SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

New Zealander, Volume 8, Issue 638, 26 May 1852, Page 2

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

ARRIVALS. ]\lny 22— Antelope, 3 r » tons, Smrley, from the East Coast, wall poo bushels wheat, I tons speiru oil, 8 ca&ks. Pa,sr.engcrs>— Mr. Kirk, Airs. Perry, and "2, children. Way 22— Catherine, 20 tons Werahiko Parera, from Tauianga, with 100 baskets potatoes, 100 do. maize, 26 pigs. Way 25 — Ira, 16 tons, It. Waddy, from Barrier Island, in ballast. Passengers— Mr. and Mr*. Richards. May 25— Victoria, 17 tons, Merrick, from Waiheki, with 700 pohts and rails. May 25 — Ophelia, 25 tons, SimpMns, from the East Coast, with 750 bushels wheat, 1 box curiosities. May 25— Endeavour, 14 tons, Christian, from Mata- | t ana, with %7 tons firewood. May 25— Mary, 21 tons, Warbrick, from the Thames, with 550 liusHel*. maize, 30 do. wheat, 1 cask pork. May 25— Daniel Webster, barque, Jones, fiom Mahurangi.

DEPAKTURES. May 22 — Mary, 21 tons, Warbrick, for the Thames, with 150 lbs tobacco, 2 cases merchandize, 2 bags sugar, 1 bag biscuit, 1 bale blankets. May 23— Elizabeth, 43 tons, Davis, for New Plymouth, with 18 horses, 50 sheep, *i packages crockeiy, 6 do. sundries. May 25— Hawkhead, 22 tons, Lawrie, for Kokokino, with 1000 bricks, 20 bushels lime. May 25— Victoria, 17 tons, Merrick, for Waiheki, in ballast. Hay 25— Fiances, 20 tons, James, for Mahurangi, with 500 lbs. flour, £ ton potatoes, 10 lbs. tobacco, 1 bag sugar. Passenger — Mr. Coombes.

We are authorised to state that on Saturday next, land on subsequent Wednesdays and Satuidays when the Pandora is in harbour, Commander Druiy, for the information of the inhabitants, will cause a black nnll to be hoisted at the main top-gallant-mast-head, at teu minutes before noon, to be dior>ped exactly at twelve o'clock, mean time, «.

Sydney Mails.— Our readers will have observed the uncertainty and itiegularity of the notices respecting the mails that are to be made up for vessels about to leave the poi t. We can assure them that the fault does not lie with us. In the present state of the colony there is great difficulty in fixing the time for a vessel's departure. There are vessels now in port which have been loaded for three weeks, and been detained by the scarcity of seamen, caused by the great atti action of the gold fields. When, therefore a vessel is fouud in harbour after it has been duly announced for a week or two that her mail will close " this evening,'" it is not to be understood that any person is wilfully misleading the public, but that the unfoitunate captain is daily hoping and expecting to engage sufficient seamen to enable him to proceed on his voyage. — Herald, April 22. The Wiilck of nib IsABEtr,A Watson, — Fifty men are still employed upon this unfortunate vessel, which the winds have diiven into about two feet of water. The top sides have parted from the under, and she is rapidly breaking up. Nearly half the cargo has been saved, although spirits, silks, satins, broadcloths, ftc, are floating about the bay. Nothing could have exceeded the energy of Mr. John Orr, the agent for the vessel, in thus engagingat the present crisis so large a body of men, without which nssistance it is probable the entire cargo would bave been lost. Mr. Orr is entitled to the thanks of the entire commercial community. — Melbourne M. Herald, 13th April. A Novll Steamboat. — Colonel Schouler, of the Boston Atlas, writing home fiom Washington says: — *' There i 9 a drawing in the Navy Department, of a new steamboat, which is about to be built in New York foi the Hudson River, and which is to make thp trip from New York to Albany in five hours.— She is intended te compete with the New York and' Albany Railroad. By the kindness of Commodore Skinner, we obtained Ler proportions, which are as follows : — Length of keel 500 feet ; length of deck 350 feet. She looks like a sword-fish. There is 75 feet of keel at each end, extending out from the deck, which shows itself above the water, and it is sharp and pointed like the sword of a sword-fish. — Both ends of the boat are alike, and Ler engines are to work both ways. She is not intended to turn round, but to work like a ferry-boat. She is te be called the George Washington, and to have accommodations for three thousand passengers. She will make the passage of 150 miles in five hours. She has been designed and modelled by Mr. Davidson of New York." Australian Royal Mail Steam Navigation Company. — Gentlemen intending to apply for the office ol Secretary to this Company, are requested to forward tbeir testimonials, addressed to the Directors, on or before Wednesday, January T, 185 a, under cover te tbe Solicitors of the Company, Messrs. Wilson, Ilarrison, and Bribtow, 1, Copthall buildings, city. The Directors wish to obtaiu the services of a gentleman thoroughly conversant with navigation and steam shipping in particular, whose habits of discipline and knowledge of tbe duties required of officer and men will ensure efficiency in every part of the service of tin Company. Special testimonials of service and know ledge of machinery will be most highly esteemed bj the Directors. The salary will depend upon the quali fications of the candidate chosen, but the Director; wish it to be understood that it will be on a scale te secure the services of a gentleman in every respec qualified to dischaige the duties of this important office By order of the Board, W. Hawes, Chairman. 1 Copthall-buildingSjDec, 27, 1851.— Advertisement in tin Times.