SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

New Zealander, Volume 7, Issue 570, 1 October 1851, Page 2

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

ARRIVALS. ept. 27 — Iliomnma, schoonei, 78 tons, ,T. S. McFarlano, from (he Ka^t Coast, with 800 bushels wwhet,n t, B^o bushels maize, \ ton salt pork. — Salmon &. Co., agents. Sept. 27— Emigrant, ship, 75 i tons, W. 11. Kemp, commander, fiom Hokianga, with 79 spais, 108 pieces baulk timber, 191 pieces sawn timhei, 21- pieces baulk timber, 1,420 handspikes, 80 boat knees, 3 tons kauri gum. Passengers— Mis. Kemp, child, and servant, Miss Caroline Russell, Miss Annie ■Russell, Miss M'Donnell, Captain Young.— Brown & Campbell, agents. Sept. 27 — Venus, schooner, <U> tons S. McGraham, from Adelaide (25th August) viA Sydney (13th Sept.) Passengers— Mr. &. Mrs. Kasher, sun., Mr. and Mrs. Kasher, jun., Mr. and Mrs. Dickman, Mr. G. Tierke, Miss Schmiedcke, Mr. and Mrs. Rash, Mr. Kimhel, Mr. Warren, Mr. Watch. — D. Nathan, agent. Sept. 27 — Meri Peka, 15 tons, J. Kent, from the Bay of Plenty, with 4 tons flax, 5 tons potatoes, 2 casics pork, 5 kits lard. Sept. '27— Dauntless, 27 tons, W. Jeffries, from the East Coast, « itli 300 bushels wheat, 450 do. maize, 2 tons pork, 1 do. bacon. Sept. 27 — Ira, 21 tons, D. Farrow, from Poverty Bay, with 500 bushels wheat, 250 bushels maize, 8 casks pork. Passengers — Mr. John Ryan. — T. Russell, agent. Sept. 29— Antelopp, 35 tons, D. McKinnon, from Monganui, with 15 head cattle. Passengers— Capt. Leathart, Mi . Yates. Sept. 29 — Napi, 17 tons, James Tautan, from Russell vid Waugaiuru, with 4 boxes bacon, 1 box eggs. Passengers— Mrs. Reed, Mr. Chapman, Mr. Johnson. — P. A. Philips, agents. Sept. 29 — Mary, 15 tons, J. Shearer, from the Bay of Plenty, with" 100 bushels maize, 23 pigs. Passenger — Mr. F. Annson. Sept. '29— Sarah Jane, 17 tons, J. Campbell, from the East Coast, with 170 bushels wheat, 2 ditto barley, 280 ditto maize, 17 casks poik. — W. S. Grahame, agent. Sept. 29— Janet, 14 tons, D. McLea, from Coromandel, with 12,000 feet sawn umber.— A. McGregor, agent. Sept. 30— Dove, 20 tons, W. Wilcox, from the Bay ot Plenty, with 6(10 bushels maize, 24 bushels wheat, \ ton onions, 1 ton hams and bacon. Passengers — Messrs. Day and Steward.—'!'. Russell, agent. Sept. SO— John, 28 tons, J. Maddocks, master, from Mahurangi, with 14,000 feet timber. — Combes & Daldy, agents.

CKPA.RTUKKS. Sept. 27— Meri Peki, 15 tons, J. Kent, for the Bay of Plenty, with 1 bag; Hour, 1 bag sugar, 1 box tea, 1 case Geneva, 1 bag biscuit, 1 case pipes, 1 bale blankets, 2 bale slops, 6 bolts canvas. Sept. 27 — Mary, 47 tons, E. Welch, for th.c Bay of Islands, with 58 cases gin, 4 cases wine, 1 cask wine, 1 ton salt, 1 box tobacco, 1 case slops, 1 case cloth caps, 1 bale blankets, i bale leather, 1 bale prints, 10 boxes figs, 1 keg butter, 1 cask oil. Sept. 27— Fairy, 15 l-ns, A. J. Nicholas, for the Thames, with 1 ciok tobacoo, 1 bale blankets, 2 bales sundries, 20 ciunp ovens, 24 dozen sickles, 2 boxes soap, 1 box flour, 1 bag salt, 5 bags sugar, 1 pipe sherry, 1 £-cask tobacco. Passengeis— Mr. and Mrs. Gillies, Mr. W. N icolls, wife aud family, Miss Anderson. Sept. 29— Antelope, 35 tons, D. McKinnon, for Russell, in ballast.— Salmon & Co., agents. Sept. 30— John, 28 tons, John Haddocks, for Mahurangi in ballast. — Combes & Daldy, agent. CLEARED OUT. Sept. 30— Simlab, barque, 567 tons, Charles Robertson, commander, for Otago via New Plymouth, with part of original cargo from London. Shipped at Auckland : 1 hhd. rum, 42 barrels cement, 1 keg composition nails, 2500 blates, 78 bags salt, 4 tons do., 1 can turpentine, 1 keg paint— 22 cabin, 27 second cabin, and 46 steerage passengers. — Brown & Campbell, agents.

IMPORTS — FOBEIGN. Per Venus, from Adelaide via Sydney— 22s bags flour, 112 bags sugar, D. Nathan. Tho Venus which arrived on Saturday night last sailed from Adelaide on the 25th August, with a number of German passene;eis, hound for Tahiti. She touched at Sydney ou the sth ult., where she landed two of her passengers, and sailed again for the port on the morning of the 1-kh. The Moa had not arrived at that date. The Emma was adveitised to have quick despatch for Auckland but it wah not expected that she would sail sooner than the Moa. The Venus will resume her voyage on Satin day.

The Search tor Sir John Franklin.— We regret to announce that clcsp itches have been received from Commander Pullen, daied Foit Simpson, Octobei 29, 1850, statir.g that his expedition to the north of Banks' Land from Cape Bu. hurst has been entirely unsuccessful. The ice was so hummock y and he.ivy that it was impossible to reach even Cape Bathurs 1 : and after waiting for some days in the vicinity of that Cape, in ihe hope that some favourable change might enable the party to advance, Commander Pullen was under the painful necessity of ictr eing his steps. Thus, a promising field in the Arctic- regions will remain unsearched. unless Captain Austin or the Commander of theAmciicin expedition s-'nds parties to exploie it. which is exceedingly doubtful, as in default of ike receipt of any intelligence from us this summer, tliey will suppose that Commander Pullen is occupying the ground. -— AtheruEum. DEPAUTUnC OF TUT PIUNCB AI.BrKT TOR THE Atictic Seas.— This little vessel, which, skilfully handled by Captain Forsyth, performed so remarkable a j/oyage last year, although she failed in her mission, has sailed again from Aberdeen, in the hope of now accomplishing it. Mr. Kennedy, an experienced officer of the Hudson's Bay Company, is in command of the expedition ; and Mr. Leask, ice-master of tbe North Star, who piloted that vessel thiough Baffin's Bay and Burrow's Straits is in command of the vessel. Em barked with 'them is John Hepburn. This brave man, who was .with Sir John Fianklin, Richardson, and Back, when they explored the shores of the Polar Sea, and whose noble conduct under the tiying circumstances of no ordinary nature is imporiihably written on the page of history, has volunteered his services to go in search-of his honoured master. The crew of the vessel are all picked men — a large portion being those who sailed in her last year. 111 1 is almost superfluous to say that the course of the Prince Albert will be duected to Prince Regent's Inlet, and that Xhe main object of the voyage is to explore the western coast of Boothia from Cape Bird, south, and the eastern coast from Brentfonl Bay. If the ice admits of it the vessel will probably go to Brentford Bay, whence the two boat parties will be despatched ; and there is every reasonable hope that the paity destined for the western side will find a water communication between Brentford Bay and Cape Bird. At all events, the distance across cannot be more than ten miles, and be the difficulties what they mny, we doubt not Mr, Kennedy s energies aud ex* peiience in travelling will succeed in overcoming them. —Home News.

Encounter of a Ship with a Whale — Letters from Rio de Janeiro, dated February 14th, s-ty, "The following statement of the exploits of a »bale, and his attack upon a vessel, is abstracted from the protest of Captain Joseph Dias, of the whale ship Pocahontas, of Tisbury, made before the U. S. Consul at Kiode Janeiro, January, iBsl. It is said to he the second instmvce of a direct attack on a vessel by a whale. The other was the ship fc^sex, in the Pacific, which was entirely lost. Captain Dias Miys, that on the 12th December, 1850, in a lattitude about 33 deg. 47 m. S. lon- 43 deg 35 mm. west at five p.m., saw a «hoal of «perm whales o(F the lee bow, lowered two boats, the larboard boat struck, and had been fastened fifteen or tw nty minutes, and after the line had been hauled into the boats, which line had been sounded out in the attempt to lance tbp whale, she turned upon the boat and literally crushed it to atoms with her jaws, and all belonging to it, except the crew who swam to the other boats, the whale all the time staying around the fragments, The starboard boat came down, but pulled buck to the ship, in compauy with the waist boat and two crews. After they had came on board, and boats hoisted up, the vessel was squared in and ran for the whale, which btill continued abpnt the place wcie she stove the boat, 'ihe crew were fully prepared with lances, &c., leady to make a dart. In about fifteen minutes wore the ship's head towards the whale, having every thmg ieady to attack her; vessel on the larboard tack, and whule coming to Iccwaid of the ship. When about two boats' lengths off, the whale rounded towards the vessels Low, and struck it with mjcli force as> to stait one or two planks, and bieak one or two timbers on the starboard side of the bow at the water Hue, causing the vessel to lenk. at once at the rate of 250 strokes per }>onr. Under the circiioibtanceb, the captain bore up for Rio, where proper repaiiswore made. He sail d again on his cruise about the 10th of Januaiy. Whether he will meet his old Joe is doubtful; but)! he fjoes, he will give battle/—N ew lotk Hj press.