Shipping Intelligence.

Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 391, 31 October 1868, Page 4

Shipping Intelligence.

PORT OF WESTPORT. HIGH WATER. This Day ... 9.25 a.m., 9.50 p.m. ARRIVALS. Oct 30—Northern Light, schooner, 91 tons, Agnew, from Melbourne. Spence Brothers and Co., agents. DEPARTI T RES. Oct 80—Waipara, s.s., Bascand, for the South. J. C. Paton, agent. John Penn, s.s., Carey, for Hokitika and the Grey. John Johnson, agent. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Alert, for Fijis, on or about Ist Nov. John Penn, for Nelson and Manukau. VESSELS IN PORT. Ketch —Mary. Schooners —Necromancer, Mount M'Laren, Ottawa, Northern Light., IMPORTS.

Per Waipara, from Hokitika—2 cases sundries, Fleming, Parry, and Murray ; 5 eases wine, Tonks and Hughes. Per John Penn —From Onehunga—4 hhds eggs, Duff. Froxa Wanganui—3B head cattle, Johnson. From Nelson—l 6 gunnies sugar, 27 pkgs do, Leslie; 12 barrels beer, Waite ; 6 pkgs butter, 4 cases fruit, 1 case fowls, 17 cases eggs, Will; 16 kegs butter, 42 cases °gg s > 6 bags barley, 5 boxes fruit, 15 barrels, 3 kegs butter, 2 cases eggs, 1 do butter, Gibbons ; 4 hhds ale, Morey; 24 do, 20 qr-casks do, Beauchamp; 8 pkgs Hay ; 80 bags flour, Gibbons ; 2 pockets hops, 20 bags malt, Leslie; 25 pes machinery, Moore j 7 cases eggs, 4 cases butter, Brown.

The 5.3. Waipara arrived in the river on Thursday evening, and brought the Westport portion of the Panama letters. She took in thirty tons of cargo, and started at seven o'clock yesterday morning, hoping to be able to get into Charleston, but returned about ten o'clock in consequence of being unable to enter that port. The s.s., John Penn, left yesterday evening for Greymouth and Hokitika. The s.s., Kennedy, may be expected here to-day, she left Nelson at 9.30 yesterday morning, but the wind at present is against her.

The schooner, Northern Light, was towed in yesterday evening by the Lioness. She brings a cargo of produce, and left Melbourne on the 17th inst.; she is the property of Messrß Spence Brothers and Co.