SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Westport Times, Volume IV, Issue 725, 18 October 1870, Page 2

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

WESTPOET.

HIGH WATER. This Day ... 3.2 n.m., 3.38 p.m. To-murrow 4.22 a.m., 5.4 p.m. AEIUVALS. Oct. 15—Lyltelton, p.s., 86 tons, Scott, from Greymouth. C. Ilorne, agent. Waipara, s.b., 50 tons, Bascand, from Hokitika and Greymouth. Bailie and Humphrey, agents. Oct. 16 —Florence, schooner, 54 tons, Beaton, from Lyttelton. Kennedy, e.g., 125 tons, Whitwell, from Greymouth and Hokitika. W. J. Willcocks, agent. Oct. 17—Standard, schooner, from Brighton. Murray, s.s., 56 tons, Palmer, from Greymouth. G. Besley, agent. DEPABTUBES. Oct. 15 —Lyttelton, s.s., Scott, for Nelson. Rambler, schooner, for Wanganui Inlet. Three Friends, schooner, for Charleston. Oct. 16—Kennedy, s.s., Whitwell, for Nelson. Oct. 17 —Waipara, s.s., Bascand, for Greymouth via Brighton. PASSENOEB LIST. Per Kennedy, for Nelson; —Mr Alexander, and 7 original from southern ports. Per Lyttelton, from Greymouth—Messrs Alexander, Strange, Luskison, and 4 for northern ports. Per Lyttelton, for Nelson—Messrs Seaton, Gupper, Andrews, Callaghan, Brown, Bonn, Gibbons, and 4 original. Per Waipara, from Hokitika and Greymouth—Mr and Mrs Virtue and 4 children, Miss Buckley, Mrs Thiele and child, Messrs Herman, Hennecke, and 5 in the steerage. IMPORTS. Per Waipara, from Hokitika—2 cases drugs, Williams. Landed at Brighton—l2 cases brandy, 10 do kerosene, 4 do jams, 4 do apples, 1 do sundries, 10 bags wheat, 10 do oats, 10 bales chaff, order; 22 bags sugar, 6 cases geneva, 3 pkgs drapery, 1 case sundries, 1 box lobsters, 6 do tea, 1 chest candles, 2 boxes pipes, 1 doz brooms, 4 cases milk, 1 ream paper, 2 cases jams, 1 case ale, 2 bags salt, Glenn Bros.; 11 cases drapery, 2 bales do, J. Manson and Co.; 1 drum oil, 1 bdl handles, 1 case sundries, 1 bdl camp ovens, 2 kegs nails, 1 box clothes pegs, Thiele. Per Florence, from Lyttelton—6oo sacks potatoes, Munro ; 49 do do, \6 do flour, 18 do do, order; 3 cases cheese, Stitt Bros.

Thff p.s. Lyttelton arrived from Grey mouth at 11 p.m. on Friday, but owing to some misunderstanding in connection with the postnl notices her departure was delayed until the following tide, when she sailed for Nelson, towing out the schooner Rambler, bound for "VVanganui Inlet. The s.s. Waipara arrived at midnight on Saturday from Greymouth via Brighton. She remained in port until 3 p.m. yesterday, aud then sailed for Greymouth. The s.s. Kennedy, from Hokitika, arrived at Westport about noon on Sunday, and sailed for Nelson the same day at 2 p.m. The schooner Florence, Capt. Beaton, sailed from Lyttelton on Friday, Oct. 7, and arrived off the Buller on the morning of the 14th, and brought up to an anchor st 3 p.m. on Saturday last, crossing the bar ou Sunday at 2 p.m. Tho master reports light northeasterly weather after leaving Lyttelton until reaching Cook Strait, aud thou encountered strong north-westerly weather, rendering it necessary to put into Port Underwood in company with the James Paxton, from Dunedin to Hokitika, and tho Lesmore, from Dunedin to Picton. Remained weatherbound three days, until the morning of the 12th, leaving the other two craft still unable to get out, and from thence experienced strong southeasterly winds and rain until arriving off West Wanganui, and from there light and variable winds until reaching the Buller. The s.s. Wallabi left Wellington for Wanganui on Saturday, reaching the latter port on Sunday. She ia expected to arrive at Westport to-morrow. Tho ketch Standard arrived from Brighton at noon yesterday. She brings as return freight a quantity of old building materials. We are informed by a party arrived overland from the Karamea that tho ketch Woodquest entered that port on the eveniug of tho 16th inst.

The West Coast Times, summarising the coasting steamers now only available, and instancing such as have met with some fatality, says : —The John Penn, on account of pecuniary considerations, is laid up at the Mnnukau; the Charles Edward lies in the Westport Lagoon, disabled ; and the Murray, after a day on the Hokitika bar, reaches Greymouth, minus, what she is in habit of losing—her rudder. The Kennedy, the Waipara, and Lyttelton are alone in the trade, and the latter only partially, as sho is understood tq have been chartered to convey stock from Wanganui to the Buller. It was said that an Auckland vessel, the Itoyal Alfred, was to bo brought to the coast, but we notice that she has lately been dispatched to tho Fijis. The Admiralty have directed that two iron gunboats are to be immediately commenced in Chatham dockyard—tho Scourge and Scout —of tho Staunch class, a number of which are to be built at various dockyards, the cost having been provided in the last estimates. The men have been taken off the Woodlark, building in No. 4 slip, and have commenced laying down blocks in No. 6 slip for building these gunboats, which will probably bo launched in December. Erch hoat will carry a 25-ton gun.