SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE

Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 338, 31 August 1868, Page 2

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE

POET OP WESTPOBT. HIGH WATER. This Day ... 7.58 a.m., 8.23 p.m. ARRIVALS. Aug 29 Necromancer, schooner, Calvert, from Wanganui Inlet. Gibbous and Co., n gents. . . Mount M'Laren, schooner, Williams, from Picton. Allen and Suisted, agents. • - Aug 3o—Charles Edward p.s., Palmer, from llokifcika and the Grey. N. Edwards and Co., agents. DEPARTURES. Nil. PASSENGER LIST. Per Kennedy, for Nelson —Mr and Mrs Luscombe and two children; Mr and Mrs Lightband and two children ; Inspector Fianklyn, Mr jtt Smith, Mrs Kirby, Mressrs M. Lightband,' Porter, Hunter, M'Artney, 8011, and four in steerage. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. John Penn, from Manakau, via Nelson. Nelson.from Nelson. Waipara, from Wellington. VESSELS IN PORT. Schooners Fairy, Necromancer, Mount M'Laren. Ketch—Alert. Steamers —Lioness, Charles Edward. IMPORTS. Per schooner, Necromancer, from Wan ganui Inlet —40 tons of coal, order. Per Mount M'Laren, schooner, from Picton tioo feet timber, Allen and Suisted. EXPORTS. Per Kennedy, for Nelson —7 kegs butter, 2 pkgs bacon, Fisher ; 200 sheep skins, order ; 4 boxes tobacco, Loekhart; I box bullion, Uunion Bank.

The p.s. Charles Edward came up from Gr.'ymouth yesterday afternoon, and at the top "of the flood her commander pushed her on for the bar. The sharp turn of the river's reach was successfully crossed, and the fine boat made good way up the channel until she reached the turning. Now her difficulties commenced, and although every endeavor was made by the commander to keep the vessel in the fairway, it soon hecame app irent that she would have to succumb to the influence of the backwater, and the gallant boat bit the ground on the north shore, just inside of th • turn of the reach Immediately upon her touching, hawsers were run out to the south spit, but being then late on the tide, no effort could be made for hauling her into deep water again. However, on to-morrow morning's tide, it is fully expected that the Charles Eclw ird will float, and her appearance alongside the wharf will be fully expected this morning. Weperceive by advertisement that the p.s. Charles Edward proceeds to Manukau, talcing passengers for Khe Auckland goldfields, aaa mat alio is announced to sail to-morrow. We take the above from the "Westland Observer" of the 28th inst. to which we add the following :—ln one hour after her touching the shore, the Charles Edward floated and went over to the other side. At six o'clock in the morning she steamed np the river and left at the same hour in the evening, when over a thousand people assembled on the beach to see her take the bar. The Persevere which went her struck three times, but this gallant boat got clear out to sea. She brings sixty steerage passengers from Hokitika for Auckland, and fourteen in the saloon for Westport. The Hokitika bar is in a bad state, and there is not another boat trading to that port which would have attempted the feat the Charles Edward has performed. She reports that 150 men were engaged cutting a channel through the south bank when she left.

A topsail schooner, supposed to be the Rambler from Newcastle, via Westport, was sighted to the north of Hokitika on Thursday, and by sunset came up within a mile of the anchorage. The brigantineMary, from Westport, arrived at Newcastle on the IBth inst. The China. Tea Clippers.—" We observe, says the Melbourne " Argus" that three of the t»a clippers, which left Foo-chow-foo for London on the same day, early in June—the Sir Lancelot, the Ariel, and the Taeping—passed Anjer Point on the 22nd June. The Ariel, which sailed in company with the Sir Lancelot, and a few days afterwards was spoken by a passing steamship six miles ahead of the Sir Lancelot, was the last to pass Anjer Point, but there could only have been a very few hours between the three after the long run down the China Sea."

It is stated that the owners of the White Star line of vessels have purchased a very fine steamship of 2500 tons burden, to trade between London and Lyttelton, in charge of Captain White ef the clipper Blue Jacket. A new paddle steamer named the Duke of Edinburgh, has bosn placed to trade between Auckland and the Thames Goldffelds. She was built at Auckland, and her trial trip on July 18th, with steam at a pressure of thirteen pounds, she averaged eight knots in the hour. Sho carries 140 passengers, and twelve of a crew.

The p.s. Bruce, which has for some time been undergoing repairs on M'Kinnon's slip at Port Chalmers, was launched on the 15th instant, and may be expected in our waters in a few days. Notice to Mariners.—lt is notified that a fixed red light will he exhibited from the flagstaff on the outer end of the Queen's wharf extension, Wellington, and will be visible from NN E round by E to SS E. Compass bearing to light—Jerningbam Point, Wby S ; Halswell Point, Wby Si S; Somes' Island Lighthouse, SWf W ; N- ahauranga, Sby W|W; Pipitea Point, SJW. The bearings are magnetic; variation 150 En 1855.