Passengers to Natal: Sir Robert Peel 1854

The Sir Robert Peel was the first steamer to enter Port Natal, 1852

ARRIVAL OF THE SIR ROBERT PEEL Natal Mercury March 22 1854

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE

ARRIVED

March 16 - Sir Robert Peel, stm - Boxer, from Table Bay,

March 3; Mossel Bay, 5; Algoa Bay, 8; Buffalo, 12.

PASSENGERS

Dr Best (45th Regiment)

Rev Mr Campbell

Rev Mr and Mrs Cox

Rev Dr and Mrs Faure, child and servant

Messsrs

Steele

Hunter

Churchill

Lentick

Brockhouse

Rouse

Thompson

Miss Sargeuant

Mrs Woodrow

8 in Steerage

Manifest list

E Snell agent.

SAILED

March 21st - Candace, brig - Fisher - for Muscat.

March 22nd - Margaret Gibson, bgtne, 149 tons - G Hannaford - for Mauritius.

IN PORT

Sir Robert Peel, str. 240 tons - Boxer - for Cape

E Snell, agent.

VESSELS EXPECTED

Natal, stm. 680 tons - from London

E Snell, agent.

Jane Morice, bq, - from Liverpool

EP Lamport, agent.

Leontine Mary, schr. 29 tons - Baragwanath - from Algoa Bay

E Snell, agent.

Heath, - , from London.

The clipper-barque 'Clydeside', advertised in the English papers, and laid on for this port, is withdrawn, and the 'Heath' has taken her place.

BIRTHS

At Howards Vale, Umhlali, near Compensation, on Saturday, 11th March, the lady of Capt. JMK Chadwick, of a son.

On the 17th instant, the wife of Robert Acutt, Esq. of this place, of a daughter.