SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Westport Times, Volume IV, Issue 638, 29 March 1870, Page 2

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

WESTPOKT. HIGH WATER. This Day ... 8.43 a.m., 9.9 p.m. To-morrow 9.29 a.m., 9.50 p.m. ARRIVALS. March 26—Wallabi, s.s., from Nelson. Freeth and Greig, agents. March 27 —Murray, s.s., from Greymouth. J. Paul, agent. Constant, kotch, from Charleston. DEPARTURES. March 27 —Wallabi, s.s., for Greymouth. Murray, s.s., for Nelson. PASSENGER LIST. Per Murray, for Nelson—Miss Voler, Mrs Murdoch, Messrs Matheson, Hunter, Moller, Burrell, Paul. IMPORTS. Per Wallabi, from Nelson—9 qr-casks brandy, Stitt; 80 bags flour, Bailie and Humphrey ; 10 kegs butter, Powell; 15 do Smyth; 1 trunk, Fair and M'Coy; 40 bags bran, Bailie and Humphrey; 20 do, Powell"; 10 do, West; I parcaj, Neale ; 1 roll oilcloth, Came ; 1 case drugs, Bowman ; 1 bag seeds, Carr ; 2 cases, cases Lewis ; 3*50 Gardinrr and Sutton ; I do, Sutcliffe ; 12 bags potatoes, Munro; 2 kegs butter, 5 cases eggs, Duff; 2 do, Bailie and Humphrey; 4 bales chaff, 3 do bran, 5 sacks potatoes, 1 do carrots, Stephenson ; 2 cases eggs, 2 kegs butter, Gardner; 1 case, 1 bale, Whyte and Pirie ; 1 case, 2 bales, Fair nnd M'Coy; 1 case drapery, Cato; Ido bacon, 5 do pickles, 2 qr-casks brandy, Bailie and Humphrey ; 8 bales chaff, Forder; 6 bags potatoes, 1 do onions, 2 boxes eggs, 1 keg butter, 13 half-cases fruit, Carpenter; 5 do, Hay; 5 do, 1 bag onions, 2 boxes eggs, 1 keg butter, Taylor; 8 bales chaff, Stitt; 4 do, West. Per Murray, from Hokitika—2o bags flour, Powell and Co. From Greymouth—lo bags flour, Smyth and Co.; 1 case galvanized iron, Carter. _ On Thursday week there was a lower tide on the east coast of Canteibury than has been known since the 18th of August, 1859, the time of the earthquake wave. Here also the sea at ebb tide was observably lower than usual. The sale of cargo and hull of the Hera has taken place at Port Underwood. Mr Blick, and Mr Johnston (of Levin and Co.), of Wellington, were the competing parties, and Mr Blick became the purchaser at £1460. _ A Tokomairiro paper states that the new lighthouse at the Nuggets is now completed and ready for occupation upon the arrival of the necessary supplies of oil, the structure being capable of storing several thousand gallons, sufficient for a year's supply. A company called tho Mid-Ocean Telegraph Company is now about to put the scheme upon its trial. H.M.S. Brisk has been lent to the company for the purpose of forming the first telegraph station, and to be moored some GO miles out at sea, off Penzance harbor. She is now being thoroughly overhauled and fitted as a regular telegraph station. The Brisk is to be in electrical communication with the Penzance post-office, and a powerful steam-tug will act as the tender. She lies in the fairway of every homewardbound vessel, and to Indian, Australian, and China clippers she can give their sailing orders, thus saving an immense expense which they would necessarily entail by calling for the same at any port. A ship may report herself to the Brisk, and in a few minutes afterwards her arrival would bo known at the office of her owner in the city of London, and within an hour of her making the telegraph station her destination can be altered at the pleasure of her owner.

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. ARRIVALS. Bluff.—March 27— Omeo, s.s., from Melbourne, at daylight, with the English mail. Wanganui.—March 27—John Penn, from Nelson, at 5 p.m. Hokitika.—March 27—Claud Hamilton, from North. Poet Chalmers.—March 28—Omeo, from Bluff, at 8 a.m. DEPARTURES. Bluff.—March 27—Omeo, s.s., from Dunedin, at 4.30 p.m. Hokitika.—March 28—Claud Hamilton, for Melbourne. ENGLISH SHIPPING. DEPARTURES. For Auckland—Van Galen, Jan. 17 ; Kate Waters, Jan. 22 ; Mary Shepherd, Jan. 27. For Otago—Albatross. For Wellington—Gloucester. LOADING. Achilles, Argyleshire, Muntquina, Santon. For Auckland—Circe. For Canterbury—Albion. For Nelson Equator, Pembroke, Schieballion. For Otago—Alexandrina.

POSTAL NOTICE. The English mail will close at 5 p.m. this day. For Nelson, Wanganui, Wellington, Taranaki, and Auckland, per s.s. VVallabi, this day, at 5 p.m. THOS. F. WINSTANLEY, Postmaster. Post Office, Westport, March 29,1870.