SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 533, 22 July 1869, Page 2

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

WESTPOET. HIGH WATER. This Day... 8.30 a.m., 9.0 p.m. To-morrow 9.28 a.m., 9.54 p.m. ARRIVALS. July 20—Murray, s.s., M'Gillivray, from Np!?oii. J. W. Kirby, agent. Lyttelton, p.a., Scott, from Greymouth. N. Edwards and Co., agents. DEPAKTl T RES. July 21— Lyttelton, p.s., for Nelson. Murray, s.s., lor Greymouth. PASSENGER LIST. Per Lyttelton, from Greymouth—Messrs Trimble and Brown, and 3 for Nelson. Per Lyttelton, for Nelson—Messrs Freeth, Fairey, Honan, and 3 original. Per Murray, from Nelson—Messrs Harper, Smith, Paul, Nanearrow, Molier, Mackay, Bell, Aiken, Cator, and Mrs Stevenson. IMPORTS. Per Lyttelton, from Greymouth —2 cases drugs, 15 kegs samples, 1 keg butter, N. Edwards aud Co. Per Murray, from Nelson—7s bags flour, order ; 23 casts fruit, 6 cases eggs, Molier; 2 kegs nails, Bull and Bond ; 1 bale leather, Roberts aud Simpson ; I*4 eases cheese, 12 kegs butter, Powell and Co.; 6 eases herrings, Fulla ; 0 hhds, 6 casks beer, Allen ; 2 cases eggs, Alcorn and M'Farland ; 6 cases apples, 1 box eggs, Hay ; 4 boxes do, order ; 3 bags potatoes, 1 parcel, Christie; 1 pkg, Porter ; 44 boxes bran, Myers and Co ; 1 case drapery, Wiiyte and Pirie ; 1 ease books, Muusou ; 5 hhds beer, 3 cases eggs, Falla; J horse, 25 pigs, t>7 sheep, 1 calf, Bell; 16 bales chaff, Bailie and Humphrey. EXPORTS. Per Lyttelton, for Nelson—4 cases drapery, 1 trunk boots, N. Edwards and Co. Wc learn that the s.s. Kennedy is to bo despatched direct from Hokitika to Nelson. Since she has been got off the beach at Hokitika, she has been found to bo rather leaky, and she is to sail without passengo s, and with a strengthened crew. On arrival at Nelson she will undergo examination and any necessary repairs. The brigantiue Mary, bound for Melbourne. is still in port, the Lioness not having yet arrived from Hokitika for the purpose of towing her out. Tho Somersetshire mado a splendi! run home, having accomplished the voyage in sixty days, fe'he left Melbourne on the 9th of March, and reached Plymouth on the 9th of May, although at no time experiencing a continuance of prosperous winds. THE WRECK OF THE BRUCE. Tho following is tho judgment given by the Collector of Customs at Greymouth after the inquiry into the circumstances under which tho steamer Bruce was wrecked : " The vessel was lost through unavoidable accident, by the roughness of the sea outside the bar driving the vessel into the break. That the accident occurred during an attempt to return to the Grey, the master finding the sea too rough, by a heavy sea having struck tho ship, driving her bow to starboard, bursting in companion-door and skylight. That there is no blame to be attached to tho master for crossing tho bar, as the signalman's evidence proves tho bar was safe at the time, but he did not have the lights ready owing to no application having been made." To this ill. &W.v«> ayjieuuS mc xununlug oufigestion: —" As, however, most of the accidents and wrecks that tako place within my district happen not on tho bar but on the beaches, 1 would recommend, owing to the peculiar force and set of the sea, that in future the opinions of the harbor authorities should be t;'ken, not only for tho safety of a vessel crossing tho bar, but as to the safety outside for the stato of tho beach to Point Elizabeth on tho north, aud Saltwater on the south. In fact, combining their opinions with the state of the beach with the state of the bar."