PORT OF AUCKLAND.

New Zealander, Volume 9, Issue 731, 16 April 1853, Page 2

PORT OF AUCKLAND.

S 111 r r I N G I N T E L LICENCE. ARRIVAL. Aptil 15- Auckland, 1G tons, 11. Lloyd, from Mercury Bay, with GOOD feet sawn timbet. departures. April 14 Nebuchadnezzar, 16 tons, A. B. White, for the Bay of Plenty, with 1 bale calico, 1 do. gowns, 1 box soap, 2 bags salt, 1 mill, 2 bags flour, 1 case sundries, 3 empty casks. April 13 —William, 14 tons, W. Day, for Wangaroa, in ballast. CLEARED OUT. April 13—St. Michael, barque, 373 tons, R. IV. France, for London. Passengers—Dr. Wade, Philip Turner, Esq., A.C.G., Mrs. Turner, family, and servant, Mrs. Berrey and servant, Miss Connelly, Mr. Marlow, Lieut. Grant. 58th regt., and nineteen invalids, one woman, and two children. — Brown N Campbell, agent. EXPORTS —FOREIGN. Per St. Michael, for London:—l hales wool, 1 box curiosities, 13 casks sperm oil, 7 bales wool, 95 tons copper ore, 45 casks sperm oil, 57 bales wool, l eases kauri gum, 1 truss tlax, 12 butts sperm oil, 18 hlids. ditto, 7 bales wool, 1 case 4 bales Ordnance stores, 54 casks, 34 bags and GO tons kauri gum. Vessels in Harbour. Victoria, Government brig. Captain Deck. Algerine, brig, 170 tons, Captain Brooks, arrived from Sydney, discharging.—J. Woodhouse. agent. Kestrel, brig, 190 tons, Captain Wallace, loading for Melbourne.—Henderson & Macfarlane, agent. Marmora, schooner, 135 tons, Captain Kelly,, arrived from Sydney, discharging.—J. Salmon & Co., agents. Moa, brig, 286 tons, Captain Bowden, arrived, from Sydney, discharging.—W. S. Grahame, agent. * St. Michael, barque, 377 tons, R. W. Prance, will sail for London this day.—Brown ik Campbell, agents. William Hyde, barque, 532 tons, Captain Applewbaite, about to sail for Melbourne.—Brown esc Campbell, agents. William, ship, 59G tons, Captain MThoe, arrived from San Francisco, about to sail tor Sydney.—J. Mackv, agent. SYDNEY, Arrivals.—March 13. Anna en Elize, Dutch ship, Arenspoot, from Liverpool. 17th October. 15. Packet, sch., Owen, from Adelaide; Picard, sch., from Melbourne. 1(5. Eagle, steamer, Griffiths, from Moreton Bay ; Mary Nicholson, from Newcastle, 17. Adventure, sch., MTvinnon, and Napoleon, barque, Woolley, from .Melbourne. 18. Duke of Norfolk, barque, Silk, and Courier, brig, Thompson, from Melbourne; Helene, Dutcli barque, Andrcsan, from Hamburgh, October 17t’>; Mountain Maid, brig, Terry, Harriet, sch., Colliuson, and Golden Spring, brig, McVeigh, from Melbourne; Tadmor, barque, Bowie, from Glasgow, 2lst November; Emma, brig, Brown, from Hobart Town. 19. H. Electra, 15 guns, commander W. Morris, from Plymouth; Mount Stewart Elpbinstone, barque, Dale, from Manila, 24th December; Vulture, brig, Prynn, from Oporto, 2nd December; Monterey, ship, W. do Craw, from Boston, 24th November; Tartar, ship, Davis, from Manila; Bussorah Merchant, barque, Blytli, from London and Plymouth, 13th November ; Christina, brig, Rees, from Port Phillip ; Gipsey, sch., Chalk, from Twofold Bay; Lizzie Webber, brig, Armstrong, from Melbourne; Emma, brig, Fox, from Geelong ; Cleopatra, screw steam ship, Caddell, from Melbourne ; P. and O. Company’s screw steamer, Chusan, Downs, from Singapore; Martin Luther, from Manila ; Emma, from Hobart Town ; Victoria Packet, from Melbourne ; Oriental Queen, Thomas, fio.n Hobart Town. 20. British Isle, bq., Agner, from Port Phillip ; ■Esther Arthur, brig, McKinnon, from Melbourne; Louis and Miriam, brig, V\ ilson, and Speed, barque, Cannell, from Port Phillip. 21. Fawn, sch., Bond, from Moreton Bay ; Fliza Frances, barque, from Newcastle; Resolute, ship, Lewis, from Plymouth, Nov. 9; Marmora, sch., Kelly, from Auckland. 22. Shamrock, steamer, Warner, from Melbourne; Charles Carter, brig, Hocking, from Adelaide ; Red Rover, sch., from Warnambool; Cheetah, sch., Evans, Loin Labrador; Meg Merrilies, scb., Sydesurf, from Port Albert. 23. Raven, scb., Browning, from Auckland. 24. Ceylon, brig, Cliens, from Melbourne ; Arion, brig, Rooke, from Geelong. 25. Albion, scb., Clinton, from Wide Bay. 26. Tom Tough, scb., Benand, and Seagull, scb.,Bennett, from Wide Bay. 27. Lalla Ilookh, brig, Easton, from Wide Bay; Anonynm, Am. scb,, Tanner, from Honolulu. 29. Palermo, brig, Wyborn, from Moreton Bay ; Cbiefiain, scb., Verney, from Balade, New Caledonia. 31. Herculean, scb., Cooper, from Wide Bay; Pacific, barque, Matthews, from San Francisco, tbe,2nd February. April 1. Daniel Webster, barque, McFarlane, from Auckland; Brothers, brig, Allen, fiom Moreton Bay. 2. Eclipse, brig, Law, from San Francisco. Departures.—March 12. Shamrock, sch., for Geelong ; John Mclbuish, for Calcutta ; Rattler, for Callao ; Robert, for London ; Raven, for Auckland ; Whampoa, for Singapore ; Washington, for Newcastle. 14. Thomas and Henry, Clarence Packet, and Hiron-(h-lle, for Melbourne; Dazzler, for Adelaide. 15. Emma, barque, for Melbourne. IG. Earl ol Dalhousie, for Launceston; H.M.S. Calliope, on a cruise. 17, Waterlilv, for Hobart Town. 19. Alrneda, sch., Hand, for Melbourne; Alert, barque. Smith, for Sourabaya; Catherine, scb.. Winter, and Vanquish, scb, Watt, for Melbourne. 21. Cape Horn, for Melbourne; Royal Sovereign, for South Sea Islands, 22. Prince of Wales, scb., Legge, for Melbourne; Ann Lockerby, ship, Stanley, for Guam. 23. Earl of Hardwick, for London ; Shamrock, steamer, and Liberty, for Melbourne; Margaret and Mary, for Geelong. 21. William Alfred, fur Wellington ; America, for Calcutta. 25. General Ilewett, for London; Spray, for Melbourne; Eliza, for Launceston. 26. Cleopatra, screw steamer, Caddell, and Fettercairn, steamer, Mailler, for Melbourne, 29. Countess of Derby, for Launceston ; Wild Irish Girl, for Melbourne ; Margaret, for Geelong ; H.M.S. Herald, on a cruise; Moa, for Auckland. Vriendscbaap, and Cornelius lloutman, for Batavia; Anna, for Java; Gazelle and Foster, for Guam. 31. Prince of Wales, for London ; Algerine, for Auckland ; Gwalior, for Port Cooper; Mary Nicholson, for Newcastle. April I, Louis and Miriam, for Melbourne. 2. Chusan, steamer, for Singapore, via Melbourne ; Adventure, Picard, and Christina, for Melbourne; Isabella, (or Port Albert. The Resolute, from London, arrived last night, after n tedious jrassage of 133 day ?. She has 1 36 passengers, among whom are a son of the Duke of Buccleucb, and a brother of the Marquis of Lothian, who intend to pay a visit to the Australian colonies, and it is understood will return to England via India and Palestine, 4 he Resolute had very b ff weather in the early part of the voyage, having shipped a sea off Cape Finisterre, y.-hich did a good deal of damage. As she was leaving the Cape on the 7 lb February, a large steamer was running in from the westward, supposed to be the Adelaide , mail packet.— Herald, March 22. The A.11.M.5.N. Co’s steamship Sydney arrived at the Cape of Good Hope on the Ist February. Captain Lewis also reports that the Croat Britain dropped anchor in Simon’s Bay just before be left. — Empire, March 23. The brig Eclipse left San Francisco December 22nd, and encountered during the first 20 days of the voyage strong S. W, and N. W. gales. She then stood toward the Sandwich Islands, and made the port of Hilo, Owyhee, January 20tb, and left again on the 28tb. In latitude 10,37 S., longitude 171.VV., the Captain sighted a small boat under sail: be immediately stood towards her, and discovered it to be the longboat lately belonging :o the barque Caldew, which bad been wrecked on a reef north of the equator, not described in any chart; this boat contained Captain Snow- and 14 of her crew and passengers, who bad then been 24days exposed in the open air. Not having sufficient provisions for so many additional passengers, the Eclipse steered for Apia, one of the Navigator’s Islands, which she reached February 14tb, look in water, and what provisions could be obtained, but not being able to get anything like a sufficient supply, left ten of the crew of the Caldew there, bringing on to Sydney Captain Snow and the other four men. On the 25th February, (the day after leaving Apia,) two seamen were found who turned out to

be deserters from the Major Eastland, fluff "bo hflff stowed themselves away in the bold, Encounteimg nothin'l- but calms or contrary winds, with erciy prospect of making a long passage, it was deemed advisable to touch at°some other port with a view of purchasing further supplies, and Aneitam being the most accessible steered for that harbour. No provisions could be obtained from the natives, but the Reverend Mr. Gcddie, missionary, gave the captain a little flour and a few p : gs ; and with this addition to the stores after taking in a little water, the Eclipse again got under weigh, and steered for Sydney. She spoke the American whailing ship. Magnolia, Captain Cox, 16 months out, from the United States, with 2300 barrels oil: the captain reported a mutiny of the crew - , (natives,) on board the William Penn, and the murder of the master; they had possession of the vessel for 17 hours, then look to the boats, and abandoned her : the mate and a few white seamen, after having been severely wounded, took refuge in the forecastle; finding the crew had left her, they steered for Strong’s Island. He also reported an attack made by the natives on board the ship Inga at Pleasant Island. November 17th. Captain Barnes and four of the crew were murdered ; the natives tried to scuttle the ship, but without success ; an attempt to fire her was then made, which was ineffectual. Also the cutting off a vessel at Cowilles Croup, supposed to belong to San Francisco, as the natives traded for tobacco some California gold, amongst which were some fifty dollar pieces.— lb. The schooner Lightening, Delany, master, was at Apia when the Eclipse left, loading with cocoanut oil and fruit for this port. — lb. The brig Rapid, Captain Cresswell, left San Francisco for Sydney, December 12th, with 70 passengers.— lb. The “ Chusan” Steamer. —The Chnsnn, which arrived on Saturday morning, carried away one of the fans of her screw, before she arrived at Melbourne. Notwithstanding which sho kept up her character for speed, making the passage up in GO hours. On her passage hence, arrived at Singapore on the 4th of February and found the Erin waiting to take on the mails, which she did at noon on the sth, The English mail of December 25th was lying at Singapore when the Chusan arrived there, in consequence of a break down in the Formosa’s machinery, under circumstances elsewhere described under the bead “Steamer Formosa.” On the arrival of the Chusan in the Straits of Singapore, the cabin passengers presented to Captain Down a testimonial. To obviate, as much as possible, any further delay of the Formosa’s mails, the Chusan had to make hasty preparations for another voyage, and although iier decks had to be caulked, and her screws to be taken out of the water for examination, she got away on the 10th. The distance from Singapore to Batavia was performed in 51 hours, the quickest passage upon record, but, unfortunately, the signals displayed by the ships of war, and by the authorities on shore, intimated that the surf was too high for a safe landing. After anxiously waitin'l- for some twenty hours, Captain Down determined to°land the mail in the ship’s life-boat (Lamb and White’s patent), and succeeded. Some few hours after the signals mentioned were hauled down, but the detention occasioned a delay of three days. The Chu-an left Batavia on the loth February, and in spite of strong head winds arrived at King George’s Sound on the 2nd of March. She left the Sound on the 4th, and notwithstanding a continuance of head winds, stormy weather, and a heavy sea, arrived at Adelaide on the night of the 10th. Previous to the departure of the Chusan from Singapore a brig arrived (rom Calcutta, bringing the account of the death of the King of Ava; he had been succeeded by his eldest son, who had immediately entered into negociations for peace. The next steamer from Singapore will be the Shanghai, The Steamer “Formosa.”— The P. and O. Co’s steamer Formosa, which left our port for Singapore on the 18th November, went first to Point cle Galle, Ceylon, where she arrived on the 14th December. The Formosa was unavoidably delayed five days at King George’s Sound, and Cap ain Parfitt, feeling convinced that by prosecuting Ids intended voyage to Singapore via Batavia, he would miss the mail steamer en route to Europe, determined to run for Gallo, and succeeded in catching the English mail steamer, to which the passengers and mails were transferred. A thoroughly well-informed correspondent, who has arrived from Singapore, assures us that, according to the present usual time of the mails arriving in England by that route, the Formosa’s mail will have taken home news from Sydney in 69 days; from Melbourne in 59 days ; from Adelaide in 55 days; and from King George’s Sound in 46 days. From Galle the Formosa started for Singapore; but when off Acheen Head, at the entrance of Malacca Straits, the cross-head of part of her machinery broke, and necessitated her return to Galle, whence her mails and passengers were convoyed to Singapore in the Malta. We regret to add that the public spirited efforts oi Captain Parfitt has occasioned him some trouble. Mr. Bowker, a passenger from Melbourne to Singapore, bad brought an action against the P. and O. Company on account of the deviation, and under the guidance of his legal adviser, Sir Thomas Turton, D.C.L., bad seized the Company’s coal at Galle. —Adelaide Register.

English Shipping.— -TLo Sir George Seymour’s mail, vid Madras, was delivered in London on the I.3th November ; the Dumfries’ mail, via Bombay, reached London 2nd December ; the Duke of Wellington, from Sydney 20th August, with 21,3G3 ounces of gold, arrivedon 3rd December; the Roman Emperor from Sydney 2nd September, with 60,-372 ounces of gold, arrived on 6th December, having made the passage in ninety-four days, and was chartered to convey troops to the Mauritius ; the Cornelia, hence 3rd July, with 5078 ounces of gold ; Sapphire, 13th July, with 14,668 ozs. of gold ; Pelham, 10th July, with 27,761 ounces of gold ; and Nestor, 16th August, with 12,295 ounces of gold, had all arrived early in December. The Chusan’s mail, vid Marseilles, was delivered in London 20th December, but most of the colonial merchants bad not received letters by that route, and it was supposed some mistake bad been made either in Sydney or on the way borne. The Pirate, steamer, sailed early in December, under canvas, for Sydney. The Cashmere, from London to Auckland, sprung her rudder in the main piece, and pul into Plymouth, 15th December. The Mahomed Shah, for New* Zealand, and Cecil a, for Geelong, sailed from Gravesend, 16th December. The Emperor, hence 16tb August, for London, put into the Brazils leaky ; the gold by her was to hr* forwarded by another vessel to England. The following vessels are advertised in the Times of I7tb December, for Sydney: Calloe, GGB, Brubn, despatch; Royal Alice, 800, Nolan, 20th December; Pelham, 354, Anderson, despatch ; Nestor, 458, Kyle, 10 th January ; Pantbca, 511, Ilannelt, 251h December; Bulgersteyn, 25th December, and Estafette, Ist Jan., from Liverpool. Pictura, 800, Scbolten, 25tb December. For Melbourne and Sydney:—Antelope, steam ship, Keen, early in February, from Liverpool. For Melbourne: Fortescue, with despatch; Emigrant, Lord Ashley, Ann Cropper, Kent, James L. Bogert, Prince Arthur, Elizabeth Willbew, Viceroy, and President ; Verkonteren, Dutch ship, December and early part of January. The Caucasian was advertised to soil for Adelaide with despatch. The following list of vessels were advertised in the Times of the 24th of December, as laid on for these colonies.: —From London.— For Sydney, Blundell, 573, December 28; Ann and Maria, brig, 263, loading ; Allaiulale, 490, January 3 ; Maitland, 900, January 5 Maitland, 900, January 5 ; Duke of Wellington, 800, January lO ; a sliip, 800, January 20. For Port Phillip.—Appleton, December 27 ; Vyf Gebroeders, 882, to follow the Appleton ; Superior, 800, loading; Emigrant, 1090, January 20 ; Lady Macnaughten, 558, loading; Minerva, 900, Jan. 5 ; Browerstroorn, GOO, January 17 ; Barend William, 1100, January 1 ; Fleda, 600, January ; Calliope (emigrants), 775, January 8 ; Glencoe, 260, December 28. For Port Phillip and Sydney.—Caroline Chisholm, 580, J nuary 15 ; new ship, 700, February 10, For Adelaide.—Pantalon, 400, January 10; President Ram, 600, January 25; Chieftain, 389, January 15; Euphrates, ship, December 25. For Hobart Town. —Symmetry, 500, January 5; Abberton, 500, January 20. For Launceston.— Brunette, 45!), January 29. For New Zealand.—Simlah, SO'', for Auckland, January 25 ; Maori, 900, for Nelson, February 10; Cresswell, 800, for Auckland, in March ; new ship, 800, for Wellington, in March. From Liverpool.— For Port Phillip. —Two Anthonies, January 10 ; Kortcnaer, 553, January 5. For Adelaide.—Nerlands Konig, 592, January 5. The Adelaide St ram Shis’. —By Electric Telegraph.— Plymouth, Thursday night, Dec. 23, 9 p.m. —Strenuous exertions are being made to despatch the Adelaide on Saturday. Her ports are of teak, and will only require additional fastenings. The Great Western, Bristol, and Exeter, and South Devon railway companies have arranged liberally for transmitting additional freightage, and a special train leaves Paddington on Friday evening, and reaches Plymouth on Saturday morning. Some of the passengers and part of the freight of the VV. S. Lindsay go out in the Adelaide to Australia.— Times, December 24. The Behring’s Straits Expedition.— By private letters recived from Beliring’s Straits, we learn that Captain Maguire has proceeded with the Plover to

Point Harrow, where Cnptnin I\Jooro(who has now returned to England, alter having passed four winters in the ice) had discovered a harbour, in which the Plover could ho safely secured. On the arrival of the Amphitrite, Captain Frederick, at Port Clarence, with stores and provisions, Captain Maguire and the officers who went out with him from England via Panama, joined the Plover, and proceeded with her in the direction of Point Barrow, as far as ley Cape. A boat expedition was immediately despatched from the Plover, and Captain Macquire succeeded in reaching Point Barrow, after running considerable risk in a heavy gale in open boats; and, having satisfied hmise that the harbour was available for the winter-quarters or the Plover, in 1852-3, returned in the boats, reijoined his ship and proceed with her to that spot. As Point Barrow is 500 or 600 miles in advance of the old winter-quarters of the Plover, and the first spot that a retreating party would make for from any pnit of the Polar Sea to the northward, we cannot but rejoice at this move in the right direction. —London Morning Herald, 18th December.

The 11 Shanghai’s’’ Trial I rip.— On Saturday the P. and 0. S. N Company’s screw steam ship Shanghai had been appointed to proceed down the river with the view of trying the engines, alter their having been refitted with new machinery for working the slide-valves. The result we are glad to hear was most satisfactory ; the engines having accomplished 82 revolutions a minute, while the ship went thiough the water against the flood tide going, and against an e j bb tide returning, at the rate of knots an hour without any sail set. Calcutta Englishinan. The Spartan— The British barque Spartan, Captain Thomas Marshall, left Amoy on tbe Btb January, having on board a number of Chinese Coolies, consisting of 228 men and 26 boys, who shipped themselves under an agreement to proceed to Sydney and to remain there agreeably to their contract for tbe term of live years. °The terms of their agreement were signed on board the vessel, and from the eagerness evinced by all to sign, each before the other, their can bo no doubt that they were sufficiently alive to their own interests and understood the nature ol tbe agreement. Ihe terms upon which, they shipped were explained to them by the Chinese interpreter on board the vessel, and by the Captain’s agent (Mr. Jackson), who it is said, speaks Chinese fluently. Each man was furnished with a memorandum of the agreement in English signed by the Captain and the contracting Cooly attested by Mr, Jackson as having been interpreted by him to the emigrant, and witnessed by a person who was present at the time of paying the stipulated advance. Ihe English memorandum was accompanied by a translation in Chinese. During the examination at the police office several of the coolies produced their copies of this agreeinent. According to this document the Chinese agreed to serve Captain Marshall or bis assigns in the capacity of shepherd, farm, and general servant, for a period of five years from date of the agreement, for four dollars per mensum and certain stipulated rations—the payment of wages to take eflect fourteen days after arrival at their destination. Ibe advance (8 dodars) made to the men was to be deducted by four quarterly instalments of two dollars each. The men appear to have been well treated, they were allowed as much liberty ns the size of the vessel would permit—there being no less than sixty on the poop on the morning of the outbreak. They appear to have had more than a sufficient supply of rice. On the 9th day out from Amoy, and when near Bulo Supatu, between 10 and II in the morning, a preconcerted signal was given by the Chinese, when several of them rushed upon the man at the wheel, and tried to throw him overboard. At this juncture the captain and second mate were’tween decks looking after tbe sick,the cheifmate was forward ; the only men on the poop were the helmsman and a seaman ; the man at the wheel was forced to quit the helm and take to tbe mizen rigging. Whilst this was going on upon the poop others rushed in to the cuddy, and the captain’s cabin; they then armed themselves with bayonets which they removed from the muskets (the latter were loaded) and proceeded to the pantry, where a carving knife was taken from a Chinese lad in the act of cleaning it. By this time the captain’ chief ami second mates, had returned to the after-part of the ship; the second mate rushed towards the captain’s cabin and was met by the man who had the carving knife, and which he ran through the second mate, who fell lifeless at the door of the captain’s cabin. The captain and chief mate were next attacked by those armed with bayonets, and both were severely wounded ; the latter fell senseless at the cuddy door and for some time was supposed to he dead. The captain seized hold ot a bayonet thrust at him by one of the Chinese, and made his way out of the cuddy. By tins time the crew had managed to force their way aft, armed with sticks, See, and ultimately the firearms were secured and discharged three or four times, which forced the Coolies to go below, where they wore secured by closing the hatches over them. Ten of the Coolies were either shot dead, or jumped overboard, and wore drowned ; three bodies were picked up off the deck and thrown overboard, and one man died on the following day of his wounds.”— St' aits Times, February 1. The Sources of the Nice. — At the last meeting of the Bombay Geographical Society a paper was read by Mr. John Smith on the discoveries made by the East African missionaries of what appeared to ho the sources of the Nile. This mysterious river is said to arise from two lakes, one of which is of great dimensions, nearly under the Lino, and they seem fed by the melting snows of the gigantic range, which rises to the altitude of 22,000 feet at least, close by. The description of this loug-looked-for locality coincides exactly with that given of it by Ptolemy 1700 years ago, as just elucidated and explained by O' - . Beke.— Bell's Messenger,