SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 549, 31 August 1869, Page 2

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

WESTPORT. HIGH WATER. This "Pay ... 4.1G a.m., 4,43 p.m. To-morrow 5.10 a.m., 5.3S p.in. AEEIVALS. Nil. DEPAETVRES. August 28—Charles Edward, p.s., for Nelson. Pearl, cutler, seeking. August 5:9 —Wullubi, s.s., for Greymouth. Tlie steamer Charles Edward encountered the full force of a northerly storm of win 1 and rain between Greymouth and Westport on Friday evening, but got safely into port towards midnight. A heavy fresh in the river was then setting in, and, us there was some risk in mooring alongside of any of the rick- tty wharves which Westport only possesses, she sought the shelter of the lagoon. At mid day on Saturday she sailed for Nelson. The steamer Murray, it will be seen, sailed on .Sunday from Greymouth to Neison direct. The shipping telegrams include information of the arrival of the Taraiua at the Bluff or. Saturday, and of the Alhambra and Gothenburg at Nelson, the former from the "West Coast, the latter from the East. An extraordinary general meeting of the Grey River Steam Tug Company, limited, was held at Kilgour's Union Hotel, ou Saturday week. Mr Moss, the company's manager, read a statement of the affairs of the company during the last three months, from which it appeared that the p.s. Dispatch earned £1721 in towages, freight and passage-money, £55 3s Gd, miking a total of £1776 3s (jd. During the quarter the expenses had been—working expenses, including repairs, interest, &e\, ,£663 19s Gd ; showing the nett profits to be £lll2 4s. Of this sum £l7l os Id was applied to the dividend p.dd on 17th May last ; leaving cash on hand .£7Ol 7s sd, and outstanding towages £179 13s Gd. These sums were capable of paying a dividend of 10 per cent., which dividend was declared. The Dispatch is thus paying the shareholders interest at the rate of 40 per cent, per annum. The American man-of-war, Kearsage, which sank tho confederate cruiser Alabama, off Cherbourg, and which hus htely been cruising amongst tlie South Sea Islands, is expected to visit Port Chalmers at an early date.

The steamer Maori, which has been purchased in Melbourne by the Dunedin Harbor Company, and which is now running between Dunedin and Lyttelton, under command of Captain Malcolm, is thus described :—Her dimensions are, length overall, 145 feet, b< am 20 feet, depth of hold, 9ft Bin ; she is 247 tons builder's measurement, and her register is 118, and her carrying capacity on Bft 6in draught of water is IGO tons under hatches. Her engines, which are on the direct acting principle, arc GO horso-power nominal, and capable of being worked up to 200 horsepower. She is a screw boat, and the rato of speed attained on her trial trip was ten and a half knots. Altogether, she is a compact, tidy-looking clipper, and will prove a great acquisition to the cranial ihe:. It appealß that Mr James Hall, the senior partner of the famous firm of Hall and Sons, shipbuilders, Aberdeen, died suddenly while aiding at the extinction of a lire in a neighbor's wood-yard. The deceased was the author of the now celebrated "clipper" model for ships, and his linn have long held a proud supremacy tor the beauty of build and sniiing powers of their vessels. He had reached his 6oth year. The ship City of Dunedin, Captain George Stuart, one of Messrs Patrick Henderson and Oo.'a line, lias made the fastest voyage to and from Otago on record. She left Glasgow on 21st October, ISGS, and arrived at Otago Heads on the lltli January, 82 days out. Anchored at Port Chalmers next day ; discharged her imva-'d cargo, and took outward a full cargo of 4367 bales wool, and sailed for London 11th March, having been 58 davs in port. The run home was made in 81 days to the Isle of Wight, and on the 83rd day she was docked in London, the wholo voyage thus occupying 224 days. The Robert Henderson left, the Bluff on the same day that the City left Port Chalmers, and was docked in London on the same day. A new composite clipper ship, called the James Fleming, has been launched at Glasgow. She is one of Patrick Henderson and Co.'s Otago line of vessels, and is to b? commanded by Captain Logan.