SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume I, Issue 45, 14 January 1843, Page 178

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

ARRIVED. January l2tli, brig Union, 155, Grainger, from Port Phillip ; cattle and sheep. Passengers, Dr. Monro and Mr. Strafford. • 14th, schooner Royal Mail, from the West Coast. SAILED. January 7th, schooner Erin, 20, Rolph, for Massacre Bay ; ballast. 10th, barque George Fyfe, 460, Pike, for China. Passenger, Mr. Spence. 10th, schooner Elizabeth, 75, Smith, for Massacre Bay; ballast IN PORT. Brig Union, Grainger. Schooner Royal Mail. The Royal Mail has put in for surgical assistance, the captain having 'an eye blown out, and both arms severely fractured. Three of the crew are more or less blind. We have not yet heard how the accident occurred. We regret to have to announce the loss of the Clifford, another of the vessels which brought us emigrants, lust year. The following extract furnishes the particulars, being the Isabella's letter left on Booby Island, dated August 21st : — " Sailed from Sydney, July 27th. Saw the Clifford on a reef, Sir Charles Hardy's West Island, N. and by E. 4 E-, 3i miles ; Haggerstone's Island bearing S.W. and by W. i W., distant about nine miles.' Twelve of the Clifford's m^u on board the Tomatin; Captain Sharp, the doctor, passengers, and remaining men on board the Isabella. In addition to the above, the schooner Minerva, of Launceston, has been wrecked at Waipiro ; the brig Porter, of Sydney, in Torres Straits ; and the Christiana barque on the West London Shoal, on her voyage from Calcutta to China. There has also been a dreadful shipwreck at the Cape of Good Hope : the Waterloo, with convicts for Van Diemeu's .Land, struck- .on . a.rack on-entering Table Bay, aud 189 lives were lost. The Abercrombie Robinson, with troops for Algoa Bay, weut on shore the same nisht, but no lives were lost.