Shipping Intelligence.

New Zealander, Volume 3, Issue 142, 9 October 1847, Page 2

Shipping Intelligence.

ARRIVALS— FOREIGN. Oct. 8. Minerva, barque, 691 tons, Captain M'B rath, from Gravesend, Ist July. Passengers, Major General Pitt, K. H , Lady, five daughters, and sun, Cauta u Greenwood, Brigade Major, lady and son, Captain Smith, 55th regt, and lady, and 80 rank and file, Royal New Zealaud Fencibles, 69 women, and 147 children. Oct. 8. Lexington, American whaling barque, Sanders, master, from Rhode Island, 26 months out, 700 barrels sperm.

DEPARTURES— FOREIGN. Oct. 6 Terror, schoouer, 95 tour, Dunning, master, for the Island of Aiuatam, and China, in ballast. Master, ajjenr. Oct. 8. RamilUes, ship, 740 tons, M'Lean, master, for Hon£ Kong, with Kauri Gum. Passengers, Capt. Clayton, and Mr. Hotlgkinsou. Brown ami Campbell, agents.

ARRIVALS— COAS I WISE. Oct. 5 Thomas, cutter, 15 tons, Sullivan, master, from Mahuranghi, 111 ballast.

DEPARTURES— -COASTWISE. Octt. 5. Thomas, cutter, 15 tons, Sullivan, master, fur Mahuranghi, in ballast. Oct. 7. Oranoa, schooner, 20 tons, Carruih, roaster, for Wangarei, in ballast. Oct. 7. Hope, schooner, Wilkinson, master, for Ka wan, witli sundries. Oct. 7. Neptune, schooner, 27 tons. Macfarlane, master, for the East Cape, with sundries

The Minerva has made a very favourable passage, being but 94 days fr< m the Land's End. Her mat consists only of a few letters. During the voyage one woman and six children died, aud six childret; were born. The Sir Robert Sale was to. sail from Cork, wilt a further draft of Fencibles for this port on the Ist July. The Ralph Bernal is advertised in the Times ol the 28th June, as under engagement to the New Zealand Company, to sail punctually on the Isth July, The Lexington spoke the Proteus of Sydney, on the 9th September, off Byrou'b Island, 50 barrels sperm, out S\ months. The schooner Deborah, leaves for Sydney to-mor row, calling m at the Bay of Islands to laud passengers. The American ship, Sappho, of Salem, 'Rogers, (formerly supercargo of the Inn t lie at this port), arrived at Hubart Town on 31bt July, where shs disposed of all her cargo, and sailed again on 20th August, for China direct. Part of her Tobacco was transhipped into the Tinibo for New Zealand.

The Teazer schooner, arrived at Port Philip, Sept. 5, from New Zealand. The Daniel Watson, brig, 163 tons, which arrived at Sydney, 14th ult., from Houg Kong, with teas, is laid on for Auckland— also, the Pompey schooner, 45 tons, Ford master-»and the Avon barque, for Port Nicholson. Previous to the Daniel Watson leaving China, a riot broke out at Canton, which had to be quelled by seamen and marines with a moderate, use of the cutlass and bayonet. Trade was dull. Three shroofs, or native bankers, had failed for a million of dollars, which would probably cause the failure of abuve 80 traders. The Driver, on her passage home, touched at Rio Janeiro on the 21st March, where she took in coals, and sailed again on the 26th March. She steamed only 25 days on the voyage, and arrived at Portsmouth'on 1 the 14th May. The Johnstone arrived at Falmouth 29th May, and landed her mail on the ninety-fourth day from leaving Sydney. The Missionary barque John Williams, arrived in England 15th May, 90 days from Tahiti. A fine new schooner called the Maid of Cashmere, from Launceston 11th ult., laden wi)h flour &c, on her .passage to Sydney, struck upon a reef a little to the southward of Port Hacking, and became a wreck. All hands were saved. The Lord Auckland, which conveyed stores, &c, to Colonel Barney's abandoned settlement at Port Curtis, Northern Australia, -and got ashore there, was 30 days in getting back to Sydney, with but two days allowance of water. : H. F. M corvette Brilliant, 24 guns, anived al Sydney 12th ult., from New Caledonia, 22d August, with four Catholic Missionaries and two lay brothers, who had been forced by (he natives to abandon their mission,' confirms the statement already given of the loss of the British Sovereign and murder of most of her crew. Bisliop Columb had found some difficulty in escaping with life, by the Anomjme, to the Solomon Islands. The brig Poitenia shipped 140 natives for Sydney, for Boyd and Co. While at Rotumah, some dispute occurred with the crew of the Velocity when the 2nd mate of the Portenia wa« shot dead. Rear-Admiral W. H. Sherieff, late Captain Super intendent of Chatham Dock-yard, it expect d to succeed Sir Geo. Seymour, K. B. K. G. H., in the com? maud of the fleet on the Pacific station. The wha'ing barque Cheviot, of Hobart Town, .Mansfield, arrived in Pvrt Nicholson 4'h ult., from the whaling grounds ; hud been out five months, and obtained about five hundred dud forty barrels of black oil. The, .schooner Comet, Captain 'Cork, bound to ; Banks' Peninsula, from Sydney, ran into Port Nicholson the same day for shelter from the southerly gale. She took on board at Sydney, 6'oo sheep, aud out of that number only loit sixteen. The cutter Governor Gawler, 14 tons, in running through Spencer's Gulf, when near Recovery Island, and 34 miles from the entrance to Boston Bay, on the night of the 14th ult., struck on a sunken rock, and immediately became a total wreck. The master and crew were picked up by the Velrel, which returned to the scene of the wreck and saved cargo, anchors, &c. The ship Cressy, 720 tons, reached Adelaide the 19th ult. with 272 emigrants onboard. The Abouhir, 816 tons, John Smidt, (from Bremen) 1000 tons, Mariner, 683 tons, and Lady Macnaughten, 538 tons, were announced to sail in May and June, from England for Adelaide, all with emigrants. The 'schooner Vixen, for whose safety serious fears were entertained, reached Sydney on the 7th instant, having been driven off the coast by the westerly gales, from the 17th July to the 7th ult., when the reached the mouth of the Bellinger River, kut was tmable to make it, or assist the ketch Brofliers, then in a distressed state,' owing to the heavy weather. She finally got to the Richmond River, and returned from thence with a full loading of cedar. Had the Vixen not been more amply supplied with water and provisions, than is jt usual with coasters, her crew would, in all probability, have perished. The Oiraffe, brig, 2CO tons, Robinson, arrived at Sydney Bth ult., from Manilla 17th April, with a full cavjo of sugar, encountered on the 23rd May, last, in lat. 27£° N. long. 127° E., a heavy typhoon, which threw her nearly on ber beam ends. She lost her

wai»t bulwarks and water casks— but fortunately escaped without further material injury. The whaling parties to the southward are looking up— Woods and Price having captured forty-six tuns of oil each, aud Ames forty tuns. At the Kai Kors, Mr. Fitzherbert's party had taken thirty tuns of oil, and Mr. Fyfes party thirty-five tuns black, and seven tuns sperm. The " Gipsey" arrived from the East Coast yeiterday morning. By her we learn that the natives, though peaceable, were rather unsettled, being employ c.l fortify ing their pahs. It was rumoured that they expected a hostile visit, from the Taupo mob. — Wellington Independent.