SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Westport Times, Volume IV, Issue 745, 3 December 1870, Page 2

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

WESTPOET. Hltm WATER. This Day ... 6.48 a.m., 7.17 p.m. To-morrow 7.44 a.m., 8.0 p.m. Monday ... 8.10 a.m., 8.40 p.m.

ARRIVALS,

Dec. 2—Wallabi, s.s., 10l tons, Daniels, from Greymouth. Frceth and Grcig, agents.

DEPARTURES. I Dec. 1— Charles Edward, p.s.. Holmes, for Hokitika.

PASSENGER LTST. Ver Wallabi, from Greymouth—Mr Milne, ■and 3 in the steerage.

IMPORTS. Per Wailabi, from Greymouth—Bo tons coal, Freeth and Greig.

Tlid steamer Wallabi left Greymouth yesterday at 4 a.m., crossed the Buller bar at 5 p.m., and was to sail for Wanganui at five o'clook this morning. The p.s, Lyttelton, which loft Wanganui for Westport on the 26th ult., had to put back to SMson, where she lauded her cattle, and transshipped her sheep and remaining •cargo into tho Chnrles Edward. We regret to learn that the Lyttelton lost six splendid head of cattle. The whole of the stock was ■consigned to Messrs Seaton and Davidson.

The steamer Murray, which left Westport at 3 p.m. on Wednesday, arrived at Nelson the following morning at eleven o'clock. Tlie s.s. Kennedy left shartly after the Murray, and arrived at Nelson on Thursday at 11.30 a.m. The schooner Maid of Erin completed discharging on Thursday morning, and was ballasted the same afternoon. Owing to the unfavorable weather and heavy sea breaking on the bar, she has been unable to proceed to Melbourne.

The ketch Standard arrived off the Buller bar on Thursday, and was lying a little south <»f the entrance waiting for the tide, the wind though light being favorable, and from the south-west. The wind shortly afterwards set in strong from the north-west, and has continued stormy for the past thirty-six hours. The Standard put to sea on Thursday afternoon, and has not since put in an appearance. The ship Monarch -is -rapidly filling up at Lyttelton, Among her exports we notice large quantities of preserved meats. A Dunedin fisherman reports sighting a man-of-war hrigon Sunday, off Cape Saundders, flying French colors.

The agents at Tiiliaru of the Airedale and Lord Ashley have advertised excursion trips at single fares to Lyttelton, Wellington, Nelson, Picton, 'laranaki, Auckland, Napier, Oamaru, Dunedin, and the Bluff, during the months of December and January. The model of a very ingenious contrivance for pointing out the localities of sunken rocks -or reefs at sea not laid down in the charts, was lately shown to us. The present apparatus consists merely of a cask, generally painted red, to which is attached an anchor to 'keep it in position, and mark the spot. But this is generally not observable, unless at a very short distance, and strange vessels arc apt to run upou the r >cks notwithstanding. The model in question consists of a small spar, loaded at the lower end in such a manner that fully half of it remains standing above the water. Attached to the extreme end there is a signal or danger flag. By this principle a slight spar, 50 feet long, with a cask in the centre, and properly balanced, could be thrown overboard and anchored near any sunken reefs or rocks, leaving twenty-five or thirty feet standing up from the water, so that the Aug at the top could be seen at a considerable distance. We understand that the model, the principle of which is exceedingly simple, is the result of the combined •efforts of Mr Landers, the wharfinger, and Mr Eobert Wells, one of the watermen. The idea is well worthy of being taken up.— ""Auckland Herald."

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. ARRIVALS. Wastoanui.—Dec. I—St. Kilda.froni Grey.inouth. ■Nelson.—Dee. I—Murray, from Westport; Kennedy, from Westport. Picton.-Dec. I—Rangitoto, from Nelson. Hokitika.—Dec. I—Charles Edward, from Westport. Wellington.—Dec. I—Rangitoto,l—Rangitoto, from Picton. Ltttelton.—Dec. 2—Airedale, from Dunedin. DEPARTURES. Nelson.—Dec. I—Rangitoto, for Picton. Picton.—Dec. I—Rangitoto, for Wellington. Ltttelton. Dec. 1 Gothenburg, for Wellington. Port Chalmers.—Dec. I—Airedale, for 'Xyttelton.