SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

New Zealander, Volume 8, Issue 640, 2 June 1852, Page 2

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

ARIUVALS. May 29 — Ann, 22 tons, Goodman, from Waiheki, with '20 tons firewood. May 31 — Endeavour, 15 tons, E. Christian, from Waiheki, with C 27 tons firewood. May 31 — Iliomama, schooner, 68 tons, E. Leßoy, frrm« Hawke's Hay, with 1600 bushels wheat, 1 ton pork Salmon & Co., agents. May 31 — Cicely, CO ton<=, J Liddell, from New Plymouth, with 4 casks butter. — C. Davis, agent. May 31— Waterwitch, 10 tons, Jones, from Wangaroa, with 120 bushels corn. May 81 — Eliza, 42 tons, \V. EJH', from Hawkes, Bay, with 800 bushels wheat. — W. S. Grahame, agent. May 31 — H.M. Brigantine Braroblp, Lieut. Ward, from Wellington. June I—Cannibal,1 — Cannibal, schooner, 14 tons, Rarity, from the Bay of Plenty, with 8 tons potatoes, 1 ton flax.

DCPARrUHES. Raven, brig, 170 tons, Bowden, fsr Sidney. Fassensengers — Mr. Roberton, Miss .Brown, Mr. & Mis. H. Keesing and three children, Rlr. and Mrs. Bell, and 3 children, Dr. Kembell, Mrs>. Oaborne, and 2 children, Mr. G. T-ibor, Mr. T. Keven, Mr. and Mrs. Clarke, and 2 children, AJr. Wright, 2 sons and 1 daughter, Mr, and Mrs. Mackenzie and chid, Mr. and Mrs. Robertson, Mr. and Mrs. Lilly, and 3 children, Mrs. 11. Stone, Mr. Adamson and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Harper, Mrs. Fairing ton, Mrs. Ilagerty, Mrs. Crowtbsr, and 2 children, Messrs. J. Chynoweth, W. Fraser, T. Russell, 11. Thompson, J. R. Macgregor, VV. Brennan, D. Pierce, P. Frednckson, J. I)ixon, Wm. Henry, D. Lorigan, J. Tdyman, J. Losee, and — Eas>ton. — W. S. Grahame, agent. May 29 — Naumai, 14 tons, Troud, for Ilokianga, with 1 bale slops, 50 lb«. tobacco. May 29 — Ann, "It tons. Goodman, for Waiheki. May 29 — Napi, 17 tons, J. Tdutari,.for Russell, with 5 bags sugar, 2 tea, 3 cases syrup, 5 "bags rice, 2 cases slops, 5 bags sugar, 7 packages groceries, 1 bdle blankets, 1 bale slops, and sundries. Passengers — 3 soldiers, 58th Regiment, and 5 natives. P. A Phillips, agent. May 29 — Children, 30 tons, Jones, for Russell, .with 2 cases slops, 2 chests drawers, 2 coils rope, \ ton bay, 1 case medicine, 1 bale leather, and sundries. Passenger— Mr. J. Williams.— T. Lewis, agent.

CLEARED OUT. May 31— Nina, brig, 220 tons. R. Phillips, for London. Passenger — W. Gisborne, Esq.— J. Salmon & Co., agents. June 1 —Daniel Webster, barque, 296 tons, Jones, for Sidney. Passengers — Mrs. and Miss Jones, Mr. and Miss Agsirs, Mr. and Mrs Smith, Rnd daughter, Messis. Wymes, and Macready. — Salmon & Co., agents.

EXPORTS — FOREIGN. Per Daniel Webster for Sydney :—63,000: — 63,000 feet spar*, 37,000 feet baulk timber, 10,000 feet plank do., 2 bags hweet potatoes, 49 bales fl<ix, 5 do. whalebone, 4 do. blankets, 11 cases champagne, 51 cases onions, 10 tons potatoes, 1) 2 tons hay, 5 bales wool, 1 do. sheep skins.

H. M. S. Bramble lailod from Wellington on Thursday morning last, and arrived here on Monday morning — being but four days and tea hours from port to port. The Bramble left Ilobart Town on the 29th April, and arrived at Wellington, after a very rough passage, on <he 15th May. H. M. S. Calliope had arrived at .Hobftrt Town from Port Arthur, and was to sail thence ' for Poit PhrHip. The brigantine Marmora, from. Sydney, arrived at Wellington on the 15th ultimo, and the schooner Black Dog, from Akaroa, on the 17th. The brig Exchange, out fourteen days from Hobart Town, bound to San Francisco, with potatoes, onions, apples, &c, put in at Wellington on the 21st ultimo, to repair damages received in a gale of wind off the South Cape of New Zealand. The ship Stag, from London, with 150 passengers, arrived at Lyttelton on Monday the 17th ult., after a passage of 133 days. The Stag lias brought out an iron Lighthouse to be erected at Port Nicholson. The following notice concerning it is from the New Zealand Journal of Dec. 27 — " We lately had the pleasure of viewing, at Black wall, a cast-iron lighthouse intended to be forwarded to Wellington in the 9hip Stag, to be erected under the direction of Mr. William Bowler, who proceeds in that vessel. This Lighthouse intended for Pencarrow Head, or some other suitable spot near the Heads of Port Nicholson, has been cast at the expense of some English friends of the late Francis Alexander Molesworth, Esquire, and will form a fitting and lasting memorial of one whose energetic example will long be remembered by the early colonisers of Wellington." The Cicely, which arrived at Manakau on Sunday, reports having seen a barque enteiing New Plymouth roadstead as she waa leaving. The Steamer Governor Wynyard, which has been solely in the Tamaki, Ilowick, and Waihekt trade since she was launched, is now laid on for the Bay of Islands to touch at Wangerei. A quick and regular communication, which can only be kept up at all times by steam, between the Ports of Auckland and Russell, would become of the greatest importance to the shipping and commercial interests of both places. We trust that this first attempt at steam traffic on our coasts may prove successful, and remunerative to the enterprising owners of the Governor Wynyard. The Nina, for London, and the Danial Webster for Sydney, are only waiting for a change of wind to proceed to sea.

The Preserved Meat of the Navy. — A board of examination, consisting of Mr John Davies, R.N., mas-ter-attendant of the Royal Clarence Victualling establishment, Gosport, Mr. Joseph Pinhorn, R. NMN M storekeeper ; and Br Alex. Rl'Kechnie, surgeon and medical storekeeper of the Royal Navy Hospital, Ilaslar, was employed from Tuesday last till Friday in examining the cases of preserved meats supplied by contract to the Navy, the Admiralty having- cause to suspect their purity. The examination has disclosed some horrible iacti. The canisters containing the meat are on the average, 101b. canisters. On Tuesday 643 of them were opened, out of which number no fewer then 573 were condemned, their contents 'being masses of putrefaction. On Wednesday 779 canisters were opened, out of which number,734 -were condemned. On Thursday, 791 canisters were opened, out of which number 744 were condemned. On Friday 494 canisters were opened, out of which 459 were condemned. Thus, out of 2707- canisters of meat opened, only 197 have proved fit for human food ; those condemned for the most part containing such substances as pieces of heart, roots of tongue, pieces of palates, coagulated blood, pieces of liver, ligaments of the throat, pieces of intestines, in short, garbage and putridity in a horrible state. The examining board and party were compelled to use piofusely Sir W. Burnetts disinfecting fluid to keep off, or in the hope of keeping off, pestilence. On Friday, however, they deemed it prudent to desist from farther exposure for a time, to guard against danger, and will consequently not proceed with the examination until next week, the greater part of which v\ ill be taken up with the filthy mvestigation, as there were upwards of 6000 canisters to examine at the commencement. This stuff was supplied to the Admiralty last November twelvemonth, warranted equal to sample, and to keep ■ound and consumable for five years. We ara informed it came from Galatz. The few canisters containing meat fit for human beings to eat have been distiibuted, under the direction of Captain Superintendent Parry, to the deserving pooi of the neighbourhood, and those containing the putnd stock have been conveyed to Spithead in lighters, and thrown overboard. The consequences of such frauds as this cannot be too seriously estimated. Suppose, for instance, Franklin and his party to have been biipplied with such food as that condemned, and relying upon it as their mainstay in time of need, the very means furnished for saving their lives mny have bred a pestilence or famine nmong them, nnd been their destruction. — Globe. — [Our readers will not have forgotten the statement of the cluiwoyantes — given in the Ailve) tiser a week or two ago — that the mi&sing Expedition had found a s>tore of provisions, after ealing of which a great many of the men had died. — Ed. Edinbuigh Advttlher, Jnn. 6."]