Shipping Intelligence.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 38, 28 December 1861, Page 4

Shipping Intelligence.

ENTERED OUTWARDS. Dec. 27.—Pilot, 114 tons, Jamieson, for Guam, in ballast. . Dec. 27.—Cosmopolite, 145 tons, Lewis, tor Guam, in ballast. Dec. 27.—Athol, 215 tons, Brown, Newcastle, in ballast. INWARD COASTWISE. D ec . 27._Hermine, 250 tons. Berg, from Wellington with 140 head cattle. Wright, Robertson, and Co., Agents. OUTWARD COASTWISE. p ec . 27.—Wild Wave, 70 tons, Stevens, for Waikouaiti, with 2 qr-casks brandy, 7 cases slops, 20 half-chests tea, 10 chests ditto, 10 qr-boxes ditto, 72 bag's sus?;ar, 2 cases sardines, 1 hay press, 80 bundles hoop iron/1 keg rivets, 8 cases corrugated iron. r The vessels on the berth for Otago, numberingeight, are fast filling' up with passengers and cargo. The Dart and Scotia both sail to-day.— Hobart Town Mercury, 12th instant. The Army and Navy Gazette says:—" With reference to recent statements and rumours as to the further increase of the military force now in New Zealand, we believe we may state that no such augmentation is likely to be made." +. . To the Editor of The Otago Daily Times. Dimedin, 27th Dec, 1861. Sir,—When at the New River a few days ago, Captain Steuart of the s.s. "Oscar" asked me to contradict, on my return to Dunedin, a report he had just seen mentioned in your paper of 20th December, to the effect that he had represented to the passengers from Melbourne by his steamer, that their best route to the digging's lay through Invercargill. Captain Steuart expressed himself greatly surprised and annoyed at finding- such a report current. He denies indignantly and emphatically having ever given any grounds for it, and considers of course, to be ridiculous!, an opinion that the route in question is a better one than that via Port Chalmers. I am, &c, J. Rattray.