SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Westport Times, Volume IV, Issue 713, 20 September 1870, Page 2

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

WESTPOItT. HIGH WATER. This Day ... 5.12 a.m., 5.54 p.m. To-morrow 6.38 a.m., 7.19 p.m. ARRIVALS. Sept. 19 —Murray, s.s., 56 tons, Palmer, from Nelson. G. Besley, agent. DEPARTURES. Sept. 19 —Murray, s.s., Palmer, for Hokitika. PASSENGER LIST. Per Murray, from Nelson—Mrs Fanay, Mrs Moffatt, Miss Moffat t, Messrs Pitt, Taylor, Fiihay, and 1 in steerage. IMPORTS. Per Murray, from Nelson—3 cases plants, King; 10 qr-casks ale, Falla; 1 parcel, Graves ; 10 boxes eggs, 1 coop fowls, Taylor ; 1 case, I cask, Martin. Shipped at Motueka —4 boxes eggs, Levatte j 4do do, Brown ; 4 do do, T. M'Kee. The schooner Mary is still moored in the river, awaiting an opportunity to proceed to sea. She will probably not leave before "Wednesday, the depth of water on the bar being barely sufficient during the present lt-w tides to admit of her being towed out with safety. The p.s. Lioness is still aground at Hokitika, but is expected to be got off to-day. The steamer Murray left Nelson at noon on Saturday, calling at Motueka, and arrived at Westport yesterday morning. She sailed the same evening for Greymouth and Hokitika. On August 31st, as the mail steamer Wonga Wonga was on her passage from Honolulu, one of the saloon passengers accidentally fell overboard, the ship at the time going nearly ten knots. Life buoys were at once thrown out, and the engines immediately reversed full speed, and in a few minutes, when within a quarter of a mile of the spot, one of the quarter boats was lowered, and, in charge of the chief officer, was pulled towards him. The gentleman appeared to be greatly exhausted when the boat reached him, and he was taken out of the water quite unconscious. On the 4th of September, at 5 a.m., the wind fresh from the S.K., and ship under all sail, the fore and maintopsails, together with their mastheads, came down, with all sails attached. The ship was at once stopped to prevent fouling the wreck, and to secure the foreyard. On the 7th, a disarrangement occurring to the machinery, the engines were stopped for seventeen hours, and the wind being very light, the ship made little headway. On the Bth, one of the seamen, who had been ill for some time previously, died. A collision occurred off Whangarei on the 3rd inst. between the steamer Go-ahead and Ivanhoe. One of the boats of the Go-ahead was destroyed and the rigging injured. The barque Kate sailed from Auckland on the 7th instant with sixty diggers, passengers for the newly opened goldfields in Queensland. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. ARRIVALS. Poet Chalmers. —Sept. 17—Claud Hamilton, from Bluff; Tararua, from Lyttelton. Sept. 18 —Airedale, from Lyttelton. Qretmouth.—Sept. 18 —Kennedy, from Westport. BiiT/EF.—Sept. 19 —Airedale, from Dunedin. DEPARTURES. Poet Chalmers.—Sept. 19—Claud Hamilton, for Lyttelton.