SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 794, 28 March 1871, Page 2

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

WESTPOitT. niOll WATER. This Day ... 2.11 a.m., 2.30 p.m. To-morrow 2.52 a.m., 3.17 p.m. , ARRIVALS. March 25—St kilda, s.s., UG tons, Flowclay, from Wangflnui. DEPARTURES. March 25—Wattabi, s.s., Daniels, for Wangaiuii. "IMPORTS. Per St Kilda, from Wanganui—ls keiul cut Ho, 2 horses, SS pigs, 200 sheep, 21) pkgs bacon, 6 boxes fruit, 20 bags potatoes, Soaton and Davidson ; 1 ease, llughea. EXPORTS. Per St Kilda, for Greymoufli, ghortlanded at Westport—l(s head cattle, ISO sheep, 2S pigs, 3 c ws, 1 horse, Seaton and Davidson. The Anchor Lino s-s, Kennedy, Captain Whitwell, left Nelson on Saturday, at 9 a.m., for Westport via Motuoka. She is expected in Westport this morning. The ketch Standard, bound for Karamea with a general cargo of merchandise, is detained in port by the severe weather. Tiie p.s. Charles Edward is still weatherbound at Hokitika. She is announced to leave here for Nelson to-morrow at 2 p.m., weather permitting. The s.s. St Kilda is detained in port in consequence of the heavy sea and strong •south-westerly winds. She will proceed to Greyniouth at an early opportunity. The s.s. Wallabi made a splendid passage of twenty four hours from Westport to Wanganui. She left here at noon on Saturday and arrived at Wanganui on Sunday. Fears aro entertained with regard To tho safety of the Auckland schooner Kauri, Qipfc. Shepherd. She left Levuka on the Bth of February, and lias not since been heard of. It is supposed that she must have been lost (hiring the recent heavy gales.

The following extraordinary proceeding on the put of the master of the barque Tavistock is furnished by the " Sydney Herald's " Newcastle correspondent: —" On tho night of the 4th inst., the barque Tavistock, from Melbourne, was oil the port shortly before midnight. The master, Captain Moody, fold the chief officer to so forward and burn a blue light, as a signal for a pilot, tho vessel being some ten miles oil'the land at the time. The malo had scarcity pone when the captain threw alife buoy into the sea, and immediately jumped overboard after it. An alarm was instantly made and a boat lowered, bi.t after searching fruitlessly for three hours, the boat returned and was hauled up, the captain being given up for lost. Soon after daybreak one of the tugs made the barque, and, when close up, Caj tain Moody was observed not 100 oft'. The boat, was again lowered, and tho master brought safely on board, apparently but little the worse for his immersion of six hours in the sea. It is stated that Captain Moodya-.nl his officers are not on the best terms ; that some quarrelling had taken place, and that tho captain had some fear of his life, and preferred' jumping overboard to being thrown, as thcro appeared a chance of swimming ashore. How lie escaped the sharks is a wonder, as the sea swarms with them at this season of the year j remarkable, also, that he should have been picked up so close to his ship, socing.the long time he was in the water and the strong southerly current that now prevails. Dr. Pearse, associato of Dr Bowker, went on board and had' an interview with Captain ■Moody, and prescribed some medical comforts, recommending the captain a few days on shore for a change."

DISASTROUS SHIPWRECK FOUNDERING OF THE GENERAL OUTRAM.

OVKR SIXTY LIVIS LOST. We regrot to have to announce the total' loss of the well-known steamer General Outram, of Bombay, with tho captain's wife, Mrs A. Milne, Mr W. E. Parrett, the chief engineer, forty-eight passengers, and several seamen, on the morning of the 15th instant. The General Outram was well known as one of that line of steamers which, together with tho Lord Clyde, General Havolock, and Tilly, conveyed cargo and passengers from Bombay every week to Rutnaghorry, Vingorla, Geo, Carwar Compia, Mangalore, Cannanore, Tellicherry, Calicut, Beypore, Cochin, and other ports, and was commmanded by Ca.pt. Teasdale. According to the usual announcement she sailed from Bombay, on the sth of January, and arrived fafely at Cochin, which port she left o.i the 1 lib instant. Not getting a telegram from Vingorla as usual, the owners, Mcss'« Chunder, Ivamjee, and Co., telegraphed to tho place at which the steamer should havo touched, asking why they had not heard, and the reply to that enquiry which was received yesterday (17th) was " Outram went straight to Bombay from Goa, stormy weather ;" and afterwards another telegram was received to the following effect: —" It port brought this morning by passengers picked up by Phlox states that the General Outram 'plunged* near Jeytapoor at 3 o'clock in the morning of the 15th,seventeen of tho crew, the captain and two passengers out of lit'ty saved; tho captain and crew are carried by the Phlox to Gogo." Captain Dixon, Lloyd's surveyor, has also received a telegram frpm Goa as follows :• — " Phlox arrived here safely. General Out ram sank off Jeytapoor." —' Bombay Times," January 12. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. AEHITALS. Picton. —March 25 —Hangitoto, from Nelson. Wellington.—March 23—Hangitoto, from Picton. Wanganui.—March 20 Wallabi, from Westport. DEPARTURES. Nelson.—March 25 —Kennedy, for Westport. March 27—Murray, for Westport. Picton.—March 25 —Rongitoto, for Wellington.