Shipping Intelligence.

Wellington Independent, Volume XV, Issue 1479, 14 December 1860, Page 2

Shipping Intelligence.

I ARRIVED Dec. 12, schooner Shepherdess, 40 tons, Jenkins, from Stoneyhurst. I Dec. 13, s. s. Lord Ashley, 290 torn, A. Ken- ! nedy, from Nelson. Passongers— saloon, Messrs. Noble, S. A. Wood, Coster, Brown, Millsom, Cruikshanks, Blick, Carrathers, R. G. Coleman, Smallfield, W. G. Gordon, Meyer, Mr. and Mrs. Hewitt, Mr. and Mrs. Sewell, Mrs. Back, Mr. and Mrs. Fox, Matin te Whiawhi and sister ; second eabin — Mrs. Ryan, Messrs. Rollo, Leatham, Steer, Daly, W. and H. Dixon, J. Straw, 1 prisoner. Same day, brigantino Sea Serpent, 60 tons, J. Enwright, from Napier. Same day, schooner Augusta, 45 tons, Hood, from Queen Charlotte's Sound. SAILED. Dec. 10, schooner Sisters, 18 tons, Gardiner, for Rangitikei. Dec. 11, s.s. Wonga Wonga, 103 tons, F. Ren acr, for Wanganui. Passenger— W. Hickson, Esq. Dec. 11, brigantine Esther, 54 tons, Campbell, for Nelson. Dec. 12, cutter Alert, 12 tons, W. Short, for Wairau. Dec. 14, brig Margaret Thomson, 165 tons, for Auckland. Passengers — Mrs. Kensett, Mrs. Mof.fat and child, Mr.- Clark. IMPORTS. :ln the Lord Ashley, I. C. R. M. Company, Agents, — 2 cases, Turnbull & Co. ; 1 pkg. Crawford ; 100 qr. barrels gunpowder, Major Trafford; 1 case photographs, W. Lyon-; 92 sheep, Rich ; 2 •cases, Powell; 1 horse, Gordon; 1 box, Luxford: 28 bdls. skins, 2 kegs, W. L. Hirst; 11 pkgs., 1 .case, Milsom ; 1 pel. Buller ; 3 bags potato«s, Hall; l<box, Frazer; 30 kegs butter,' 10 bagß coffee, 13 mats sugar, 3 pkgs. scythes, Order ; 6 cases beer, 2 do. wine, A. Kennedy. In the Augusta, Master, Agent, — 2 casks black oil. In the Margaret Thomson, Duncan aud Vennell, Agents,— s cases bottled beer, 23 stoves, 21 pkgs. fittings, 2 cases fruits, Order; 5 casks chicory, Krull & Co. , 10 cases, 10 firkins herrings, Stuait, ' Kinross &tGo.-; 1 pkg., "500 doors, 44 kegs nails, Duncan & Vennell. •In the Sea Serpent, Bethune & Hunter, Agents, — 109 bales wool, Levin & Co. EXPORTS. In the Wonga Wonga, Duncan & Vennell, Agents, — 20 cases brandy, 5 qr. casks whisky, 2 do. wine, 1 qr. cask brandy, 5 cases sherry wine, 5 cases .geneva, 6 cases champagne, I chest tea, 10 boxes raisins, >case prints, 2 bdls. spades, 5 boxes candles, 3 hhda ale, 2 pkgs. drapery, 2 boxes glass, 1 icase bittera, 1 case, 1 pkg. mattrasses, W. Hick.son & Co. 5 1 case earthenware, W. Stevenson ; 1 case, Blewitt; 1 pel. drapery, Taylor Watt & Co. ; 1 carpet bag, 1 pel. W. S. Ackland; 1 pkg. drapery, W. Kells ; 1 case drapeiy, Powell & Co. ; 2 cases, 1 pkg., John Martin ; 2 cases, Johnston & . Co. ; 6 doors, 1 case drapery, 1 bag cotton wick, Lcask soda, Duncan and Vennell ; 1 bale drapery, J. Burne; 1 box, 1 pel., Pickett & Co. In the Alert, J. Joseph & Co., Agents, — 20cas«s geneva, 12 tins nails, J. Joseph & Co. ; 4 bags sugar, 2 do. rice, half ton flour, George Crawford ; •5 cwt. salt, Bethune & Hunter: 1 ton coals, Kebbell. The *. s. Lord Ashley, Captain Kennedy from Nelson, arrived in this harbour yesterday morning. She sailed from Wellington on Sunday, the 9th instant, arrived at Nelson on Monday morning, and sailed from thence for this port on Wednesday evening last. Messsrs. Fox and Sewell are passengers by her. The Airedale, Captain Johns, with the European and Colonial mails, left Nelson for Sydney, at C p.m. of the llth inst She brings no news of importance from-Taranaki. The brig Fanny A. Garriquos, from Wellington, with cattle, arrived at Manakau on the 25th November. H.M. steam ship Niger, 13 guns, Captain Peter Craeroft, arrived in the Manakau from Taranaki on Monday at 3 p.m. She has brought up several invalid soldiers who, together with mails and passengers, were landed at low water, at the- Government wharf, onehunga. This vessel, whose Captain, Officers, and Ship's Company have rendered such true arrcl loyal service to New Zealand, takes her departure for Wellington on Saturday morning ; whether to be stationed there or no we know not; but should she remain in the South, we cannot but envy our Wellington friends ; for no more popular ship ever en tared, the New Zealand waters. She takes down a hundred of tlie Iris' blue jackets, for the purpose of assisting in navigating H.M. ship Peloru* from Wellington to Auckland. Commodore Loring saila this morning at daylight for Sydney and England on board the mail steamer Lord Worsloy; and when the Pelorus arrives, Commodore Seymour will hoist his long withheld pendant. — ftew Aealander, Dec. 1. The clipper brigantine Tawera, which sailed from' Gravesend for Auckland on the ,sth September, brings, aB we hear, a goodly shipment of warlike stores including 286 quarter barrels and cases cartridges and percussion caps, 7 revolvers, 74 boxes cartridges, 44 cases rifles and accoutrements, the latter valued at £1920.— Ibid. Bacebs or the Deep. — For the admirers of nautical contest?, a very interesting and exciting ra -c took place from the Manakau, on Friday the 9th instant, between H. M. ship Niger, Captain Peter Craeroft, and H. M. colonial sloop Vic'oria, Capt.iin Norman, the later a notedly fast vessel.

Both were ui'der orders for Taranaki the previous day ; the Nigel's being only received as the other vessel was on the point of sailing, it became iin- i possible for her to get clear that night, and as it proved it was quite equally useless for the Victoria to try it, as she was compelled to anchor inside the* Heads. Friday morning tlie Niger was a-weigh by peep of day, and passed the Heads ere the Victoria deemed it safe to try, a dense fog then obscuring the marks. She was, however, promptly ia her competitor's wake, and both crossed the bar at 8 a.m. the Niger first, with a distance of about two inilos between them. At once the tussell began, by pressing every inch of steam and sail— the Victoria's jußtly proud of their pretty ship believed they could easily beat their more antique rival, while the Niger's equally confident in their ship's performance, were resolved not to be beaten, and thus animated, and as it proved very nearly matched, tbe struggle was maintained with increasing interest the whole day; from 8 a.m. till 4 p.m., 8 hours, nearly 90 miles was aacomplished without any parceptible advantage on either side. The Niger now relaxed a little ai.d tho Victoria got alongside and by an effort so far ahead that the Niger passe 1 close under her stern, so close one might easily have stepped from one vessel on board the other; in sporting parlance, they were now neck and neck ; for an instant the interest was intense ; it was the great struggle : every mail and boy participated in it, the very ships themselves belching And puffing forth volumes of smoke and flame like two spirited coursers, seemed for the moment animated by the contest ; the jockeys stimulating them to increased speed by their most dexterous contrivances; the wind falling it was left for steam alone to decide the struggle. Tae greater power of the Niger now manifested itself: gradually and steadily she passed her rival .at an increased Bpeed which she maintained to her anchorage beating her antagonist in three hours about two miles and a-hulf, or about half a mile in the whole distance, very little to boast of in 130 miles: both vessels averaging 13£ knots the . whole day, a greater speed than is usually attained by heavily armed vessels. By a strange coincidence these two ships were built by Father and Son— the Niger by tho late Oliver Lang, master builder at A oolwich ; the Victoria by his son the present master builder at Chatham. New Zealander, Nov. 17.