SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 808, 2 May 1871, Page 2

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

WESTPOHT. HIGH WATER. This Day ... 8.10 a.m., 8.22 p.m. To-morrow 8.51 a.m., 9.13 p.m. ARRIVALS. April 30—Wallabi, s.s., 101 tons, Daniels, from Wanganui. Charles Kdward, p.s., 89 tons, Holmes, from Greymouth. Kennedy, 8.8., 125 tons, Whitwell, from Nelson. May I—Murray, s.s., 56 tons, Holmes, from Nolson. DEPARTURES. April 30—Charles Edward, p.s., Holmes, for Nelson. Wallabi, s.s., Daniels, for Greymouth. May I—Kennedy,l—Kennedy, s.s., for Hokitika and Greymouth. Murray, s.s., Palmer, for Greymouth. PASSENGER LIST. Per Charles Edward, from Hukitika—Miss Matthews, Miss Martin, Miss Ilatehett, Messrs Poole, Greenwood, Max, Smith, and 12 for Nelson. Per Charles Edward, for Nelson —Mr and Mrs O'Conor, and 12 original passengers. Per Kennedy, from Nelson—Mrs Wondram, •Mrs Megan, Me srs Flower, Haslem, and Hardy, Per Murray, from Nelson—Mrs Cochrane and 2 children, Mrs Coleman, Miss Hooper, Mr Harcourt, and six for south. IMPORTS. Per Charles Edward, from Hokitika—l case, 1 parcel, Williams; 1 box bank notes, Bank of New Zealand. Shipped at Greymouth—4 bags coke, Parker ; 1 hhd porter. ■IS.. Organ. Per Wallabi, from Wanganui—s2 head of cattle, 200 sheep, 40 pigs, 2 horses, .7 tons potatoes, 1 do bran, Seuton and Davidson-; '7 •kegs butter, 1 tomb stone, Miller. •Per Kennedy, from Nelson—4l bags sugar, Bailie and Humphrey; 10 kegs butter, Patterson ; 10 do do, Corr; 20 do do, Bailie and Humphrey ; 8 bales chaff, Powell and Co.; 8 do do, Stitt Bros.; G hhds ale, 6 qr-casks do, s?alla ; 1 tierce hardware, 3 cases do, l'do > sundries, 2 bdls oilcloth, 1 jar vinegar, 1 keg butter, I pkg clocks, 1 truss, Field ; 1 case shovels, 1 pkg sluice forks, Ching and Henderson ; 4 cases axes, 1 do painkiller, Harold and Scanlon; 4 pkgs shovels, 1 pkg- sluiceforks, Hehir and Molloy ; 1 parcel. Mrs Duffy ; 1 pkg rope, 2 coils do, 1 cask plaster of Paris, 1 crate earthenware, I do buckets, 2 boxes tin plates, 1 do glassware, Field; 6 cases fruit, Green; 1 truss drapery, Graves and Fleming; 1 qr-cask ale, Martin; 10 cases fruit, 1 keg butter, 2 boxes eggs, Carpenter. Per Murray, from Nelson—l bjttle quicksilver, 1 pkg, 4 cases, 2 bundls buckets, 1 bdle saws, 1 case furniture, 1 bale bedding, Field ; 4 cases furniture, Tonks and Hughes ; 15 do oilnion's stores, Bailie and Humpln-ey; 2 do fruit, White; 15 do do, 1 box eggs, 1 coop fowls, Salter; 9 cases fruit, 6 kegs buttir, Gardner and Sutton ; 15 pees casting, Jackson. Shippe 1 at Motueka —4 coops fowls, 12 sacks potrt *f, 13 do swedes, 1 do grass seed, 1 case, Falla; 13 sacks carrots, 1 coop fowls, M'Kee ; 1 case ketchup, 1 do eggs, 12 sacks pota* oos, 1 pkg bacon, 1 bag do, 1 keg butter, 1 box eggs, Lavette ; 1 keg butter, I case eggs, Simon ; 3 casks butter, Gallagher; 24 sacks potatoes, Powell and Co. EXPORTS. Per Wallabi, tor Greymouth, shortlandcd at Westport—4o head catttle, 100 sheep, 7 tons potatoes, Seaton and Davidson ; 7 kegs butter, order. The steamer Wallabi left for Greymouth on Sunday evening at 6.30, reaching that port at 6 a n>. yesterday. Tim p.s. Charles Edward, Captain Holmes, left "Westport on Sunday evening at 6.30 p.m. for Nelson, and arrived there the following afternoon at two o'clock. The s.s. Kennedy. Captain Whitwell, from Nebon, reached Wostport on Sunday i f r>--noon. Discharged cargo yesterday, and sailed at 7 p.m. for Hokitika and Greymouth. She will sail from this port for Nelson on Friday at noon. The steamers Rakaia, Kaikoura, and Ruahino, are advertised in the " Sydney Morning Herald," for sale by public auction or private arrangement. It is rumored that it is the intention of the A.S.N. Co. to purchase theso vessels, and place them on the line between Sydney and San Francisco via Fiji, and probably the Wonga Wonga and City of Nelson will be placed on the coastal line of New Zealand. The p.s. Luna, Captain Fairchild, with the Governor on board, arrived at the Wellington ■wharf at noon on Saturday, the 22nd ult. The wind was light and tho weather favorable during the trip, passing through the French .Pas 3 and Queen Charlotte's Sound on the way, A correspondent of the " Sydney Herald " points out what the Haydamack might have done had she waited at Sourabaya for news of a war brtween Russia and England. The intimation of such a war would have reached Batavia us soon as Galle, and the Russian vessel could Uave caught tho outward bound mail steamer off thy Leuwin, and then awaited tho arrival of the homeward bound steamer with the gold. None of our fortifications would have been of any avail against such a eruiser. The only real protection would be a shin of war with its head-quarters at the Sound. While on the subject of defences, I may mention that the Council of Education is about to introduce military drill into the public schools. It is to be tried tirst in the metropolitan district, which it is expected will furnish a battalion of 14j0 boys. At a recent meeting of the Royal Geographical Society, held in London, Captain Sherard Osborn, R.N., read a paper " On the Geography of the Sea Bed." He began by giving an account of our present knowledge of the configuration of the bed of the ocean, as derived from Admiralty surveys, and submarine telegraphic expedititions during the last fifteen years. His explanations were illustrated by a number of diagrams, showing ' flections of the North Atlantic and other oceans. It has been. definitely ascertained that the greatest depth of the ocean does not exceed 3000 fathoms in any part where tele-graphic-cables have been laid. Tho bed of the North Atlantic consists • -of two valleys, the eastern extending from 10 dey. to 30 deg, and the westward from 30 deg. to 50 deg. west longitudo. Tho extreme depth of the eastern valley is under 13,000 feet, which is less, than tho altitude of Mont Rosa. This valley ha 9 been traced southward to the equator. It is separated from the western valley by a ridge in 30 deg. west longitudo, in which tho average depth is only 16 TO fathoms. This ridge terminates in tho north in Iceland, and southward in tho Azores, so that it is volcanic in its character at both extremities. Its extreme breadth appears to be under 500 miles, End tho Atlantic deepens from it on both sides. Explorations carried on in tho Mediterranean, the Red Sea, and tho Indian Ocean showed a similar uniformity in tho line of the sea bottom ; and the general conclusions arrived at by Capt. Osborn wero that in the deepest sea thorc is an absenco of j i(rock, and that there are no rough ridges, I

canons, or abrupt chasms. Moreover, that the bed of the deep sea is not affected by currents or streams, even by thoso of such magnitude as tho Gulf Stream ; but that it rather resembles the prairies or pampas of the American Continent, and is everywhere covered with a sort of ooze or mud, the debris of the lower forms of organic life.