Shipping.

Colonist, Volume II, Issue 106, 26 October 1858, Page 2

Shipping.

ENTERED INWARDS. October 22.—Supply, cutter, 20, Wa-ker, from Collingwood, in ballast. Four passengers. , October 22.—Australian Maid, schooner, 17, Hooper, from Motupipi, with 7200 feet timber, and 12 ounces gold. ' October 22.—Ann, schooner, 18, Blackmore, from CoUingwood, with 20 tons limestone. October 23.—Wonga Wonga, steamer, 103, Kennedy, from Wanganui, with 2 tons potatoes and 1 package bacon. Passengers—Mr. and Miss Orchard, Messrs. Home, Parry, Gray, Broom, and Mrs. West. October 25.—Necromancer, schooner, 20, Short, from Motupipi, with 20 tons coal. ENTERED OUTWARDS. • October 23.—Australian Maid, schooner, 17, Hooper, for Waitapu, with 2 tons flour. October 23.—Wonga Wonga, steamer, 103, Kennedy, for Wellington, with 50 bushels malt. Passengers—Messrs. Bourman, Smith, Parry, Broom, Mr. M'Kenzie and family, and Mrs. West. October 25.—Tasmanian Maid, steamer, 90, Whitwell, for Wellington, with 3 hogsheads sheep wash tobacco, 1 case draper}*, 200 skins, lo hides, 4 bales wool, 6 bags sugar, 1 chest tea, 15 trusses hay, 2 tons flour. Passengers for Wellington—Messrs. Copeland and Cottew, 1 Maori. Wairau—Messrs. Goulton and Newcombe, and 3 in the steerage.

. The Nubia.—The Bengal Hurkaru says :—Among the feats of the Peninsulav and Oriental Company's vessels, the last voyage of the Nubia outstrips all their precedents. It is simply the fastest trip on record. We are well aware that, in all these, cases, it is not merely the horse but the rider also that deserve notice,; it is not the ship but its captain who give 3us these results. *The Nubia in her List trip, landed her passengers and mails at the port of Calcutta in twenty-nine days and eighteen hours' from London, and at Madras in twenty-four days and seventeen hours.' She passed Saugor Light nt ten minutes past 6 o'clock on the evening of the 23rd of June, and anchored at Kedgeree at 7 p.m. before dark. The night of, the , 22nd and morning of the 23rd were so thick an'lsqually,undertorrents of rain, that the Nubia, although close to the pilots vessels, had to use extreme caution while cruising in their track. Had the weather been less adverse, she would have received thepilot before daylight on the 23rd, and, thanks to the tide, have arrived at Calcutta about 2 pm. the same day. We are assured by passengers that eveiy nerve was strained both by the, captain and by all on board, from the day the Nubia left Suez, to deliver the mails on the 23rd. During the thick weather near the Sandheads the former never left the deck for nearly forty hours? and when the lead was hove he always took the line in his own hands, so anxious was he to be quite certain of the depth of water. As it is, this is the quickest mail that ever yet was landed from England in Calcutta. The entire time from Suez to our port was nineteen days and twenty*hours, including all stoppages. The Nubia, nevertheless, was forty-four hows at anchor, and ten hours and a half were lost while waiting for daylight at Galle, and while proceeding at dead slow pace up the Hooghly, so as to arrive at high water slack tide at Garden Reach. In short, the nett passage from Suez consisted fif seventeen days, fourteen hours, only; .this, too, with a bottom so clogged as to necessitate docking the Nubia, a measure taken with her on last Monday, Cstptain Caldbeck received the thanks of Government in February 1855, for assistance rendered to the lO.th Jlussars in the" Red Sea, when the flotilla was crippled by stress of weather, and cavalry was at the same time urgently needed in the Crimea. In March, last year, he again received the thanks: of "Government for the embarkation of H.M. 84th Regiment at Rangoon, and their conveyance to Calcutta a whole, week before jthey were expected, at a moment when we had only one weak European regiment in the face of several thousand sepoys. He flew Lord Elgin's flag for three months iri the Ava. aud receiyed both the warmest acknowledgments from the Ambassador arid the thanks of the Indian Government, for the manner jn which the service was performed. The P. and O. Company have not an abler or worthier servant than this excellent officer. We understand that he proceeds to Europe by this mail on six months' leave, ■]■ . . • . .