EXPECTED ARRIVALS.

Wellington Independent, Volume XIX, Issue 2050, 19 April 1864, Page 2

EXPECTED ARRIVALS.

Phoebe, s.s., Ferguson, from Picton, Nelson, Taranaki and Manukau, 28th. Wonga Wonga, e.g., from Wanganui, Taranaki Wanganui, 8.8., from Wanganui Lady Bird, as., from Sydney and Nelson Wellington, b.b., from Glasgow Nimroud, from Cardiff I'BOJKOTBD DEPARTDKKS. Storm Bird, b.b., for Manukau, Raglan, Taranaki, and Wanganui, on the 20th Bangatira, b.b,, for Lyttelton and Dunedin, 30th Lord Ashley, b.b., for Napier and Auckland, 22nd Rangatira, b.s., for Pioton, Nelson, Taranaki, and Manukau, 29th Phoebe, b.s., for Canterbury, Otago, and the Bluff, on the 29th.

The Esperauza is advertised in the Melbourne papers for Lyttelton and Wellington ; and the Duke of Eothsay, for Wellington and Auokland, The Nelson steamer is now very much overdue, being 150 days out from Falmouth. It is to be hoped she has not met with any accident— Nelson Examiner, April 12. A company has been started here in extension of an association formed for working the deposits of plumbago at Pakawau, which are reported to be large, easily worked and of conciderable value.— /6idL Weekly Communication with the South.— A notice appears in our advertising columns to-day, from the 'secretary of the Post Office, stating that tenders will be received at that office until the 10th May next, for the services of a steamboat to run fortnightly between Wellington, Wanganui, Taranaki, Raglan, and Port Waikato and Monukau and book. The service is to commence on the Ist June of this year, is to be for six months, and. may be determinate by three months' notice. Oa the employment of (Ms steamboat we shall have weekly communication with the South, ' at least as far as Wellington.— Southern Grots, April 8. . '

The fine clipper barque Mary and Edith, 452 tons, Captain E. Murray, arrived last evening from San Francisco after a passage of flfty-two days. She sailed from San Francisco on the 12th February, and experienced lightwinds and fine weather the whole way. The Great Barrier was the first land made on the New Zealand coast, which was Bighted at daylight yesterday morning. She brings 2,604 sacks wheat, 6,414 sacks oate, 200 sacks flour, 5 000 feet timber, 200 sacks flour, 29 half barrels flsh, order, and 177 packages merchandise, for Sydney.— Southern Cross. ■ ■-^ The Australian Mail bt the Ranciatira.— We were rather surprised to find, on the arrival of the Rangatira, on Monday last, that we did not receive our usual file of Australian papers, which would in the ordinary course of post have reached Napier by the Auckland, and be brought on by the Eangatlra. On being informed that the Bangatira brought no Australian mail, we were led to suppose that it had been sent by a sailing vessel direct, and we wore on the point of suggesting to the Sydney poßt-ot&oe authorities that they had omitted to avail themselves of the most expeditious route. It appears however, that wo were wrong in this supposition, and that the mail did really come by the Bangatira, but was not discovered on board that vessel until yesterday morning, when she was just on the point of sailing from the Mannkau with the supplementary mail. We can only attribute the delay-in* the delivery of the mail to gross negligence on the part of those having charge of it; and we trust the matter will be investigated by the post-office authorities here.— lbid. It has not yet, we believe, been publicly stated that the fine screw steamer No 94, or Scotia, the first vessel belonging to the Otago Steam Company, is a sister ship of the Confederate cruiser Georgia, which, next to the famous Alabama, has been the terror of tho Federal mercantile marine. Captain Newlands, who now commands the No. 94, took out the Georgia from the Clyde to Wilmington, and he was twice driven off the coast by Federal blockaders before he succeeded in getting into that port, — Otago Times. Passages op Ocean Steamships.— The Boyal Mail steamship Scotia, Judkins, commander, arrived in the Mersey from New York on Friday, which port she left on the 16th of December, making the. quickest run on record from New York to Liverpool. The Scotia Jeft New York at 11 a.m., oa the 16th, and arrived at this port at 1.40 p.m. on the 25th, occupying (deducting difference of time, 4h. 66m., and detentions at Queenatown), eight days, 20 hours, 32 minutes, the most extraordinary passage on record. The Scotia averaged a speed of 336 miles daily. In August, 1856, the Persia made the passage in 9 days 2 hours, 69 minutes. In September, 1862, the Scotia performed the distance in nine days 2 hours 49 minutes. The following is an abstract of her log:— Dec 16.— Wind, N. ; 10.37 a.m., received mails; 11 a.m., left New York; 12.54 p.m., discharged pilot; distance, 12 miles. Deo 17.— Wind E., moderate and fine weather; 1at 41.06 lon 69.20; distance, 310 miles. Dec 18.— Wind S., fresh breeze and rainy ; lat 42.53, lon 60.47 ; distance, 310 miles. Dec 19.— WindS.S.W., fresh breeze and hazy weather; lat 45.29, lon 53.30; distance, 333 miles. Dec 20.— Wind §.W.. light breeze and hazy weather; lat 48.28, lon 46.69; distance, 336 miles. Dec 21.— Wind S.W., moderate breeze and hazy ; lat 50.28, lon 38.57 ; distance, 335 mileß. Dec 22.— Wind S. W., moderate breeze and fair; lat 51.07, lon 30.01; distance, 338 miles. Dec 23.— Wind S.W., light breeze and fair; lat 51.07, lon 20.50; distance, 351 miles. Dec 24.— Wind, W.S.W, light breeze and fair; lat 51.19, lon 1L48 ; distanct, 341 miles; 9.4 pm, arrived at Queenstown; 9.20 p.m. landed mails ; 10.5 p.m., left Queenstowa Dec 25.— Wind, W.S.W., fresh breeze and cloudy; 10.25 a.m., received a pilot; 12.55 p.m., arrived at Bell Buoy; 1.40 p.m. arrived at Liverpool; distance, 358 miles.—Liverpool Albion. .»_