ARRIVALS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 139, 26 April 1862, Page 4

ARRIVALS.

Aldinga., s. s. 291 tons McLean, from Melbourne, on the 19th inst. General cargo, 97. passengera.— Dalgety, Eattray, & Co., agents. '

DEPARTURES,

EXPECTED ARRIVALS.

From Melbourne. —Omeo, Sb. Jean, Streamlet Missie, Eureka, Ellen Simpson, Sea Breeze, Lalla Rookh, and William Buchanan. From Sydney.—Jane Lockhart. From New Bedford, U. S.— Omega.

PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Chariot of Fame, for London, May 8 , Aldinga, s.s., for Melbourne, April 28 '. < . Oineo, s.s., for Canterbury, April 28 Airedale, for Lyttelton and North, on arrival of

the Mail. British Trident, for Sydney, April 26 Pryde, for Lyttelton, March 2G Witch of Tees, for Hobart Town, April 29. Joshua Bates, for Melbourne, April 30.

.VESSELS IN PORT. Aldinga, s. s. from Melbourne. British Trident, ship, from Melbourne Chariot of Fame, ship, loading for London Dona Anita, barque, from London Oliver Cromwell, ship, from London Akbar, ship, from London Airedale, s.s., from the North . Ceres, ship, from Melbourne ■Witch, of the Tees, barqne, from Newcastle Metaris, barque, from Melbourne Colonist, schooner, from Glasgow. Sebim, schooner, from Melbourne. Sea Nymph, brig, from Geelong Boomerang, schooner, from Hobart Town Lombard, schooner, from Melbourne Mary E. Ray, barque, from Melbourne." Joshua Bates, ship, from Melbourne Ellen Lewis, barque, from Newcastle Northern Light, schooner, from Hobart Town.

The report of,the Aldinga's passage, and her list ofpassengers, appear in another column. - The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation " Company's steamer r Pera, with the India, China, Australia, and New Zealand mails, left Southampton on : Thursday, the 20th February, 1862, at 2 p.m. She .. arrived at Gibraltar on Wednesday, the .26th Feb., and left atO a.m. nextmorning. Reached Malta on Sunday, the 2nd March, and left the same afternoon. Reached Alexandria at 8 a.m. on the 6th March. The Southampton and Marsailles mails together left Suez ' on Saturday, the Bth March, at 8 p.m., in, the P. & O. Co.'s s. s. Beneral. Arrived at Point do Galle in the 26th March, at daylight, and at 4 p.m. the Ausr. ' tralian and New Zealand mails left in the P. & O. ' Co.'s s. s Madras—the Bengal to go forward to Cal-cutta-with the India mail that night, and'tlie China roail also to leave that evening in the P. & O. Co.'s • s."b;: Qmeo. Reached King George's Sound : on the '; afternoon of the 10th April, and left at daylight next '■'■ morning.- Reached Melbourne at daylight on Thursday, 17th April. Had fair weather, but no favorable Hvinds'until within two days' sail of Melbourne*,'when she; experienced a heavy gale.' The Madras left the •same.-afternoon with the mails for Sydney, Queens- "■ land, and the Northern Provinces of New Zealand, but • had to put back to Port Phillip Heads on account of "stress of weather. She, however, left again on Friday morning. The Oiueo, with the mails for the Southern Provinces of New Zealand, left Melbourne on the 'afternoon of the 19th, but' went no further than the -^Heads; on account of the heavy' weatheiyand the ■Steamer Aldinga, which left Melbourne at p.m. on the afternoon of Satui'day, the 19th, passed the Omeo '6n the 21st, though she started thirteen hours after ' the Omeo finally-sailed. ' ■ ' ' i The following scale shows the remarkable regulai rity with which the s.s. Aldinga has made her various • voyages to and from Melbourne and Otago. '> The aye- . rage duration'of her voyage from' Melbourne is five .days ten-hours, trad from Otago to 'Melbourne is a fraction under six days. The time is computed from Wharf to wharf. Melbourne to Otago—No. 1 voyage, 5 days 4 hours ; 2nd do, 5 days 13 hours ; 3rd do, -5 days 6 hours j 4th do, 5 days 3 hours ; sth do, 5 days shours ;-6th do; 5 days 18 hours ;-7th'do, 5 days 23 hours; Bth do, 5 days 7 hours; 9th do, 5 days 3 houTs ; 10th do, 5 day? 16 hours ; 11th do, 5 days 12 hours. Otago to Melbourne—No. 1 voyage—s days 3.hours: 2nd.; do, 0 days 7 hours ; 3rd do, 6 days 1 hour j 4th do, 5 days 15 hours; sth do, 7 days 9 hours; 6th do,< 5 days.l 3 hours; 7th do, 6 days 16 hours"; Btli do, 6 days 2 hours; 9th do, 5 days 14 ,-hourS;;,,loth do, 5 days 15 hours. ■' ; : • ; -The Confederate States steamer "Sumpter;" was, by last advices, lying at Gibraltar, and the United States stermer "Tuscarora," is ljing in Algesirus loads, within sight of her. ,The following vessels were advertised to leave Mel:bdurne fbr:NewZealand:— . . r i,. For, Otago-^-Belle • Vista, : Win. Buchanan, Sea JBreeze, Evelina Rutter,; St. Jean, Ellen Simpsoon. ' .PorTimaru—Choice. • r . For' Invercargill—Pilot, Vanquish. . , J .Captain Patterson, of-the American ship Abbott liawrence, reports having encountered strong, head ■winds since leaving Port Chalmers. ' He was for seven days in sight of the New Zealand coast, and nine' days off the: Heads.' Signalised 'the Alcyone'going into Port Chalmers on the 27th:uit.i:and.sighted the>Lord Baglan, bound to Nevf Zealand, off Kent's Group on Sunday.— Melbourne Weekly Herald, April 18.

SHIPS LOADING IN ENGLAND FOR NEW ZEALAND. At London. For Auckland—Queen of the Not Hi. Matilda Wattenbach. For Canterbury—-Harwood, Mary Ann, Lgmont. For Nelson —Knight. Bruce. For Otag.v— Geelonsr, Abdul Medjid, May Flower. For Wellington—Triton, Joachim Christian, Princess. .