SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XVII, Issue 985, 19 April 1862, Page 4

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

ARBIVED.

April 17. —s.s. Airedale, 286 tons, Kennedy, from Wellington. Passengers'—Mr and Mrs Clark and family, Mr and Mrs Wallace, Miss Chisholm, Mrs Taylor and child, Messrs. Ewart, Norman, Lewis, Davis, Mills, Malcolm, Redwood, Bridges, Craighead, (2), Weld, De Bourbel and 6 for Otago. 11 Steerage for Lyttelton and 3 for Otago. April 17.—s.s. Geelong, 108 tons, Boyd, from Otago via intermediate ports. Passengers—Messsrs. Rebell, Logan, Ray, Paterson, Alexander, and Pearson, Mrs Munday, Miss Middlewick, Mr Fergusson, Mr Restall, Mr and Mrs Parker, 5 children and 2 servants, Mr Robinson, Mr Ginders, Mrs Heyiake, Messrs Baly, Dula, Wilkin, Wigley, Lockhart. CLEAUED. April 15, schooner City of Nelson, 50 tons, Hooper, for Nelson in ballast. Passengers : Messrs. Cameron, Daniels, Alexander, Crowther, Nuckey (2) Bartell, Myers. April 16, brig Reliance, 118 tons, Clark, for Hobart Town, in ballast. Passengers : Miss J. Clifford, Miss E. Cameron. April 17.—s.s. Airedale, 286 tons, Kennedy, for Otago. Passengers—Messrs. Ward and Sage, and 9 original from northern ports.

IMPORTS,

In the Airedale. Miles and Co. agents : 1 parcel, U.B.A. ; 1 do. Gerrard ; 1 case, Milsom ; 16 casks,, Prince ; 1 case, Bonnington ; 30do apples, Johnson; 6 casks, White and Co.; 1 horse power engine, Ladbrooke ; 1 do. do. Holmes and Co.; 1 box jewellery, Archer ; 2 hhds ale. Brown and Co.; 40 boxes soap, Davis ;19 pkgs luggage, Hall; I qr-cask sherry, Taylor and Co. ; 1 box, Hornbrook ; 415 sheep, Dransfield.

In the Geelong, Miles and Co. agents : (original cargo from Lyttelton for Timaru) ; 1 case, Kenshaw ; 2 horses, M'Lean ; 1 qr-cask wine, Wilkins,

EXPORTS.

In the Airedale, Miles and Co. agents : 5 kegs butter, Miles and Co. ; 3 cases cheese, Fitzgerald ; 1 box, Bishop ; 3 pkgs, Renshaw.

The Aberdeen clipper ship Oliver Cromwell ar

rived in Port Chalmers at 8 pm. on Monday: She left Gravesend on the 23rd December, and had a fine run down Channel, which she cleared on the 27th; crossed the equator on the'26th January, passed the meridian of the Cape 22nd February, and sighted the Siiares on the 2nd instant. She experienced very heavy weather between the Cape rind this coast, carrying away jibboom, part of bulwarks and skylight. In addition to a targe general cargo, she has brought 84 pure Merino sheep, in fine condition, having lost only two the whole passage; she has also a number of fancy fowls, comprising Spanish, Dorking, golden spangled, and game birds. They" seem none the worse for the heavy weather the ship has encountered. No vessels were spoken on the passage.— Otayo Colonist, April 10. Tidings have reached us of the total loss of the brigantine Robert & Betsy, of Auckland, at Oaniaru, on Saturday night last.. She parted her chain while lying at anchor, and drove bodily on shore, where she soon went to pieces. Fortunately the crew got safely on shore. She was loaded with timber.— lbid. In the Court of Queen's Bench, on the 10th of December, an action was brought by the Directors of the Great Barrier Land, Harbor, and Mining Company, against Messrs. Willis, Gaim, and Co. The facts were as follows:—Plaintiffs are gentlemen ■who have formed a joint-stock company for the purpose of carrying out a land and mining speculation at the island of Otea, or Great Barrier Island, north of Cape Colville, New Zealand, and the defendants agreed to convey two boilers, cadi weighing from eight to ten tons, some funnels, and 5000 fire-bricks, to Port Fitzroy, in the ship Mersey, for £300. When the boilers were delivered at the East India Docks they were found to exceed the stipulated dimensions, and the deck of the vessel had to be cut away to a greater extent than was anticipated,in order to allow them to pass into the hold. The funnels also, which "were represented as'going inside the boilers, required separate stowage, and' Messrs. Willis, Gann, and (Jo. therefore increased the charge for freights from £300 to £398 9s 6d. The directors paid the £98 9s 6d under protest, and brought this action for its recovery. The case occupied the whole day. and ended in a verdict for the plaintiffs. — Saturday Review

La Gloiue a Failure.—Private advices from Paris and Toulon assert that the armour plates of the iron-plated frigate La Gloire have become loosened upon her sides from the ships working "when at sea, and that she consequently leaks to such an extent when under steam that she is in reality unseaworthy. The quality of her armour plates is also suspected to be of a very inferior character to those manufactured in this country. This last supposition, it is said, has arisen from the fact of two armour plates having been supplied to the Spanish Government by the firm which manufactured those of La Gloire as specimen plates for testing, and.which were said to be even superior to those supplied to the French Government. The Spanish Government tested the plates after the fashion adopted in this country, at 200 yards with 8-inch guns, and -the result was that the plates broke in pieces each time they were struck by a shot.— Times.