SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 563, 5 October 1869, Page 2

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

WESTPORT. HTGIt WATER. This Day ... 9.30 a.m., 9.53 p.m. To-morrow 10.17 a.m., 10.-11 p.m. ARRIVALS. Oct. 3—Wallabi, s.s., Daniels, from Wanganui. Freeth and Greig, agents. DEPARTURES. Oct. 2—Waipara, s.s., for Greymouth. Oct. 4—Wallabi, s.s., for Nelson. imports. Per Wallabi, from Wanganui—loo head of co H le, 200 sheep, 3 tons carrots, Freeth and Greig. It will be seen by our Charleston correspondence that the cutter Harry Bluff has become a total wreck at the entrance of Constant Bay or Charleston harbor. The wreck was complete, and unfortunately one of the crew was drowned and another killed by contact with the rocks. Notwithstanding the risk which vessels run in entering or leaving Constant Bay, this is the first disaster which has occurred to shipping in the entrance channel. Nothing but the most careful management could have averted disasters so long. The Harry Bluff was bound from Charleston for Westport when the accident occurred. The steamer Wallabi arrived off this port on Sunday morning, but too late for the tide. She entered the river in thewvening, and, having discharged her cattle, sailed for Nelson yesterday morning. Her purpose in sailing so quiekljf i'ui Nelson is to catch the height of spring tide, so as to get beached there previous to undergoing her periodical overhaul. She left Wanganui on Thursday, and at that time the steamer Keera, Capt. J. Bain, had on board a freight of cattle and sheep belonging to Messrs Dick and Seaton. She was expected to have that night, but, if she did so, it is possible she has put back or taken shelter in Port Hardy. Very severe weather prevailed after the Wallabi got across the Straits, and she was for two days under the shelter of Cape Farewell. In fact, for a week past, al though the weather has not been much felt on shore, there has been, at sea, a succession of heavy south-westerly and north-westerly gales. The steamer Murray is announced to sail to-day for Manukau direct. There are in town several parties from the Upper Grey district, who have come to this port as the most convenient from which to sail for the Thames goldfields. The steamer John Penn returned to Nelson on Sunday, after an apparently speedy passage to and from the Manukau. She'is announced to sail from Westport. for the same destination on Friday next. She will probably arrive from Nelson on her southward trip this evening. The present is the last trip of the steamer Lyttelton on the West Coast for this season. After t!iis trip she will resume the Nelson and Blenheim trade, iD which she was formerly en ; ployed. By all travellers who have the leisure and the taste to appreciate magnificent scenery, she will be much missed on the West Coast. Captain G. J. Finlayson, late master of the brig Anna Maria, trading between Dutiedin -..a tUu OWI-.nn, Talands. lias been broughtto Danediiv sentenced to ten mouths' imprisonment with hum labor forateaUnaat Waitangi (O. atham Islands), goods and chattels the property of one Hans Anderson. He has also received an additional sentence of 2 8 days' imprisonment with hard labor, for escaping from the gaol at Waitangi. D