SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 777, 16 February 1871, Page 2

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

WEST PORT. ILItiH WATF.B. This Day ... <>.35 p.m., 7.0 p.m. To-morrow 7.30 a.m., 8.0 p.m. ABItIVALS. Feb. 15 —Kennedy, s.s., 125 tons, Whitwell, from Hnkitiku and Greymouth. W. J. Willwoks, ngent. DEPARTUBES. Feb. 15—Kennody, s.s., Wliit well, for Nel 8011. passenqeh list. Por Kennedy, from Hokitika and Greymouth -Judge Ward, Messrs Singer, Caldwell, Clune, and Paper. Per Kennedy, for Karamea—Air and Mrs Waite, Mr John St.it.t-. For Collingwood—Mr Dobson Fir Nelson—Mrs Cluiterbuck and ehildien, Mr Graves. IMPORTS. Per Kennedy, from llokitiku coffee, 1 do mustard, 1 do cocoa, 1 do pepper und spices, 1 do mustard, M'Kee. Shipped at Greymouth—'2l- bigs onions, Organ ; 1 prel, Hunk of New South Wales; 1 do do, E. J. O'C'onor. EXPORTS. Per Kennedy, for Kaiainea—6 tierces beef' Stitt lJros. The Anchor Line ss Kennedy, Captain \^ r lu!vve'.l, left Giv\ mouth early yesterday morning, arriving at Westport. the following tide. She sailed the same evening at eight o'clock for Nelson, calling at Karamea. The schooner Brothers and Sister is loading at Hokitika with timber for Westport. When the Alhambra left Melbourne the Maid of Erin was on the berth for Westport, as also the 10. Both vessels were to leave on the 7th. The Government schooner Mary got snagged, and a hole put in her quarter while removing one of the l.irge snags fr jn\ the bed of the river. She is at present lying tilled with water on the river-bank, near the Upper Wharf, but will bo repaired and removed in a lew days. The crew of the schooner Day Dawn have arrived at Lytteltou by the s.s. Taranaki. From them tho Chriatchureh papers learn that the Day Dawn left Tory Channel on Wednesday, Feb. 1, and fell in with a S.W. gale same night; on Thursday the gale increased to a hurricane, and at 5 o'clock in the afternoon of tho same day, and whilst four •of the men were in the cabin, a sea struck the ship and throw her on her b?am ends (at this time she was about 17 miles oil'' the Kaifcouras); she remained in this position for nearly lialf-an-hour, the men being in the cabin all the time, with the water up to their mouths; providentially the foremast, was carried away,

and the vessel righted. The men being by this time nearly suffocated, they got on deck with difficulty, and found the vessel quite waterlogged, and the sea. making a clean breach over her. On Saturday the weather moderated, and the men were enabled to bale her out in about eight hours; arrived in Wellington on Sunday, having been four days without food and water.

The Magdala turret ship, built for the defence of Bombay, recently arrived in the Medway, from the Thames. She is a doublescrew armor-plated turret-ship, of 2107 tons, with a nominal horse-power of 250. She will have an armament similar to the Cerberus, now en voyatje for Melbourne, which vessel she resembles in nearly every respect. The ship is in charge ■ f the contractors, who will deliver her to the authorities at Bombay, although orders have been issued by the Admiralty that she is to be put through her trials ut the measured mile, under the charge of the Staff of the Steam Reserve, and the dockyard officials at Sheerness.

Advices were received a short time ago in Liverpool, of the following catastrophe on the west const of Africa:—"The brig l.oe.nno tive, while entering the Opobo, struck on tlie bar, and although every effort was made by tho crew, all hope of saving the vessel was given up. After the crew had left the wreck, the natives in the v : einity boarded the Locomotive in great numbers, and took possession. They then commenced to strip the vessel. The hatches were broken in, and a regular system of plunder commenced. One portion of the cargo, consisting of gunpowder, was ■being appropriated by the natives, when, by some means, the powder became ignited, and an explosion of a most fearful character occurred. The vessel literally was blown to atoms, and the unfortunate plunderers shared the same fate. How many natives perished was unknown, but the number at the time the steamer left Bonny was stated to be upwards of fifty, besides those who were in caves alongside the wreck."