SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 782, 28 February 1871, Page 2

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

WESTPORT. iriGH WATKB. This Day ... 3.34 a.m., 4.1 p.m. To-morrow 4.35 a.m., 5.14 p.m. ARItIVALS. Feb. 25—Kennedv, b.b., 125 tons, Whitwell, from Greymouth and Hokitika. W. J. Willcocks, agent. DEPARTURES. Feb. 25—Kennedy, s.s., Whitwell, for Nelson. PASSENGER LIST. Per Kennedy, from Greymouth—Messrs Fulham, Pickard, and Styles. Per Kennedy, for Nelson—Messrs D'Albedighill, England, Pickard, Styles, King, and Trasse. IMPORTS. Per Kennedy, from Greymouth—2 parcels drapery, Graves and Fleming; 1 case, O'Conor. EXPORTS. Per Kennedy, for Nelson—s kegs butter, Powell and Co.; 3 pkgs luggage, Weston.

The schooner 10, Captain Pearn, cleared at the Melbourne Customs for Westport on the 9th inst., and arrived oft' the bar on Sunday, at 4 p.m. She will tow in with the steamer Charles Edward this evening, weather permitting. It was rnmored on Sunday that 11.M.5. Clio, with his Excellency and suite on board, hud knocked a hole in her hull in Bligh Sound. It was subsequently ascertained that the vessel had arrived safely at Milford Sound. Tho Anchor Line s.s. Kennedy, Captain W-hifcwell, lefr Westport on Saturday, at 4 •p.m., and arrived at Nela in at ten o'clock the following morning. The Anchor Line p.s. Charles Edward left Nelson for Westport at noon yesterday, and will probably cross the bar this evening. The s.s. John Ponn has sailed for Sydney, -en route for New Caledonia. Captain Carey continues in command. Captain Whitwell, of the. s.s. Kennedy, reports twelve feet of water on the bar at the Karamoa on the occasion of his lato visit, it being then neap tides. We learn that Captain Beveridge, late of Charleston, has resigned the appointment of harbor-master at Hokianga. The schooner Banshee, from PeloruS Sound to Dune.lin, laden with timber, struck on Danger Reef, near Shag Point, on the evening of the 20th inst. Captain Eckhotf was the only one saved, the crew consisting of four men being drowned. The schooner is a total wreck, and is believed to be fully insured. The schooner Mary, J S. Agnew, sailed from Melbourne for the Fijis on the 15th instant. The schooners Ceres and Northern Light left Westport on the 27th ult., and both reached Melbourne on the 12th inst. The James Paterson is announced to leave Melbourne for Fiji, via Sydney and Auckland, on the 20th proximo. The following vessels are on-the berth in Melbourne tor London :—Ernestine, Clarence, Ist March ; True Briton, 7th March ; Ariel, Lady Jocelyn, 15th March; Loch Earn, early. The schooner Waterman, J. Le Brun, cleared at Melbourne, for Greymouth, on the 10th inst. A sad tale of marine disaster ar.d consequent suffering and death comes to us from the China Seas by the barque Frances Henty, which arrived in port on Wednesday, from Cochin China. Captain Quayle, of the Frances Henty, reports that on November 25, at 7 p.m., while running down the China Sea, he fell in with a junk, dismasted, and bearing other unmistakable evidence of having been exposed to unusually heavy weather. Ou nearing the wreck the most piteous cries of distress were heard, and Captain Quayle at once hove-to his vessel, and seut his chief officer on hoard, where he found four Chinamen, the survivors of a crew of eight, in a state of almost nudity and starvation, and unable to stir from sheer weakness and exhaustion. Toe unfortunate castaways were ministeied to ; but notwithstanding "the care and attention bestowed on them, one dicil 24 hours after being rescued. The others were taken on to Saigon, where it was ascertained that the junk had left Formosa for Svvatow, with a cargo of rice, and was caught in a typhoon, and driven down the sea. The poor wretelies had been adrift for 21 days, and of this time they had been without food and water, except a few showers of rain, for 14 days ; and most horrible of all, Captain Quayle relates that they had prolonged existence by eating a portion of one of their dead shipmates. On the following day, after picking up the Chinamen, Captain Quayle reports that he passed a waterlogged junk, but could see nothing except a few dead bodies floating about.