SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

New Zealander, Volume 7, Issue 567, 20 September 1851, Page 2

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

AKKIVALS. Sept. 15 — Vivid 2f> (on*-, W . Hitching-, fiomMonganvii, will) 0000 iect t'uibi'i, .JO pigs. — W. S. Giah««mc, ;igent. Sept. 16 — Hcnlomotid, 35 tons, D. Campbell, fiom Wangaiei with 12 hend of cattlt, 13 pu^ Ijp lf ton oi bacon and hams, quarter ton of biituu, 100 lbs. laid. Passengers •—• Messis. J. and G. blacketf, Erazt-r, Ocnt, and Hill. Sept. 17— H.M. biigintine, Pandom, 6 guns, Comiaan* ilur Diury, from bjdney, via ilongami', and Wangarei. Scj>t. 18— -Naiad, 21|tons,W. Momo, fiom Ilokiangi, with 8 cases honey, ] case lard, 2 cases bacon, 30 bushels wheat, 300i> feet sawn timbei, 1 casK poiX, 1 kegln-d, 6000 feet s,iwn timber, 2 rases glass. 2 pvu chase blocks, 1 bcok honey, 1 frnle meichandize, lialf chest tea, 1 case beeswax. Passenger — Lieut. Macdonnell.— George Vaile, agent. Sept.lß-l'aia™, 18 tons, J.ftJ.S uart, from Ngungur, with COOfl feel sa vn timber. Sej)t. 19— Julu, tV-> tons, D. J?ribtow, fiom tlio T>ay of Plenty, with, 37 casks oil, .^ ton w bale-bone, 3 casks pork.'l cask laid, 800 bushels maize. — Low &l Motion, ngents.

DEPARTURES. Sept. 17— Cliiidicn, 3 tons, A. Joi.rs, foi Russell, with J8 cases meichatidize, 1 case Geneva, 15 baies merchandize, 4 casks 1 ton su^ar, fi dozen buckets, 2 casks buiicr, i cases med'eines, 1 (Trite eiirthrnwaie, 1 case ditto, 2 bac;s moo, 2 bags s.ilt, 2 boxes uii-uis, ] hand-carnage. 4 packages hammers. 2 coils rope, 10 parcels sundries, (5 dozou shades, leask tobacco, 1 case merchandize, in bond.— T Lewis, agent Sept. 17— "Maiy, 40 tons, J. Paikei, toi j\lahurangi wiih 10,000 feet bawn timber, 20 tons ot firewood, ) (JO-ieet spar, Sept. 17— George, 17 tons, Ko-tc Tatu, for Tauianga, with 3 boxes, 1 case of oil, 1 parcel, 1 basket, 3 larcels, 1 bale of sails, 1 basket of hats, 1 hall cask nails, 1 pu eel tobacco, 1 case o! wine. Sept. 12— Vivid, 2G tons, W. liitdungs for Monganut, with 2 tons potatoes, 1 bundle spade-., 1 box soap, 1 do sundries. 4 kegs white lead, 1 box pipes, lean j.aint oil, 2 cases genevu. quartet cask biandy, 1 cask crockrry, 2 boxes merchandize, 1 chest tea, 1 keg nails, l'bag sugar, 1 bale.— W. S, Graham e, igem.

11. M. Schooner, Pandora, arrived on Wednesday morning from Sydney via Monganui and Wangarpi. The JVLiuXm hence the Oth ult., ai rived <it S\dney on the 21th. She is advertised hi the Heiald ot the 30th to sail again (or AucMand on the 3 id instant. We undei stand that her crew had deseite«', and aa there is much difficulty in procuring seamen «l Sjdney, it is not likely that she would get away on the day mentioned.

SYDNEY. A nniVAiA.— August 17. Jack, brig, Minphy, and Toroa, schooner, Slioll, from Moreton Baj ; Supply, schooner, Iloseason, from Wellington. 18. Harp, U.S. schooner, Gauluer, fiom San Fiancisco ; Souvenir, schooner, Blown, from JMoieton Bay. 19. Sisters, brig, Claik, from Honolulu ; Mary Stewart, schooner, Sommerville, from JMoreton Bay. 20. Vixen, schooner, M'Kinlay, irom Launceslon. 11. Catherine Janueson, bnrqup, Hutchison, from the Downs, the 4th Apnl. L' 3. Velocity, schooner, M'Veigh, and Ihrondelle, schooner, Lapthorne, fiom Port Phillip ; Wild Iribh Gnl, Todd, and Cantero, barque, Bluiray, Aom Adelaide ; Shamrock, steamer, from Launceston. 24. Mauhin, brig, Bow den, fiom Auckland; Louis and Muiam, brig, Pilfold, fiom Wellington; Ganges, barque, Langley, from the Downs the 4th M<>y; Dublin, barque, Robinson, from Liverpool the 4th April. 26". Spray, brig, Scott, from Nelson ; Nautilus, baique, Dryden, irom Launceston ; Dart, bng, Collins, from Port Phillip; Royal Saxon, bat que, Charlesuorth, from Calcutta. 27. Helen, schooner, Eedy, fromPoit Phillip; Helen, 'jug, M'Gregor, from Bahia ; Despatch, pchooner, Plant, from San trancisco; Saiah, brig, Grant, from Kuwait. 29. Wiitei witch, schooner, Cole, from Emu B,»y. DLPAiiTuiiEb.— August IQ. 11.M.8. F,intome, for Auckland; Phrebe, schooner, for Adelaide ; William, schooner, Bulhvant, foi Poit Albert; Alhion, schooner, Clinton, for Wide Bay. 18. IJ.M.S. Ilav.innah, 22 guns, Captain Eiskine, for England via Rio Janeiro. Passent^eis — Captain J. L. Stokes, Commander Ilichaids, Dr. L^all, Mr. Evans, Mr. Bi.idshaw, Rl r. Paget, Mr. M'Donall, Mi. llanos, Mr. Ponder, Mr. Hansaid, from JI.M. steamer Acheron; Dr. Anderson, and Mr. Bunie, from H.M.S. Calliope; and 39 non-com missioned ofiiceis and sp.imen, and 12 rank and file of the Royal Mamies of lI.M. steamer Acheion.— Diana, bug, Vcalo, for Poit Pinllip ; CJucftain, schooner, Stiachan, for the South Sea Islands. 19. Cape Horn, barque, Bogais, for Ilobart Town. 20. Cumberland, scliooner, Wyborn, for Moreton Bay ; Jane, baique, jS'oih«, for Kaipaia. 21. Margaret, ship, Ord, for Guam. 22. Maiy Jane, schooner, Gourl.iy, forGeelong; Wilh.im, brig, Coffey, for Launceston. 23. Symmetry, barque, Young, for Batavia; Bude, schooner, Dalmagne, for the South Sea Islands ; Maul of Julphn, brig, Boauvis, for San Francisco; Deucalion, U. S. ship, Homer, for London. 2j. Mountstuait Elphinstone, barque, Loney, for London; Prince of Wales, brig, Gaunt, for Melbourne. 28. Toroa, schooner, Sholl, for Moreton Bay ; Timbo, schooner, Walters, for Port Phillip. 29. Australian, barque, Wiles, for the South Seas ; Jack, brig, Murphy, for Moretou Bay.

Captain Snow, of tbe Caldew, reports that on his voyage to Batavia he landed at Booby Island, and found that the provisions placed by the Colonial Government for tbe use of persons wrecked in Torres Straits, had been wilfully deployed. The heads of tbo beef and bread casks had been staved, and their contents were thrown about. What could be tbe object of the pei petrators of such a wantonly wicked act it is impossible to conceive. — Sydney Herald, August 16th. H. M. S. Havannah proceeded to sea yesterday afternoon, having on board the officers and part of the crew of the steamer Acheron, which will remain at Sydney in charge of a Lieutenant of H. M. S. Calliope. We believe it is Captain ErsLine's intention to proceed through tbe Straits of Magellan, winch will shorten the passage, and prevent the necessity of going into those high latitudes which cannot be avoided in rounding Cape Horn. — 16. August 19th. By the arrival of the Sisters, we have San Francisco news to 19th June, and Honolulu to tbe 11th July. The Adirondack hence, and tbe Mary Catherine fiom Auckland, both touched at Honolulu, and proceeded on to San Francisco, the former on the 20 th June, and the lattergon the Bth July.— l 6. August 20th. The schooner Bramble ia to be commissioned as a tender to 11. M. S. Calliope, under the command of Lieutenant Ward of that ship. The steamer Acheron will be commissioned by Lieutenant Lambert of the Calliope : she will have a master's assistant, two midshipmen, an engineei , and several petty officers oa board ; she will be fully coaled, and kept ready for sr i, bo that in case of an emergency she can enter a erei\ and be immediately despatched. The Pandora will sail for Auckland on Tuesday next : the first duty she will be employed upon will be the survey of the llokiangn. If. M. S. Calliope will shortly sail on a cruise among the South Sea Islands.— lb. August 22nd. The Boiider Maid. — In the Sydney Herald of the 25th instant, it is stated that the Bishops ■were detained from commencing their voyage until July 4th, in consequence of the time required to furnish a new rudder to the Border Maid, which had touched on the reef in going into Auckland. The paragraph is calculated to convey a false impression, as if the necessity for a new rudder had arisen from the vessel touching on the ■> eef. But there was no such connexion between tbe cacumstances. '1 he schooner indeed grazed upon the reef, and by way of precaution it was judged right she should be hove down to have her bottom examined, in order to avoid tbe risk of going on a long and intneate navigation with any hidden damage to occasion danger. It was found on inspection that no damage had been occasioned by going on the reef, but it was also found how providentially it had been orderei that the measure ol heaving down ihould have been made necessary. It was then discovered that the schooner had come from Sydney with the rings on whicb the rudder bangs loose and liable to I be drawn out by the slightest stress, the rudder itself so rotten that a man put his leg and tbigh through the middle of it. There was also a portion of the keel quite decayed and worm-eaten, and with the copper entirely gone from it. This was near the head of the vessel, not above two feet under water, which defect must have been detected had the common precaution beeu taken of passing a rope under the keel from stern to head. The effect of these discoveries was to excite much thankfulness that such an occasion had been given to inspect the vessel's bottom before she again went to sea; and it created an impression by no means favourable to the practice of marine surveying in tins port, where, only a week before sailing, the vessel had been inspected and pronouncpd sonwortby, — Communicated to the Sydney Ileruld, August 30.

Tin, VtnAG] or lI. Ah Si'itvmNc Sjlamik Acheron.

[Fiom the "Sjtliiey Morning Hciald," August, 22.] Alt! onfvh the sei vice performed during the last four ycais by CapSamJ. L. Stokes, and the ofhccis of the Achciou, lias been piineipally on other shores than tlu^eot tins coiitinenl, yet connected as we consider this colony to he with New Zealand, pohtcally and cotnmeicially, and at the same time much interested in her piospoiity, it will cot he consideied that we devote too much spnee in our colinnns if we mud npbiiefty an abstract oi the Jesuits of the voyage which lias just boon completed, and fiom thelabouis of which the Captain and oiherrs and cicw have been relieved by Captain Hrury in I] MM. Pandoia, which has been sent out for the purpose of completing the survey. 'I he Acheion's officers have been sent home passen gersin the Mavannah, and the Acheion remains laid up at her anchorage near Gaiden Island. We do not ptotess to be sufficiently acquainted with naval economy to understand the piopnety ol t.ie measure; but it does seem st ange that a vessel like the Acheron, winch from her efficiency, character, and steam power, is so well ada ted lo the suneyof a coast, particularly like that of the Middle bland of New Zealand— on the southern and south-u extern coast ol which no sailing vessel ciui prudently appiouch, and certainly not without running much risk— should be laid up in id encss, and a new ship commissioned to complete 1 the lew remaining poi lions of a coast that has bieu alre dy so nearly brought to a finish- unless it be that the Adnuialty h ne^cil ciliated upon the probability that the vvoi-U to beperfoimed is mote oxtens'vi 1 than could reasonably be expected to be completed dun q llie peiiod usually allotted to a ship in commission. In consequence of the numerous npplictions of the authorities, in New Zealand to the Admiialty to_ha\e the coast suiveycd— lor the coasts were but ye y indistinctly traced on the cliiiit and on the poits almost unknown—Captain btok.es was appointed to the seivice, with instmctions to make a detaded Miivey of the coasts anil plans of the hai hours anil loadbteiuls. and to piocme ;ili possible information as to the ch.nacter of the inteiioi, and the productions of the Middle and Southern Islands, wh'ch although occupied by strai>phng settleis, i\e c but little knonn e^en to the neighlioai ing- colonies. 'J his sen ice has been all but perfoimed, and liad the Acheron lemained ineirip'.oyment tor six months longei , Hie whole of the coast would h.ue been planned aim charted. Indeed, all that now remain to be done, as we are infoimed, are the following poitions of the Noitii Island, containing about 500 miles of coa L t: — 'I he noith extieme, iiom the Hay ot Mauds ami the west coast to Cape Egmont, at the noi then) entrance ot Cook's Straits, an 1 a portion ot the north-east coast between Tauiang.i and East Cape with the ports ot YVangaroa, HokidiiiM, and False Ilokianga, Kiapaia and the entr.mce oi Poit Manukao. Cook's Mi aits, requiie a little detail on the south shore about Peloius Ri\er ,ml other poitiongot minor cou sequence 5 but all to the south is complete. Sufficient, howevei , leiuains to make tlv l'audora's voyage one ot much interest, We wish Captain Diuryand his. officers cvciy success, and a more agreeable tci nunaiiou of their \oyage than lias been the fate ol her piedccessor. It may, however, be useful to enumerate the princi palfeatmes that have been effected bv the Acheion's officers. Large and detailed plans have been made 0 1 the Gulf of Shouraka, including Waimate, Waiheke, and the Rher Humes, Meicury Bay, Poveityjiay, Uawke's Hiiy, ad the ports and ane-hor.ges in Cooks Stiaits, excepting the Pelorus River Poit Cooper, Akaroii Ot.igo, Mohueux. Haibour, on the east coast of the Middle island ; and the numerous and deep Sounds on its south-west i«arc, viz., Prcseivation Haibour, Ch ilky Hay, Dusky Uav, Doubtful H.ubour, and that most remarkable featuie ol the coast, Millord Haven, which has bet n .dieady dcsciibed in this journal. Indeed all the Sounds inth.it part ai cot the uiost extraordinary character, running for twenty miles into the land, bounded bv ucinenutcular masses of rock, scarcely halt a mile wide, the space between being un alhomahle The mountains of MiUorcl Haven were found to use almost peipcndicularly from its base to a height of 4000 fei-t : of which we have seen some rcm.ukablc and most interesting drawings. Stewait's Island, with its numeious and I'Criutil'il harbours, have also been examined, and planned with greatcaie and detail, and the position of the "Tiaps" and "Snares" ascci lamed with precision. The Acheion ai lived in Sydncv on the 22nd May, to await the aim ill ot H.M.S. Calliope, to meet the onieis horn the Admiralty, tepoitcd to have been sent out for her lecal. In the mean lime, at the suggestion of the Government, and by ouler of the senior officer, (Captain Er-kme) Captain Stokes, emplo\ed his vacant time in a suney of the coast fiom Fort Stephens lo Cape Howe, in completing a plnn on a laige scale of Newcastle, with otheis oi the enttaucc of. Broken Bay and Cape Ilowe ; and, in c nnection with the last to report ujiou the bc-t position for the erection of the lighthouse, which it is understood he has performed with great advantage to the colony, and nietitcd the appiobation of the Government, The importance of this coast survey may not be generally known: llie only chail that exists of thatpait of the coa^t tlipt exists between Poit Jackson «n<\ Cape Howe was made by Captain (tl en Lieutenant) Flinders and Mr. Bass, the discoverer of Bass' St ait in the year 17f)8, in an open whaleboat; indeed the part between lllawana and Sydney was performed by Minders and a boy, in the " Tomb Thumb," a small boat twel\e feet long. The coast was necessarily veiy iuconectly laid down, and inci easing ermr of longitude between Sydney and t ape Howe of upwaids of ten minutes was the consequence. '1 hat tins error so close to Sydney should have remained so long, is a matter of surprise, but its correction has been cmitemplated by the Mycirographci to the Admiralty for many years, and only unavoidably omitted fiom its being always lelt to the last. Had the late Captain Stanley lived it was to have ) been made, but his unfortunate and lamented death stopped it ; and had not Captain Stokes, at some inconI venience and interruption to bis preparation for g'u ing up his ship, willingly met the wishes of the Government, it might luve lemained incomplete for m.my years. It should however be observed, that all the materials forachait were already in existence, beint; the tiacings by chain made under the ordei of Sir Thomas Mitchell, buiveyor-Ueneral ; but his map being drawn on a steieograplnc projection, it was not a\ailable for mariners —nor did it contain the soundings and other particulars necessaiy for the navigator's use. Now that this survey has been effected, it is to be hoped that the election of the Light-house on 1 ape Howe may be proceeded with without delay* And fiom an intimate knowledge of the necessities of Newcastle, we think that a Lighthouse ought to be erected on Nobby, the tiade of the pott being sufficiently Luge to meet the expense; towards which the small traders, by whom the cliiet benefit will foi some time be derived, ought to pay a moderate ouota.

Loss of the Marmion.— The emigrant ship Marmion, 91i> tonb, Captain Kissock, was lost at Adelaide, on Troubridge shoals, on Tuesday evening, 29th July. She had on board 350 emigi ants, and a general cargo, consigned to C. and F. J. Beck and Co., of Adelaide. The emigrants and ciew weie all landed safe. — Cornwall Chronicle, August 9th. Dltention of Sydney Immigrants. — It affords us gratification to be able to announce that steps have been taken to prevent the further introduction of convicts fiom the Butish Penal Colonies into California. We learned late last night that upon the amval of the Amencan barque, Chief, Captain Kelley, fronrSydney, yesterday afternoon, she was boaided by a revenue officer from the cutter, Polk, accompanied by a boat's crew of five men. lie intoimed the Chptain of the barque that he had received orders to prevent any of the pass^ngeis or crew fiom landing, or any boats from coining alongside, until further orders. There vcie fifteen passengers on boavd, only one of whom, we undeistand, has a certificate from the Amencan Consul at Sydney. What further action will be taken m the matter is unknown, but we piesume that such as do not come with a ceitificate of good character, or some sort of documentary evidence that they are not convict imnngiants, will be compelled to return, oi leave for more congenial climes. V\ c trust that this will be the plan of procedure. — Alia California, June 15.