PASSENGER LIST.

Southland Times, Volume 2, Issue 76, 28 July 1863, Page 2

PASSENGER LIST.

Per Australia, from Melbourne : Mrs Myers and 2 childen. Mrs Hanks and 2 children, Messrs Raynor, Miller, M'Kenzie, and Brompton.

We notice that tho now stern wheel steamer Tuapeka, which has been specially huilt for the navigation of the. Molyneux, is advertised to make her first trip on Saturday, the 2/ith instant. The performances of this pioneer of the Molvneux River navigation will he watched with sonic anxiety by all interested in the opening up of the inland water communication of tho Province. — Daihi Times. 20th July. Intelligence was received nt Rnrotongn, on the 20th May last, hy the whaler Triton, tn the ellc& that a slaver (name unknown, but a beautiful clipper barque) touched at Sunday I-land iv the be- j ginning of May, and interred tho bodies ot sixty natives" having previously committed some forty others to the deep. This vessel harl made a clean | Bwcep of one island, carrying off some 200 natives, but had not proceeded far on her voyage before dysentry broke out amongst the natives, carrying nearly tho whole of them off. Previous to the Triton's sailing from Sunday Island, the slaver had left on a cruiso among the islands, for the purposo ot seizing othvr natives.— New Zealander. pThe Intercolonial Royal Mail Company's s.s. Auckland anchored in Ilobson's Bay e-rly yesterday. She is a new ship, constructed by Messrs diaries Mitchell and Co, of Newcasfclo-ou-Tyne, expreslly for this company. She is a screw steamer, of 800 tons burthen, 140 horse-power, is 2'2-t feet lon£, with 2S feet beam. The saloon is 65 feet long. She can accommodate forty cabin and sixty steerage pa'sengors. She is fitted with all the modern improvements for the comfort of her passengers. She left Gravesend on the loth April, St. finccnt, on tho 29th, St. Helena, Alay 16th. and Cape of Good Hope, May 31st. blie left Table Bay at tlie commencement, of a heavy N.W. "ale, and was prevented completing her coalin" at that port. Sho experienced variable weather until passing the meridian of Cape Leuwin ; since then, strong N.W. gales, with tremendous sea. Captaiu Gihson reports that, on the 29th April, St. Vincent bearing N.E., distant four miles, he was stopod hy tbe American sloop-of-war Powhattnn, which fired a shot across his bows, and afterwards sent an officer on board, to whom, uuder protest, Captaiu Gibson showed his vessel's papers. The Auckland proceeds to Sydney to-morrow.— Argus, 7th July.