Shipping News.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XV, Issue 832, 13 February 1861, Page 4

Shipping News.

.-..-■■ .ARRIVED. Feb. 11, ship Blue Jacket, 1,443 tons, White, from Auckland. - SAILED. ' Feb. 9, s.s. Omeo, 605 tons, McLean, for Melbourne via Otago. Saloon Passengers—Messrs. Johnstone,:Simms, Rattray and Dalgety and Moorhouse. . IMPORTS. '• In the Blue Jacket, Miles & Co., agents ; 100 boxes candles, 20 do soap, Campbell & Co.; 7 cases, 3 casks^ Fox; 13 cases hams, 1 chest books, Smyth; 2 cases boots, 1 keg soft soap, order; 5 cases clocks, 1 barrel, Muirson. EXPORTS. In the Omeo, Dalgety & Co., agents ■,- 1 steam guage, 2, casks cheese, 2 cases, 2 do chicory, 30 sacks bran, Dalgety & Co. • 2 packages sundries, U.8.A.; 1 parcel sundries, Miles & Co. The Mermaid, Capt. Kerr, is now almost a full ship, and will sail for London with the largest and most valuable freight of wool and passengers which has ever left this port, and we may venture to say, any. port in New Zealand. Her cargo will include 2755 bales wool, valued officially at about £69,000; and her cabin accommodation, large as it is, will be fully occupied by passengers. The Evening Star will probably get away a few days later, with a cargo worth abont £55,000 and a full complement of passengers. The Blue Jacket will be the next ! vessel on the berth.

The splendid White Stair clipper Blue Jacket, commanded by Captain James White, who was last year well known and liked while-loading the Mermaid in this port, arrived from Liverpool, by way of Melbourne and Auckland, on Monday afternoon. The Blue Jacket is a vessel of such a size and character for speed and accommodation as to take the position of a show-ship in our port, and she will probably attract a crowd of visitors, and induce many of them to be passengers in her on her departure for London, for which port Messrs. Miles and Co., and those who act with them, are about to give her a freight of wool. The Blue Jacket made a ten; days'passage from Auckland, of which six dayß were occupied in reaching the East Cape.

The transport ship Qastilian, 1063 tons, Captain Harrington, with the head quarters of the 57th Regiment under, command of Major Logan, arrived in harbour on Monday, shortly after sunset, after a fifty-five days' passage from Bombay, whence she sailed on the evening of the 27th November. She has brought 411 non-commissioned officers and privates, and the following 10 officers:—Major Robert A. Logan; Brevet Major Captain Charles William St. Clair, Captain Thomas N. Woodall; Lieutenants W. A. J. Shortt, George R. Waugh, John Parkinson, Chas. M. Clarke; Ensign Henry P. Emly; Quartermaster Thomas Martindale; Dr. Wm. Mac Andrew. Fiye deaths occurred during the passage, three privates of dysentry, one from liver complaint, and, on the 28th of December, Captain H. Douglas M. Shute, of fever. In other respects the health has been good and those now arrived are hale and hearty. There has been nothing of interest in the passage of the Castilian. She came south about, sighting the Snares on the 15th instant, at 11 p.m., and afterwards experiencing light weather. Spoke the ship Bruce from Ofcago bound to Calcutta, on the 16th December, in latitude 10 ° 58' south, long 89 ° 27' east. The following ladies are passengers, by the Castilian:—Mrs. Logan and two children, Mrs. Mac Andrew, and Mrs. Harrington.— New Zealander, Jan. 23.

A draft of the 57th had arrived from England previous to the sailing of the Castilian. The remainder of the regiment, with the women and children, left behind at Poona, will shortly follow, under command of Brevet Major Capt. Jason Hassard: the name of the ship had not transpired, but the Eoyal Charlie, 480 tons, Garrick; and Victory, 579 tons, Stephens, had both been spoken of. We understand that 150 men of the 57th will be landed this morning at 8 o'clock, and march to Onehunga, where they will embark by H.M. steam sloop Cordelia, for Taranaki.— lbid.

The Blue Jacket, sister ship of the far-famed Red Jacket, now in command of Captain White, formerly of the Mermaid, arrived in harbour from Liverpool via Melbourne, yesterday afternoon. This noble ship took her departure from Liverpool on the 23rd of September, and passed Madeira on the ninth day. Had very light trade winds; crossed the Equator in longitude 25 => 21' west, on the 20th of October, and: celebrated the event by a grand concert. Spoke the Chili, from London to Otago, 32 days out, on the 18th of October, in latitude 3 ° 23' north, longitude 21 => 47 west. Passed the meridian of the Cape of Good Hope on the 18th of November, in latitude 42° 40 south, running down her easting in the 47th southerly parallel; weather light, w^th the wind IKS Vr steady at Sighted the north-eastern of the Prince Edward Island group. Encountered .a h ™y. ? af of three days' duration at NN.E, in the vicinity of Cape Otway, and descried the land in that quarter at noon of the 15th December. Arrived at Melbourne the following day and after discharging tons of cargo, and landing 350 passengers, she again took a fresh departure t>assin* Of/Or^ Phii lip ?eadS °n the 9thSant PB n g ; baffled m the Straits with light E.S.E. winds and haz^weather Captain White put the helm up and sailed round Van Diemen's Land, the wind hangins to the. southward all the way down. Fetched the Three Kings at 4 a.m. on the 12th, and from thence had to thrash all the way up the coast, for two days against a strong gale from E.S.E. The Blue Jacket brings about a hundred passengers, being something like eighty short of the number booked at Liverpool for this port. We are happy to welcome back our old friend Captain White in command of so magnii ficenta ship, and to learn that his well-earned popularity in the Mermaid has followed him to his new ship. A highly complimentary address, accom-

panicd by a valuable and substantial testimonial, in the shape of a silver tea service, was presented to him in Melbourne—his Auckland passengers contributing their full share. It is very gratifying to be enabled to give to such kindly courtesies the publicity they deserve.— lbid. ;