SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 551, 7 September 1869, Page 2

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

WESTPpjtT. HIGH WATER. This Da? ... 10.25 a.m., 10.50 p.m. To-morrow 11.20 a.m., 11.44 p.m. ARRIVALS. Se]>t. 4 —Charles Edward, p.s., Palmer, from Il'ikitika and Greymouth. N. Edwards and Co., agents. Sept. s—Dagmar, schooner, Smith, from Dunedin. J. Munro, agent. Charlotte, cutter, Johnston, from Kaiapoi. Master, agent. DEPARTITRES. Sept. 4—Charles Edward, p.s., for Nelson. IMPORTS. Per Charlotte, from Kaiapoi—322 sacks potatoes, 85 bags oats, 25 pieces bacon, 8 butter, 2S pair? fowls, 12 sacks carrots, Bailie and Humphrey, Per Dagmar, from Dunedin—l94 bags potatoes, order ; 40 bags salt, 50 do outs, 6 cases lidi, 88 bags oats, 140 bags flour, 36' bales chaff, Powell and Co.; 129 bags potatoes, 17 cases. 1 package coffee, fiO bags I ran, 15 bags pollard, SO hags flour, Bailie and Humphrey ; 1 whale boat, order. The Dagmar and the Charlotte, both with cargoes of produce from the East Coast, arrived on Sunday. The Dagmar, which left Dunedin on the 18th ultimo, brings, in addition to her carg.j under hatches, a surf boat for Charleston harbor.

The schooner Mary V>n Every was unable to leave the Buller, as was intended, on Friday evening, and is at present in the lagoon, in safe shelter from the heavy freshes hi the river and from the unusual surf. A misstatement of facts was made in our shipping report with regard 11 the atep3 taken to recover the cutter Pearl, which was carried out of the Buller by the last big fresh in the river. It was stated that the captain of the cutter proceeded by the steamer Charles Edward, with the intention of boarding the vessel at sea. The captain of the cutter did not do so. What was done was this. Mr John Munro, as agent for the vessel, endeavored to make arrangements for the cutter Harry Bluff to proceed in search of the Pearl, and to take with her sufficient ballast to put the Pearl in a sea-worthy condition. But this arrangement Could not be effected in consequence of tho broken weather and (he very heavy surf on the bar. All that could be effected was to send men along the beach to the northward, in the expectation of the vessel drifting ashore, and this was done. The steamer Charles Edward did approach the vessel at sea, but the swell prevailing was too heavy to permit of her being boarded eaa.iy, and, with such a sea on, and with the Pearl in the unballasted condition in which she was, the probability is that, if an attempt had been made to tow her, the attempt would have been successful in nothing but taking the mast out of her. Thus the Pearl was unavoidably left to her fate, and what that has been i 3 not yet known. Had the weather permitted, tho Harry Bluff would, of course, have been despatched, and tho loss, if loss it is to be, would probably have been averted.