SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Westport Times, Volume II, Issue 236, 4 May 1868, Page 2

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

rOIIT OF WESTPOBT. ItlUir WATER. This Day ... 7.12 a.m., 7.30 p.m. ARRIVALS. May 2—Kennedy, s.s., Whilwell, from Nelson. Edwards and Co., agents. Murray s.s., Holmes, from Nelson. May 3 —John Perm, s.s., Carey, from Nelson. DEPARTURES. May 2—Kennedy, s.s., Whitwell, for the Grey and Hokitika. Murray, s.s., Holmes, for Greymouth. Nightingale, barque, M'Phaiden, master, for Newcastle. Spenco Bros., agents. PASSENGER LIST. Per John Penn, from Nelson—Madame Carandini, Mdmlls Carandini, Messrs Shcrwin, Weir, Anslow, Kirwan, Taylor, Orate, Goodwin, Morison, Blundell, Dupuis, Preeth, Longhotfcom, Pisani, Martin, Mrs Pisani, Mdlles. Taylor, Parsons, and Tilly, in the cabin ; and eighteen in the steerage. EXPECTED At? RIVALS. Northern Light, from Melbourne. Murray, from Greymouth. Florence, from Melbourne. Waipara, from Wanganui, this day. Wallabi, from Wanganui, early. Wanganui, from Wanganui, early. Nelson, from Nelson, early. VESSELS IN POUT. Ketches —Mary, Sea Breeze, Young America (on I ho Spit). Steamers —John Penn, Lioness. IMPORTS. Per John Penn, from Nelson—3o eases porter, Leslie ; 42 bags potatoes, 7 do carrots, 10 kegs butter, 2 tons chaff, Burrell; 18 head cattle, Johnson ! 10 pigs, 11 cases apples, 2 tons chaff, 15 tons Hour, 20 sheep, Order ; 3 trunks boots, Fleming, Parry, and Co. ; 1 chest, 2 cases merchandise, Anslow ; 2 sacks, Wilson ; 2 quarter-casks 3 octaves ale, 1 bushel malt, 1 keg, Williams and Co. ; 8 quarter-casks ale, Beauchamp ; I bale merchandise, Rowlands ; 1 case, 1 package leather, Roberts and Simpson j 1 package paper, 10 packages ironmongery, Longbottom ; 1 bale drapery, Fleming, Parry, and Co. ; 2 cases merchandise, 2 kegs butter, Sehaefer ; 3 kegs butter, Allen ; 2 kegs butter, 1 bag oysters, Morgan ; and 20tons general cargo for Greymonth and Hokitika.

The barque Nightingale got safely away to sea on Saturday afternoon, and a large number of persons crowded the wharf to witness her departure. She was towed out by the Lioness without any difficulty, the bar being smooth and a preliminary survey by the steamer having proved that there was an abundance of water for her exit. She took away about a dozen passengers. The Nightingale is now an established favorite; we hope to see her before long again in the Buller, and that she may have a speedy passage to her pjesent destination. The s.s. Murray left Nelson on Tuesday Inst, Ihe 2?th alt., at 2 p.m., but was obliged to bring up at G p.m. under Separation Point, at that time a strong gale from the westward. She lay then' '• !i 7.30 a.m. next day, but was again compelku to anchor under Cape Farowell—the gale having, if anything, increased. Here she remained till Friday at 9 a.m., when she came on to the Duller, arriving off the bar at midnight and coming up the river in the morning. The Murray brought a very heavy cargo, nearly all produce, the property of the owners, Messrs J. and E. Paul. She sailed for Greymouth on Saturday evening, and will return here at onco and proceed to Nelson. After that she goes to Wanganui, having been chartered for three trips to convey stock. The s.s. Kennedy left Nelson on Tuesday last at 12 noon, but was compelled to piit into Totaranui that night, a strong southwester blowing. She lay there till Thursday morning at 8 o'clock, when she again got under weigh and reached Cape Farewell, where she was again obliged to remain. Left on Friday at 9 a.m., and arrived off the Buller bar that night at 9.30. Her cargo, as that of the Murray, was chiefly produce. She left for Hokitika on Saturday evening. The p.s. Nelson arrived at Nelson on Friday evening last.

The s.s. Rangatira, with produce from Canterbury for Hokitika, was in company with the steamers Kennedy and Murray, at Cape Farewell on Thursday last, but could not stem the gale that was blowing, owing to being short of coal, and she was compelled to run back to Nelson for a supply. She sailed again from that place on Saturday last. The topsail schooner Maid of Erin, from Melbourne, was off the bar last night, and will be towed in this morning. The s.s. John Penn left Nelson on Saturday last at 3.30 p.m., and arrived off Buller bar yesterday at 4 p.m. She encountered strong south-west winds and heavy sea. She brings 22 cabin and IS steerage passengers, and a large general cargo. She leaves this day for Greymouth and llokitika at 6 p.m. Wo arc indebted to the purser, Mr Gillons, for files of the Nelson papers. Loss of the Opitelta.—Copy of a letter from .Mr John Williams, consul at Navigators Island :—" You can report the loss of the Hamburg barque Ophelia, on the island of Otahu, in the Union group, called "Duke of York's Island, last June. The vessel was from China to Callao. She went ashore about midnight; one man was drowned ; she is a total wreck. The captain and three of the crew arrived here (Navigators) last Thursday, 16th January, in a boat they built on the island, flat bottom, with mat sails rigged like (he Chinese three masts. They had been living on the fat of the land —oocoanuts and fish—rather poor fat. The captain speaks well of the Baratonga missionary, Maka, as being very kind. The Sophie is still here loading, and expects to leave in February."— Sydney Morning Herald, April 9.