SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 508, 25 May 1869, Page 2

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

WESTPORT. lIIGH WATEB. This Day ... 9.9 a.m., 9.33 p.m. To-morrow lO.'i a.m., 10.28 p.m. Full moon to-morrow. AKEIVALS. May 22—Waipara, s.s., Bascand, from Nelson. J. 0. Paton, agent. Kemiedy, b.s., Whitwell, from Hokitika and Greyinouth. N. Edwards and Co., agents. May 23 —Bruce, p.s., Christian, from Hokitika and Ureymouth. G. Harper, agent. DEPARXFEES. May 22—Kennedy, s.s., for Nelson. May 23 —Waipara, s.s., for Greymouth. May 24—Bruce, p.s., for Nelson. Alert, ketch, for Lyttelton. The s.s. Waipara returned on Saturday, from Nelson, where she had undergone a thorough overhaul externally and internally. Cleaned and re-painted as she has been outside she is smart looking, and, overhauled as she lias been otherwise, she should be as smart ! s she looks. An attempt was made on Wednesday night by some scoundrel to sink the steamer Ynrra, then lying at the Hokitika wharf. The sea cock which supplies the boiler with water was turned on, and the men were roused by the water rising to their sleeping bunks. The vessel had fully four feet of water in her hold, and had sunk to the sponsons, and in a short time, had the cock not been stopped, would have sunk altogether. Smart work is now effected in the floating dock at Port Chalmers. The Airedale was taken into the floating dock at 1.30 p.m. on Tuesday, the 11th iust. The dock was pumped dry at 3 p.m. She was then scrubbed, cleaned, and received a coating of Lamble's patent composition, the whole work being finished by 11 p.m., and the vessel nndockvd at 2 a.m. on the 12th. The Great Britain has sailed from Melbourne for England with GOO passengers. Mr Mortimer, the chief - officer of the Echooner Mavis, which lias arrived at Charleston from Lyttelton, while fishing off Bock Point, caught a very large shark, and while hauling it over the side was severely bitten in the leg. For three days ha was confined to his berth, but is now recovering.