Shipping Intelligence.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17, 4 December 1861, Page 2

Shipping Intelligence.

AIvPIVALS COASTWISE. December 2.—Planet (s.j, 47 tons, M'Bonald, from the Taieri: 19 bajes wool, 1 ton luggage— Oargill & Co. Young & M'Qlashan, agents. December 3 —Julia Ann, cutter, 20 tons, Swanson, from Lyttelton : 11 pkgs. personal effects. Passengers—Cabin : Messrs. Hannett, Elliot, Jones, Smith, Logan, Boyd, Susan Strahan, Mr. and Mrs. Pellsgren.—Messrs. Morton and Co., agents. ENTERED OUTWARDS. Dec. 2.—Ocean Chief, 1026 tons, Brown, master, for Melbourne, with 70 passengers. COASTWISE. Dec. 3. —lndustry, 20 tons, Schenkel, in balr last, for Lyttelton, with/ft passengers. Dec. 3.—Raven, 114 tons, M'Donaltl, for Lytr KHon, coals. EXPORTS. X*er Ocean Chief, 278£- ounces gold,

The brig Jane, which cleared for Kia Kora, ■Mew Zealand, with sheep, is one of several vessels chartered by W. Knight, Esq., for the conveyance of a flock of sheep, consisting principally of twotoothed ewes, numbering in all about 7000, to the Nation purchased at Kia Kora by G. A. Anstey, Esq., the particulars of which were noticed some time back in this journal. The Harriet Hope and Dorwent Hunter are the two next vessels that will be despatched. Mr. Knight is acting as agent for tx. A, Anstey, Esq

New CoMaiEßcjAi, Code op SiaNALP ? -rrThe following Notice to Mariners has been isaued by the of the Lighthouse Board of Washington, in reference to the New Commercial Code cf Sige r.als :—" Treasury Department, Office LjghthousBoard, Washington City, Ju,ly, 1861.— Notice is hereby given to navigators that the 'Commercial Code of Signals for the use of all Nations,' and Jiogers* American edition and flags with the British vocabulary, have been placed on board of the United States Lighthouse and buoy tenders, light--vessels occupying seaward stations, and to the sea-t-oast lighthouse along the Florida Reefs, from Loggerhead Key, Tortugas, to Jupiter In,let Lighthouse inclusive. Masters of vessels and others deairing to communicate with any of the above named vessels or lighthouse by signal, may do so if they have a set of those signal books and flags on board. —By order, Thornton A. Jenkins, Commander U. S. Navy, Secretary L. H. Board."

The Blackwall liner " Monarch ' which cleared from Melbourne on the 18th November, took ■42,584 ozs gold, of which 12,500 ozs. were the produce of the New Zealand gold-fields.

The " Dunedin," and "Hydra," barques, both were "entered outwards for Otago, from Melbourne, 011 the 18th November.

Lo weiung Boats.—We (New Zealandcr) I have been favoured by Captain Moorman, of H.M. ship Cossack, with the following particulars of the admirable and life-preserving method of lowering boats at sea, even under the most unpromising circumstances; such an invention cannot be too generally adopted in the mercantile as well as in the royal marine ;—On a dark squally night, during the passage of H.M. ship Cossack from the Cape, ■was an alarm of a " man overboard." The life-buoy Aras immediately let go, and a boat as promptly inann.ed, lowered, arid, detached, by means of " Knaston's patent ship hooks;" tl^e ship at the time under all plain sail, with port studding sails set, and rushing through the water at the rate of lon knots. A rescue was thus effected, without waiting for the ship to be rounded to ; the boat being in the water, and clear away from the ship before the man had been above two minutes in the water. Under ordinary circumstances of lowering jjoats at sea, this man would in all probability have been lost. This admirable invention ha.s been in use in H.M. navy upwards of three years, and is that of the late Captain Knaston, R.N.

We are indebted to Messrs. Harnett and Co.. Printers, for striking off this issue: our own pressesi not being yet sufficiently repaired. With great difficulty we have succeeded in bringing out a double-paged supplement.