Shipping News.

Lyttelton Times, Volume X, Issue 598, 28 July 1858, Page 5

Shipping News.

ARRIVEP. July 25, brig Dart, 153 tons, Jenkins, from Sydney. Passengers, Mr. and Mrs. Wilkin, 2 children, and servant; W. Walker, Miss Skillieorn, Miss Alison, and Mr. Wilkin. July 26, brig Firefly, 181 tons, Kirby, from Hobart Town, via Nelson. Passengers: Mr. Kemp, J. and R Home. F. Wilson, F. Lyons," W. H. Ross, F. Warne. July 26, schooner Uira, 26 tons, Toomey, from Wellington. Passengers: J. Burnes, C. llaston. July 26, schooner Randolph, 22 tons, Phillips, from Queen Charlotte's Sound. July 27, schooner Henry, 42 tons, Wallace, from Auckland. IMPORTS. : In the Dart, Cookson, Bowler & Co. agents: 480 mats sugar, 332 bags do., 2 chests tea, 10 half-chests do., 5 hhds. rum, 2 qr.-casks port wine, 2 do. do. sherry, and a general cargo of miscellaneous merchandise, consigned to Messrs. R. Waitt & Co., Dransfield, Gould & Miles, R. Latter, J. G. Fyfe, J. R. Fisher & Co., and Le Cren. .In the Uira, Cookson, Bowler & Co. agents: cargo of general merchandise, order. - In the Randolph, Master, agent: 12,894 feet timber. " * In the Henry, Miles, Kington & Co. agents: 26,686 feet timber, 6000 shingles, 12 tons firewood, order. The clipper brig- Dart has made a beautiful run of nine days from Sydney. The neat little Uira, is getting up her name prodigiously for quick despatch. As an instance we may mention that her last trips from Kaiapoi to Wellington, and thence to Lyttelton, including dischai-ging and reloading at Wellington, occupied only six days ! WRECK OP THE MARX CLARKE. We ('Wellington Independent,' July 21) regret to report that intelligence reached town early on Sunday morning that the Mary Clarke, a large brig of 170 tons, Wood, master, was ashore on our coast. She had shipped the greater part of her cargo, consisting of produce, at Canterbury, and was on her way to Sydney with several passengers, including females, having to call here to complete her loading with potatoes. She passed the roadstead in a strong wind from

the land on ths previous morning, and whilst tacking in shore during the night ran on a reef close to the Waitara, witli the wind in the same quarter. Every aid was rendered by the harbour department in boats, and crowds flocked to the scene to give assistance if needed; Most of the cargo was landed more or less damaged, but all idea of getting the vessel off the reef into the river was abandoned and yesterday the wreck was disposed of. The brig was surveyed and condemned on Monday, but, has since been dismantled, and has broken up during the late westerly gale. The,cause of the wreck appears to be owing to her having over-run her distance. She had only been out 48 hours from Pigeon Bay. The captain is exculpated from all blame, but appears to have committed an error of judgment by approaching too near the coast in thick and rainy weather. The wreck had been sold at auction. The hull was knocked down at £2 1, the tackle and apparel at about £125, hides at 4s. 3d., and sheepskins at 2d. each.— Abridged from the Taranahi Herald, of 18 th July. The three-masted schooner Lion has put into Nelson on her voyage from Sydney to Otago. She has on board a cargo of useful horses, some of which would be sold at Nelson.

European Mails.—A time table of the arrival and departure of the European mails by the Royal Mail Company's ships, for the current year, has been published, by-which it appears that the mails will leave Southampton on the 11th, and London (for despatch via Marseilles) on the 16th of every month; reaching Suez on the 12th of the month, and Melbourne on the 6th of the month but one. following, and Sydney in three days afterwards. Thus the mail which leaves Southampton on the 12th May will reach Suez on the 27th May, Melbourne on the 6th July, and Sydney the 9th July. The mails for England leave Sydney on the 11th, and Melbourne on the 15th of every month, arriving at Southampton-ea-the. 6th of the'second month following; that is, the mail which leaves Sydney on the 11th June, should reach Southampton on the 6th August; and so on.— -Nelson Examiner.

Regarding the course of the large steamer expected from England, we hear it is settled to be from Sydney to Nelson, then New Plymouth, then Manakau, then New Plymouth, then Nelson, and back to Sydney; another steamer meeting her at Nelson, taking the mails south as far as Otago, returning to Nelson in time to meet the large steamer to Sydney from'that /port. Mr. Seweli is expected to return to New Zealand in the large steamer.— Taranaki News, July 1.