EXPECTED ARRIVALS.

Wellington Independent, Volume XVIII, Issue 1988, 26 November 1863, Page 2

EXPECTED ARRIVALS.

N.Z.S.N. Co"s s.s. Rangatira, from Napier and Auckland, on the 26th Nov.

Storm Bird, s.s., from Lyttelton and Dunedin, on the 28th Nov.

Phoebe, s.h., Kennedy, from Pictou, Nelson, Taranaki, and Manukau on the 30th inst. Frowning Beauty, barque, from Sydney Bride, from Gravesend, 107 days out

PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Sturt, p.s., for Wanganui and Nelson, 26th Nov. Phoebe, s.s,, for Canterbury, Otago, and the Bluff, on the 29th. N.Z.S.N. Go's 8.5., for Picton, Nelson, Taranaki, and Manukau, on the 29th.

The s.s. Corio has been taken up by the Commissariat for the conveyance of horses to the Thames, her light draught rendering her particularly o,dapted to the service. Should it be determined to carry the war into the Thames district, we trußt that the Government will take proper measnrea for the safety not only of the Europeans living there but also of the many coasters trading to tho native settlements in the neighbourhood.— New Zealander, 10th imt.

The ketch Water Lily, is reported as having been totally wrecked on Sumner Spit, Canterbury. — Olago Timet. A fine new steamer has been launched at Glasgow, christened tho Otago, which is intended to carry the maila between Sydney and New Zealand. Her length of keel and fore rake is 234 feet fi inches ; breadth of beam, 26 feet 9 inches; depth of hold, 15 feet 6 inches. She will be despatched by Messrs Houlder Brothers and Co for Melbourne, Sydney, and New Zealand on the 22nd October, and it is intended that she shall steam out the whole way, calling at St Vincent and the , Cape to coal, and at Melbourne to land passengers and mails. Among the passengers by the Derwentwater is Mr Harper, a eon of tho Bishop of Canterbury.