Maritime Record.

New Zealander, Volume XV, Issue 1421, 30 November 1859, Page 2

Maritime Record.

H.M. Ship, Niger, 13 guns. Captain Cracroft, arrived hi ft Manukau, and brought up, about six miles below Onriiaan yesterday morning at half past 11 o’clock. She had swill passage of ten day* from this port whence she tailed usfc! canvas, oa the 19th instant. \J’e have been kindly fc T oJZ| with the following particulars The weather wti mj Ml ” 11 was all serene at far as the Bay; and. then, we had a from the North-west which soon split all our old sail* )0 jT born, and we were four days doing worse than nothing. Tk* when we got round the North Cape, there was ■ foul *i S 4 J store for us ; however, here we are at last; and a grand pitta this is. The «• Bat” looks ugly ; but as far as we could kfc. at present, (we steamed in) that was all. We came in at (b« quarter flood and had nothing lets than four and three qtnrtm fathoms on it.” We congratulate our fellow settlers of the Manukau on this arrival. It is the first of her Majesty's Mt. ing ships that has ever ruffled their waters, but, from the facility of her ingress, we have no doubt it will by no m». nl last. The Niger takes her departure for the Sooth, ia ft* course of this day.

A sail was signalled on Saturday afternoon which providio be the whaling brig Jane of Hobart Town, 10 months out with nine tuns oil: she brought up off Hobson's Bay in the coarse of Sunday morning, and hat remained at anchor there eiif since.

T«* Falkland Islands.— The British gsvetißat having established a lighthouse at Cape Pembroke, to* Falkland Island, with a view to enable shipping, la tie neighbourhood of Cape Horn, to avail them ofthemagtifcau harbour of Stanly for procuring water, supplies and undergoinr repairs, the Falkland Islands company (which iscoadactiag | large grazing speculation in that colony) hat determined to second the efforts of the government and, in order to ntsan chat vessels putting into Stanley are supplied with all thsir requirements upon the most reasonable terms, has directed its agent there to afford shipping the full benefit of the Comnagy's stores and working establishment, at lower rates than arc charged at any of the ports in South America. To make this very important harbour more generally known, and thereby it prevent as much as possible a recurrence of the privationsthst have been suffered in this latitude for want of a port ofrefuge, the Falkland Island Company has printed for circulatioa Charts of Stanley, showing the entrance and soundings to the harbour, with the admiralty directions for approaching It. m Stanley, is a free port. Good water it supplied by thegoveta* * merit at 2s fid per ton. Fresh poultry, eggs, and vegetables are abundant, and procurable by application to the Falkland Islands Company’s Agent, who is instructed to meet any demands for salt provisions or ships stores, as well aa to attend generally to the requirements of shipping for repairs « otherwise. —Melbourne Herald Nov. 3.