SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 553, 11 September 1869, Page 2

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

WESTPORT. man water. This Day ... 1.43 a.m., 2.15 p.tn. To-morrow 2.43 a.m., 3.8 p.m. Monday ... 3.36 a.m., 4.0 p.m. ABEIYALS. Sept. 9—Charles Edward, p.s., Palmer, from Nelson. A. W. Bennett, agent. Lyttelton,.p.s., Scott, from Nelson. Master, ngont. Sept. 10 —Wallabi, b.s., Daniels, from Wangauui. Fleet h and Greig, agents. DEPAKTVKES. Sept. 9—Lytteltou, p.s., for Greymouth. Sept. 10 —Charles Edward, p.s., for Greyn'outh. PASSEJfGEB LIST. Per Charles Edward, from Kelson—Rev. Mr Mules, Messrs Garrard, Kelly,Pasooe, and J'ickurd ; i> for Hokitika and Greyruouth. IMPORTS. Per Wallabi, from Wanganui—ss head of cattle, 80 sheep, 30 pigs, 3 tons bran, 2 tuns potatrcs, 2 tons carrots, 4 kegs butter, Freeth and Greig. Per Charles Edward, for Nelson—6 hhds ale, Fallk ; 1 bale leather, Colreavy ; 1 do, .Fox ; 12 pkgs, order; 2 cases, Collector of Customs; 53 pkgs Hailie and Humphrey; 1 box ef.'i;s, Parerund Arenas; 1 pkg,Louing; 1 case fowls, Shea ; SO pkgs, O'Neill; 3 cases eggs, order ; 2 do, Kins; ; 1 parcel, J. South£rn ; 3 pkgs, Alcorn aud Co.; 1 do, Anslow ; 3 do, Pickering. The Wallabi arrived yesterday from Wanganui with one of the finest mobs of cattle that have been imported to Westport for a number of months. The steamer Lyttelton, on the previous day, made a brief call at this port on her way south. The Charles Edward left by the uext tide fos the same destination. On her return she proceeds to Nelson, Wangamii, and the Mauukau. The s.s. John Penn is expected at Westport to-day or to-morrow. It is the ii.te if ion of her owner, Captain Johnson, to place her permanently in tho West Coast, Nelson, and Manukau trade. A new coasting steamer is thus noticed by the Marlborough Express; —"We have this week been shown a beautiful model of a ■steamer about to be constructed in Port Underwood by Messrs Norgrove, the owners of tho Amateur. The lines are very graceful and proportionate. The vessel will be ninety fee! long, with twenty feet beam, and estimated to draw four and a half feet when loaded. She is intended to trade between Blenheim, Welliugton, and the Kaikoura." On Sunday last, as tho schooner Canterterbury, timber laden, from Queen Charlotte's Sound, was crossing tho bar at the Wanganui Heads, the wind suddenly died away and she was drifted by the current on to the sand spit. Fortunately the weather was afterwards fine, and she got off without serious damage. The A.S.N. Company, of Sydney, makes the following announcement in tho Herald of August 23 : —" Owing to the absence of sufficient inducement, it has b en found impracticable to despatch tho steamer Rangatira as intended. Since her withdrawal, however, it has been ascertained that several Orders have been received in town, and if shippers will at once intimate to the Traffic Manager tho quantity of cargo which they will individually engage to ship, arrangements may bo concluded to despatch a Steamer for Hokitika, Nelson, Wellington, Lyttelton, and Otago, on or about tho Ist i September," Some time a seaman was missed from the schooner Storm Bird at Wanganui. The body of the unfortunate man has since been found at a place, in the neighborhood called the Bluff. The name of the man was John JBowdeu.

BOAT ACCIDENT IN" MANUKAU HARBOR.

SIX LIVES LOST. (From tho Southern Cross.) About dinnertime on Saturday, August2l, four bushmen, named Wm. Smith, Malcolm M'Giulay, George Grange (alias Darkey George, said to bo a deserter from the 11th Regiment), an I another man, name unknown, left the Onehunga wharf in a sailing boat, accompanied by two boatmen, named Thomas Robinson and Peter Johnson, ami a lad named Francis Williams, aged 15, their destination being the Cotnwallis Sawmills, where the bushmen were employed. Mr Matthew Henry Roe, tho employer of the four bushmen and the proprietor of tho Corawallis Sawmills, was at the wharf when the boat left, and gave the men their final instructions. About, four o'clock in tho afternoon the boat was observed by Mr Robert Letheart bottom upwards, drifting about in Big Muddy Creek. He at once put off in a rowing boat, when, on getting near to the upturned boat, the first thing that attracted bis attention was the boy Williams, who was Wing across the keel in a, state of insensibility, and, on further examination, he observed the body of a man (which proved to be that of Grange) in the water, fastened by a coil of rope to t e boat. Grange was quite dead, and it would appear as though, when the boat had upset, he had made himself fast, but being ur.able to reach tho swamped boat had been drowned, I efcheart hum diately conveyed the boy, who was in a moat exharited conditio -, to t'te shore, where he was fortunately brought round ; but at the time tho news came to town he had given no intelligible account of hov<- the accident had happened. In all probability the boat was upset by ono of those sudden gusts of wind which are so common in the Manukau harbor. It would appear that the sheet of the sail was fast when the boat was discovered floating bottom upwards by Letheart; if this were so the accident is easily accounted for, for it will be remembered that tho weather was very squally on Saturday, An inquest on tho body of George Grange, was held at the Royal Hotel, Onehunga, on August 23. After hearing the evidence, the jury returned a verdict " Accidentally drowned by the upsetting of a boat."