SHIPPING NEWS.

ARRIVED. April 17, barque Oceanica, 274 tons, Potter, from Hobart Town. Passengers, Mr. and Mrs. Moran, Mr. and Mrs. Jones and child, Messrs. Willis, Hutton, Moore, Thompson, and four in the Steerage. April 19, schooner Shepherdess, 40 tons, Bowler, from Wellington. Passengers, Capt. and Mrs, Simeon and child, Mr. and Mrs. Sewell, Messrs Thompson, Harwood, Rapley, Howell, Hogan, Newcombe, Beresford, Davidson, W. Dunnage, C. Dunnage, and Marsh. CLEARED OUT. April 19, cutter Supply, 15 tons, Mc'Nabb, for Wellington. April 21, schooner Shepherdess,4o tons, Bowler, for Wellington. IMPORTS. In the Oceanica,—! case drills, 10 kegs tobacco, Longden and Le Cren ; 2 kegs tobacco, 700 sheep, 3 mares, 2 foais, 1 ton flour, and sundries, Moore. In the Shepherdess —55 bags sugar, 12 chests 10 half chests tea, 4 bales leather, soap, candles, drugs, chairs, nails, &c, &c, Order.

Lyttltok Markets.— Retail Prices.— 23rd. April.—Flour, 455. to 50s. per 100 lbs., according to quality; bread, per 2 lb. loaf, 9d.; Beef and Mutton, from 6jd. to Bd. per lb.; Fresh Butter, Is. Bd.; Potatoes, 4s. per cwt; offering at £3 per ton on the Plains. Markets.—Adelaide, 11th March.—Flour, £26 per ton ; Oats, 13s. Melbourne, 21st March.—Flour, from £32 to £34 ; Wheat, 10s. 6d.; Potatoes, 225. Hobarton, 23rd March.— Flour, £30; Wheat, 12s. 6d.; Oats, 155.; Potatoes, 14s. Sydney, 26th March.—Flour, from £25 to £27; Wheat, 10s. 6d. Wellington, 16th April.—Flour, from 28s. to 325. per 100 lbs.

Birth.—On Baturday, the 16th instant, in Exeter Street, Lyttelton, Mrs. S. Pearson, of a daughter.

Mabeied, on Wednesday last, at the new church, Lyttelton, by the rßev. B. W.Dudley,' M.A., Mr. Jsaac Luck, of Christchurch (late of Oxford), to Susanna Wale, eldest daughter of Mr. Thomas Mountfort, of Birmingham.