Shipping Intelligence.

Charleston Argus, Volume 1, Issue 13, 27 April 1867, Page 2

Shipping Intelligence.

POli'f OF CHARLESTON. liioU Water. This Day 4.30 a. m 4.55 p.m. Su.id. v J.iU a.ui 5.M |>.tii. Monday Cloa.ni 6.05 p.m. 'i'ucfcday 7.Utt.m 7.25 j.m. arrivals. April 2" tYairoa, from Hokitika. April 26 Mary Jane, suiooi.tr, irj.a Manuk..u. Constant, ketch, i'r.jm UreyinouUi. Tasmai iai Maid, p.s., from Westport. DEPARTURES. April 25 —Star oi iasm-wia, sc'.o.uci', fvr Hokitika. Brothers and bisters, schooner, for Hokitika. '.'ymr.es, schooner, for Hokitika. April—2B Tasmanian Maid, p.s., for Hokitika, via Brighton. Hope, cutter, lor Greynxmtli. Wairoa, cutter, for Urcy mouth. VF.SSLLS IN PORT. Constant, ketch, from Greymouth. Lizzy, cutter, from Manukau. Mary Jane, schooner, from Manukau. lona,schooner (wreck). The sehooi?rs '"Y.-.in?v Hi. t .2r. and Sisters, and Star ol Tasmania took advantage of tinfavor. b!e state of the bar on Thursday list, to clear out, all three availing themselves of the lh.e and buoy outside the heads. Mention may bo made oi the efficient manner in which the hurbor boat rendered the necessary services to the outgoing vessels, all of which got out without the slightest mishap, the Star of Tasmania alone having got in rather dangerous proximity to the reef o.iLide the North Head. The throe craft were all bound for Hokitika.

On Thursday, a steamer, supped to be the Nelson, came up and slgr.r.lled for a hrM, to come off and land passengers. Although the harbor b>at had already been out and in some half a dozen times that tide, it was not deemed safe to attempt to bring in passengers, since the confusion and panic likely to arise might, even iu a tolerably smooth sea, lead to some lamentable accident. As an illustration, we in iy refer to the lite accident at Woodpecker Hay. which t veryone knows is nothing like so dangerous as Constant Hay. Jndeed it is all but impracticable for passengers to land herefrom the offing at any lime. No doubt should the river Nile ever be made use of for vessels, and this trade assume sufficiently birge proportions to command the services of a sm.dl steamer such as the Wo.nlpecker, every facility woul I then be afforded to p tssengers to land safely and with fo:ne degree o." certainty, but as it is at present, the Halcyon b, log tlio only steamer entering Constant Bay, \ ■■ angers for here can only rely upon her or a filing vessel with anything like a certainty of reaching their place of destination. As it is the balk of the passengers land at Fox's, incurring i nsiderable expense and inconvenience, no small itim being the charge of Lls per ton for traasT*>rt beteen the two places. The cutter Lizzy, from Onehung.i, is likely to Lc dJayed in the Hay for some little time, until spring tides come round again, baring got neaped tn tin leach.

A tcoder has been accepted for the repairing and raising of the schooner lona. A few tides will prove whether there is any chane of doing un» tiling with her, but without desiring to dise the owner, we must confess our doubt that s:;o will be again got afloat. Y» s;erday, the cutters Uope and Wairoa cleared from Constant Bay for Greymouth, the weather being very fine and bar smooth, neither danger nor difficulty were experienced in getting the vessels outside. The p.s. Tasmauian Maid laid off the entrance about .'• p.m. yesterday, for the purpose of landing its, &c. The bar was smoother than it had k- n for long past, so that any boat could have tan ltd passengers without the slightest risk »td a" mnaged to get comfo*tably ashore.