Shipping Intelligence.

New Zealander, Volume 4, Issue 304, 28 April 1849, Page 3

Shipping Intelligence.

ARRIVAL. April 22. Minerva, ichooner, 1 10 tons, Birkenshaw, master, from Sydney, with sundries. Passengers— Mr*. Birkemhaw.and three children, Mr. and Mrs. Donohoue, and three children, Mri. Day, and Mr. Cunningham, and 7 in steerage. J. Mucky, Agent, The Sarah Berry, which arrived on Wednesday' wiled from Port Nicholson, on Monday the 16th, and from Taranaki, with flour and pas«engers, on Sunday the 22ad instant. She report! that the we ither in the flouth has been exceedingly boi«erout during the last six weeks. The Petrel, cutter, about three weeki lince was cwght in a squtll off Kapiti, and went down in deep water with her crew of three handi.

~~ Woolwich, Dec. 19. The Arrogant, *6 gun frigate, has now all her guns on board and mounted. She U at preient having jurymasts put up. her masts for service being at Portsmouth, where they will bt put in when she arrives at 'that port- A great number of hands »re employed upon her to bring her forward for commiatioo, and Capt ain Fitzroy, who it to command her, ii indefatigable in hii attention to the works in progress on board. The enginei, by the Messri. Pen*, on tht horizontal principle, are so low down, that the upper parts are considerably under the lower deck, and far under the water line, which will be an ample protection to them. The funnel is made on the telescopic principle, and can be lowered to within five feet of the upper deck. She has spacioMS standing room betwixt the decks, and, altogether, reflects great credit on her designer, Mr. Finchara, master-shipwright at Portsmouth Dockyard. The Garland stem-vessel, Lieutenant- Commander Aplin, arrived here on Saturday from Dover to receive new boil«rs.