Great sailed a few days previous to the Acasta. She has brought a number of passengers and a full cargo of general merchandise for this port. The Acasta has returned within ten months of her sailing from this port.— Wellington Independent, April 12. . ; 'The brig .Drover, from Melbourne, arrived in this harbour on Saturday morning last, after a quick passage of ten days. She brings 24 passengers, and a cargo of general merchandise. She has also brought the European mail, received per Roj'al Mail Steamer Columbian, which arrived at Melbourne on the 20th March. It consisted of 42 boxes, and the letters and papers were all sorted and ready for delivery by three o'clock on Saturday afternoon. -Ibid, V'
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Lyttelton Times, Volume XI, Issue 674, 23 April 1859, Page 4
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354Shipping News. Lyttelton Times, Volume XI, Issue 674, 23 April 1859, Page 4
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