By the Mary Ann we have received the folowing intelligence from Queen Charlotte’s Sound. On Sunday, Ist June, a large schooner, the Supply, was seen at anchor in ►Ship Cove. She was from Liverpool bound to Canterbury vid Sydney, and had been out six months, nearly two of which had been spent in the latter port. She had a considerable number of passengers on board. On f e same day a very large humpback whale was caught off Mr. Thoms’ house, which expected to have turned out five or six uns, but from some disease (not an unusual circumstance according to the whalers) it y gave from one and a-half to two tuns. ’ght whales have been seen in greater lumbers than for many years past, but the , l las hitherto been most unfavoure. The boats had been fasten several occasions.
The Mary, from Nelson to Port Cooper, was detained in the Sound by the late South East gale from Sunday, Bth, to Saturday, 13th inst.
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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 613, 18 June 1851, Page 3
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