SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 780, 23 February 1871, Page 2

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

WESTPORT. nron w.vri-u. Thiß Day ... 0.35 ii.m., O.Hp.m. To-morrow 1.7 a.m., 1 2:5 p.m. AUIUVAM. Feb. 22—Kennedy, s.s., 125 tons, Whit well, fiom Nelson. VY. ,). Willcooks, agent. Charles Kdward, 80 tons. Holmes, from llokitika and Greymouth. A. W. Bennett agent. DEPARTORES. Feb. 22—diaries Edward, p.s., Holmes, for Kelson. Kennedy, s.s.. Whitwell, for llokitika and Greymouth. Angelina, ketch, for Greymouth. PASSENGER LIST. Per Kennedy, from Nelson—Mrs Reid, Miss Devaney, Messrs Kelly, Alexander, Dick, Styles, and Smith. Per Charles Edward, from Hokitika and Greymouth-Mrs Rodgers and child, Miss Jones, Miss Stewart, Messrs Sutter, Graham, Max, Pieknrd, Prosper, Smith, Mark, Seiton, Mai tin, Farrall, Doane, and 10 for Nelson. Per Kennedy, for Mela n—Messrs Dodson, Hughes, Tanorcd, Rolfe, Jackson, Rogers, Lane, Scheldt, and 10 original, IMPORTS. Per Kennedy, from Nelson, via Motueka— Tronsliinprd ex Wild Duck, from London—l drum oil, 10 casks ra'dise, 3 cases do, 12 bales do, Thomas Field. Shipped at Nelson, duty paid 1 case drapery, Thomas and M'Be.ath ; 2 dodo, 1 bale do,' Brown ; 1 truss do, Rowlands ; 4 do hoots, Jackson ; 3 do do, Coliings; 2 eases, Charleston Hospital; 10 kegs butter, Patterson ; 20 baps bran, Bailie and Humphrey ; 4 do onions, Salter ; 7do do, Styles; 8 pigs, order; 20 bags bran, Powell ; 10 qr-casks ale, Fa Via; 80 bass flour, Bailie and Humphrey ; 5 cases eggs, Salter ; 4 do do, 2 do fruit, Styles ; 47 do do, 5 kegs butter, 3 cases eggs, 3 coops fowls, Piekard ; 2000 bricks, Bull and Bond; 1 bale leather, 1 truss do, 1 bos grindery, Coliings ; 40 sheep, order. Shipped at Motueka—l beg butter, 2 eases eggs, 2 do apples, Powell and Co.; 2 do eggs, 1 pkg, Gallagher ; 12 cases •fruit, G bags potatoes, 1 case cucumbers. Carpenter ; 9 do eggs, 4 kegs butter, 1 bag barley, 11 do potatoes, Levatte; 37 cases fruit 2 pkgs bams and bacon, Styles; 18 pags potatoes, Powell and Co.; 18 do do, Stitt Bros.; 6 do do, 5 eases apples, 5 do pears, 5 do eggs, 2 kegs butter, Falla; 24 bags potatoes, 1 do carrots, Bailie and Humphrey. Per Charles Eil ward, from Hokitika—l bale leather, S'mpsoii ; 3 bdls sashes, Field; 1 case drugs, Williams ; 1 parcel, Bank of New Zealand ; 1 do, Dollman ; 3 do, Bishop ; 1 do, Munson. Per Brothers and Sister—l3,ooo feet timber, Bull and Bond. EXPORTS. Per Angelina, for Greymouth, short landed at Westport—2o tons potatoes, 2 sacks onions, Smith ; 1 case hams and bacon, Beauchamp. Per Charles Edward, for Nelson—Bs hides, Bailie and Humphrey ; 2 cases drapery, Fair and M'Cov ; 1 monkey and winch, Provincial Government.

The Anchor Line s.s. Kennedy, Captain Whitwell, left Nelson on Tuesday morning at 7.30 for Motueka. arriving- there at 9.30 a.m, Shipped twenty-eight tons of produce, and sailed again at 1 p m. for Westport, crossing the bar at 9.30 a.m. on Wednesday. Fine weather was experienced throughout the passage. The Kennedy leaves for Nelson on Saturday at 2 p.m. The Anchor Line p.s. Charles Edward, Captain Holmes, left Grey mouth on Tuesday evening for Westport, arriving here at 9.80 yesterday morning. She sailed the same tide for Nelson.

The ketch Angelina, after discharging a portion of her cargo of produce, sailed with the balance for Greymouth yesterday at noon. The s.s. Wallabi is the next cattle boat expected from Wanganni. Her cargo will b consigned to Messrs Seaton and Davidson. Tbe wreck of the Airedale is attributed lo an aberration of the compasses, occasioned bv electric disturbance, with which the mass of i :on sand on the coast line is said to have had something to do. It. was remarked that for two or three (lays the atmosphere was in a highly electrical condition, and the vivid appearance of the Aurora Australia and of a brilliant meteor strengthened this opinion. The iron sand is strongly magnetic, and the various atmospheric circumstances, coupled with the haziness of the weather, seems to supply the only intelligible cause of tinvessel having got so far out of her proper course, as she was being steered on the same indicated course that she has followed for tinlast ten years. Captain Kennedy is one of the most careful, painstaking-, shipmasters in New Zealand, and possessed a thorough knowledge of every part of the coast line of the Colony. The cargo and fittings, and possibly the machinery, will be saved ; but we are informed that there is no chance of the hull being preserved. The vessel was insured in the Southern Insurance Company, Australia, for <£(i000, the amount she was pur chased for. She was originally built as :; yacht for the Earl of Cardigan at the time ot the Crimean war, and after the. return of the army to England, she was purchased bv Pearson, Coleman and Co., of Hull, to fulfil a postal contract entered into with the Government of this Colony. The ketch Brothers and Sister left Hokitika on Sunday, in tow of the Lioness, and arrived at Westport on Tuesday, After discharging her cargo of timber, she will probably leave for Greymouth to coal, thence proceeding to Hokitika. The ship Annie was loading at New York for Dunedin and Adelaide at the time of the departure of the English mail.

Mr James Scott has succeeded so well with his new patent ship-lift dock project ns to be able to form a company in Sydney for carrying on the concern. The shares have been nil taken up, and tenders are invited for building the dock, according to plans pic pared by Mr Scott, prior to his leaving Newcastle. The shareholders, we are glad to find, have every confidence in the speculation as one which is likely to pay well.