SHIPPING.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume I, Issue 26, 26 December 1861, Page 2

SHIPPING.

ARRIVED. December 1!) —Pole Star, schooner, 50 tons, G. Eaton from Auckland, with -Ipkgs. saddlery, ll.R.Holder; G cases por- ± Juiin.dnishall; 14 jikgs. drapery, 6 boxes cigars, l cask oil, Doitsh & Henry; 1 ton sugar, Newton. IrVln ®; * V’°- ;2 cr atcs, 1 ease. M. Bovlan; 7 nieces macliinery, T.H.Fitzgcrald; 1 hbd. brandy, Sblids. ale, 5 tons flour, 60 pkgs. merchandise, G. Forester & Co.; 2 end. iron. J.L. Hcydu : -,O'io feet timber, Provincial Government; 3,000.

feet timber, 20 tons coal, order; 28 cases bottled porter, 2 tons salt, order; 2 cases printing materials, James Wood I’a.sscngers—Major Whitmore, Messrs. Cl. Forester, and Alex. Fox, Miss M’Garvie—G. Forester & Co., agents. December 21 — Planet, cutter, 30 tons, Lewis, from Poverty Bay, with 100 bags wheat, 103 bdles. shingles, i-ton bacon •1 cwt. onions, 50 bshls. maize—Master agent. December 22 FVooa.ll.M.sloop, 17guns, Commander Cator, from Auckland. Passengers—The hon. Crosbie Ward, D. M'Lcan, Esq., W. X. Scaranckc, Esq. December 24— Janet, schooner, 23 tons, Toke, from Poverty Bay. with 104 bags wheat.(o79 bushels) 20 kits kumaras, 20 kits potatoes. Passengers—ll maories, 1 female. SAILED. December 19 —Sea Serpent, schooner, 60 tons, Enright, for Wellington, with 51 bales wool (14,6231b5.) 6 male passengers. December 23—Planet, cutter. 30 tons, Lewis, for Poverty Bay in ballast. December 23— Pole Star, schooner. 50 tons, Eaton, for Auckland, in ballast. Passenger, Major Whitmore. December 23—F'«ioh,II.M. sloop, 17 guns. Commander Cator for Wellington. Passeugers-D. M’Lean, &W. N. Searancke, Esquires. The Janet left Poverty Bay on Sunday morning last, and arrived iir harbor early on Tuesday. Her crew consists entirely of natives. From the Southern Cross we learn that II.M. steam sloop Pantaloon, has been commissioned by Commander Wm.Uo-bei-t Hobson, and was to have sailed on the 17th of September, from Plymouth Sound, for the cape of Good Hope and Xew Zealand. Commander Hobson is the son of Governor Hobson, who proclaimed Xew Zealand a British Colony, and was one of the party with Sir. B. M’Clintock and others who discovered the remains of the late Sir John Franklin. — Aucklander, Dec. 6. Oumov to Shippers. —The regulations which exist in Otago to prevent the oa rying of sheep and passengers together in ships bound for Dunedin, have been of late stringently enforced. On the 16th inst. Captain M’Alpine, of the Xa/al, barque, was brought before the Dunedin Police Court, charged with having carried passengers and sheep together in Iris vessel. He was found Guilty, and ordered to a line of £159; in default of payment, he was sentenced to five months’ ha;d labor on the roads. —Melbourne Argus. The wait j star clipper ship Mermaid Captain Rose, 1,233 tons burthen, from London, with passengers and general cargo, an ived here yesterday morning at 5 o’clock. The Mermaid. left Gravesend on the -Ith September, an.l took final departure from the Start Point on Tuesday, September loth, with light westerly wind. The passage from land to land was made in 94 days ; the Three Kings having been sighted on the morning of the 13th instant. The passengers enjoyed excellent health during the voyage ; and the clean and tidy state of the ship reflects credit on her commander. Captain Bose, and his subordinate officers, This is the third trip of the Mermaid to Auckland, but the first under her present commander Mr. Deighton, chief olllcer, is here for the second time in this ship ; and the 2nd ollicor has now made the third voyage. We regret to announce the death, by suicide, of the late third ollicor. This young man was named Adair, and had been confined in hatc'i-houso for insubordnation and drnnkenness. On the 11th December, at 5 p. m., a boy named Dixon discovered deceased suspended from the roof of the hutch-house The alarm was given, and ho was immediately cut down. Though black with strangulation, and histongue protruding, the body was still warm and for 3 h'urs unwearied efforts were made to restoie animation, but in vain. The deceased was respectably connected, being, we have been informe 1, a nephew of Mr. Mackay of the Black Ball line. He left two letters addressed to officers on board. We have seen one of these documents, but it contains nothing of importance—merely a complaint of harsh treatment. We have been told tiie deceased was denied nothing but his liberty, which was necessary fer the preservation of c.isriplinc on board. December Dth, two days before this fatal e.cnt, a man named John Cob, employed to look after the fowls, was ordered to throw some bad wine overboard, and whether they accident or design, he managed to plunge overboard himself. The ship was going at the rate of three knots an hour ; she was put about, and Cob picked up, fortunately without serious injury from the immersion.