SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Westport Times, Volume 1, Issue 147, 20 January 1868, Page 2

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

POET OF \VESTPO-tfT. HIGH WATKR. This Day 6.25 a.in 6.50 p.m ARRIVALS. January 18—Wallaby, from llokitika. Waipara, from Fox's. January 19—Murray, from Nelson. Bruce, from tlokitika. Kennedy, from Nelson. DEPARTURES. January 18 —Nelson, for llokitika. \\ allaby, for Nelson. January 19—Bruce, for llokitika. CUSTOMS ENTRIES.

INWARDS. January 18—Wallaby, s.s., 85 tons, Daniels, from Greymouth. N. Edwards and Co., agents. Nelson, p.s., 67 Thos. Whitwell, from Nelson. N. Edwards and Co., agents. Waipara, twins-screw steamer, 48 tons, W. Bascand, from Fox's. A. Beauchamp, agent. Ahuriri, s.s., 131 tons, J. Flowerday, from Wanganui. A. Beauchamp, agent. OUTWARDS. Ahuriri, s.s., 131 tons, J. Flowerday, for Nelson. A. Beauchamp, agent. Wallaby, s s., 85 tons, Daniels, for Nelson. N. Edwards and Co., agents. Nelson, p.s., 67 tons, Thos. Whitwell, for Hokitika. N. Edwards and Co., agents. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Nightingale, barque, from Melbourne. Leonidas, schooner, from Melbourne. Escort, schooner, from Melbourne. Northern Light, from Melbourne. VESSELS I2S T POUT. Ketches—Brother and Si ,ter, Constant. Mary, Rambler. Cutter—Dart. Schooners —llamhler, Mary Van Every. Steamers—Southland, Waipara. IMPORTS. Per Wallabj'—l case drapery, M'Do well; 30 tons coal, Edwards and Co. Per Nelson—4 boxes candles, 2 cases sauce, 2 do cheese, Edwards and Co. Ex Otago, from Melbourne—lo boxes tea, Edwards and Co ; 8 qr-casksbeer, 4 hhds do, Beauchamp ; 4 hags vegetables, 1 box fruit, Gampfiold ; 6 sacks, Starkey ; 1 keg, King; 25 bags, 2 cases. Alcorn ; 1 ease, Order; 1 box, liurvcy ; 1 trunk, Franklyn ; 1-t bags potatoes, Starkey ; 1 case wine, Goodwin, G bags potatoes, 1 do peas, Trimble ; 5 reams paper, Leslie ; 1 case fruit, Machin ; 6 do do, 1 sack, 2 cases fish, Order; 1 trunk boots, 2 boxes nails,! case wine, Roberts ; 1 case leather, Blacklock ; 1 ' ase goods, Waugh.

EXPORTS. Per Wallaby—3o tons coals, Edwards and Co ; 1 box, Kissling.

The Wallaby left Westport at midnight on Tuesday last with drizzling rain and moderate N W. wind till her arrival at Greymouth. when the wind hauled in to S.W. with strong breeze and squally. Reached Ilokitika at 11.30 a.m. on Wednesday, and crossed the bar two hours before high water. Discharged 200 cases of stout and brandy. She left Hokitika at noon on Thursday, and arrived at Greymouth at 2.30 p.m. with 5 cabin and 12 steerage passengers. Discharged remainder of cargo. Left the Grey on Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock with 9 passengers in the saloon and 12 forward. Left Fox's at 7 o'clock same evening and brought a light S.W. breeze up to the Bailer, where she arrived at 10 p.m., crossing the bar at 4 o'clock on Saturday morning. The Bruce, which arrived yesterday morning at 4 o'clock and sailed again for Hokitika the same evening, left here on Thursday morning last, and was off Fox's at 8 a.m., where she discharged, cargo and received some passengers, leaving again for Greymouth, where she arrived at 8 o'clock in the evening, the delay having been caused by nuts and screws in connection with the shaft working loose. Started the next day at 1 o'clock p.m. for Hokitika, and arrived at 4 o'clock. Left Ilokitika on Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock, and arrived at Greymouth at half-past 5 o'clock ; coaled up and left again at 7 o'clock ; was off Fox's at half-past 11 o'clock, and received passengers. Crossed the Buller bar at 4 o'clock the next morning. Captain Korley was desirous of clearing immediately after her arrival in order that she might reach Hokitika before the threatened fresh came down, to get her shaft repaired. A very heavy rain having fallen throughout the whole of yesterday, the river again rose considerably with the afternoon's tide, and Captain Leech, the Harbormaster, having reason to apprehend a recurrence of the fresh of last week, caused all the sailing vessels lying on this side of the water, includthe Rambler, Mary Van Emery, &c, to be towed over to the lagoon by the Southland. They are now lying there in safety, and the Saw-mills and Custom-house being now removed, there is very little either atioat or ashore for the river to damage much should it again " come down in its might." The Murray came into port early yesterday morning from Nelson with a considerable cargo of live-stock. The Kennedy, from Nelson, arrived yesterday ovening about 6 o'clock, and went over at once into the lagoon.

WRECK AT THE AUCKLAND ISLANDS. Loss of 73 Lives. —Discovery of the Survivors AFTER A LAFSE OF IS MONTHS. (by ELISOTKJC telf.gkaph.) From the Colonist, of the 17til inst. On Sunday night last, nine men and one woman, the survivors of the crew and passengers of the American ship General Grant, eighty-three in number, who sailed from Melbourne on the 4th of Ma3 r , IBG6, were landed at Bluff Harbor by the whaling brig Amherst, having been rescued from the Auckland Islands on the 21st of November last, where the General Grant was wrecked eighteen months previously. The General Grant, bound to London with a cargo of wool, sighted Auckland Islands on the 13th of May, and the weather being thick, got too near the land ; there being no wind, a strong current carried her the following day on the rocks on a bold shore, where she got jammed, and broke up. In attempting to land, sixty-seven lives were lost by swahiping of the boats. After remaining on the island till the 22nd day of January last

year, the chief officer and three of the crew l»'ft in a boat with the intention of endeavoring to make the const of New Zealand. The names of the survivors brought off by the Amherst are :—Mary Ann Jewel (stewardess) Joseph Jewel, William Ferguson, Patrick Coffey,Nicholas Allen, Cornelius Drew, James Drew, James Toor, A. M. Pengelly, A. Harpman, and David Ash worth.

FURTHER PARTICULARS. Wellington, Thursday, January 16. Upon the ship striking against the great perpendicular cliffs, the jibboom was carried away. She then dropped astern about half-a-milc, and again struck on a projecting point, and carried away her spanker-boom and rudder, and finally canted head foremast into a cave 250 feet deep, the foremast striking against the top of the cave and the bowsprit and cathead being carried away by the falling of the mairitop-gaUaiitmast. Pieces of rock fell down and smashed in the forecastle. The ship lay helpless in this condition till daylight, striking heavily the whole time forward, while there was twenty-five fathoms of water under the stern. At daylight the pinnace was launched, and three men were sent in her with lines and a kedge belayed for hauling out other boats. After some time the gig was launched and go 4 out of the cave safely, with the chief officer, theee seamen, and ten passengers. The main-topmast then came down, end the ship forged farther into the cave. The mainmast got loose through coming into contact with the shelving roof of the cave. The heel of the mast started the ship's bottom, and the vessel began to settle down very fast. On the tide rising, the wind and sea inoreas( d also, and the women were hastily got into the boats. Mrs Jewel, the stewardess, being lifted out by whips, fell into the sea, but was rescued by her husband. Two passengers and Jewel then jumped into the boat. The gig got clear of the breakers, and five men got into the pinnace. The long-boat, with forty persons on board, sunk amidst the breakers, and only three men, Ashworth, Uaymans, and Pengelly, were saved out of the forty sottls. The captain was seen on the mizen-top, waving his handkerchief, with one man by his side, and at this moment the ship instant'y sank and both disappeared with her. The gig and pinnace lay-to for some time, but it being evident that all the rest on board were drowned, they steered for Disappointment Island. When half-way there, night came on, and the survivors landed on a rock to pass the night. Next morning they again took to the boats, and landed on " Sarah's Bosom," and there was only one lucifer match amongst the party !

For several days an active search was instituted for the food left by the Melbourne Government steamer Victoria, and the p.s. Southland, but •without effect. While on the island, the party suffered much from dysentry, owing, probably, to the nature of the food, as they had to live on seals and mussels, occasionally succeeding in catching a pig or goat. They made clothing from bedding, &c, and also from sealskins. Musgrave's hut was found, but it contained no food or clothing. One passenger died from hardship. Signal-fires were constantly kept burning during the whole time of their stay on the island. The party were rescued on the 21st November, when the Amherst made the island.

An official enquiry, held at Wellington has closed. Verdict: Cause of wreek not known, but the jury believes the vessel to have been accidentally lost.