Shipping Intelligence.

Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 352, 16 September 1868, Page 2

Shipping Intelligence.

PORT OF WESTPORT. HIGH WATEE. This Day ... 9.30 a.m., 10.0 p.m. New moon at midnight. ABBIVALS. Nil. BEPAETCJEE3. Nil. PROJECTED DEPAETTJEES. Charies Edward, for Manukau.on I7fh inst VESSELS IN POET. Ketch—Alert. Cutter—Satellite. Schooners—Enterprise, Amateur. Steamers—Lioness. EXPECTED AEEIVALS. Nightingale, from Melbourne. Ceries, from Melbourne. Mary, from Melbourne -Kennedy, from Nelson. Charles Edward, from the south. Wallabi, from Wanganui. kelson, from Greymouth. Beautiful Star, from Greymouth.

"The Ocean Derby" of this year promises to be unusually exciting, on account of the number of .first-class clippers competing. In the race from Fooehoo fire vessels are engaged, and -so great an interest is taken that a mercantile circular received by this mail gives the hours and minutes of their departure for London. The Sir Launcelot and Ariel cast off their steamers simultaneously at 2.20 p.m. •oa May 28th, the Sir Launcelot being then •three quarters of a mile a-head. The Taeping got to sea at 6 p.m. on the same day, and was followed next day by the Spindrift. The Lah-100 left at 3.30 on the same day. The race down the China sea appears to have been very close, and so far in favor of the Taeping, which passed Angier on the morning of June 22, followed by the Sir Launcelot, Belted Will ((from Canton, Mar 27), and Ariel in the order named. The Lah-100 passed early next day; the Spindrift was not reported up to the 25th. From Shanghai six ships have started—the Poreward Iio! and Nim on June the Ist ; Tietsin, Titana, and Leander, on the 23rd ; and the Eliza Shaw on the 16th.