SHIPPING INTTELLIGENCE.

Westport Times, Volume IV, Issue 721, 8 October 1870, Page 2

SHIPPING INTTELLIGENCE.

WESTPORT,

111(111 WAT Eli. This I'av ... 9.18 a.m.. 9.37 p.m. To-morrow 0.58 a.m., 10.11 p.m. Monday ... 10.24 p.m., 10.38 p.m. ARRIVALS, Oct, 7—Murray, s.s., .IG tons, Palmer, from Nelson. G. Besloy, agent. DEPARTURES. Oct. G—Storm Bird, s.s., Doyle,for Nelson, Wellington, and Wauganui. Oct. 7—Murray, s.s., Palmer, for Hokit ka. Maid ot Erin, 73 tons, Agnew, for Melbourne. PASSENGER LIST. Per Murray, from Nelson—Mrs Murdoch, Mrs Killen and 3 children, Mrs Smith and 5 children. Rev. Mr Kuzy, Messrs Murdoch, Cooper, Norman, Absolom, Taylor, Millignn, Ooatcs, Freeman,.;md 2 Maoris, and 4 in the steerage. IMPORTS. Per Murray, from Nelson—2o bags flour, J. Con-; 1 rase merchandise, Horn ; 3do do, White ; 2 do do, Field ; 1 do do, Dickenson ; 5 bags barley, 10 kegs butter, Bailie and Humphrey j 5 do do, J. Corr ; 10 qr-easks ale, 1 do cement, 1 bag malt, 4 boxes eggs, 3 cases plants, Falla ; 8 bags lime, Bull and Bond ; 3 kegs butter, 4 boxes eggs, 1 do do, 1 keg butter, Powell and Co.; 1 bale canvas, Rowlands; 24 tramway truck wheels, R. Came; 10 pes casting, Jackson. EXPORTS. Per Maid of Erin, (or Melbourne—l case glassware, Ching and Henderson ; 17 do preserved milk, Bailie and Humphrey. Per Woodquest, for Karamea—2 half-chests tea, 9 mats sugar, 1 caso hams and bacon, 1 case cotfee, 1 bag salt, 6 do oatmeal, 1 case tobacco, 2 kegs butter, 1 box raisins, 2 boxes candles, 1 box sou)), 1 pkg matches, 1 Case milk, 2 kegs spirits, 2 casks beef, 1 bag currants, 6 kegs nails, 2 bdls shovels, 1 box chocolate, C cases sundries, 10 sacks Hour, 24 bags potatoes, 3 bags flour, 1 box candles, 1 bdl shovels, 2 bags oatmeal, 4 cases sundries, Stilt Bros.

The s a. Murray left Nelson on Thursday morning, at half-past nine, for Westport direct, and arrived here about 10.30 yesterday morning. Although tbe tide had'ebbed an hoar and a half she took the bar cleverly, and sailed for Hokitika and Givy mouth yesterday evening.

The p.s. Lyttelton, according to a private telegram received, was to leave Wanganui on -Thursday evening for Westport with 40 head of very heavy cattle and 300 sheep. Tho schooner Maid of Erin sailed yesterday evening for Melbourne in tow of the s.s. Murray. A large portion of her cargo, intended for Charleston has'jbeen stored, awaiting a suitable bottom toy convey it to-that port.

The schooner Standard, bound for Brighton, Three Friends for Charleston, and YVoodquest for Karamea are all loaded, awaiting n favorable opportunity to sail for their destinations. The Woodquest will probably proceed ro Lyttelton, via West Wanganui, af'le>- discharging at the Karamea.

Captain George Cook, an old settler, lately of the Bay of Islands, died suddenly at the Fijis, where he had gone iu charge of the schooner Sea Breeze. Deceased leaves a wife and a large family in Auckland. By the schooner Coquette, which arrived in Auckland on the 25th ultimo, the news was brought of the total loss of the smart schooner Queen of the Isles, of Auckland, on the Island of Apia, on the 80th July, with 99 laborers on board. The cause of this misfortune was the vessel miss-staying when near the reef. Luckily, the Spankie, of Sydney, passed on the 6t.h, and rescued the crew. The wreck was sold to the captain of the Spankie for the sum of ten pounds. The Eussian Imperial corvette Boyarin dropped her anchor in our harbor on Sunday morning from Sydney. She is a remarkably powerful looking ship of her class, with great beam. S e was built in Cronetadt, and is a vessel of 762 tons and 200 horse-power. She carries seven rifled guns, made in Russia from cast steel ; of these, three work on pivots, and are of largo dimensions, being made for projectiles weighing lOOlbs; the four small guns aro eigut pounders. The guns are all breech-loaders, and aro fired with prismatical powder. She has on board a complement of 23 officers and 163 men. The Boyarin left Cronstadt en the 17th of October, 1869, and on her way visited Copenhagen, Christiansand, Harwich, Brest, the Cape Verd Islands, Bahia, the Cape of Good Hope, Adelaide, Hobart Town, and Sydney. She belongs to the Russian i'aeifie Squadron.— Fiji Times, July 30.