PORT OF AUCKLAND.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVI, Issue 3889, 8 February 1870, Page 3

PORT OF AUCKLAND.

High "Water This Day.— Morning, 11.28 ; afternoon, 11.49. Wind and Weather.— February 7: Wind, N.E. fresh. Weather, fine. Phasic op the Moon.— First quarter, February 0, at 5.68 a m. ABBTVALS.— FMHUJAinr 1.

Janet Grey, 27 tons, Kemo, from RusselL— B. Keane, tgent, Agnes, 25 tons, Innes, from Kawtu. — Mtster, ajent CLEARED OUTWARDS — FibkuAKY 7.

City of Melbourne, 614 tons, Puddle, for Sydney and Melbourne. Passengers— For Melbourne : Mr. and Mrs. Cobley and servant, Mr. Lawton, Miss Hudson, Mr. Petarcb, and 10 in the steerage. For Sydney : The Yen. Archdeacon Lloyd, Messrs. Mew*, Kinnersly, J D. £ ltzgerald, Moses, Mrs Coornbes, Mr*. McDonald, and 17 in the steerage.— H. M. Jervis, agent Woodstock, 30 tons, Baker, for Opotilc>. Passengers—4.—J. S Macfailane, agent.

EXPORTS.— February 7. Per s.s. City of Melbourne for Sydney : 8 bales of drapery. Kelly ; 10 half-chests tea, Bell ; 60 half -chests tea, 85 boxes tea, Tonks.

The s.s. City of Melbourne. — The spleiyoJcl s.s. City of Melbourne, Captain JPsitidle, sailed yesterday morning for Sydney and Melbourne. She took a large number of passengers and a small general cargo. The ship Helensville has commenced to load for home, and, having a large quantity of her cargo engaged, will no doubt have quick despatch. The ship City of Auckland commenced to tlischarge her cargo at the latter end of last week, and all that has been put out is in excellent condition. The s.s. Hero may be looked for from Sydney to-morrow. The boat race, Auckland v. the Thames, takes place this morning at 8 o'clock. The s.s. Lord Ashley leaves the Manukau | for Southern ports to-day. The Flying Squadron, with the exception of the Liverpool, were open to the public I yesterday, and were visited by a large J number of persons, the steamers Jane, Duke of Edinburgh, Enterprise Nos. 1 and 2, ! and the watermen's boats being crowded i each trip. The schooner Meteor, Captain Anderson, sails for Whangarei, and the schooner Tawera for Poverty Bay, with the first fair •wind. A correspondent of the Sydney Morning Herald, signing himself "An Ancient Mariner," and writing under the head of "What's in a Name ? " points out that several ships laving the name "Isabella" have been lost m these colonies, which he considers a singular circumstance, as it is not a very common name, " or, at least, that there are numbers of other names much more general!}' adopted for vessels. " He gives the following list, which, he says, does not contain all the " Isabellas" that have been lost : — Ship with prisoners, lost on King's Island ; brig, Captain Hart, now of Adelaide, ran on shore at Cape Nelson ; shij), lost on Flinders Island on the voyage from Port Phillip to London ; brig, formerly belonging to Van Diemen's Land Government, lost on Port Albert bar ; schooner, formerly belonging to the Van Diemen's Land Government, left Newcastle for Hob.irt Town, was never heard of ; barque, lost on Cape Barren, as recently reported.