SHIPPING.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 3199, 15 April 1871, Page 2

SHIPPING.

LYTTELTON. ARRIVED. April 14— Taranaki, s.s., 299 tons, Wheeler, from Dunedin. P ssengers : Messrs Banks. Campbell, Humphreys, Sh*ckelton, Isaacs, Birch, Griffith, De Beer, Gilbert, Metcalfe ; 7 in steerage. BAILED. April 14—Lord Ashley, ss., 296 tons, Andrew, far Dunedin, via Akaroa. Passengers—6 original. _ April 14— Diligent, ketch, 10 tons, Brown, for Pigeon Bay. IMPORTS, In the Taranaki, Matheson’s Agency, ■gents. Under bond—6o cases whisky, I qr-cask do. Order Free—l box, Raphael; 1 pkg, Carder ■, 1 case, Ward and Co.; 1 keg arsenic, Matheson’s Agency; 1 pci, Dalgety i -and Co.; 2 casks oysters, Robinson. '' VESSELS in harbour. s s* Crusader, ship, from London, discharging. Charlotte Gladstone, ship, loading. ; Cel»n >, ship, from Wellington. Fawn, brig, loading. E. U. Cameron, schooner. Nile, schooner. Mud of Erin, schooner. Randolph, schooner. : Volunteer, schooner. William and Mary, schooner. Agnes Jes-ie, schooner. Ocean Wave, schooner. Maid of Otago, schooner. Bee, schooner. Ant lope, cutter. Annie, ketch.

The s.s. Taranaki, Capt. Wheeler, arrived in harbour yesterday at 12.56, from Dunedin. Sbe leaves for Northern ports this

THE TIDES.

m g h water at Lyttelton for the month of April:— Date. a.m. P* m *

The brig Eliza K. Bateson, from the South Sea Islands, arrived yesterday, and Captain Whyte informs'us tnat some of the islands have been visited by vessels which were kidnapping the natives. On January 17 called at Sydenham Island (Kingsmill Group.) Mr Hoggin reported that while the second officer of the Tyra he was lying at Pitt’s Island. Three Tahitian vessels visited the places—viz., one barque and two schooners. They called at Captain Randall’s head station i, >t the island, and demanded provisions. . Fortunately, Captain Varney was at the - lagoon at the time, and sent Mr Hoggin, the - second officer, and a boat to the station to 1 protect the place. The vessels then went to Clark’s Island, and Captain Randall’s agent ‘.' reports that the barque captured eighty of the natives. They were enticed on board under the pretence of bartering for goods, ; and their canoes were then cut adrift. The natives made an attempt to escape by taking to the water; but were shot at, and some of them killed. One native was shot in the chest, and fell dead across the thwart of his ' canoe. The vessels fired the premises on shore previous tq departing. The names of the vessels were not ascertained, but the barque is said to have , formerly been the ~ American whaler General Pike.— Town and Country Journal.

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