SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Westport Times, Volume 1, Issue 137, 8 January 1868, Page 2

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

PORT OF WEST PORT. HIGH WATER. This Day 6.48 a.m 7.12 p.m. ARRIVALS. January 7 —Brace, from Hokitika. Humbler, from Nelson. DEPARTURES. January 7 —Tasmanian Maid, for Fox's, •Greymouth, and Hokitika. Bruce, for Hokitika. Wallabi, for Hokitika. Waipara, for Mokihinui. Murray, for Nelson. Glengarry, for Greymouth. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Nightingale, barque, from Melbourne. - Ahuriri, s.s., from Wellington. L'eonidas, schooner, from Wellington. Kennedy, s.s., from Nelson." VESSELS IN PORT.

Brig—Sarah. Schooners —Lucy and Adelaide, Rambler. Cutter—Dart, Ketch—Brother and Sisters. Steamers —Southland. PASSENGER LIST. Per Murray—-Messrs Flood, Smith, Hamilton, Stewart, Davey. CUSTOMS ENTRIES. INWARDS. January G—Sarah, brig, 121 tons, J. F. Booth, from Melbourne. Master, agent. Wallabi, s.s., 101 tons, E. Daniels, from Nelson, N. Ed wards and Co, agents. January 7 —Bruce, p.s., 84 tons, James Kerle3 r , from Hokitika. F. Greer, agent. Rambler, ketch, 47 tons, Henry Hamilton, from Nelson. Tasmanian Maid, p.s., 53 tons, W. Souter, from Onehunga. Master, agent. Brother and Sister, ketch, 21 tons, E. Perkins, from Hokitika. OUTWARDS. January 7—Wallabi, s.s., 101 tons, R. Daniels, for Greymouth. N. Edwards and Co, agents. Claud Hamilton, p.s., 530 tons,. J. Vine

Hall, for Nelson. F. Fisher and Co, agents. Bruce, p.s., 84 tons, James Kerley, for Hokitika, via Fox's and Greymouth. F. Greer, agent. Glengarry, schooner, for Greymouth. Waipara, s.s., 48 tons, C. S. Bascand, for Mokihinui. A. Beauchamp, agent. IMPORTS. Per Sarah—2 qr-casks brandy, 38 bullocks, 200 sheep, 1 ton potatoes, 15 bags onions, ; Order. Per Wallabi —200 lags sugar, Edwards and Co ; 18 sacks potatoes, 3 cases eggs, Alcorn & Co ; 1 keg butter, King & Co ; 4 do do, 7 sacks potatoes. Solomon & Co ; 1 bale leather, Roberts ; 1 box do, Leslie ; 1 do, Fleming. Per Bruce —1 box tobacco, 1 case do, 1 pkg cigars, Wittkowski ; 2 hhds beer, M'Carthy; 2 pkgs wheels, 1 box nails and bolts, Cairn ; 1 cask currants, Solomon & Co ; 1 case acid. 1 parcel, Williams ; 2 crates. 3 casks, 3 hhds, 1 tierce, 1 case, Clark; 6 hhds beer, 12 barrels ale, Pazzy & Co. Per Murray—2s head cattle, Johnston ; 8 hhds ale, 5 qv casks do, Order ; 6 bags potaitoe*, Crane; 5 do, Rodgers; 1 bale paper, Leslie ; 6 bags potatoes. King & Co; 1 trunk grindery, Walsh; 6 bags potatoes, 1 case poultry, 3 do fruit, 1 cask vegetables, Flood; 6 bags potatoes, King & Co. Per Rambler—26 tons coals, 12 sacks bran, G do pollard, 2000 bricks, 20 cases cordials, 4 qr-casks vinegar, 8 hhds ale, 11 qr-casks do, 6 bags maize, 6 casks biscuit, 2 tons hay, Order.

Per Tasmanian Maid—3lß bags potatoes, 16 clo eliecse, 8 do fowls, Order, Per Claud Hamilton—Transhipped from Phoebe ; 1 trunk, Brown & Lister ; 2 pkgs, Brown & Co; at ITokitika, ex Eangitoto—l case, Harris ; 15 eases onions, 1 cask do, F. Fisher. EXPORTS. Per Wallabi—l boat, Bradshaw. Per Bruce—G hhds eggs, Duff; 1 hhdbeer, Maxwell ; 8 cases chairs, 2 doz buckets, Hamilton & Nicboll. Per Waipara—2o pkgs merchandise, 20 bags flour, 4 buckets, Brown: 8 kegs butter, Edwards; 11 pkgs merchandise, 1 lot iron stoves, 1 pel, Stitt Bros; 6 cases geneva, Spence; 1 case bacon, 12 do geneva, 6 do porter, 3 do kerosene, 3 do porter, 4 boxes caudles, Spence; 1 bale chaff, 1 qr-eask brandy, Bailie and Humphrey ; 1 case hams, 1 do bacon, 2qr-ehcsts tea, King and Cowley ; 4 cases porter, 1 bags sugar, 1 case coffee, 1 box pain killer, 1 do soap, 6 do candles, 3 bags potatoes, Powell and Co ; 18 bags potatoes, Brown and Co. CHARLESTON. DEPARTURES. .'Jan. 7—Fairy, schooner, for Manukau. Standard, ketch, for Brighton. Constance, ketch, for Westport. Elizabeth, cutter, for ITokitika. VESSELS IN PORT. Schooners—Rapid, Ada. Advantage was tnken of the change in the weather and a good bar by most of the craft which have been detained some time in port, taking their departure by Tuesday morning's tide. The Ada is being hauled up on buoys for the purpose of repairing the damage occasioned by her being driven on the large rocks in the centre of the bay, some little time ago. The Rapid has yet her rudder to re-fit.

The speciiil reporter of the Otago Daily Times, who accompanied the recent exploring expedition to the West Coast of Otago, gives the following account of certain relics of wrecks found on the beach s—The relics of wrecks found on the beach were a cannon, .1 ship's,figure-head, and a small hatch. The cannon 'had been found on the shore near Cape Providence, and, in our excited imaginations, we propounded endless theories as to how it came there, but a distressingly unromantic solution was found to the problem. It is nq doubt, the gun which was conveyed there, about two years ago, for the purpose of making signals, when ttie steamer Star of the South had to be beached after striking a rock, ns she was running back to the shelter of the Sound. To the figure-head and the hatch, which lie on Chalky Island, much more interest attaches. What may have been the •exact fate of the vessel to which they have

belonged it would be hard to toll, bnt it is just possible that, caught in a gale upon the coast, she hnd been seeking the shelter of the Inlet

at a time when its other name—Dark Cloud Inlet—would more appropriately describe it, and struck \ipon the reef lying off In her instance, the ironically named Cape Providence. A vessel striking there, stem on, might leave little more than her head gear to drift ashore. I hazarded the opinion that the Balleny Iteef was more probably the scene of the wreck, if there was any, but, In that case the drift would have gone elsewhere with the current, which sfits to the southward along the shore. The figure-head was, of course, weather and water worn ; but some of the gildiug and paint remained. It was the figure of a sailor in white trowsers and bluejacket, with gilt buttons—the figure itself being 6ft. long, and the scroll to which it was attached 2.\ft. in length. The face and arms had been rubbed off; and it is not improbable that there had'been also the representation of a hat, for such a thing was picked up by Dr Hector during his visit to the coast. Wo were not sufficiently "posted" as to dates; but it is suggested that such may have been I the figure-head of the American ship Jack Frost. lam liable to correction ; but I believe that that vessel left the Bluff one Sunday evening five or six years ago ; that, on the following day, there was a heavy gale, and that she was never heard of more. The hatch is a small one—about two feet square, and mounted with brass ; and, from that particular, it is judged to be the hatch of some ship's lazarette. We had hoped to bring them with us to Dunedin, where there might be more chance of their being recognised ; but an opportunity did not afterwards present itself for this being done.