Shipping.

Colonist, Volume IV, Issue 417, 22 October 1861, Page 2

Shipping.

ENTERED INWARDS.

October. - IS.—Rapid, 20, Blackmore, from Awaroa. I'passenger.

19.—Ann, 18, Eure, fiom the Waitapu.. 7 passengers. 19,_Gipsy, 30, M'Oann, from the Bullor Biyef. Passenger—Mr. Hudson. ■ ' . I ENTERED OUTWARDS. : October. ] B.—Jane, 30, Rees, for the Pelorus, in ballast. 19,—Rapid, 20, Blackmoro, for Awaroa. Passengers — Mr. and Mrs. Carter, and 3 children. 19.-—Gipsy. 30, M'Cann, for the Felorus. 10.—Grace Darling, 30, Cousins, for Taranaki. 1 passenger. . - ; IMPORTS. Per Rapid, from the Awaroa: 100 piles, 14 loge, 2000 feet timber, Carter; 230 hop poles, Hooper and Co. • • . • . : . Per Ann, from tho Waitapu: 4500 feet timber, 2 hides, 33 ozs. gold, Order. Per Gipsy, from the Buller: 6 ozs. gold, Lcwthwaitc; 33 ozs. gold, 3 cords firewood, Askew: 2 empty hhds, Hoopei' and Co. EXPORTS. . -| Per Rapid, for Awaroa: 2 cwt. salt, J-chest tea, 2 bags flour, 3 cases sundries, 11 pkgs. effects, Master. Per Gipsy, fcr Pelorus: 5 bags flour, sdo sugar, 1 pkg tobacco, 1 do drapery, 1 do grocery, Askew, Per Grace Darling, for Taranaki: 15 tons potatoes, Bailey. CHARGE OF MURDKH AGAINST A CAPTAIN.. The Liverpool magistrates were on July 17 engaged in investigating the charge of murder preferred against Captain W. Wilson, of the barque Severn. . It appeared from the statement of the witnesses that gross cruelties (which it wa.- alleged caused his death')' had been practised upon & seaman named Jones, second mate, of the ship, on the homeward voyage from Brass River, Africa. . . The firßt witness examined was a colored seaman, named William Johnson. He deposed that he shipped as üble seaman in the Ex Dress lar,Lyw. from Liverpool for iirass River. The pr'.^onti was iho cai'ti 11' Witness, t^etnur with, the prisoner, wa« transferred to the (Severn at Hrass River. Charles Jones,- the uoceustjd, wfl.B second tti.i' _ oi' the Sovcrn. He'was nick wit!i:fever, but performed duty. About, 5, wook ;'.{'■ ol leaving Hrß«s FJivcv. Cj^.t.i-i • \Vi"i:..;; 1 -•::!;!, Jon-s U>i-~ w.\i:[, ssyiiig he voai-Wtii;!-. do for ;;ia!o. Vpoi) one.Occasion hn (!.!,'• r:>,i-it,->W,) l;;:'.rl-'':l .!'■'•!?« down on tho forecastle, and when \w war, '-Wiu^ a'Aii-Ai hi'.n r.1.:.I'■;!..^n'l knocked, him .io'A'it; 'i'li'j t'oilou iii day f.iio captaiu so;it Jont.i to t': r ; ;1 the liinintopgallant mast-.. Jones told him lie.'v?B notable U> do so. The -captain said lie nmso scrape it, j and beat him with the main brace.

T.ho nex,t day the captain, beat Jones oa tho head,

and by his violence made the poor fellow incapable of ■moving from the deck. The following day the captain sent Jones to the wheel. Jones said, " Captain, I can't steer by myself, I don't feel very good." After steering a little while l.he captain went up to Jones and said, " whieii way u-e you canying the ship, you ," and struck him with the spanker boom sheet. Jones fell, and iiie captain kicked him. Jones said, " Oh, captain, you will kill me," and the captain said, " If I kill you 'here is no one in Liveipool to speak about it." The captain contin.ued to ill-treat the deceased until a few days afterwards, when the steward came and said to the captain—" Jones very bad—him sick too much," and the captain gave the steward some medicine. Jones died the same night. The witness said he saw the captain, on the same day he gave the steward the medicine, " when dark was beginning to come," strike Jones on the back part of the head, having something in his hand at the time, but lid could not say what it was: Jones died chat night. In answer to questions by Mr. Bretnner, the witness stated that the captain habitually ill-treated all the crew, and that they had resolved on the voyage to complain to trie authorities. This circumstance was corroborated by the steward, and the case was remanded. The Southern Cross of the Bth iustanb lias the following :—H. M. S. Cordelia, 11 guns, Commander Hume, arrived in the Waitemata on Sunday afternoon, from Solomon Maud, which she left on September 2. Banks Island was parted with on September 18th. The Cordelia went to Solomon Island in search of a British child, aged eight years, the son of the master of a trading schooner, who reported that the natives there had come on board and carried off the child. The Cordelia spent thirteen days-in the search, during which time she was anchored either in the harbor of Boukatou Mahaga or at Cape Marsh. The natives, who were very friendly, stated that they remembered the schooner bring at "the island, but denied that any outrage had been committed. The search,, which was most diligent, was fruitless. Bishop Patteson accompanied Commander Hume to Solomon Island , from Bank's Island, where he was left on the return ; • and it was through his instrumentality and the mi.ives who accompanied him, that communicationst were held with the inhabitants of Solomon island. These were most imperfect, as the Solomon Islanders .speak a dialect different from the natives of most of the other groups. The Cordelia experienced delightful weather on the cruise, and was becalmed one day off Norfolk Island. It should be added that the man who reported the loss of his boy was last heard of at New Caledonia, and from his habitual drunkenness there is reason to suppose that ho is laboring under some mental derangement, and that there is no truth in liis story.',