SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Westport Times, Volume IV, Issue 742, 26 November 1870, Page 2

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

WESTPOET. HIGH WATEH. This Day ... 0.00 a.m., 0.20 p.m. To-morrow 0.43 a.m., 1.5 p.m. Monday ... 1.31 a.m., 1.58 p.m. AIUUVALS. Nov. Edward, p.s., 89 tons, Holmes, from Hokitika and Grey mouth. A. W. Bennett, agent. DEPAETUEEB. Nov. 25—Charles Edward, p.s., Holmes, for Nelson. PASSENGEB LIST. Per Charles Edward, from G-reymouth Miss Peatheretone, Miss Swords, Messrs Porster, Haworth, Smith, Seaton, Arnold, Price, Kelly, Constable Denovan, and 15 •original for Nelson. Per Charles Edward, for Nelson—Miss Leech, Messrs Gardner, Anslow, and 15 from southern ports. IMPORTS. Per Charles Edward, shipped at Hokitika—--5000 feet timber, 1 bdl sashes, 2 doors, Clark; 3 bdl sashes, Field ; 20 cases jams, Munro ; 35 do do, Falla •, 1 case drugs, Williams ; 1 parcel, Price ; 1 box, Union Bank. Shipped ut Greymouth—l balo drapery, Thomas and M'Beath. EXPORTS.

Per Mavis, for Lyttelton—s7 sacks sharps, 50 doz bags, Munro. Per Three Friends, for Brighton—3. chairs, 1 grate, 2 nests tubs, 1 boiler, 6 pkes bedding, 6 do ironmongery, Field ; 1 case hams, 1 box apricots, 1 bag nuts, half-brl apples, 1 chest tea, Patterson ; 2 hhd beer, 2 eases claret, 1 pkg drapery, Corr ; 5 qr-casks beer, Parker and Garsides ; 4 kegs butter, 1 chest candles, 3 cheese, 1 tin lemon peel, 2 bags barley, 8 casks T ale, 4 cases old torn, 13 bags potatoes, 1 box cocoa, 2 cases pickles, 1 do sun Iries, 1 do cordials, G do col. wine, 2 boxes pipes, 6 do candles, 2 bags oatmeal, 1 case jams, 1 pkg cigars, 6 c.ses II brandy, 4 half-chest tea, 4 cases geneva, 6 do whisky, 1 do coffee, 1 keg (urn, 3 parcc-ls, 4 tins biscuits, 1 case oil, 5 bales chaff, 2 box tobacco, 1 case bacon, 4 tags sugar, 2 do oatmeal, 6 cases brandy, 5 do geneva, 10 bags H flour, 13 do potatoes, 1 case pickles, 10 mats sugar, 6 tins biscuits, 2 bags rice, 1 pkg line, 1 keg nails, 4 box candles, 4 cases claret, 1 do sundries, 1 qr-cask sherry, 1 do brandy, 1 keg port wine, 3 bags pollard, 5 do oats, 2 boxes raisins, 2 do jams, 3 cases sundries, 1 doz shovels 2 cases old torn, 1 tin coffee beans, 1 ream paper, 1 bag currants, Bailie and Humphrey. Per Standard, for Charleston—6 cases porter, 2 casks ale, 8 bags sugar, 19 mats do, 2 cases jar salt, 6 boxes soap, 1 bag whiting, 2 cases miik, 2 boxes pipes, 1 case blacking, .■Stitt Bros.; 4 cases jams, 1 chest tea, 1 box do, 2 doz shovels, 2 cases salmon, 1 do lobsters, 1 case coffee, 10 mats sugar, 1 case milk, 3 bags rice, 1 case salad oil, 1 box raisins, 14 kegs nails, 1 keg irons, I pkg, 6 bags sugar, Patterson ; 6 cases brandy, 1 do coffee, 1 do half-sardines, 12 hams, 1 ca9e sundries, Bailie and Humphrey; 10 bags flour, 6 cases geneva, 6 do whisky, 4 do brandy, 2 do porter, 2 do pickles, 1 do bathbricks, 2 kegs herring, 9 boxes tea, 1 qr-cask wine, 14 reams paper, 6 tins biscuits, 20 bags flour, Spence Bros, and Co.; 2 bags salt, M. -Organ ; 30 bags bran, 2 bags pollard, Munro; 704 feet planking, Bull and Bond ; 16 bars iron, 2 bdls do. Field; 2 cases iron, 1 bdl ridging, Powell and Co.

The p.s. Charles Edward, Captain Holmes, left Westport on Monday, at 8 p.m., arriving at Hokitika on Tuesday morning, leaving on Wednesday, at 8.30 a.m. Experienced strong N.E. wind to Greymouth, and caught tho tide with difficulty. Left on '1 hursday, at 11 a.m. Crossed the bar in a tremendous sea, which repeatedly filled the vessel fore and aft, and swept over her with such violence as to dash the men from the wheel, and seriously injured two hands on deck. The great weight of water on board forced her on her beam ends, and orders were given to cut away the part lifeboat, but. before doing so, she righted herself, and by knocking out the gangways was soon clear of water. Arrived here at 6 p.m. the same day, after a rough passage, and crossed the bar at 11 p.m. The Charles Edward sailed for Nelson yesterday at noon. The steamers Kennedy afid Murray left Nelson on Thursday evening for Westport, but had not arrived in the offing up to the hour of going to press, having been delayed by the strong south-westerly weather. The steamers Wallabi and Lyttelton have both arrived ut Wanganui; tho latter boat at 8 a.m. on Thursday, and tho Wallabi at nine the previous evening. The schooner Three Friends has completed /her *»rgo for Brighton, and will be despatched at an early opportunity. The steamer St. Kilda left Wanganui for Westport yesterday, at 10 a.m., with a cargo of cattle and sheep, consigned to Messrs Sea ton and Davidson.

The Hokitika agent announces that tho s.s. Gothenburg will be despatched from Hokitika to Melbourne on the 28th inst. Seeing that her arrival was not announced yesterday at the Bluff, it is unlikely that she will leave for Melbourne before Friday or Saturday next. The s.s. Omeo is now nearly six days overdue, and some anxiety is felt concerning her. The heavy gales stated to have prevailed since her departure from Melbourne, together with her not being so swift as the other boats in the service, will probably aecount for her lengthened passage.

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. AEETVALS. Wangantti. Nov. 23 Wallabi, from Westport. Nov. 24—Lyttelton, from Westport. DEPABTUBES. Nelson.—Nov. 24—Murray, for Westport; Kennedy, for Westport. Wanganui.—Nov. 25—St. Kilda, for Westport.

THE IRON-CLAD CAPTAIN. Among those who were drowned by the capsizing of the ill-fated iron-clad, the Captain, in the English" Channel, was Captain Cowper Coles, under-whose directions the Captain and several other in the English navy were constructed. We have the following notice of him/rom " Men of the Times:"— Coles, Captain Cowper Phipps, R.N., third son of the Rev. John Coles,.of Ditcham Park, Hants, born ; in 1819, entered the navy in 3831,. served with considerable ability on various stations, took an active part in the assault on Sebastapol in October, 1854, on board the Agamemnon, was highly praised in the despatches of Admiral Sir E. Lyons, and phowel equal zeal and ability at Kertch, and in the operations in the sea of Azof. In 1855 a Board was appointed by the Commander-in-Chief to report i.pon a plan devised by Capt. Coles for the construction of shot-proof rafts, gu '.o, and mortars ; and so favorable was their report, that, in expectation of the continuance of the war, he was ordered to England, and Jtot into communication with the Surveyor of She Navy and the dockyard authorities at

Portsmouth. Captain Coles first conceived the idea of protecting guns by shields in November, 1855, and Sir I. Brunei suggested to him, in 1859, that it would be better to place the shield and gun upon a turn-table, than to have to move the raft to point tho gun. In 1862, Cnpt. Coles adopted the turret system in tho Itoyal Sovereign, and other vessels in the Royal Navy have been constructed on a modification of his plans.