PORT OF AUCKLAND.

New Zealander, Volume 9, Issue 756, 13 July 1853, Page 2

PORT OF AUCKLAND.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. Julj 9—Vivid, 26 tons, Hitchings, from Mongonui. July 9 —Brothers, 22 tons, Shepherd, from Mongonui, with 24 passengeis. July 11—Alert, 20 tons, Tanner, from the Wade. July 11—Emily, 10 tons, Mair, from Wangarei. Passengers—Messrs. Watts, Smith, Ross and Dent. July 11 —Algerine, brig, 160 tons, A. Brooks, from Sydney. Passengers—Mr. and Mrs. Angrove and child, Mr, and Mrs. McDermott, Mr. Rooney, Mr. Walters, Mr. Chynworth, Mr. Thorpe, Mr. aud Mrs. Eastman, Mr. Shea, and Mr. Watts. July 12—Hawkbead, 22 tons, R. Lawrie, fiom Mahurangi, with 24 tons firewood. July 12—Cordelia, 18 tons, R. Gillingham, from Waiheke, in ballast. DEPARTURES. July 11—Brothers, 22 tons. Shepherd, for Mongonui. July 11—Alert, 20 tons, Tanner, for the Wade. July 11—Sarah, 17 tons, Ngauku, for Matata. July 11—Catherine, 14 tons, Parere, for Tauranga. July 11—Sea Belle, 20 tons, Hopkins, from Manakau, to Kawhia. July 11—Antelope,35 tons, Davys, for the East Coast. July 12— Herald, 25 tons, Jas. Tautari, for the Bay of Islands, with 10 boxes candles, lObags salt, 2 boxes soap, 15 hags sugar, 1 cask clover seed, 2 do. crockery, 20 cases sundries, 2 do. gin, 4 { do. do. 4 i chests tea, 1 ton coals. Passengers— Mr.Tiehe. Mr. Kemp. ° ’ July 12—Hawkbead, 22 tons, R. Lawrie, for Mahu rangi, in ballast. IMPORTS —FOREIGN. Per Algerine, from Sydney;— 4 {-casks whiskey, 3 puncheons 4 hhds. B. P. rum, 3 hhds. brandy, 10 hhds. rum, 30 cases geneva, 4 hhds B. P. rum. 3 hhds. brandy, 10 kegs tobacco, 100 cases geneva, 173 bags sugar, 33 casks bottled beer, 10 hhds. beer, 8 {-casks port° wine, 10 half chests congou, 100 bags, rice 10 J-casks port wine, 173 bags sugar, 6 packages drugs, 90 boxes candies, 20 ditto tin plates, 1 case lamps, 50 boxes glass, 2 bales hops, 90 bags rice, 7 casks whiskey, 6 cases 4 casks 2 jars drugs, 160 boxes tea, 330 bags sugar, 3 cases blacking, 1 case lamp cotton, 51 hags salt, 4 casks vinegar, 2 cases soy, 1 cask carrawav seeds, 4 bales bags, 15 boxes candles, 10 do. soap,'lo bags rice, 7 kegs nails, 1 cask raisins, 159 bags sugar, 13 tierces 1 barrel beef, 1 tierce 27 barrels pork, 14 half-hbds. chocolate, 20 cases lime juice, 4 bales 4 trusses slops. Another Californian vessel, en route for Australia, has touched on our coast, disabled and short of provisions, ihe General Veasie, Capt. Bunker, with about 250 passengers on board, sailed from San Francisco for Melbourne on the 10th April. The vessel had not been long at sea before the passengers became very discontented, because of the bad quality and scantiness of the provisions. The captain put in at the Sandwich Islands to procure necessary supplies. She sailed from Lahiana on 27th May', but again ran short and was obliged to touch at the Navigator Islands, where only a small quantity of provisions were procured. I he vessel at length reached Mongonui on the sth inst., where many of the passengers left her, and have come up in coasters to this port, to take their passage by other vessels to Melbourne.

H M.S. Serpent arrived yesterday from a amongst the islands in the Pacific seas. Aft oollß9 fitting, she will probably leave this port for £ Q e Ji *** via Valparaiso. —Sydney Empire, June 21. ° lan^ The immigrants per Malvina Vidal consist of p married couples, 99 single women, 25 single njp n children under fourteen years of age, and 15 infant Four infants and one adult female died ou three births took place onboard during the nas -P 5 —JS. r<wsage. The Steam-ship Hellespont.-Tliis beautifni - which has become the property of an enterprising Craf pany of Sydney tradesmen, was the scene of a C ° ni * vivial meeting last night to celebrate the Dllr f 0 *' The merits of the Hellespont herself have ciently extolled, but from the enlarged and cosm P®* view which was taken of her mission in these last night, we sre inclined to augur more than u * aters impor ant consequences for her future voyan- (>s sincerely express the wish that her success m ** such as not to disappoint the patriotic feelin* T* 1 ® pervaded the assembled company. Her present mander, Captain Watts, has had charge of the in? 0 ' pont since she was first launched, and is evidend es * devoted to that charge as a seaman can be accommodations are such as have not yet been su* ” et in any inter-colonial vessel, and must, to those J| aBSet * appreciate the utile et dulci, prove a great conside 0088 Our American cousins, who with characteristic ratloß ' ness discovered the fruitfulness of this field of acute * prise will have much to do, to surpass this ekef < p enteN of British marine architecture. We understand*?* Hellespont will leave for Melbourne punctually . hour fixed on Thursday.— lb. * t “ 8

The Singapore Line of Mails. —The P. «nl S. N. Co., we observe, wish to drop one of tb e v monthly lines under the new contract, owin» tot!' difficulty of procuring sufficient coal under present * cumstances. Tbe communities in China and th* Straits, we believe, would not object to return to I old system of having only one mail monthly and * therefore suggest that tbe P. and O. Co, be allowed? 8 relinquish one of the bi-monthly lines between C i and China, provided they make the line beht 0n Singapore and Anstralia a monthly one. They wonlrf 1 no doubt, find this arrangement a profitable one. TJ.’ value of a monthly line to Australia, via Singapo,, 8 now being recognised in England, and the authorities would probably be induced to sanction the exchange f they found that it was agreeable to the public in Chi 1 and tbe Straits. —Singapore Free Press, April Sth