Shipping. PORT CHALMERS.
June 18th. The topsail schooner Crest of the Wave, for Hokitika, and the schoonsr Hesult, for Allday Buy, sailed this forenoon.
Our Auckland correspondent telegraphs : — The English papers by the San Francisco mail contains the following list of arrivals and departures for New Zealand : — Arrived: Anne, from Wellington ; Venus, from Napier ; Shun Lee, from Canterbury. Sailed : Celestial Queen, for Auckland ; Hulcuue, for Wellington ; Wave Queen, for Otago.
The cyclone at Madras on May 1 was ter rific, and its equal in intensity has not been felt there for many years. The Friend of India's telegraphic despatch says : — Many houses had been damaged, some having their walls blown down and others having their windows and doors carrie I away. Substan tial panditls were thrown down andshattered. These were scenes sad enough to behold, but a still more dreadful sight was to be wit nessed on the beach, from where one could see that almost every vessel that had been riding at anchor in the roadstead on tbe pre vious evening had suffered severely. About half a dozen vessels were wrecked, others were in great distress, aud others were fast drifting towards shore. By 11 o'clock the following English ships were found to be wrecks : — Hotspur, Burlington, John Scott, Armenian. Sir Robert Seppings, Inverness, Ardberg, Missir, and Kingdom of Belgium. About a dozen native and three foreign ves sels were also destroyed, and the pier was divided into two parts by vessels being driven against it. The loss of life is not ascertainable.
NEW ZEALAND'S FUTURE.
