SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Westport Times, Volume IV, Issue 717, 29 September 1870, Page 2

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

WESTPORT. niGH WATER. This Pay ... 0.40 a.m., 1.2 p.m. To-morrow 1.24 a.m., 1.4G p.m. AHKIVALS. Sept. 28—Kennedy, s.s., 125 tons, Whitwell, from Hokitika and Greymouth. J. W. Willcocks, agent. Murray, s.s., 56 tons, Palmer, from Nelson. G. Besley, agent. Rose of Eden, schooner, Stevouson, from Lyttelton. DEPARTURES. Sept. 27—Lyttelton, p.s., Scott, for Hokitika. Sept. 28—Kennedy, s.s., Whitwell, for Nelson. Murray, s.s., Palmer, for Hokitika. PASSENGER. LIST. Per Charles Ed ward, from Wanganui—Mrs Admin and 2 children, Mrs Meredith and child, Mrs Conway, Miss Rathbone, Miss Neil, Messrs Seaton, Shannon, Williams, Patten, Harley, Knox, Cosgrove, Kenny, Hart, Russell, Lynch, Freeman, O'Connor, M'Hay, Barry, Ilalligan, M'Kennon, O'Kiiey, Hay, O'Brien, Charles, Scott, Henning, Douglass, and Captain Stack. Per Kennedy, from Hokitika—Mrs Wilkinson and children, Mrs Tanner, Mrs Sutton, Messrs Neale, Moore, Griffiths, and Canning. Per Murray, from Nelson—Messrs Paul, Falla, Taylor Drane, and 1 Maori. Per Murray, for Hokitika—Messrs Paul, T:iylor, and Draue. IMPORTS. Per Charles Edward, from Wanganui—3s head cattle, 150 sheep, 120 pigs, 4 horses, 3 goats, 1 coop turkeys, 1 do geese, 3 do poultry, 20 sacks potatoes, 10 do oysters, 3 do cocoa nuts, 10 bacon, 6 kegs butter, 40 cases oranges, 1 do bananas, 3 do eggs. 12 cases merchandise, Seaton and Davidson. Per Kennedy, from Hokitika—l6so feet timber, Courtney; 1 parcel nails, Simpson; 1 cask ale, order. Per Murray, from Nelson—3 bags potatoes, 1 do turnips, Hay ; 1 box silver coin, Bank of New South Wales ; 1 case drapery, Whyto and Pirie; 10 bags barley, 97 do flour, 10 hhds ale, 8 qr-casks do, Falla ; 1 bale leather, Blacklock; 1 case rabbits, Hughe"; 1 pkg forks, 1 do spadis, 1 do milkpans, 1 cask tar, Field; 30 stampers and bottoms, Jackson; 1 bag bacon, Du] uis ; 1 do oysters, Breach ; 2 cases oranges, 1 keg butter, Carpenter; 2 boxes eggs, Drane ; 1 horse, order ; 16 boxes eggs, 1 bag bacon, 2 coops fowls, Taylor. Shipped at Motueka—9 boxes eggs, 2 kegs butter, 3 pkgs bacon, 3 coops fowls, 14 bags carrots, 2-1 do potatoes, 7 boxes eggs, I pkg bacou, 1 keg butter, Falla ; 2 coops fowls, Taylor ; 12 bags potatoes, 4 boxes eggs, 1 keg butter, Levatte. Per Rose of Eden, from Lyttelton—34 bales chaff, Munro; 20 bags wheat, 3 cases hams and bacon, Stitt Bros.; 3 do do, Powell and Co.; 116 bags potates, 52 cheeses, Bailie and Humphrey; 76 bags potatoes, 12 cases eggs, 70 bags oats, 82 cheeses, 18 tins biscuits, 50 bags bran, 1 case cocoa, order. EXPORTS. Per Lyttelton, for Hokitika, transhipped ex Charles Edward —120 pigs, 3 horses, 3 coops fowls, 24 cases oranges, 6 kegs butter, Seaton. Per Three Friends, for Charleston—l case matches, 1 do marmahde, 1 keg nails, 1 bag peas, 2 cases wine, I do jams, 4 mats sugar, 1 half-chest tea, 4 mats sugar, 6 tins confectionery, 1 bag salt, 2 cases kerosene, 1 do peas, 1 box tobacco, 2 do candles, 3 cases stout, 2 do jams, 10 bags flour, Bailie and Humphrey; 40 bags flour, 30 mats sugar, 6 cases brandy, 20 bags flour, 8 bales chaff, 15 boxes candles, 1 case salmon, 3 pkgs paper, 4 kegs herrings, 12 eases kerosene, 1 do sundries, 5 bags flour, 6 half-boxes soap, 6 boxes candles, 1 case pickles, 1 do coffee, 1 do matches, Spence Bros, and Co.; 6 bags oats, 4 do wheat, 20 iTags flour, Munro ; 2 tons salt, Organ. The schooner Rose of Eden left Lyttelton on the 21st instant, and arrived off the Buller on Monday. She was towed alongside the wharf yesterday by the steamer Murray on her arrival from Nelson. Tho p.s. Lyttelton left Westport on Tuesday for southern ports, taking on passengers and cargo ex Charles Edward. She arrived at Hokitika at noon yesterday. The schooner Three Friends has completed her cargo for Charleston, and will probably sail to-day. The schooner Standard arrived from Charleston on Tuesday. The s.s. Waipara arrived in Woodpecker Bay from Greymouth on Tuesday evening, discharged cargo, and returned to Greymouth and Hokitika. The s.s. Murray left Nelson on Monday evening, called at Motueka, where she took in cargo for Westport and southern ports, and arrived off the bar shortly before high water yesterday morning. She took the schooner Rose of Eden, from Lyttelton, in tow, crossed the bar, and sailed for Hokitika last night. The repairs to the s.s. Wallabi were to have been completed on Saturday last, but, according to a telegram received on Tuesday, will occupy eight days longer. When ready she will be despatched to Wanganui for stock, and from thence to the CoastAt Melbourne, on the 17th instant, the Aborigine and Magnet were loading for Greymouth, the Zephyr and Prosperity for Hokitika, and the lo and Maid of Erin for Westport. The steamer Sturt, stranded at Kaiapoi, has gone to pieces, and is now a total wreck. The vessel was insured in the Pacific Insurance Office for £IOOO, and tho cargo was insured in another office for £BSO. She was commanded by Captain Dyason, formerly of tho Lady Barkly and Favorite, and Mr Larkins, formerly of the Gothenburg, was chief-officer. ACCIDENT TO THE STEAMER CHARLES EDWARD. As already reported, the steamer Charles Edward was towed into the Buller on Monday night, in a disabled condition, by the steamer Lyttelton. The Charles Edward sailed from Wanganui on Saturday, with a valuable cargo of cattle belonging to Mr Seaton, and with a large number of passengers, the majority of whom had shipped at Manukau. From the Manukau to Wanganui she met with rather a heavy sea, but on Sunday, after leaving Wanganui, and when off this coast, she had a fair wind and fine weather. She had her canvas set, and was steaming easily along when the cross-hendof her engine suddenly broke and completely disabled her steaming power. The fracture occurred at the starboard end of the cross-head, close to it. union with one of tho perpendicular bars which work on either side of the cylinder. It happened as the piston was rising, and the piston, with all the pressure on at the time, was thus forced upward with the restraint of the cross-head acting only on tho port side. The pressure of the piston was thus directed against the iron standard on the same side in which the cross-head travels, and it was also broken, a piece of it flying off violently in the direction of the engineers' seat, where one of

them had only been seated a few minutes before. The piston itself was also twisted like a twig, though it was five inches in diameter, and the perpendicular bar on the port side was also similarly bent. The cylinder itself was not injured, nor was the injury nearly so serious as on the occasion of a recent breakdown of the same vessel. Still the damage done is sufficient to cuuso serious delay and outlay, and until the necessary repairs are effected, the vessel will bo moored in tho Buller Lagoon, where she was towed yesterday by the steamer Kennedy. On the accident occurring, Captain Holmes had the floats of tho paddles removed, and kept up canvas; and with the assistance of a light N.E. breeze tho vessel sailed down the coast from the Karamea, where it happened, to Mokihinui. There it became dead calm, and continued so throughout Monday until the steamer Lyttelton, which had left Westport on her passage to Nelson came up and took her in tow, crossing the bar with her towards midnight thr >ugh a very heavy surf. Having discharged her cattle at Westport, tho remainder of her cargo, and those of the passengers bound south, were forwarded by the steamer Lyttelton to Greymouth and llckitika. This is tho third accident which has happened to the same vessel within a few months, and, us she is the best steamc- regularly trading on the coast, the occurrences have necessarily caused spme inconvenience to the public, in addition to heavy loss to her owners. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. ARRIVALS. Pictok.—Sept. 27—Rangitoto, from Nelson. Hokitika.—Sept. 28—Lyttelton, from Westport. Wellington—Sept. 28—Eangitoto, from Picton. DEPARTURES. Pictok.—Sept. 28—Eangitoto, for Wellington.