CUSTOM HOUSE.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 170, 7 June 1845, Page 53

CUSTOM HOUSE.

IMPORTS. In the Kate, from Sydney. — 60 bags salt, 20 boxes soap, 1 10 bundles hoop iron, 1 bale cottons, 6 boxes pipes, 3 tierces refined sugar, 37 boxes soap, 4 cans paint oil, 3 chests tea, 10 boxes do., 4 millstones, 1 ton hoop iron, 400 bags flour, 150 bags sugar, Salmon. 10 bags salt, 40 bundles hoop iron, 11 bags sugar, 8 boxes tea, 4 do. soap, 1 package oranges, 5 hhds. brandy, 2 pipes Geneva, 1 ton hoop iron, Order. 23 bags sugar, 6 bags coffee, 10 packages tea, 1 keg arrow-root, 1 bag lamp cottons, 20 bags flour, Rhodes. In the Hydros, from Kawhia. — 2 hhds. salt pork, I cask lard, 6_casks wheat, 39 pieces bacon, 30 pigs.

The Kate, having disposed of her cargo, will sail thit evening for Wellington and Auckland. The Joseph Cripps was to leave Launceston for Nelson about the 27th of May, and may therefore be expected here daily. The brig Palmyra cleared out at Adelaide for New Zealand, with a general cargo, on the 21st of April. The American brig FaVo wns spoken in tbe Gulf by the Knte on Monday. She hud i.mtnken Tasroan's Gulf for the Straits, he-.n<i b.mi.U to Wellington and Auckland, whither she then proceeded. The Falco had on board J. B. Williams eM... U. S. Consul for this colony.

The brig Nimrod leu Hobart Town for Twofold Bay on the 26th of April, to take in cattle for New Zealand.

The Medusa, 800 tons, was advertised to leave London for New Zealand on the 28th of February, and the Bella Marina, for Nelson and Wellington, on the Ist of March.

The Comet, hence May 4, arrived at Sydney on the 17th.

The Daedalus, which sailed from the Cape on the 27 th of February, did not proceed direct to Auckland, being first bound to Singapore. The Actseon steam ship, belonging to the Royal West Indian Mail Company, struck on a sunken rock on rounding Punta Cauoa, on the 20th of October, and became a total wreck. This is the fourth ihip belonging to this company which has been lost, being a fourth of their whole number.

The Halifax Packet, Captain Smith (late of the Thomas Harrison), and the whaler Merope, were blown on shore at Swan River on the 28th of January, and both wrecked.

Merchant Seaman's Act. — Captain H. Burns, of the barque Himalaya, was indicted at the London Central Criminal Court, on the 18th of December, for having abandoned at this port, in January last year, a young man named George Robert Roe, whose father had placed him, before the vessel left England, in the defendant's charge. On the arrival of the Himalaya in Nelson, Captain Burns preferred a charge against Roe at our Police Office for disorderly conduct and refusing to perform his duty, and he received in consequence seven days' imprisonment. When liberated from prison, he was taken to the beach by one of the constables, but he positively refused to go on board the vessel. The rouusel for the defendant said that though his client was not morally guilty, he had, by not obtaining a magistrate's certificate of Roe's desertion, brought himself under the 43d section of the Merchant Seamans' Act. A large number of witnesses gave the defendant a very high character. The jury returned a verdict of guilty, but strongly recommended the defendant to the mercy of the Court. The Recorder, on passing sentence, observed that the 5 and 6 W. IV., c. 19, was a statute essentially necessary for the protection of seamen, and any disregard of its provisions was morally and legally an offence. From the character the defendant had received, and which the Court believed he fully merited, it did not appear that his conduct towards his seamen had been either sordid, oppressive, or unkind, bntitwas still apparent that he had not exerted himself to the utmost to recapture the lad Roe. Under these circumstances, instead of imprisonment, the Court sentenced the defendant to pay a fine of £20.