SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 818, 30 May 1871, Page 2

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

"WESTPORT.

HIGH WATEB. This Day ... 6.30 a.mj, 7.5 p.m. To-morrow 7.28 a.m., 7.55 p.m. ' AIIIUVAIiS. May 27—Murray, s.s., 56 tons, Palmer, from Groymouth. DEPAItTUREB. May 27—Murray, s.s., Palmer, from Nelson. Tho schooner Ceres left her anchoriige in tho roadstead, yesterday morning, in consequence of tho high soa and approaching gale. The steamer Wallabi arrived off the bar from Groymouth on Sunday. Signalled the watch at tho flagstaff to ascertain the depth of water on tho bar previous to towing in the schooner Ceres, but, finding the reply unfavourable, owing to the draught of water of that vessel, proceeded on her passage to Wanganui. The steamer Murray roached Westport from Greyniouth on Saturday, and loft at 4 p.m. the same tide for Nelson. Tho Warmambool Steam Navigation Company having during their three years of existence, laid by tho sum of £SOOO towards the cost of a new Bteamer. are sending their manager home to make arrangements for the vessel being built. The new boat is to be constructed on the Clyde. She will bear a great similarity to the City of Launceston, and will be schooner-rigged, about 185 feet in lengthy, 24ft. 6 in. in breath of beam, lift. 6in. in depth of hold, capable of carrying 300 tons of cargo. She will have a pair oi direct-acting invorted cylinder engines of 90-horse power, and will be calculated to steam at the rate of 11 knots an hour. The revenue cruiser Mocassin, according to "Nature"' has been supplied with a new marine drag—that is, one of those substitutes for an anchor which will, it is said, effectually prevent a ship's drifting, even in the heaviest weather. It is the intention to supply all vessels in the revenue service with them. A correspondent, a shipmaster, who was fined at Williarnstowu for a breach of the port regulations, in not having a gangway ladder for the accommodation of people coming on board, writes to complain ot what he considers an unfair application of the law. A ladder was provided during the day, but at night, as the vessel was very light in ballast, ho gave instructions for tho ladder to bo taken on deck. Ho wants to know what right anyone from shore can have to come aboard his ship after midnight, and why should he be compelled, to provide means for their doing so ? Further, how would the people of Williajustown like being fined because they preferred to lock their doors aj, n,ight.c—Melbourne "' Argus."