Shipping.

Colonist, Volume II, Issue 104, 19 October 1858, Page 2

Shipping.

ARRIVALS. October 16.—Tasmanian Maid, steamer, 90, Whitwell, from Wellington. Passengers—Charles, Emma, Robert, John, Arthur, and Charles Bartlett; Frederick, Ann, William, Charles, H. 8,, Francis, Richard, and Elizabeth Hodfield; William and Emma Melluish; Charles and Charlotte Orchard; Francis, Eliza, Mary, and Sarah Baith ; Ellen Home, Ann Dartnall, Adam Gray, Edward Handyside, Thomas Palmer, George, Mary, Frederick, and Phillip Merritt; Robert Robinson, Fanny, Elizabeth, and Thomas Robert Well; Mary, and Sarah Ann Durand; Elizabeth and Edwin G. Lawson; John Waddle, Edwin Crease, W. and Suaan "Curpe; James, Andrew, Mary, Jane, Richard and Evan Rees; Thomas Freeman, Edwin M. Price, Mary Perry, Maria Pettigrew, David Barr, Mrs. M'Crae, Mr. and Mrs. Goulter, Mr. Ridings, Mr. Greaves,-and four in the steerage. October 17.—Chieftain, barque, M'Lean, 882, "from, London. Passengers—William and Emily Clara Boormadzy, Thomas Boormond Kitchens, W. L., Eliza, Maria, Thomas, Clara, Ellen, and Edmund Fowler; William Law, William Joseph Ousley. IMPORTS. Per Tasmanian Maid, from Wellington: 10 chests tea, 10 ditto, 10 boxes ditto, 1 case cigars, 1 case boots, 10 boxes candles, 6 packages stationery, 1 case saddlery, 1 ditto drapery, 1 casfe medicines. Per Chieftain, from London: 25 hogsheads, 3 bales, 2 cases, 3 ditto, 1 bale, 8 packages, 6 barrels, 5 boxes,

E. Buxton; 1 case, 2 ditto, 26 packages, 15 crates, Nicholson and Ridings; 60, cases, 100 tons coals, 10 packages, Curtis Brothers; 5 packages, 4 cases, Order; 20 hogsheads, 30 ditto, IC-0 casks, N. Edwards and Co.; 8 packages; C, A. Muntz; 15 cases, Coates; 1 case, 7. packages, E. Buxton and Co; 4 casks, Order; 2 cases, 11 ditto, 32 grindstones^ 20 camp ovens, 1099 packages, 72 cases, "Morrison and Sclanders; .12 kegs powder, 312 packages, 184 ditto, 63 ditto, Order. Nicholson and Ridings, Agents.

Cargo op the Robert Small, for Nelson, Arrived at Wellington.—l case, D. Rough; 3 ditto, S. W. Strong; 1 ditto, Gaskett; 2 ditto, A. L. G. Campbell; 1 ditto, H. Lewis; 1 ditto, J. C. Howard; 1 ditto, Williamson ; 1 ditto, C. B. Withers; -2 ditto, Cross; 1 ditto, Rev. J. W. E. Hine; 20 £-Mids., Nicholson and Ridings; 1 case, R. Cottew; 4 pianos, 3 harmoniums, Mrs. Scaife; 1 case, J. Hill; lease, T. R. Hackett; 3 cases, N. Edwards and Co.; 12 grates and 2 cases, A. P. Seymour; 3 case's and 2 wheels, J. Skeat; 16 cases, Nash and Scaife; 100 casks and 100 cases, N. Edwards and Co.; 2 cases and 2 packages, Nash and Scaife; 1 case, W. Handcock; 14 cases, G. Baker; 1 cask and 1 case, A. Fell and Co.; 2 cases, 2 bales, 12 packages, and 1 puncheon, C. E. Bartlett. Nash and Scaife, agents. In the latest Sydney papers there are no less than twenty-four sailing vessels—some of them vessels of upwards of 1000 tons burthen—and three steamers laid on for the Fitzroy Gold-Fields. The schooner Mary Thomson arrived in Wellington harbor, from Melbourne, on the 7th instant, occupying ten days on the passage. The English mail had not arrived previous to her sailing; but the clipper ship Morning Light arrived at Melbourne on the 19th, after a splendid passage of 76 days, bringing ten days later European intelligence. When - the Mary Thompson left Melbourne, the English July mail was twenty-two days overdue. The brig Lalla Rookh was under charter to bring the mail on to Wellington so soon as tli'e steamer arrived. The steamer White Swan arrived at Wellington, hence, on the morning of the 9th instant, at three o'clock. The Melbourne Argus of the 24th September, says : —During the early part of the day great excitement prevailed to learn the name of the steamer signalled .off Portland. The announcement that it was the steamer Lord Ashley, from Milford Haven, bound for New Zealand, was made a little before 11 o'clock,' and caused general disappointment. The following is a copy of the telegram received from the stationmaster at Portland:—"The steamer Lord Ashley,. 500 tons, Captain Stewart, from Milford Haven to Auckland, under sail, put into Belfast at 9 a.m., for water, coals, and provisions. This is the steamer reported off Portland. She is the first of the mail steamers to ply between Sydney and New Zealand." This last statement is not correct. The Lord Ashley and the Lord Worsley are intended to run between Milford Haven and New Zealand, for the furtherance of immigration to that colony. The schooner Rosebud, Captain Small, from Otago and Port Cooper, arrived in this harbor at 2 o'clock yesterday morning. She sailed from Otago on the 3rd, arrived at Lyttelton on the 6th, and sailed from thence for Wellington on the Bth instant. Captain Small reports the arrival of the barque Jura, from the Clyde, with 397 passengers, including children; Mr. A<iams, the Emigration. Agent for Otago, was a passenger by her. The Lord Worsley was steaming into Otago heads as the Rosebud was leaving. She appeared as if she had encountered some very heavy weather, as some of her bulwarks .on the port side were washed away. Captain Small was unab'e to speak the Lord Worsley as she was steaming in very fast, and he was coming out with a fair wind. Her deck was crowded with passengers. The brig Content, belonging to Messrs. M'Andrew and Co., sailed for the Bluff Harbor the latter end of September. She conveyed shipwrights to heave down and caulk the barque William Hyde, which had been on shore at the Bluff, but which had been got off It was in-, tended to make the William Hyde a coal hulk, and on the next arrival of the Queen she was to be towed to Dunedin for that purpose. The following vessels were lying at Port Cooper when the Rosebud left, viz.: — The barque Federation, laid on for Melbourne ; the brig Dart, from Sydney, unloading; the schooner Francis, laid on for Sydney, with produce, to sail on the 13th instant'; and the brig Spray, with a cargo of coals, waiting to meet the Lord Worsley.— 'Wellington Independent, October 13. '■ The Non-arrival of the July Mail Steamer.'— The Melbourne Age of the 13th ultimo publishes, from the City Article of the Times, June 18th, the following paragraph, which it appears at first sight to think explains the-Australasian's non-appearance with the July mails: —" The next Australian mail will be taken by a new screw steamer called the Royal Bride, which is to sail from Plymouth on the 3rd of July, immediately on the arrival of the London letters posted on the eyening of the 2nd. There are some novelties in the construction of this vessel, especially as regards the closing up of the screw when its action is not required, which it is hoped will facilitate a speedy passage." The Morning Herald of the 19th, in allusion evidently to this announcement, gives the following counter statement:—" A false impression has been created by the announcement of a steamer to sail for Australia, it being considered that some variation was probably intended. Notice has now been given officially that the chartered steamship Cambria has been appointed to leave Southampton on the 12th of July, with, mails, passengers, &c., for Malta, Egypt, Aden, Ceylon, Western Australia, Melbourne, and Sydney. The Royal Bride, screw-steamer, which is to sail from Plymouth on the 3rd July, will take out a ship letterbag, which, dignified with the name.of mail, wiil afford parties an opportunity of writing by that vessel." New Zealand Royal Mail Steam Company.— Preliminary Notice-—One of the undermentioned-new first-class screw steamers is intended. shortly to ply ■ monthlylietween Sydney and Nelson or Auckland, carrying her Majesty's mails—Prince Alfred, 800 tons, 200 horse power;. Lord Ashley, 500 tons, TOO horse power; Lord Worsley, 500 tons, 100 horsepower; Airedale, 4.00 tons, 90 horse power. • The above steamers have splendid accommodations for saloon and intermediate passengers, and are well adapted for carrying horses, and cattle. Will discharge and load at Moore's Wharf. —Advertisement in Sydney Herald, 25th ultimo,