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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume I, Issue 27, 12 April 1845, Page 1

one side, and by the hills from the lagoon on M'Dbnnett'g Cove on the other. A l should say some 70,000 or 80,000. acres . It consists of grass and buU-nuh sirttmp. Abo** halfway between the fodnappers and the Bluff i» tW junction of the Taki'Tnki arid Awaparui, good skeilrivers, which empty themselves into the sea through • narrow but deep channel; Tessela of small tonnage might enter. In the bay extending from the'Kidnappen to the Bluff, there is fine anchorage and shelter fronl alt winds, eicept from the NW. to E. From thric tito rivers there is inland communication ,with the Bluff by^ means of a small channel, through which canoe* pan,, \ and which, at small expense, might be made very •Taxable. ' , At the Bluff is the harbour and entrance into Mac* donhell's Cove ; the width of the entrance may be about j 150 yards. In sounding it at half flood, I found \ les*" 2 fathoms on the bar, and 3 and 4 fathoms iniide. Into the Cove flow 2 other small rivf rs ; the Cove itself it for the most part shallow, with numerotw islands and sand' banks ; but there are many channels where anchorage, if buoyed, might be found. At the Bluff there are two small islands and a sandy tpit, which is the only land where houses could be placed, and that would be limited to" a few stores. There un» wood, and water must be brought from th» creeks somedistance off. Should there be^i township, it must bcott the plain, or an embankment must be made, to bring it newer to the batbour by rendering the swamps available*

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

ARRIVALS. April *— Cutter Royal William l 43 torn*, Lorctt, iW Milford Haven vid Nelson, with (Jrernitone. . J Same day — Cutter Caihermt Johnslonc, 1 1 tons, Taw lor, from Wanganui, ♦ith sundries. - Same daty — Brigantine Velocity, Toscett, frtmr Aucl land, with 52 men of the 58th Regiment. Surae day — Schooner Sisters, 20 to«B, Sinclair, froa Pigeon Bay. • ' . April 9 — Schooner Three Brotkers? Toms, from Qa| | Charlotte Sound. . ' 'J Samp day — Schooner JRover r t Bride r Joss, from M| ford Ht>Lveru)i& Nelson, with Greenstone. ' F Same day — Cftter Levin, Poppfewell, from Akaroat. \ April 11 — American Whaling Barque Cora, Baker* mal ter, from the "Whaling grouncf. " '

DEPARTURES. * April s— Cutter Pmttl Jones, 40 togs, Bathe, for TiM»naki and Adelaide. ' April 6 — Schooner Shepherdett, 32 tons, WyHe for Sydney. Same day — Schooner Aurora, 35 toni, Jobwon, fan Auckland, with Government Dispatcher.

IN FORT. i Brigantme Hannah, Willis and Co. agents, laid up.. , \ Barque Caledonia, Case master, loading for Landon,j J. Smith and Co agents. ' ',; Cutter Royal William, Lovett muter. , . ' • Schooner Sisters, Sinclair master. l - Schooner Three Brothers, Toms. -JM Schooner Rover's Bride, Jom. I^£m Cutter Levin, Peppleweß. . Schooner Mana, Moan. Schooner Ann Sarah, Sinclur. -^1 Schooner Uncle Sam, Ellis. t || Barque Cora, Baker. > ' 1|

The Cora has been out 42 month*, has 600 b*rnt of Sperm and 600 barrels Black Oil, the has calledjii supplies. ' ' ' -I*! The Bovers Bride spoke the /•»«, whaler, of £^i|g| 8o days oat, with i<W barrels of Sperm oil. -"* * # • '3.