SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 431, 17 December 1868, Page 2

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

WESTPORT. HIGH WATEB. This Day ... 12.14 a.m., 12 39 p.m. ABBIYAXS. Murray, -ss., Holmes, from Nelson. J. •Kirby, agent. DEPARTl T EES. John Penn, s.s., for-Greymouth and Hdki'tika. T?ASSEKGEB LIST. •Per Murray, from Nelson—Messrs Falla, Smart, Kirby, Smith, Orton. r"er John Penn, for Hbkitika and Greymouth—Lieut. Woods and 10 othors ; and '65 original. iarpouTS. Per Murray, from Nelson—3s cases brandy, Leslie ; 2 cases eggs, Falla'; 2 cases, 4 kegs butter, 4 cases eggs, 2 do confectionery, 2 bags bacon, 2 do hams, 6 cases oranges, Smith ; 6 bags potatoes, order; 1 case drapery, Fleming and Co-; 15 cases do, Fait and M'Coy; 5 bales do, White and Pirie ; 2 tanks hops, 10 bags flour, 10 do malt, Leslie; 1 box, Trimble; 2 cases glass, Hanson; 2 cases gooseberries, Smith '; 1 case geese, Morey; 2 parcels, order; 3 bales sails, Wallabi; 12 •kegs butter, 5 cases eggs, 9 do fruit, 4do poultry, 6 do oranges, 6 do onions, 3 kegs butter, 5 pkgs vegetable Pickard ; 20 lihds, (i qr-casks ale, 4 cases fowls, 1 case eggs, 11 cases fruit, 1 basket do, 77 sheep, Falla. EXPORTS. Per John Penn, for Greymouth and Hokitika—3s2Bozs lOdwts 20grs gold, Bank of New South Wales ; 1844-ozs Odwts 18grsgold, Hank of New Zealand. The steamer Murray returned to port yesterday from Nelson. No intimation of her departure from Nelson was made by the Telegraph Department. If this were an exceptional circumstance, notice might not be taken of it ; but it is not exceptional. It is more the rule than the exception for the Nelson telegraph office to neglect forwarding intimations of the arrival and departure of steamers. From other ports with which Westport is not connected by business interests, shipping telegrams are received regularly. From Nelson, with which West port is intimately connected, they are received most irregularly, the vessels often arriving before the telegrams. Yet we believe that there are four employes in the Nelson office, "with two messengers. If they cannot make arrangements with the Harbor Master, as is done here, they should be made to make ' them.

The s.s. Waipara was to leave Hokitika for Westport and other ports, last evening, with a full cargo.

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

ARRIVALS. Greymouth.—Dec. 16 Lord Ashley, • from Nelson. DEPARTURES. Hokitika.—Dec. 16—Waipara, for G-rey-'mouth, at 11 a.m. Alhambra, for Greymouth. Alma, for Melbourne. Nelson. —Dec. 15—Murray, for Westport. —Telegraphed fire hours after her arrival in Westport.