SHIPPING.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1427, 10 July 1865, Page 2

SHIPPING.

LYTTELTON. AKBIVBD. July 9—William Miskin, 5.8.,'74 tons, Hepburn, from Dunedin. Passengers—Mr. Bust, and 80 for Hokitika. CLEARED. July B—Christina, cutter, for Timaru, via Akaroa. No passengers. July B—Geelong p.s., 137 tons, Turnbull, for Dunedin, via intermediate ports. _ PassengersCabin : Mrs. TVebster and threo children, Mr. W. Spencc, Mr. Judgo; 10 in the steerage. IMPORTS. In the William Miskin, Hall, Ritchie, and Co., Sents: 140 bags Bugar, L. E. Nathan; 8 cases iss, Jones; 20 cases kerosine, Leo; 40 boxes candles, D. Davis; 24 bars steel, 1 buggy spring, Order. EXPORTS. In the Christina, Master, agent: 30 pkgs boring apparatus, Provincial Government In the Geelong, Miles and Co., agents: 1 cask, 1 do glassware, Miles and Co.; 3 cases, 2 casks, 2 bales, Woledgo and Co.; 1 qr.-cask brandy, D. Davis; 2 boxes luggage, Maguire; 2 cases kerosine, Hawkins; 1 p%, Heywood and Co.; 40 bdls wire, 2 cases wine, 1 pkg, 2 boxes, Walton, Warner, and Co.; 8 gunnies ■ug&r, 1 barl rice, 4 half-chests tea, 1 bale, 2 boxes, 1 qr.-cask, 2 doz spades, 7 cases bottled porter, D. Davis; 1 bdl wire. Kcece and Co.; 1 case, 3 bdls, 24 chair bottoms, 8 pkgs, G. Tayler ; 1 bdl spades, 1 bale canvas, J. D. Macpherson; 3 cases, 2 casks, 2 bales, 20 sacks flour, 8 do sharps, A. Louisson and Co.; 1 stove, 1 box, 1 bdl, Taylor and Co.; 1 case, H.M. Customs; 4 cases, Miles and Co.; 26 bags cheese, Peacock and Co.; 7 casks, 2 cases, 10 kegs butter, H. Hawkins. STIAHBR GOING SOUTH. July 11 —Lord Ashley, for Otago. BTEAMEB GOING NORTH. July 12-—Lady Bird, for Wellington and East Coast. The Shamrock, for the Fiji Islands, via Auckland, in a few days. The ship Greyhound, Captain Wrightj for Calloa, is expected to be ready for sea in a few days. The Lord Ashley may be expected to arrive here from Sydney and Northern ports on or about the 10th inst. Vessels in Harbour. ships. Canterbury, Fentie, from London. Greyhound, Wright, from London. BARQUES. Countess of Seafield, Danvers, from London. Indus, from Newcastle, N.S.W". BRIGS AND SCHOONERS. Shamrock, Hayes, from Fiji Islands. j Stranger, from Newcastle. Royal Exchange, from Newcastle. STEAMER. William Miskin, from Dunedin. The Geelong sailed on Saturday, for Dunedin, via intermediate ports, at noon, with a general cargo, coastwise. Tim Steamer William Miskin arrived at Eort yesterday evening, at half-past five o'clock, ■om Dunedin, after a fair passage, with moderate weather. She sailed on Friday evening, but,, after reaching outside the heads, some small defect in the machinery was discovered, and Capt. Hepburn considered it desirable to return to port. She left again for this port on Saturday, at 1 o'clock, and arrived as above. She is likely to sail about noon to-day, for Hokitika. A large number of fine pigs and sheep will be shipped from Lytteiton

Tender foe the Austbaiian Mail Seevice via Suez.—ln January, the Postmaster-General issued advertisements for tenders for the conveyance of the mails between Ceylon and Sydney, the steamers to call at King George's Sound, Kangaroo Islandand Melbourne, on the passage, bothoutwards and homewards, to land the mails. An amended form has just been printed, but the alterations are not shown in italics, and are only to be discovered by a careful comparison of the two documents. In tender No. 1, the service was fixed by the calendar month, or bi-monthly, which gave twelve or twenty-four trips yearly. The second tender gives the parties tendering the option to put in for a formghtly or four-weekly service. Every fourteen days gives twenty - six voyages yearly, and every four weeks thirteen completed voyages. The penalties for delay on the voyages, instead of being absolute, may be compounded for, in the first instance, by reducing the amount of subsidy, when it is proved to the satisfaction of the Post-master-General that the delay has arisen from causes beyond the control of the owners of the packets; that is to say, the tenderer may agree to the clause making the penalties absolute from whatever cause arising, or accept a lesser svm per annum if the exceptions are allowed. All tenders must be sent in on or before the 10th of April, and the contract service is to commence in February, 1866, tgo ugh a later day may be named if the parties are unable to begin so early.—Mitchell's Maritime Register, March 29.