SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Westport Times, Volume IV, Issue 687, 21 July 1870, Page 2

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

WESTPOBT. HIGH WATER. This Day ... 3.50 a.m., 4.14 p.m. To-morrow 4.44 a.m., 5.17 p.m. ARRIVALS. July 20—Storm Bird, s.s., 68 tons, P. D iile, from Wanganui. Freeth and Oreig, agents. DEPARTURES. July 19—Kennedy, s.s., Whitwell, for Hokitika. PASSENGER LIST. Per Kennedy, for Hokitika—Miss Wilshire, Mr Prosser. IMPORTS. Per Storm Bird, from Wanginui—lo kegs "butter, order; 7 do do, Chingand Henderson; 15 head cattle, 20 pigs, 80 sheep, 10 bags potatoes, 1 ton bran. 1 case fowls, Freeth and Greig ; 15 horses, Overeud. EXPORTS. Per Kennedy, for Hokitika—3 boxes gold, Bank of Zealand.

The s.s. Storm Bird left Wangnnni on Tuesday morning, at 2 o'clock, arrived in the Buller roadstead yesterday at 4 a.m., and crossed the bar at 3 p.m., discharged a small freight of live stock, and steamed alongside the wharf at 5.30 p.m. i rior to her being purchased by her present owenrs, she had been engaged in the Auckland, Wellington, and Dunedin trade. She will now be placed on the Nelson, Wanganui, and West Coast trade, and possessing good passenger accommodation, she will secure her fair proportion of the traffic. The Storm Bird sailed at four o'clock this morning for Nelson and Wanganui. We understand the cutter Charlotte, produce laden, was in sight yesterday. She is consigned to Messrs Bailie and Humphrey. The Mary Jane, schooner, from Charleston, essayed to get in on Tuesday night, and made seve'ral efforts, tho wind, however, failing her. She anchored inside the bar for the night, and made the offing the following morning, h iving no wind to carry her up the river. She might, however, have been tracked up at low water. The Independent of July 7th thus rec irds the loss of two lives on the last trip of barque Frowning Beauty, from Wellington to Newcastle :—Two days after leaving this port, at noon, she was caught in a squall, in Cooks Strait, which necessitated the shortening sail. The chief officer and two seamen were furling the jib, when the former and one of the latter were knocked off the boom by the flapping of the sail. The ship was immediately hove aback, and a boat lowered ; but the boat filled almost immediately and broke adrift. Every effort was made to rescue the drowning men, but without effect; as nothing was seen of them after they fell off the boom, although the vessel remained some time near the place where the accident occurred. The chief officer, Mr M'Lean, was a careful man, and well Bkilled in his profession ; he was a universal favorite with all who had the pleasure of his acquaintance ; and his loss will be regretted by a large circle of friends.

ST ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. ARRIVALS. Wanganui.—July 19—John Penn, from Westport. DEPARTURES. Wellington.—July 19—Claud Hamilton, for Nelson. Nelson. —July 20 —Murray, for Westp irt.