SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

New Zealander, Volume 8, Issue 648, 30 June 1852, Page 2

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

ARRIVALS. June 28 — Rose Ann, 24 tons, Ryan, from East Coast, with 800 bushels wheat, ton salt beef, ton ditto poik, 40 bnsbels maize, 1 keg cider. Passenger — Mr. B/jker. June 28 — Eclair, schooner, 40 tons, Marks, from Wellington and New Plymouth to Manakau, with 7 casks butter (820 lbs.), 1475 lbs. onions, 1^ tons flour, 1 cask currants, 2 bales bops, 2 boxes canclL-s. Passengers— Messrs. Parns, Colhas, Brown, Smart, Murch, Cvawley. — D.ivy & Jarvie, agents. June 28— Sarah, ta tons, lluka, from Matata, with 290 kits potatoes, 20 kits maize, 7 kits flax, 2 pigs. June 28 — Kororanka, 17 tons, Magonui, from Russell, with 20 pigs. — P. A. Phillips, agent. June 28 — Children, 30 tons, Jones, from llussel, with 30 bushels maize, 50 ditto grass seed, 200 feet timber, 900 fiuit trees, 1 ton bacon, 2 casks ale, 1 ton coflee, Passenger — i soldier 58th regt. Jurre 28 — Alert, 14 tons, Nelson, from Mataltana, with 7,700 feet sawn timber. June 28 — Kingi, 14 tons, Piwiki, from Bay of Plenty, with 200 kits potatoes. 20 kits corn, 3 bags wheat. Tune 28 — Lass, 12 tons, Southgate, from Bay of Plenty, with 27 pigs, 80 bushels maize, half ton onions. June 28 — Wolf, 12 tons, Etc IJuia, fiom Bay of Plenty, with 300 kits potatoes, 6 pigs. June ?o— Marainui, 22 tons, Tipoki, from Opotiki, •with 250 kits potatoes, 6 kits onions. June 29 — Thames, 20 tons. James, from Mahurangi, with 20 ton 3 firewood.

DEPARTURES. Juno' 26 — Incbinnan, b.irquo, 563 tons, Ennis, for Shangao. — Brown & Campbell, agents. June 2o —lsabella, 17 tons, Faulkner, for Tauiangn, with I cask porter, '2 bags flour, 1,000 feet timber, 1 baa me, 2 boxes pipes. June %' — J'mleavour, li tona, Cbii&tian, for Wniheki. June H9 — Watervwttb, 10 tons, Jones, for Mongonui, v. jth 1 box Boap, J bags bugar, J-cbcst tea, 1 bag soda, 1 Inle, 1 bag salt, 2 bales, blntiLets, y bags flour, 4 bale shuts, 1 box tea, J-chest tea, 3 bags sugar, 1 bag nee, 3 jjaclcages, paicel. Juno "9— Alert, 11- tons, Nelson, for the Wade, in ballast. T une 29— Thames, 20 tons, James, for Mauuiangi, in ballast.

The Eclair ai rived at ManuL.au on Saturday, baying ended from Wellington on Saturday the I2tb inst., touched at- New Plymouth on the l£H!i, and sailed (liencG on Thursday last. Thebaique Napoleon, which was announced in the late Melbourne papers as laid on or Auckland, put in at Wellington on the 9th nist.

' r tji a very hoist >ioiis pi^i^n, ami only luulul CO -ht-rpoi.t oi oOOsh pju'd .tt I'oit I'h.liip. '( li.- <.' ooi pi l{'tn\, GO n.n , o! Wrl' n^'jii, v. s um'vcvl in a liuav) souiL-eaoteily i^nli>, on SiUmV/ the rsth inst.,in I'i'zrov i'ay, at iJjeentiancuof J J ort iMcliolt,on harbour. There woie, it was Lehevcd,toui hands on boaid, all of w hora wpie lost. The Government bug, Victoria, thp bnque N.ipolpoi), and schooners Titan, .mil Black Dog witq mliaib vi whuu the Eclan ivii't. r lMio Napoleon and Titan weie ad/tvtist'd to sail toy Poit Phillip. It will Le SfCii, by ndveiti^ument, lli.it H has, been determined thnt the baique William Hyde shall be put in a state of thoiough icpair, tfiidur^ for that jjuipose being invited. As far as we can learn, lhn copper Will liKjune to be stript; her bottoui to be shcMlhed nilh n<ch and a halt pLiiik, nailed will) copper nads; all iaatenmgs to bo made goud ; sev< r.il naw new knees to be introduce'!, iind additional sliengthening to be given to >.ll tlui'-.o ]i,irts wincli have stiileied nwi,t. The slup 15, aUo, to be new caulked aud new coppered— Southern CiO'S.

Coursi: of niL Tuns. — At the October (1851) meeting of the Association for tlio Advancement of Scionce, Captain I'iUioy,' R.N., baid : it was known to mo^t of those whom ho addie&scd that Sir John Ilei&cliel in hisveiy clclijjb'hil woik estimated tbeaveiago height of the use ol the tide oi r ei the whole suifaco or the eaitli to be five feet; and from all the attention he could bestow on the biiliject, and the bust estimate he could foim, guided by long-continued and veiy widely-extended actual obseivations of the 1 tides, ho believed this to be a veiy con net opinion. And yet most who heard him were awaiehow vudoly m bevei.il localises this aveiage was depaited irom. Seveial localities could be pointed out wheiethe total rise of the tide wa& to bo spoken of as inches; while in oilier, and frequently not very distant, places, the n,-o was six, seven, eight, or moio fathoms. Captain Ficzioy then stated, that along the entire western couot of South America the tides could scaicely be siid to be eaihei or later at one place than at nnorbci 1 , — as for hundreds ol miles, indeed neaily as f.u as Panama, they might be said to occur at the same tuna, though they only rose four or fivo feet. At the Stiailb of Magellan they were very remaikable : on the west side they ro«e but a fow feet, say four or five j but on the eastern side they rose to the enoimous height of seven or eight fathoms, and this v. ithin a few miles the one place of the other. Ile consideied this to be accounted for thus : On the western side they partook of the geneial chaiacter of the tides of the Pacific along thecoabt; but on the east, the gieat tide from the Atlantic setting in thiough the Stiaitb and meeting the tide coming ftom the west, the wateis became heaped up to the extraordinary height ho had slated. He then pioccedtd to mention ssveial other peculiarities and anomalies of the tules in the Great Pacific Ocean ; and baid that a general review of them had led him to throw out the conjecture, that in this great ba&m the tides seemed to be at one tnno urged forward by the luminary as it passed along over them towaids tbo west, and then afterwaids seemed to surge back again towaids tho cast; and in tins motion to and fro the waters of this great basin might be conceived as a whole to partake; while yet the motion of no one part need move moie than a very few feet from its place.