SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 783, 2 March 1871, Page 2

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

WESTPOJiT. J HIGH WATER. l t This Day ... 5.57 a.m., 6.30 p.m. To-morrow 7.0 a.m., 7.26 p.m. t ARRIVALS. « Feb. 28—Charles Edward, p.s., 89 tons, from Nelson. A. VV. Bennett, agent. I March I—To, schooner, Pearn, from Mel- 1 bourne,; jßailie and Humphrey, agents, 1 DEPARTURES. March I—Charles1 —Charles Edward, p.s., Holmes, - for Hokitika and Greymouth. Brothers und Sister, ketch, Perkins, for i G reymouth, PASSENGER LIST. I Per Charles Edward, from Nelson—Mrs Junker and 5 children, Miss Broad, Messrs Broad, llamei% Simpson, Shannon, Davis, Mao.lonald, Counsell, Jones, Maver, Green, Hay, Oakey, Moller, and six for south. Per Charles Edward, for Hokitika—Judge Ward, Mr and Mrs Harris, Messrs .Alexander, Kelly, Shannon, and Grant. IMPORTS. Per Charles Edward, transhipped ex Wild Duck, from London—l cask oil, 2 do tar, T. Field Shipped at Nelson—2o casks ale, Bailie and Humphrey ; 4 kegs butter, 2 sacks onions, Macarthy ; 1 case hardware, T. Field ; 5 do eggs, Gardner and Sutton ; 1 qi-eask ale, Martin ; 2 cases stationery, Union Bank ; lii kegs butter, Powell and Co.; 10 do do, J. Corr; 1 bag nails, 1 case hardware, 3 barrow wheels, 1 cask fireclay. Bull and Bond ; 1 case drapery, Rowlands ; 2 do pipes, Horn ; 2 do ironmongery, Field ; 1 case chemicals, White; I parcel, Hughes; 17 cases cheese, Orr and Co.; 10 kegs butter, 7 cases hams, 4 do cheese, 2 do bacon, 5 kegs butter, Stitt Bros.; 4 cases cheese, 2 do bacon, 5 kegs 'butter, order; .8 cases cheese, 2 do bacon, 2 do cucumbers, Falla; 11 do drapery, 1 truss do, 1 pkg do, Davis ; 2 do, Whvte ; 1 do grapes, Mrs King ; 90 sheep, Counsell; 1 case eggs, Salter ; 1 bdlo bacon, Carpenter; Ido do, Gilmer; 2 cases eggs, Powell and Co.; 1 bale leather, 1 trunk boots, Patterson ; 1 keg butter, 1 case eggs, 1 do fruit, Yunker ; 1 keg hardware, Strut hers ; 1 box effects, Dobson ; 3 cases fruit, White; 4 do do, Broad ; 3do eggs, 1 keg butter, 2 cases fruit, Carpenter ; I do do, Simpson ; 25 bags malt, Parker and Garsides; 58 cases fruifc, 1 keg butter, Moller ? 60 kits oysters, order. Shipped at Movueka—'6 ftegs butter, 4 cases eggs, Salter; 2 do peaches, 1 keg butter, Simon ; 5 cases •eggs, 10 do apples, 2 bags, onions, Lavette ; 12 do potatoes, Bailie and Humphrey ,- 6 cases fruit, 2 do eggs, 1 keg butter, Gardner ; 1 do do, 12 cases fruit, 5 do eggs, Falla; 2 do fruit, Western ; 12 sacks potatoes, Harris; 3 cases eggs, order. Per 10, from Melbourne—so cases stout, 1 pocket, hops, 30 cases milk, 1 case tobacco, 40 half-boxes soap, 32 pkgs sugar, 1 case Eeidlitz powders, 2 do capers, 20 boxes pipes, 50 do candles, 10 cases pickles, 6 do salmon, 2 do haddocks, 100 do brandy, 10 do confectionery, 2 do cocoa, 6 qr-casks brandy, 2 cases chocolate, 1 do cigars, 2 do sauces, 1 do chicory, 20 do jams. 20 do starch, 10 qr-casks brandy, 20 cases colonial wine, 5 do inarmilade, 4 do biscuits, 10 chests tea, 16 bags rice, 2 bales paper, 2 cases handles, 19 kegs nails, 1 bale paper, 48 cases kerosene, 100 pockets sugar, 10 eases sarsaparilla, 20 do kerosene, 5 do oysters, 2 do castor oil, 4 do salad oil, 2 do hams, 2 do painkiller, 6 do jar salt. 6 do starch, 1 bale paper bags, 8 boxes blue, 4 cases vestas, 4 brls cuivants, 2 cases confectionery, 1 do herrings, 10 do vinegar, 1 do peel, 1 bag Hour, 32 bales chaff, 10 qi-kegs blasting powder, 2 cases tobacco, 2 qr-tierees do, 1 half-tierco do, Bailie and Humphrey; 5 cases chairs, Storch ; 2 bars iron, Forsyth and Masters ; 100 pockets sugar, 69 mats do, 30 cases kerosene, 6 do vinegar, 50 boxes candles, 4 cases salad oil, 1 do painkiller, 6 do sarsaparilla, 10 boxes raisins, G cases curry, 3 do ling, 6 do sardines, 3 half-brls apples, 2 qrtierces tobacco, 6 cases maizena, 3 do sauces, 4 brls currants, 2 cases cocoa, 2 do chocolate, 2 do vestas, 20 do old torn, G do salmon, 1 do tapioca, 1 barrel carraway seeds, 8 tegs nails, 2 bags twine, 3 cases picks, G kegs nails, 8 bags tacks, 3 boxes do, 1 case maccaroni, 1 bale paper bags, 6 boxes lobsters, 15 cases kerosene, John Corr; 25 .do do, 1 bale paper bags, 1 do paper, 2 cases vestas, CO do brandy, 1 do jujubes, 40 "boxes tea, 1 keg sodi, 1 half-tierce tobacco, 40 boxes tea, 10 cases salmon, 6 do sarsaparilla, 1 do pills, 5 do pickles, 4 boxes maizena, 12 do pipes, 10 qr-casks brandy, 1 do sherry, 48 pkges sugar, Powell and Co.; 20 cases milk, 1 do jujubes, 2 do salad oil, 1 do peel, 2 do cocoa, 20 do sarsaparilla, 1 half-tierce tobacco, 10 qr-casks •brandy, 7 cases currants, 2 do curry, G boxes maizena, 1 case maccaroni, 2 do tsalad oil. 10 boxes pipes, John Corr; 1 ■waggon, &c, SPKee; 20 boxes soap, 1 cask whiting, 2 qr-casks brandy, 2 do wine, 4 cases vermouth, 2 do absinthe, 1 cask blacking, 2 qr-casks port wine, 20 cases whisky, 1 do cocoa, 2 qr-casks brandy, 2 do sherry, 3 cases currants, 10 do old torn, 20 do ale, 1 do chocolate, 2 do ling, 16 pkges sugar, Stitt Bros.; 10 eases milk, 6 cases pickle?, 3 do do, 1 half-tierce tobacco, -J. bales paper, 32 pkges sugar, 1 roll wire, 1 keg chalk, I case. 1 bale hose, 75 kegs powder, Patterson; 125 bags malt, 3 pockets hops, 1 case isinglass, Parker and Garsides; 6 cases castor oil, 25 kegs nails, Forsyth and Masters; 1 bale corks, T. G Macarthy; 1 bundle oars, 50 barrels powder, 5 cases castor oil, T. Field; 116 iron rails, 2 bags spikes, Forsyth and Masters; 1 case drapery, 'Thomas and M'Beath; 3 pkges tobacco,' A. Horn; 23 stamp shoes ; 31 false bottoms, 22 furnace bars, 1 case gratings, 1 do castor oil, Greenwood and Co.; 20 false bottoms, 10 stamp shoes, order. EXPORTS. Per Chr.rles Edward, for Hokitika—l box gold, Bank of Zew Zealand ; 6 bags potatoes, Powell and Co.; I cask, Satchell. The Anchor Line's powerful steamer Charles Edward, Captain Holmes, arrived in the river at four o'clock on Tuesday afternoon. She left Nelson at noon on Monday, calling at Motueka. Arrived there at 1.30, took in fifteen tons of produce, and sailed at 3 p.m. Experienced strong N.E. wind in the bay, aid S.W. after rounding the Spit, with heavy head sea during the whole passage down. Slio brings a full cargo, of which thirty tons arc for this port, and a large number of passengers. Previous to her departure south, yesterday afternoon, she towed in the schooncT To, from Melbourne.

The schooner 10, Caplain ream, left Port Phillip Heads on the 11th ultimo, with light south-east winds. Cleared the Straits on the 14t,h, winds varying from E.N.E. to S.E„ light throughout the passage, Sighted the New Zealand coast on the 25th with a light easterly wind, and made Cape Foulwind at 5 a,m, on the 2?; th, Fetched the roadstead the same day at 4 p,n»., standing off and on ths port, waiting for a steamer to tow inCrossed the bar in tow of the steamer Charles Edward yesterday, Theschooner Waterman, for Greymouth, was sighted on the 21st, The Io brings a full general cargo, and is consigned to Messrs i>ailio and Humphrey, The ketch Redeliffe, Captain Heron, made a month's trip from Dimedin, owing to bad

weather and the illness of her master, i arriving at Grcyniouth on Thursday. Wo lave already reported her having bom poken by the s.s. Kennedy, and putting lack to Nelson, which port she left after the ecovery of Captain Heron, and refitting, .rriving as above. The s.s. Taranaki arrived at Nelson from he North on Sunday, and sailed on Monday ivening for the Southern Provinces. The s.s. Hero, which arrived at Sydney on he morning of the 29th January, made the fastest passage on record from Auoklmd, viz., 'our days eighteen hours. The commander of the Memento, which recently arrived at Dunedin, says that the Whirlwind, a largo ship of about 900 tons, tvas laid on at Hong Kong for Dunedin, when lie sailed, and was expected to sail in December witli about 400 Chinese passengers and cargo. The ships Eagle and Collingrove, both of which sailed from Plymouth, England, on the 2nd November, arrived at Adelaide, South Australia, together on the 13th January, the White Eagle being about three hours ahead. Shortly before the close of last year, Mes-rs Barclay, Curie and Co., Glasgow, launched a large screw steamer, of 2300 tons register, for Messrs George Smith and S)ns' recently established steam service to India via Suez. The vessel has been named the City of Cambridge. The following vessels are now under construction in Glasgow, for Her Majesty's Navy:—Bustard, 1, double-screw iron gunboat, 245 tons, 28-horse power, by Mess's Napier and Sons, Glasgow ; the Ilydra, 4, double-screw iron armour-plated turret-ship, 2107 tons, 250 horse-power, by Messrs Elder and Co., Glasgow ; the Kite, 1, double-screw iron gunboat, 245 tons, 28-horse power, b Messrs Napier and Sons. Glasgow. Two bottles, strung together, and securely sealed, have been washed on to the beach at Hayle, Cornwall, one of them containing three letters directed to Hamburg, and two sixpences to defray the cost of postage. The other bottle contains a pint of rum to recompense the finder for his trouble in posting the letters, which are from tiio Danish brig Anne Geoigiana, bound to La Guayra. Her Majesty's ship Hercules, the finest broadside ironclad ship in the navy, is reported to have narrowly escaped destruction. The Hercules, under the command of Lord Gilford, left Spithead to have some shot and shell practice in the Channel. At the conclusion of the practice, while one of the sentries was hanging up a lantern, the ship gave a lurch, there being a good deal of sea on at the time, and the naked light fell upon one of the powder cases. An officer, who was close at hand, rushed across the deck and instantly extinguished the candle, and so, probably, saved the ship and many lives. The barque Springbok, Captain Harrison, took her departure on the 12th instanf, from Hobson's Bay, on her third voyage for Fiji, with a good number of passengers a large cargo, including 145 head of live stock, and a steam launch on deck, intended for the island trade.