SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 462, 6 February 1869, Page 2

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

WESTPORT. ! HIGH WATER. Tliifi Day ... 5.26 a.m., 551 p.m. To-morrow 6.16 a.m., 6.41 p.m. All RIVALS. Feb. 4 —Beautiful Star, s.s., Hepburn, from Dunedin and intermediate porta. E. P. Boughton, ageut. Feb. s—Kennedy,s—Kennedy, s.s., Whitwell, from Givymouth. N. Edwards and Co., agents. Charles Edward p.s., Palmer, from Nelson. N. Edwards and Co., agents. WF.P ARTI'RES. Feb. s—Beautiful Star, 8.8., for Greymonth. Kennedy, s.s., for Nelson. Charles-Edward, p.s., for Greymouth. PASSENGER LIST. Per Beautiful Star, from Dunedin and intermediate ports Mrs Fleming, Mrs Richardson and 2 children, Mrs Wisdom and child, Miss Marshall, Mr Marshall, Mr Fleming; 4in the steerage. Per Kennedy, from ilokitika and Greymouth—Judge Clarke. Miss Thomson, Messrs Farling, Greenfield, Spence, Carew, Doyle, White ; and 18 for Nelson. Per Charles Edward, from Nelson—Mrs ■Mitchell and child, Messrs Elliott, Shallcrass, Gully; and 8 for southern ports. Per Kennedy, for Nelson—Nathan Troupe (10), and original. IMPORTS. ' Per Beautiful Star, from Dunedin—so cases geneva, 2 qr-casks whisky, 2 cases geneva, order ; 10 kegs blasting powder, Col lector of Customs ; 1 case cigars, 5 qr-casks spirits of wine, 3 cases, 2 bales drapery, 13 trunks books, ■ G boxes candles, 1 case coffee, 4 casks, 2 cases, order ; 2 crates glassware, 2 crates axes, 1 sack, 1 case, 2 bales. 2 bales iron, 0 drums oil, 1 box tinplale, Field ; 4 cases absynth, Leslie; I tank mat, Stitt Bros ; 100 bags flour, Patterson ; GO do, Smyth and Co ; 15 bags oatmeal, 25 bags barley, order j 24 cases coffee, Smyth and Co; 3 cases, 1 truss drapery, Fleming, Parry, and Murray ; 1 case paper, Tteid and Co ; 1 do ironmongery, Field ; Ido do, Southern; 2 packages', Held and Co; 100 bags oats,order; 10 kegs butter, 20 cases cheese, Bailie and Humphrey ; 10 kegs butter, Powell and Co; 1 chest, order j 'J cases pickles, 2 do raisins, 2 do sardines, J bags sugar, 9 cases oilmen's stores, 1 cask sugar, 1 case tapioco, Ileiidersou ; 3 bales paper, Reid and Co ; 2 casks cement, Field ; 2 cases sardines, 1 case coffee, Allen ; lease confectionery, Henderson ; 1 parcel, TJev. Mr Walsh; 25 kegs butter, order. From Wanganui —3O kegs butter, J. C. Eaton ; 100 sheep, Dick and Seaton. Per Kennedy, from Hokitika and Greymouth—2 pkgs, Bank of New Zealand; 1 keg nails, 1 cask glassware, 1 case do, 1 bell paper, 1 box clothes pegs, 2 kegs nails, Clarke; :I case crucibles, Union Hank; 4 hhds eggs, Duff; 2 cases wine, 1 do beer, Whiteford ; 2 casks 'emcinde, Braithwaite; 2 cases drugs, Williams. Fer Charles Edward, from Nelson—l parcel, Kowlanda ; 2 cases fri.it, Allen ; 1 do, Horn; 2 bags bacon, 1 keg butter, 1 box eggs, order; 2 boxes eggs, 12 bags potatoes, teases onions, Stitt Bros; 1 pkg pictures, Pitt; 1 case drapery, Anslow ; 1 coil rope, Lusk. EXTORTS. Per Kennedy, for Nelson—l ease vestas, rialler. The p.s. Charles Edward left Nelson at 4.30 p.m. on Thursday. Experienced strong westerly winds as far as Cape Farewell, ami moderate weather and calms for i' • re t of the passage, arriving hero at 3 p.m. ; ..aiurday. She brings a large cargo for this and southern ports, for which she sailed last evening. The steamer John Penn seems to have got quick despatch in the floating dock at Fori. Chalmers. She is already telegraphed as having arrived at Lyttelton on her way to the West Coast.

The steamer Bruce left Nelson on Wednesd it, but has not yet made her appearance at Westport. She bus probably put into Totaranui, heavy weather having been experienced along the coast. We understand that the JJruce is not to remain on the West Coast. She only proceeds to Hokitika, io remove a quantity of material belonging to tier owners. She is now under command of Captain Christian, formerly of the schooner Rifleman, and Mr Campbell continues as engineer. The steamer Beautiful Star, now under command of Captain Hipburn, formerly of the steamer Win. Miskin,arrived at Westport at 3 a.m. on Thursday. She left Dunedin at T p.m. on Friday, the 22nd ult., arrived at Ljttolton at 7 p.m. on Saturday; and remained there until Monday evening. She sailed at fi p.in., for Wellington, and arrived at Wellington at 8 a.m. on Wednesday, having encountered head winds and a heavy sea. On the arrival of the Uualiino at Wellington, with the Panama mails, the Star was chartered by the Government to carry the North Island and West Const mails, and was detained until midnight. Arrived at Nelson at half-past three next afternoon, after a rough passage through the Straits. Was detained there by a heavy south-easterly gale until Sunday iriorning. the same gale detaining the iiieebe and Wanganui for three days at Wellington. Arrived at Wanganui on Monday morning, and sailed on Tuesday at 3 o'clock.' TheKaahine gies to England from Wellington under steam, via the Straits of Magellan and iiio Janeiro, on the 27th of March. The Kaikoura and Rakaia sail homo.

During the month of January, 43 vessels •<tered in and 4 i chared out at" the port of Hokitika.

A new vessel, the Aborigine, under the command of Mr. J. Le Brun, late of the clipper Zephyr, is employed in the Hokitika trp.de. The Aborigine is a recent purchase of the owners of the Zephyr. News was lately reeeivd at Roekhnmpton of the wreck of the schcon t Jane Lockhart, on Bunker Group, outside Cape Caprieorn. The vessel was lost, but the master and crew managed to save their lives, and arrived at the Pilot Station, Keppel Bay, in a boat. The Jane Lockhart was bound "from Sydney to Broadsound, with a large cargo." The master of the Jane Lockhart was, we understand, Captain Machen, late of the Panaaia e-.d New Zealand Company's steamer Kaikoura. The schooner was insured, and at the time of her loss had a very large cargo on board.

A coincidence in connection with the recent voyage of the new iron clipper ship Tlieophahe is perhaps worthy of being recorded, hhe anchored in Hobsons Buy on Christmas Day, having left Liverpool on the 19th of October, 186 S. Seven years ajo, on the 20th of October, 1861, the s.s. Great Britain sailed from Liverpool, and arrived here on the day prior to Christmas Day. The Thcophane. l.owover. made the voyage from the- Erpvator in three days less than the Great Britain, and, ir.oreover, ihewas- becalmed in the tropics for fjur.days. Of course, the Great Britain's ; cissage was the shortest, but the results of the two voyages would sho.v that October is a favorable season for sailing from England.— Aryirs. —