AKABOA SHIPPING.

Lyttelton Times, Volume IX, Issue 542, 13 January 1858, Page 5

AKABOA SHIPPING.

Dec. 251, sch. Spec, 14 tons, Simpson, from ■ jOfcago. Passengers, Mr. and Mrs. Gibbs and "family. 'Cargo: under bond; 3 qr. casks wine 2 qr. casks whiskey, 1 hhd. brandy, 10 cases geneva, §'do. g-jn... 3, do. champagne. Duty paid j 6 bhds. ale, 2 do. porteiylß casks bottled ale and porter, 1 crate crockery, 5 cases oilmen's stores, 2 boxes'candles; 1 cask split peas, 19 ', pkgs." 'furniture, 4 boxes raisins, 1 ca.sk rice, 1 case currants. • . -■•*■•'■■;•■• '■■ arrived. ; Jan: lOtli, tlie French Whaling ship General, Te'ste, Captain1, Le r Mercier, from Sandwich Is-; lands, on the-7th of November last, with 800 barrels, yi^., 100 sperm, 700~righfc whale. ■ Captain': Le '-Mercier reports that we may -shortly expect the ships that were in our Port; last year, and their success as follows :—Napo- \ leon 111, Captain Morel, 1,100 barrels, Caulaincourb, Captain Labaste,- 1,400 barrels, Elizabeth, Captain LaMari 800 barrels; also, General D'Haut Po.ul.e, Captain Darraandaritz, 1,200 barrels. The' Nile will.probably refresh in the Bay of Islands. "'.'.,. ... CLBABED. Dec. 30, sch. Spec, Simpson, for Otago. Cargo: 9000 shingles, 6500 ft. timber, 3267 Bis. cheese, Order. „.._? .-, Captain lie Mercier reports the last season on the North-west iwhaling grounds, as an average one; also, thatlduring the few weeks that he has been cruising off Stewarts Island and to the westward,.it was.remar.kab.le for continuous bad weath*er. 'Tjie captain of the America, United States'whaling ship, (reported as spoken by the Tour dv Pin, now in Pigeon Bay, off the Island of Amsterdam),; stated, when .in company -wltnOGaptavfi'L'e'iMercier,"that for weeks the ■wpathipr had; been, too1 " rugged " to lower if ,whales \i&d .beeninsight. ;