SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Westport Times, Volume II, Issue 163, 7 February 1868, Page 2

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

PORT OP WESTPOPT. iiran water, This Day ... 8.13 a.in. 8.37 p.m. DEPART! 11KS. Feb. 6—Volunteer,cutter, for Munukau. CUSTOMS ENTRIES. inwards. Feb. o—Aurora, schooner, 412 tons. Weir, master, fiom Dunedin. J. Powell uhd Co., agents, v Susan, brig, 185 tons, Hughes, master, fn-hj Newcastle. Spence Brothers and Co., agents' OUTWARDS. CUSTOMS ENTRIES. Feb. C—Helen S. Page, barque, 217 tons, Evans, master, for Newcastle. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Leonidas, schooner, from Melbourne. Escort, schooner, from Melbourne. Northern Light, from Melbourne. PRO,! ECTED DEPARTURES. Ellen S. Page, barque, for Newcastle. Nightingale, barque, for Newcastle. Tararua, s s., for Sydney. VESSELS IK PORT. Barques—Nightingale, Ellen S. Page. Schooners—Rambler, Canterbury, Day Dawn, Aurora. Cutter—Dart. Ketches—Sea Breeze, Constant. Steamers—Southland, Waipara. Brig—Susan. IMPORTS.

Per Aurora—2Bo bags sugar, 120 do, 3i casks sherry, 1 do, 20 cases porter, 10 do, 20J chests tea, 2 do, lo do., 5 do, 5 do, 11 boxes tea, 16 chests candles, Older; 2 hbds ale, Tonks and Hughes; 2 do, M. Corcoran ; 50 bags (lour, A. G. Kcid ; 8 crates cheese, 5 casks rice, Order; 2 cases curry. 1 case chocolate, 1 case cheese, 2 cases bacon, 4 cases castor oil, C cases pipes, 40 bags salt, Order ; 3 cases salad oil, 2 cases vinegar, 20 bags flour, 80 bags do, 53 bags sugar, 3 canes jams, 12 boxes soap, 2 cases salmon, 2 cases sauce, 2 cases ling fish, 12 cases candles, 20 bags flour, 40 do, 20 boxes caudles, 2 enses sardines, 2 do sauce, 5 cases merchandise, 2 cases cheese, 3 boxes vinegar, 1 case sultanas, 1 case museatells, lease (igs, Order; 3 casks currants, 2 cases sultanas, G cases .jams, e kegs bailey, (! cases cheese, 2 cases confectionery, 1 case peel, 2 cases peel, 40 bags flour, 120 do, Order; 1 ease shovels, 1 case sundries, 1 keg weights, 2 plates iron. 2 cases horse shoes, 78 bars iron, Field ; 200 bags flour, W. J. Patterson ; 24 cases beer, J. Powell and Go; 2 eases bacon, Order. Per Susan —48 head of cattle, 200 sheep, 3 horses, 83 cheese, 50 couple fowls, 49 bags maize, 10 tierces beef, Spehee Brothers & Co.

The twin screw steamer Waipara, Captain Bascand, left West port yesterday morning for Charleston, where she succeeded in landing ■ her cargo, which by stress of weather she was prevented from doing on her upward voyage from Hokitika. She came into Westport about 8.30 p.m. last evening. The schooner Aurora, after a protracted passage of 43 days from Dunedin, was safely mo ued in the river on Wednesday evening. She lost her rudder, and sustained other slight damage during a severe gale. The brig Susan, which arrived off our river on Wednesday morning, was safely towed over the bar yesterday by the steamer Southland. She left Newcastle on Wednesday the 23rd January, and encountered strong head winds nearly the whole way. She was becalmed off the Steeples on Tuesday evening or in all probability would have anchored in port that night. She brings a cargo of cattle, sheep, horses, and general produce, and is consigned to Messrs. Spence Brothers. The cutter Volunteer, bound for Manukau, sailed over the bar yesterday morning. The cargo of the barque Nightingale is almost cleared from the vessel and will most likely be completed this day. The whole shipment is turning out in first-rate order. She Will probably commence ballasting this evening, and proceed on her voyage to Newcastle en or about Sunday next. The South Australian Colonist, of 21st December, has the following extraordinary particulars respecting the steamer Pareora, fiom Glasgow to New Zealand, furnished by Captain Castle : The steamer Pareora was laden with general merchandise, and a quantity of oral supposed to suffice for steaming through tl c calm belts was placed on board, but it was under sail principally she was expected to make the. voyage from Glasgow to Dunedin. She was in charge of Captain Graham •, who sailed on 29th October, 1860, but on getting to sea found a twin screw steamer anything but fast when under sail. After beating about the Atlantic until the following April, he put into Surinam with provisions and coal expended, and the vessel's bottom like a thrummed mat from the marine accumulations on it. She lay there long enough to cemniunioate with Briatin; and two engineers being sent out after four months' respite, she again essayed the pathless tiack on July 21, !Bf>7, and 0:i September 23, in 3 e'egreos 9 minutes N., 13 degrees 12 minutes E , she was spoken by the Hampshire. It appeared that for the previous three days no cooked food had been made use of, for the very simple reason that there was no fuel left witli which to light a fire, everything combustible having been expended, even to the fragments of the cases in which cargo was stowed. Her bottom was as foul as ever ; and being of light draught, the twin screws were a te-.rible drag to her sail, though of course Vhey could not be unshipped. Some idea of her courso was obtained from the ofllcer sent in charge of the boat, who stated that she had crossed and re-crossed the line times, and was at one time as far south as 5 deg. The master's intention was to attempt, if possible, to make Pernambuco the next port of call.