SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

West Coast Times, Issue 255, 17 July 1866, Page 2

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

PORT OF HOKITIKA.

High Watse Tins Day.— 12.56 a.m. •> 1.27 p.m. ABBIVSD. Nil. SAILED. Kennedy, s.s., Whit well, for Nelson. ENTERED IN. Lioness, p.s., 90 tons, Oreo. Whitford, from Okurita, in ballast. CLEARED OUT. Kennedy, s.s., 125 tons, Thos. Whitwell, for Nelson, *fn ballast. Passengers — Messrs Wistrnhavei n and Phillips. ~ EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Florence, from Melbourne, eai*ly. JKinedin, from Dunedin, early. - Keera, from Christchurch, to-morrow. Katheraw, from Melbourne, early. Wallaby, from Nelson, early. PHOJECTEU DEPAKTTTK.ES. Kennedy, for Nelson, to-day. Lizzie Coleson, for Sydney, 18tli hist | |Keera, for Greymouth, 18th inst. Keera, for Dunedin, Bluff, and Nelson, 18th inst. Lord Ashley, for Bluff Harbor, Dunedin, Lyttelton, and Wellington, 21st inst. VESSELS IX POST. Brsgantinc — Lizzie Coleson. Schooners. — Cymrues, Moyne, Crest of the Wave. Steamers — Yarra, Challenge, Lioness.

Messrs Carey and Grilles, agents for the s.s. Keera, received a telegram from Lytteltoiv yesterday, which informed them that the Keera did not leave that port for Hokitika until Saturday evening last, in the teeth of a strong northerly breeze. Her arrival, therefore, may not be expected until to-morrow.

The s.B. Kennedy left this port for Nelson yesterday. Thctts are at present two channels through the bar — k>ne running to the southward, which is very narrow, but with a good depth of water ; the other wider, but much shallower, running to the N.N.W. The Kennedy chose the former to depart by, but not hitting exactly, took the ground, and for a few minutes stuck fast. The engines were at once reversed, and she succeeded in backing into deep water, and then sluing to the northward made her exit by the other way. We need hardly observe that, savo five minutes detention, she suffered nothing from the occurrence.