SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 766, 21 January 1871, Page 2

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

WESTPOWT. niOH WATER. This Day ... '.0.27 a.m., 10.62 p.m. To-nun-row 11.14 a.m.. 11 36 p.m. Monday ... 11.58 a.m., Ou.OO p.m. ARRIVALS. Jan. 20—Churl >« Edward, p.s., 89 tons, Holmes, from Nelson. A. W. Bennett, ayenfc. • DEPARTURES. Jan. 20—Charles Edward, p.s., Holmes, for Hokitika. PASSENGER LIST. Per Charles Edward, from Nelson—Messrs Shallorass, Bullock, Field, Engel, Fiudley, Pickard, Hunter, Williams Franklin, Coburn, Wilson, Fairley, Halligan, Murphy, Raynor, Wills, and twelve for south. IMPORTS. Per Charles Edward, from Nelson via Motucka —Transhipped ex Rangitoto, from Melbourne—l case, Watson. Transhipped ex Beautiful Star, from London—so easeß geneva, Corr ; 50 do do, Powell and Co.; 100 clo do, Bailie and Humphrey. Shipped at Nelsonj under bond—3s bags sugar, Stitt Bros.; 50 cases brandy, liaiiieand Humphrey; 10 do do, Jules Simon. Duty paid and free —6 bags potatoes, Gallagher ; 10 kegs butter, Gardner and Sutton ; 1 case m'dise, 5 do lobsters, 1 box nutmegs, G cases starch, 10 do ale, 20 bags bian. Bailie and Humphrey; 6 ■ cases starch, 1 do blacking, Jules Simon; 10 do milk, 1 do sundries, 2u boxes candles, Stitt Bros.; 1 pkg woo! packs, M. Organ ; 1 parcel, Etevenaux; 4 eases ling, 6 half-chests tea, 4 milk, Ha' old and Scanlon ; 1 do handles, 5 drums oil, T. Field.; 1 case drapery. Graves and Fleming ; 1 keg nails, 1 peel, Bui! and Bond ; 13 eases fruit, 4 do eggs, 1 keg butter, Shags potatoes. Carpenter ; 10 case.) fruit, 2 clo eg?s, Srriyi-k ; 1 bacon, Brown ; 1 trussdrapery /Graves and Fleming; 10 eases fruit, 4 do eggs, 2 kegs butter, 2 bags onions, Sutton ; 10 c:;ses fruit;, 2 do eggs, King ; 2 do fruit, White; 1 sack seed, Hay ; 2caseseggs, Powell and Co.; 1 prel drapery, Graces and Fleming; 6 sacks potatoes, *5 cases fruit, Gar iner and Su'ton; 2 do eggs, Munro; 4 trunks boots, 1 box nails, Jackson ; 30 sheep, 4 calves order; 32 cases fruit, 7 do eggs, 3 coops poultry, 9 kegs butler. 2 do wine, Hunter ; 46 cases fruit, 9 coops poultry, 1 keg butter, 8 cases eggs, 2 bags onions, 12 do potatoes, 1 goat and kid, Pickard ; 42 kits oysters, order. Shipped at Motueka—3o cases apples, Williams ; 20 do do, (S do plums, 5 do eggs, 2 kegs butter, 8 coops poultry, M'Kee-j 6 cases apples, 5 do plums, Gardner and Sutton ; 7 do plums, 3 do eggs, 1 coop fowls, 2 bags bacon, Hunter.

The Anchor Line p.s. Charles Edward, Captain Holmes, arrived at Westport by yesterday morning's tide from Nelson, with one of the largest cargoes ever forwarded by the uteanier to the West Coast. Among't her casgo, consisting of nearly ono hundred tons of freight, were 400 case? of fruit, and a deck load of sheep. She left Nelson on Wednesday, at. 6.30 p.m., with twenty-five passengers and the San Francisco mail, consisting of twenty-six bags and packages. Arrived off Motueba at 8 p.m., lying there all night. Went alongside the wharf in the morning, and took in fifteen tons of fruit on deck and several passengers. Left at 9 a.m. on Thursday ; experienced strong east winds to the Cape, thence S.W. winds and fine weather. Passed the three-masted schooner Rifleman off Kauranga Point, and shortly after spoke the topsail schooner Canterbury, both bound south. Arrived off t ! e Buller at 3 a.m. yesterday, after a smart run of 18 hours from Motueka. Crossed the bar at 7 a.m., and landed 35 tons of cargo, sailing again on tho evening tide for southern port 3. She is advertised to return on Tuesday next en route for Nelson.

The " Hawaiian Gazette" of November 25 says:—" We have heard that a line of packets is to be put on between this port and New Zealand and Sydney, sailing regularly every four weeks. This is, of course for the carrying of our sugars. We have good reason for believing that over half of our sugar crop will go in that direction during the curving year. The steam line to Australia has opened up to us a new and large market for our produce, which will benefit this country in every possible way, although it will draw a large poition of our business from San Francisco, as the shipping of our produce calls for return cargoes ; hence we m:iy look for a large portion of our supplies to come from the Aus-tralian-colonies."

The brig Moa, Capain Robertson, returned to Auckland on the 9th inst. after a cruise amongst the South Sea Islands. She is last from llarctonga, and brings a cargo of 300 tons of guano. Whales are reported abundant everywhere on the New Zealand coast. Captain Croucher, of the Glimpse, states that on the 11 til ultimo, when orT Flat Point, a singular occurrence took place, which he entered in his log-book. Two whales were observed either asleep or feeding quietly on the surface of the water, and although the vessel was bearing down upon them they "took no notice, and the boat had to put about to prevent running into them. The crew shouted lustily for aoout five minutes, when the whales showed flukes andsounded. One of them was longer that the Glimpse (60 feet), and was covered with barnacles. —" Southern Cross."