SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 811, 13 May 1871, Page 2

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

WEST PORT. 1IIO" W\TKR. This Day ... 5.44 u.ni., 6.24 p.m. To-morrow 7.0 a.ui., 7.2'J p.m. ARRIVALS. May 11—Murray, s.s., 56 tons, Palmer, from N Uon. Kennedy, s.s., 125 tons, Whitwell, from Kelson. Wild Wave, schooner, from Lyttelton. May 12—Charles Edward, p.s., 89 tons. Holmes, from Hokitika and Greymouth. UEPARTURES. Mny 11—Kennedy, s.s., Wliitwell, for Hokitika and Greymouth. Murray, s.s., Palmer, for Hokitika and Greymouth. May 12—Charles Edward, p.s., Holmes, for Nelson. PASSENGER LIST. Per Murray from Nelson—Mrs Stevenson and child, Messrs Smyth, Compton, and 7 for south. Per Kennedy, from Nelson—Messrs Brown, Carrick, Benison, and 4 for south. Per Charles Edward, from Hokitika and Greymoii'h—Mr and Mrs Alexander, Messrs M'Gill, Larcorf, Morris, 4 in steerage, and 8 for north. IMPORTS. Per Kennedy, from Nelson randies, Bailie and Humphrey ; 2 cases tobacco, or >er; 10 cases stoufc. Stitt Bros.; 4 <-ases chc so. order ; 20 kegs butter, 17 eases coffee, Bailie and Huniphery ; 3 bales dnpery, Whyto and Pirie; 2 do do, Rowlands ; 4 pkgs m'dise. Field; 6 pkg m'dise, Field; 6 pkgs drapery. Fair M'Coy; 1 case Whyteand Pirie; 2 trunks boots, Pollings j 3 do do, Simpson; 3 do do. Mailer; 1 bale drapoiy, Thomas and M'Beath; 2 trunks boots, 1 bale leather, 1 truss do, .Jackson; 5 qr-easks ale, Fall.i ; 1 bale leather, Mailer \ '/0 cases kerosene. Bailie and Humphrey; 10 do do, Stitt Brjs.; 1 trunk boots, Jackson ; 1 box, l'o veil. Per Murray, from Nelson—loo bngs flour, Coir; 24 do lOta'oes, 6 do onions, 2 eases fruit, ordiT ; 1 do plants, 1 hive bees, 1 peel seeds, Brooke. Shipped at Motueka—3 kegs butter, 2 eases eggs, 8 do fruit, 1 case hams, a do 1 cask butter, Lcviitte ; 20 sacks potatoes, Bailie and Humphrey ; 24 do oats, M'Kee; 50 do do, 24 do, potatoes, Powell ■and Co.; 24 do do, 1 d > onions, Stitt Bros.; 12 < l.i potatoes, 1 box eggs, order; 2 cases do, Patterson. Per Wild Wave, from Lyttelton —2BO bags oats, 44 do wheat, 80 do oatmeal, 15 cases cheese, I do liams, Powell and Co.; 150 bags oats, 38 do wheat, 40 do oatmeal, 11 cases cheese. lu kegs butter, 1 case hams, 80 bags flour, Stitt Bros.; 10 cases cheese, 20 kegs butter, Mncarthy. EXPORTS. Per Murray, for Hokitika—3 boxes gold, Bank of New Zedand.

From the London "Globe" of February 21 wo take thp following:—Sir Harry Verney has received from a gentleman laboring in Franco in connection with the Society for the Keiief of the French Sick and Wounded, a few particulars concerning the loss of Le Cerf, a French Government transport, wrecked on the rocks of Cape de la Hogue, on the night of February 7. On board Le Cerf were 1080 French wounded and convalescents, and a crew of 150 men. Of the hitter ten themselves on spars, &c. The letter is dated •Calais, Saturday lasr, and says, '* In the fate of this ship we are all most deeply interested, as it contained 1090 wounded soldiers, marines,' and sailors, all of whom had been cared for by different members of the National Society f>r the Keiief of Sick and Wounded. They had been sent to Calais from various parts of the nortli of France for embarkation, their destination b in.: Cherbourg. Brest, and Bordeaux, from which place they w uld be sent on to their horn •$. Many of them were the eons of gentlem n. They all arrived h-rc without a :ou in their pickets, clothed in rags, and weie lij] etcd on the poorest people in Calais and tie fishing rill iges, at whose houses they s-lep', and had to seek their food » at the carsernes twice a day ; a ] ie -e of dry bread and a lit'le greasy wat r lall.d soup were given to them, and there was never enough. Thus these poor starved soldiers, who had suffered a!mo>t a martyrdom for their country, were to bo seen wandering about the streets, faint, weary, cold, and hungry. The French Societe pour Secours aiix l.lesses gave them a meal on their first arrival—nothing more. The wounded men on board the ill-tated Cerf were each and all delighted to tell of the no de gifts that had been sent them from England. At Metz, c'irect'y after the capitulation, the firs food' they had was from England, and how many lives have been saved in consequence. Hundreds were on board who had been wounded at Villera Rretonneux and Amiens on the 20th and 27th of Novemlier; these had been cared for entirely by the English from the day of the battle lo the last day of their departure, and each carried with him some sub-tantial proof of England's s3-mpathy for France in her hour of need. Saturday and Sunday, as they were d parting, they came by dozens to thank their nurses. Others were parted from at, the train, where many a nobleman, with the greatest politeness and courtesy, over and over again declared that England had saved their lives."