Shipping Intelligence.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume XVI, Issue 6, 18 April 1857, Page 2

Shipping Intelligence.

AEEIVED. April 15, schooner Catherine, 14, Duncan, from Massacre Bay, with 13 ozs. gold and 12 passengers. — , schooner Pride of the Isles, 28, Gilbertson, from Wellington, via Massacre Bay, with 4 quarter-casks gin, 10 quurter-casks brandy, 4 barrels soda (uuder bond), 10 oz . gold, and 10 passengers. CLEARED OUTWARDS. April 16, cutter Supply, 26, Walker, for Aorere, with 4 buliock3, 1 dray, 10 cwt. hay, 10 cwt. flour, and 10 passengers. — , schooner Catherine, I*, Duncan, for Massacre Bay, with 8 casks beer and 23 passengers. — , schooner Atalanta, 14, Freeman, for Aorere ; in ballast. — , schooner Taranaki, Cory, for Sydney, with part of original cargo from Sydney— l 2 half-barrels gunpowder, under bond ; 2 tons 8 cwt. plumbago, 6 bales wool, and 2 ozs. gold, Naw Zealand produce. The schooner Lady Grey, Captain Kennedy, was five days on her passage from the Chatham Islands to Wellington. She brought some w recked seamen and natives as passengers, and her cargo consists of potatoes, and thp remains of the wreck of the Bchooner Marmora. There had been no arrivals at the Chathams Bince the departure of the Bishop's schooner Southern Cross. Tho weather had been very fine, the crops were looking remarkably well, and promised to yield an abund int harvest. An American whaler had left three men on an island, to the eastward of Pitt's Island. Three weeks after they had been left there, one of them attempted to reach tho main Island in a canoe made of pig Bkins, but not having flince been heard of, it is feared that he has unfortu- 1 nately met with a watery grave. The other two men were found in a very exhausted state, by some Maories, while out birding, and conveyed to tho European settlement, where'every kindness and attention wore shown them. The men had been on the Tsland for nearly three months, and had to subsist upon whatever they could procure. — Wellington Independent^ April 8. The Bhip Heroes of Alma, 1,200 tons, T. Silk, com--mander, one of Messrs. F. Young & Co.'s Line of P,acfcets, sailed from Graveaend on the 25th, and Deal the 29th December, for Wellington, New Zealand. She put into Plymouth on the 6th January, with loss of anchor and chain. The ship Maori, 1,000 tons, C. G. Petherbridge, one of Messrs. H. H. Willis & Co.'s Line, sailed from Gravesend for Wellington, on *he 3rd January. The ship Dunedin, sailed for Otago direct on the 10th January. Mesbbs. Henry H. Willis and Co.'s Line.— "For Wellington and Nelson, a splendid A 1 full poop jhip, 800 tons, to eail in February. For Auckland

and New Plymouth, the Bhip Harkaway, 1,400 tons, J. Stephens, to sail about the 31st of January. Messrs. Frederick Young and Co.'s Line.— For Wellington and Canterbury, the ship Cossipore, 834 tons, A. Hellyer, commander, tq sail on the 25th February. Messrs. James Baines and Co.'s Black Ball Line.— The next vessel of the Black Ball Line is the Alma, 1,074 tons register, 1,800 tons burden. She i 9 one of the fastest ships of the present day, having gone from Liverpool to the Crimea and b»ck to Portsmouth, thence to Quebec with troops and back to England, in five months and 29 days. She was to sail on the 25th January, and may be expec ted here in about 10 days. The Montmorency had only just arrived from Melbourne, and could not be got ready in time.