SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Westport Times, Volume IV, Issue 691, 30 July 1870, Page 2

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

WESTPOET. HIGH WATER. This Day ... 11.26 a.m.. 11.16 p.m. To-morrow 0.5 p.m., 0.24 p.m. Monday ... 0.43 p.m., 1.4 p.m. ARRIVALS. Nil. DEPARTURES. July 29 —Kennedy, s.s., Whitwell, for Ilokitika. PASSENGER LIST. Per Kennedy, for Hokitika —Dr Acheson, Mr Seaton, Christy Minstrels (8), Messrs Pickard and Hunter. IMPOKTS. Per Kennedy, from Nelson—39 bags sugar, Bailie and Humphrey ; 1000 bricks, 1 keg nails, 2 boxes tacks, Bull and Bond ; 1 bale leather, 1 trunk boots, 1 case do, 4 kegs butter, Jackson ; 2 sacks potatoes, 8 cases fruit, 2do fish, 1 do eggs, 1 box, M'Kee; 5 bags bran, West; 10 do do, Stitt Bros.; 30 do do, Powell and Co.; 6 boxes apples, 1 bag onions, Carpenter; 6 sacks lime, Bull and Bond ; 30 do bran, Bailie and Humphrey ; 12 cases stout, Powell and Co.; 1 cask pitch, 2 coils oakum, 2 blocks, 1 parcel, Stitt Bros.; 3 pkgs, King; 1 case drapery, Graves and Fleming. Shipped at Motuekn—3 cases eggs, 1 box butter, Jules Simon; 27 bogs turnips, fi do barley, 4 do peas, 3 cases eggs, Falla ; 2 do do, 1 do butter, Stitt Bros.; 1 do eggs, M'Kee; 2 bags bacon, Raw lings; 13 do potatoes, Munro. EXPORTS. Per Kennedy, for Ilokitika —90 sheep, 40 pigs, Seaton ; 1 pircel, Gilmer.

The 5.9. Kennedy sailed for Hokitika and Greymouth last night at 10 o'clock. The s.s. Storm Bird will leave this morning for Nelson and Wanganui. Mails will be despatched by her for the North, and for Europe. The p.s. Charles Edward, after undergoing a complete overhaul and repairs, was announced to leave Nelson for West-port yesterday. H.M.S. Blanche is now due in New Zealand , having left Sydney on the 2nd inst. on a cruise to the Auckland Islands to search for shipwrecked people. We take the following from the HaicJce's Bay Times of the 11th inst.:—" The efforts made during the past week to get the Star of South alloat again have not, we regret to say, proved so successful as was at first anticipated, and we now learn that all further attempts to get her off have been abandoned." At Invercargill, on July 14th, Robert Eeid, master of thelighter Brothers, when going down theriver.wasknoeked overboard by thetillerand drowned. The anchor was dropped at once, and the boat put out, but he had sunk. The deceased leaves a wife and family, residing either at Dunedin or Port Chalmers.

BY ELECTS TO TELEGRAPH.

ARRIVALS. Gkeymouth.—July 28 Rangitoto, for Hokitika. DEPARTURES. Gbeymouth.—July 28 Lyttelton, for Westport ; Bangitoto, for Nelson.