DEPARTURES FROM ENGLAND FOR NEW

Otago Daily Times, Issue 139, 26 April 1862, Page 4

DEPARTURES FROM ENGLAND FOR NEW

ZEALAND. January—Blanche, from London Messina, from London „ Lady fojidia, from Civile „ Cornelia, from Cardiff ~ ■Wliilehavoii Lass/from London Kensington, from London February 2—Zambia, tbv Otago, from the Clyde J 6-Zi-alaudia, for Oauterbury, trom Downs „ 6—Kensington, for Canterbury, from B—J aims Booth, for Otago, fom Downs " 16—Biuiiiiol!, for Auckland, from Downs. " 17—Black Swan, for Utago. from" Plymouth __^_________ ENGLISH SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. The directors oi' the Great Ship Company have decided on the appointment of Captain .Walter Paton, of Liverpool, as the commander of the Groat Eastern. Captain Paton, who is'weil known iv Liverpool, is hi"W spoken of as an able and experienced seaman null as thoroughly a gentleman. It is understood that his salary will be £1,000 per annum, with contingent advantages. The Great Eastern-will leave. MiliVed Haven for New York in April next.— uoiius Rear-Admiral Kuper hi?' been appointed Coin-niimder-iu-Chiefon the East India and China station. The ship Zealandia, 103-2 tens register, Captain Foster sailed from Gravcsend on the 4th ot lebruaiy, for Canterbury, with emigrants and a full complement of passengers. Among the emigrants, to whom assisted passages had been pranked by the agent of the I Provincial Government of Canterbury, were 33 married couples and their families, numbering together bo statute adults, 52 single men, and 35 single women. Dr. Urquliart, ■surgeon-superintendent. The Robert Small, A 1, 70-1 tons register, was despatched by Wills, Garni, and Co., on February 7th, for Auckland, with about 80 passengers, and one of the largest cargoes ever sent to the colony. BURNING OF AN AUSTRALIAN SHIP. ', Advices have just been received from Ascension Island, with intelligence of a marvellous'escape of the passengers and crew of the Ship Orient, 1,238 tons, Captain Lawrence, from Adelaide to London, which put into Hie Island on the sth January, having been on fire three days, and it had not been got under up to the morning of the 6th. The Orient had a very valuable enrgo on boord, and about sixty passengers. Captain Lawrence, in a letter to the owners, states that the fire was oliserved On ths morning of tnov2na Jan., and after making an unsuccessful attempt to o-et at the fire, they battened down the hatches, and every place was made secure Scuttles were tiien cut in the deck, and water poured down iir torrents, but it had no effect, and the fire extended rcpidly. All that day, the following night, and next day, they continued at the pumps, the passengers rendering great help. The boats were got out the second day, when by accident, the cutter and lifeboat got athwart each other, and were smashed to pieces, leaving only the long-boat to take upwards of IUU people, but which could not hold one-half the number, Another night passed, and the five still rasing, the suspense and anxiety among all on board were dreadful, toy many parts of the deck were burned through, and the whole "cavffo appeared to be a live fire. •■ At daybreak on the third day, a sail was seen from aloft on the port beam, and all speed was made to bear down upon it. They succeeded in coming up to the vessel. She proved to be the Dutch barque Van der Heim. All the passengers were without loss of time put on board of her, and the captain agreed to remain by the Orient, which ho did. By dint of great exertion-tlic Orient was got into Ascension on that flay, the sth. • She was still on fire, and according to the last accounts was still burning. —Herald-