SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Westport Times, Volume II, Issue 161, 5 February 1868, Page 2

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

PORT OP WESTPOPT. niOH WATER. This Day ... 5.4 a.m. 5.29 p.m. ARRIVALS. Feb. 4—-Kennedy, s.s., put back. EFFECTED ARRIVALS. Lecnitlas, schooner, from Melbourne. Escort, schooner, from Melbourne. Northern Light, from Melbourne. VESSELS IN FORT. Barques—Nightingale, Ellen S. Page. Schooners—Rambler, Rifleman, Canterbury, -Day Dawn. Cutter— Daft. ■Ketches—Sea Breeze, Constant. Steamer—Southland, Kennedy. IMPORTS. Per Canterbury—4o tons potatoes, 3 tons • carrots, Beauchawp.

The s.s. Kennedy which left the Port on Monday at 2.30 p.m., encountered outside the bar a light S.E. breeze, at 4.30 wind veered 'round to N.W., and at midnight strengthened to a gale, with thunder, lightening and rain. She was hove too under double reefed trysails till 2.30 p.m. yesterday, when she again tried to steam against it, found it was of uo use, and after getting as far as Karamea, i ut back again, and sailed back to port, steaming over the bar at 5 p.m. The glass is still very low, 29 degs 38 mins, and there'is every appearance of another dirty night, so that she is lucky in getting safely moored in the Buller again.

Blowing Up of a War Steamer at Liverpool.—On November 29, the Greek war-steamer Bubulina (formerly the famous Confederate bloeade-iunner Colonel Lamb) was at anchor opposite New Perry, on the Cheshire side of the Mersey, preparatory to leaving for Greece. Captain Sartorious, the officer in command, gave orders that steam should be got up at 6 o'clock, as it was his intention to sail from the: Mersey a few hours later. The furnaces were accordingly lighted, and steam rapidly got up, when about halfpast 6, a terrific explosion took place amidships, and was followed by two others. The vessel snapped asunder, the stern part forced about 200 feet from the forward bulkheads and watertight compartments, where the magazine was situated. About 60 feet of the fore part of the vessel was kept aflot, and at high water there was only the foremast and four-or five feet of the fore funnel above water. A large number of the crew wore •below at the time, and 18 seamen and 32 firemen are missing. The Bulbulina had on board about 350 tons of Powell's Duffryn steam coal, a large quantity of provisions, and a quantity of Whitworth guns, gunpowder, and 'Other warlike materiel. Great differences exist as to the causes of the explosion, but the general opinion of experienced surveyors inclines to spontaneous combustion in the coals as the real cause of the di-aster.— Home Neios.