Shipping Intelligence.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume XVII, Issue 76, 22 September 1858, Page 2

Shipping Intelligence.

ENTERED INWAEDS.

September 20, cutter Supply, 20, Walker, from Collingwood, with 53 ounces of gold-dust.

— , cutter Esther, 7, Liddels, from Collingwood, with 3 casks oil, 175 lbs. whalebone, Nicholson and Ridings.

— , schooner Ann, 18, Blackmore, from CollLngwood and Waitapu, with 7,000 feet timber, 3,000 shingles, Stanton. — , Bchooner Gipsy, 20, M'Nab, from the Wairau. — , schooner Pride of the I&les, 28, Davidson, from the Wairau.

— , brigantine Active, 130, Smith, from Melbourne, with. 5 hogsheads brandy, 6 casks soda, 100 cases geneva,loo boxes candles,3s6 bag9sugav, 154 do. salt, 2 bales sacks, 40 do. coffee, 1 bale gunnies, 100 cases beer, 6 cases boots, 9 cases coffee, 2 watcr-gudgeon3, 4 rings, J. R. Hays. Passengers —Mr. and Mrs. Wright and 3 children,, Mr. and Mrs. Laycroft, Mr. and Mrs. Templeton, Mr, and Mrs. Ncsbitt, Messrs. Robertson, Cambers, M'Conkey, Disney, Nelson, M'Pherson, and Thrum.

— , brigantine William Alfred, 118, Tinley, from Wellington. Passenger — Mr. Simeon Lines.

ENTEEED OUTWARDS.

September 18, brigantine Francis, 102, Brown, for Port Cooper, with part of original cargo from Sydney.

20, cutter Esther, 7, Liddel3, for Riwaka and Collingwood.

21, brigantine William Alfred, 118, Tinley, for Sydney, with 1,200 ounces of gold dust. Passenger — ■ Mr. Simeon Lines.

The brigantine Active arrived from Melbourne on Sunday morning. She left Melbourne on the 10th, and thus made a quick passage of nine days.

The William Alfred arrived from Wellington also on Sunday morning, and was to sail again for Sydney yesterday evening. The barque Alexander from Manilla was discharging a few tons of her cargo at Melbourne when the Active left, and would come on to Nelson in a few days.

Capture of a Rich Slater.— A letter from an officer on board the gunboat Jasper, Lieutenant and Commander H. Pym, published in The Times, says :—: — "We have captured and brought in, I may safely say, the largest and richest prize ever captured in the slave trade. She is a full-rigged and fast-sailing sliip of 760 tons burden, with a full slave equipment, and provisions for their sustenance. She also had on board specie in gold to the amount of £2,260 ounces, Spanish and Mexican, or about £8,500 sterling. Her name and nation unknown. We captured her on the north side of the Matanzas, on the 22nd of March, between 9 and 10, a.m., she having sailed from Uavannah on the previous night, to pui'chase and bring over slaves for the island of Cuba. We had rather an exciting chase for about four and a-half hours. At 7, a.m., the Styx (6, paddle, Commander Vesey) hove in sight and joined in the chase, but kept astern of us till the prize was taken. She, however, stood on till we were within a mile of her, when she lowered her royals, but did not heave to until two more shots were thrown. AYe boarded and examined her. She had no papers. Slave coppers were lying on the main deck, and their furnaces in a case in the square of the main hatchway, marked " Marseilles," to which place they pretended to be going. AYe also found slave-tins and spare plank for slave deck, marked, fitted, and numbei'ed, but not in its place, 350 'leagers,' and 350 tons of water in them, an immense quantity of vice, farina, coffee, dried salt-fish, 18 puncheons of rum, and other necessaries. The Styx shares, but the Jasper will share in the proceeds of a prize taken the previous day by the Styx."

The Nubia. — The Bengal Swrkaru, says :—: — Among the feats of the Peninsular and Oriental Company's vessels, the last voyage of the Nubia outstrips all their precedents. It is simply the fastest trip on record. We are well aware that, in all these cases, it is not merely the horse but the rider also that deserves notice ; it is not the ship but its captain who gives us these results. The Nubia in her last trip, landed her passengers and mails at the port of Calcutta in twenty-nine days and eighteen hours from London, and at Madras in twenty-four days and seventeen hours. She passed Saugor Light at ten minutes past 6 o'clock on the evening of the 23 rd of June, and anchored at Kedgeree at 7, p.m before dark. The night of the 22nd and morning of the 23rd were so thick and squally, under torrents of rain, that the Nubia, although close to the pilot vessels, had to use extreme caution while crusing in their track. Had the weather been less adverse, she would have received the pilot before daylight on the 23rd, and, thanks to the tide, have arrived at Calcutta about 2, p.m. the same day. AYe are assured by passengers that every nerve was strained both by the captain and all on board, from the day the Nubia left Suez to deliver the mails on the 23rd. During the thick weather near the Sandheads tli3 former never left the deck for nearly forty hours ; and when the lead was hove he always took the line in his own hands, so anxious was he to be quite certain of the depth of water. As it is, this is the quickest mail that ever yet was landed from England in Calcutta. The entire time from Suez to our port was nineteen days and twenty hours, including all stoppages. The Nubia, nevertheless, was forty-four hours at anchor, and ten hours and a half were lost while waiting for daylight at Galle, and while proceeding at dead slow pace up the Hooghly, so as to arrive at high water slack tide at Garden Reach. And this is leaving out of the reckoning the cruise off the Saudheads. In short, the net passage ; from Suez consisted of seventeen days, fourteen hours only ; this, too, with a bottom so clogged as to necessitate docking the Nubia, a measure taken with her on last Monday. Captain Caldbeck received the thanks of Government in February, 1855, for assistance rendered to the 10th Hussars in the Red Sea, when the flotilla was crippled by stress of weather, and cavalry was at the same tune urgently needed in the Crimea. In March, last year, he again received the thanks of Government for the embarkation of H.M. 84th Regiment at Rangoon, and their conveyance to Calcutta a whole week before they were expected, at a moment when we had only one weak European regiment in the face of several thousand sepoys. He flew Lord Elgin's flag for three months in the Ava, and received both the warmest acknowledgments from the Ambassador and the thanks of the Indian Government, for the manner ia which the service was performed. The P. and O. Company have not an abler or worthier servant than this excellent officer. We understand that he proceeds to Europe by this mail on six months' leave.