SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 54, 18 March 1843, Page 214

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

ARRITED. March 14th, cutter Catherine Johnstone, 10, Taylor, from Wancanui; potatoes. Passengers, Mr. Keith, Mr. M. Browne. cutter Enterprise, 8, Bathe, from the river Waimea. March 15th, schooner Shepherdess, 40, Browne, from New Plymouth ; general cargo. Passengers, Mr. J. M. Taylor, Mr. Harrison, Mr. Brown, and Mr. W. F. Brown. 16th, brigantine Sisters, 130, Clarke, from Hobart Town ; general cargo. SAILED. March 16th, cutter Enterprise, 8, Bathe, for Massacre Bay. Passenger, Mr. Cotterell. 17th, schooner Shepherdess, 40, Browne, for Wellington ; part of original cargo. Passengers, Mr. Ridgeway, Dr. Taylor, Mr J. M. Taylor, Mr. Harwood, and Messrs. Brown. IN POKT. Brigantine Sisters, Clarke Cutter Catherine Johnstone, Taylor. At one of the groups known by the name of Solomon's Islands, in the South Pacific, the whaling ship Offley, of London, commanded by Captain Lazenby, and belonging to Messrs. Curling and Young, of London, bad seventeen of her-effew assassinated (including the mate and surgeon) hi, the month of May last, owing to the mate indiscreetly shooting the chief upon supposition that he had harboured two sailors who had absented themselves from the ship. We publish this for the information of whaling captains in particular, as, no doubt, the natives will revenge the loss of their chief upon any Englishmen who may land there. The Offley took on board the carpenter, one seaman, and two boys, at Rotti, belonging to the Two Sisters, which was wrecked in Torres Straits. The ship Belvidere, from Bombay to China, xwu destroyed by fire at Singapore on the 6th 6Y, October.