Shipping

Colonist, Volume IV, Issue 365, 23 April 1861, Page 2

Shipping

ENTERED OUTWARDS. April 16.-—City of Nelson, schooner, 30, Hooper, for Picton and Wairau. April 16.—Jane, 30, J&cobsen, for tho Croixelles in ballast. April 17..—0dd-Fellow, cutter, 15, Dillow, for the Pelorus. April 17.—Ann, schooner, 18, Eure, for Waitapu Passengers, Mr. Page and son, Mr. Lambert, Dr. Tilby, and Mr. Winter. April 16.—Maria, brig, 156, Anderson, for Wellington. April 22.—Supply, cutter, 26, Walker, for Collingwood. April 22.—Gazelle, brig, 178, Baker, for Newcastle, in ballast. Passenger—Theodore Webb. EXPORTS. Per City of Nelson, for Picton and Wairau : 5 cases merchandise, 1 bag biscuits, 4 trusses drapery, 1 case salmon, 6 boxes tea, 1 bag coffee, 3 boxes pipes, 4 cases, 1 billiard table, N. Edwards aud Co; 45 fire-bricks, 13 hearthstones, 13 bags seeds, 2 cases drapery, 1 do tinware, 3 chests tea, 8 bags sugar, 1 case sardines, I keg coffee, 1 coil rope, 36 bags sugar, 4 tins lead, 1 cask —, 1 cask shot, 1 case gunpowder, 4 trusses drapery, 1 plough, Buxton; 1 parcel, Rough; 7 casks damaged tobacco, Beit; 2 tons flour, 6 kegs butter, 4 casks apples, J. Symons and Co. Per Odd-Fellow, for the Pelorus : 3 pkga sundries, Nash and Scaife; I cask brandy, Everett; 1 bale drapery, Sclauders and Co; 1 cask ale, Hooper and Co; 4 pkgs sundries, Buxton ; 2 bags flour, Wilkie j 1 pkg sundries, John Symons and Co. Per Ann, for Waitapu: 2 boxes sperm candles, 4 parcels, 2 bags sugar, 1 stove, 1 pair scales, 4 boxes sundries, 3 parcels, 1 pkg, 5 bags flour, John Symons and Co ; 1 box tea, 1 pkg drapery, 1 cwt sugar, 28 bags flour, Wilkie; 1 case drugs, Prichard; 1 bag, sugar, Hibbard ; 1 hogshead ale, Hooper and Co; 20 sheep, Elliott; 1 calf, 1 sack potatoes, Robinson. Per Maria, for Wellington: 2 rolls lead, Nash and Scaife [ 1 case books, Sims j and part of original cargo. Per Supply, for Collingwood : 1 rum, 1 case sago, 1 bale calico, 1 bundle axe handles, 10 bags sugar, 1 jar tartaric acid, 12 pairs boots, 2 kegs nails, 1 cask peas, 4 reams paper, 12 pkgs sundries-, 5 cans colza oil, I bag coffee, 50 bags flour, 2 kegs butter, J. Symons and Co; 4 boxes soap, 2 tins colza oil, 1 chest, 1 £-do tea, 2 pkgs drapery, Allen; 1 case stationery, Jackson ; 1 $-cask rum, 3 head cattle, 6 boxes apples, 1 ton flour, 2 hhds ale, Master; 5 hhds ale, Harley and Co. • THE COLONIAL STEAM SLOOP VICTORIA. This noble ship sailed from the Manukau, —on what, in all probability is likely to prove her last New Zealand cruise,—on Tuesday, the 26th ultimo, having the Governor, his Private Secretary, Colonel Sir James Alexander, 14th regt., the Attorney General, the Native Secretary, and a number of Native Chiefs on board. In crossing the Manukau bar, she shipped, or rather cut through, an enormous sea, which suddenly rose up like a wall, deluging her decks with more than fifty tons of water. The 6cene for a moment was a perilous and exciting one to those on deck. The Native Minister, tall as he is, was immersed to the neck, the Attorney General leapt into the mizen rigging for safety, Sir James Alexander was washed off his legs, but caught hold of some part of the rigging; Mr. Baker, of the Native Department, who was sick at the gangway, had his legs washed from under him and was very nearly thrown over the side ; most of the Native Chiefs were sent swimming and floundering about the deck, some of them being brought up by and jammed under the guns; whilst even on the bridge, Captain Norman was soaked high up his legs: fortunately for the Governor he was safe in the cabin. There was comparatively little sea, and no great break on the bar, but this was one of those wall-like waves which rise up on the instant, and are the chief source of anxiety to mariners. The Victoria arrived off Waitara on Wednesday morning, and shortly after the Governor disembarked under a salute (yards manned) of seventeen guns from the sloop, which was followed, on landing by a similar salute from the Camp at Waitara. being the first blank cartridges burnt in that quarter for many a day. A guard of honor was in attendance to receive his Excellency who was conducted to a pavilion pitched in the centre of the camp for his accommodation—the Attorney General and Native Minister having been furnished with a camp tent immediately contiguous. After close upon a year of arduous, honorable, and unremitting service in the cause of New Zealand, the Victoria takes her departure from Waitara for Melbourne this day, having first embarked Major-Ganeral Pratt and a portion of his staff. Whether the Victoria may ever return to these shores is problematical, but whether she does or not we cannot permit her to depart without expressing our heartfelt thanks to Capt. Norman and his officers for the able and energetic way in which they have handled their magnificent ship in every emergency and under every difficulty. Ship, officers, and men have, on all occasions, proved themselves worthy coadjutors and confederates of the gallant Nigers, (whom we are also soon to lose) by whom they were deservedly esteemed and appreciated. Like the Niger, the Victoria was ever on the alert, ever ready and efficient for any duty, from the hour of her arrival to that of her departure. Her career in these waters will be long remembered and gratefully acknowledged by the colonists of New Zealand, for whilst they have been of the last consequence to us, they have, happily, been such as to reflect lustre upon the Government and Colony of Victoria, who with so much forethought and liberality placed so fine a ship at our disposal—a ship whether for sailing or steaming qualities—whether for cleanliness in board and out board—whether for correctness and efficiency of discipline—claims the highest characteristics of a British Man-of-war. It would be superfluous to rehearse her services ; but we may well be pardoned for adverting to the promptitude with which she conveyed the southern chiefs to the Kohhuarama Conference—to the chivalrous spirit with which she reinforced the Naval Brigade, by placing Lieutenant Wood, Mr. Midshipman Home, and 30 of her picked A. B.s under Commodore Loring's command; and last, not least, to the marvellous celerity with which, in July last, she conveyed to Sydney the Governor's Supplemental dispatches consequent upon the reverse at Puketakauere, and the equal rapidity with which she returned with fresh succors from Melbourne. These, and such as these, are services not likely to be disregarded or forgotten, consequently, in bidding adieu to the Victoria, be it temporary or final, in the name of New Zealand, we wish her and her gallant band all honor, happiness, and prosperity.— Neiv Zealander.