Port of Auckland.

New Zealander, Volume 10, Issue 890, 25 October 1854, Page 2

Port of Auckland.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. Oct. 23—Ann, 22 tons, Bailey, from Waiheki, with 800 rails. Oct. 23 Herald 25 tons, Tautari, from the Bay of Islands, with 16 head cattle. Passengers,—Messrs. Busby, Bateman. Rowes, Davies, & Cook.—T. Russell, agent. Oct. 23—Hori Tapia, 17 tons, Paribirihi, from Tauranga, with 200 kits maize, 40 pigs, 30 fowls. 4 boxes eggs, 10 kits potatoes, 5 bags mats. Oct. 23 George and Mary, 16 tons, Mihaka, from Russell, with 10 cows A calves, 30 cwt. salt meat, 1 ton bran, 8 pig*. Oct. 23—Kate Kearney, brig 147 tons, D- Houston, from Sydney. Passengers—Messrs, Hooker, Davis, Walker, Dilworth, Bourne, Scott, —G. Duke, agent. Oct. 23—Algerine, brig, 160 tons, Lillewall, from Coromandel, Oct. 24—Emerald Isle, 32 tons, J. Oakes, from the East Coast, with 1300 bushels wheat. Oct- 24—Hawkhead, 22 tons, Williams, from Waihski, with 22 firewood. Oct. 24—Tay, 16 tons, J. Rattray, from Matakana, with 20 tons firewood, 100 feet house blocks, 5 passengers. Oct. 24—Auckland, 20 tons, Jones, from Matakana, with ISO posts, 450 rails. DEPARTURES. Oct. 23—Scotch Lass, 16 tons-, Thorp, for Wairoa, with I ton flour. 25 bushels bran, I box soap, 2 bags sugar, and sundries; Oet. 23—Anne, 22 tons, Bailey, for the Hot Spring*. Oct. 24—Hawkhead, 22 tons, Williams, for Waiheki, in ballast. Oct. 24 Matilda, 20 tons, J. Swann, for Kawhia and Wangaroa. with 4 cases geneva. 1 qr- cask brandy. 1 keg tobacco, 1 qr. cask sherry, 4 cases bottled beer, 1 qr. cask vinegar. * cases port wine, 60 bags sugar, 6 doz. spade*, 2 half chest* tea, 4 bale*; 9 case*. 1 bag saddles. 1 tin coffee. 2 mill* complete.« do*, tea kettle*. 2 doz. panakins, 2 kegs tobacco.3 tonssugar, 1 ton salt, 35 packages. I keg nails, 1 box. 1 chest, 1 bag sugar, 6 spades, I trunk, 30 bags sugar. 3 bags rice, 3 cases, 3 bales, 2 bundles spades. 1 plough, I bag dishes, 2 millstones. Passengers— Messrs. Joseph Grahame and Charleton. Oct. 24—Auckland, 20 tons, Jones, for Matakana, with I cask beef, 800 lbs. flour, 2 bags sugar, 2 boxes tea, 20 pkge*. furniture. Passengers, Mr. and Mrs, Garland and two children.

Oct. 24— Wanderer, brig, 173 ton*, T. C. Bobbin*, for Newcastle. IMPORTS-FORKIGN. Per Kate Kearney, from Sydneyl cut matches, 9 cate* and 18 package* merchandiie, 100 barrels flour, SO tierce* beef, 16 bundles spades, 3 kegs 8 drum* and 1 cask nails, 3 packages iron and zinc, 8 cases cigars, 22i bag* sugar, 38 box** *oap, 120 do. plums, 25 do- lea, 12 chests do. 3 bale* »lop», 38 cate* mat* ches, 10 casks porter, 6 barrels rinegar, 49 case* oilmen'* »tores 2 cases meal, 1 cask hatchets, 1 d» hammers, I do cutlery, 1 do. tar, 14 barrels salt, 16 dozen shovel* and spades, 1 box chocolate 1 cask mustard, 20 tin* herrings, 19 cates oilmen’* stores, 2 hhds. ▼inegar, 6 casks do. 40 boxes soap, 30 do. tea, 1 cask pimento, 1 do carraways, 4 bags walnuts, 1 cask blacking, I do. sundries, 7 hag* corks, 2 case* tobacco, 2 casks whiting, 139 tagt sugar, 214 cedar boards, 2u bale* gunnies. 18 hhds. sugar. 50 tons coals, 4 casks salt fish, 4 cases coffee. 11 barrels biscuit, 4 do. beef, 2 do. pork, 1 do. hams, 1 weighing machine, 15 boxes tea, 1 bale rugs, 1 do. blankets, 1 case fire arm*. 1 case percussion caps, I case cards. EXPORTS. Per Wanderer, for Newcastle :—4OOO feet plank New Zealand timber, 5 tons hay, 50 water casks. The Kirkwood got under weigh for Hobart Town about 6 a.m. on Saturday morning, but, in consequence of the strong N.W. gale, accompanied with heavy squalls of rain, that was then blowing, sb* brought up off Official Bay, where she remained until the erening, when, the wind haring moderated, she took her final departure. The Kate Kearney, eleven daya from Sydney, arrived in port at the fag end of Saturday’* gale. She came to her anchorage in good style, turning up the harbour very smartly. She sailed from Sydney at 9 a.m. of the 10th instant, and her passage from Melbourne to Sydney,—that being her pr-vious port of departure, the run was made in seventy-two hours. Tb* Kate Kearney was built at Cork, and is a sightly looking brig of 146 tons register. For the firat three or four days of her passage here, she experienced heavy westerly weather, and during the latter portion of it, was bafflad by a prevalence of light easterly winds. She baa bad, in fact, but three days’good run. The barque Monarch sailed for New Plymouth and Shanghai early on Sunday morning; and a brig, which was signalled tbroughoui the day, arrived in harbour shortly after dusk. She proved to be the Algerine from Coromandel. The long looked for barque Norman Morrison sailed from Wellington for Canterbury and Auckland on the 14th of September. Tb* career of this vessel affords a pregnant and pointed illustration of the injustice done to shippers and passengers by laying on ships in London for the Southern and Northern ports of New Zealand. Her precur *or the Balnaguitfa,—which, like herself, una distinctly advert Led in all the London papers, fur Jvekl nd first,' and the Southern ports aftertcards,—~ turned up here after a lapse of some two hundred dayr. B it, had as this was, it has been smart work compared with the achievement of the Norman Morrison. That vessel sailed, with a cmsidemble number of passengers and a quantity of gacds for Auckland on the 4th of March from Grave-ei.d: she Las consequently been 234 days out, and no appearance of her yet. How long is such a state of things to be endured ? Is more time to be consumed in discharging at the various southern ports, than what would be occupied in a passage from London to Auckland direct 1 This is not the way to “ speed " our Auckland commerce, and the Auckland merchants and ship owners would do w*ll to institute a better system of their own.