LIST OF SHIPPING BELONGING TO THE PORT OF NELSON.

Colonist, Issue II, 8 December 1857, Page 2

LIST OF SHIPPING BELONGING TO THE PORT OF NELSON.

. ' TIME OF HIGH WATER At the different Harbours in Cook's Straits at ih't Ftill and Change of the moon. ' ■ ,

RATES OF EXCHANGE. On London—-Buying at thirty days sight, 99; selling, 60 da3'S sight, 102 J. On Australia and Van Diemen's Land—Buying at 15 days sight, 98; selling, 3 day's sight, 102. On New Zealand—Buying, at 15 days sight, 99; sell- • ing, 3 days sight, 101. DISCOUNTS. Bills having a currency of 95 days, or under, 8 per cent, per annum. Bills having a currency of over 95 days, 10 per cent. per annum.

TO CORRESPONDENTS. $§" It is necessaiy that all correspondence intended for insertion in the Colonist he accompanied with the real name and address of the author, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. All rejected communications are immediately destroyed, unless intimation to the contrary accompany them. Several Original Communications and articles of interest are unavoidably left over until our next publication.

A Precocious Elocdtionist.-~A little American girl, Miss Lavinia Thompson, has been giving for Home weeks past a series of dramatic readings, chiefly from Shakspeare and Sheridan, in drawing-rooms at the West End of London. The child is interesting from her intelligence and from her power of grasping characters utterly beyond the reach of her experience. Her action is extremely .graceful, and her elocution pure and sonorous; promising excellence of a high typo ehould the present blossom ripen, as it ought, into perfect fruit.— Athenceum. Chinese Place op Worship. —The appeal now being made by the Chinese missionary Lo Sour Yeni to his countrymen for money to erect a house for Christian worship for their use, appears to be highly successful. .Within the last fortnight the sum of 1501. has been gathered by the exertions of the missionary. It is to be hoped that some permanent good to the Chinese of the district will arise from this effort on their behalf. Having shown that they are willing to contribute, themselves, they may reasonably expect to be aided in bo worthy a cause by Christian Europeans.— Ballaarat Star.

Name. QPasmanian Maid Spray' .. Taranaki Mary Pride of the Isles Gipsy Australian Maid.. Necromancer Ann Rapid ., Catherine ,. Atalanta.. Sarah Elizabeth Thetis Supply .. Odd Fellow Hope ., Wave .. ., Three Brothers ., Sarah .». -Wasp Sea Gull.. .. Sprite • • .. . ■ Big. steamer brig schooner (i Cl l< II i( If II II 41 II II I! cutter ii ■i it ii ii << Tons. 90 150 100 29 28 18 17 16 16 15 14 14 15 10 7 17 15 15 10 10 9 9 7 4

tt. n.y lt Barrett's Eeef .. ., .. 4 30 Port Nicholson .. .. .. 6 SO Cape Terawitte .. „. .. ' 8 15 Mana >. .. • .. .. 9 40 Kapiti .. .. .. .. 10 "20 Wanganui .. .. , k 10 20 Manawata .. .. .. 10 20 CapeEgmont .. .. ,., 10 20 New Plymouth .. .... 9 SO .t Cloudy Bay .. ., ., 6 30 Rununder Point .. .. . „ 7 15 jueen Charlotte's Sound, Soutli entrance 8 20 Ditto Jackson's Head N. entrance 8 15 Stephen's Island ,. .. ., 8 15 French Pass ., .. .. 8 15 Nelson Haven .. .. .. 9 45 Centre of Cook's Straits .. .. 9 45