SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Westport Times, Volume VI, Issue 960, 9 April 1872, Page 2

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

WBSTPORT. ninii water. This Day ... 10.54 a.m.. 11.21 p.m. Tn-morrow 11.46 a.m., p.m. Thursday ... 12.9 a.m., 12.30 p.m. APPARENT TIME. Sun Rise. Sun Sot. Tins day 6.21 ... 5.36 To-mnrrow ... ... 6.22 ... 5.35 Thursday 6.23 ... 5.34 ARRIVALB. April 6—Mavis, schooner, 45 tons, Palmer, from Lyttelfoti. April 7 —Kennedy, s.s., 125 tons, Creagh, from Greymouth. DEPARTURES. April B—Kennedy,B—Kennedy, s.s., Creagh, for Nelson. IMPORTS. Per Mavis, from Lyttelton—2sß bags oats, 50 bags bran, 15 bales chaff, 38 bags do, 28 pieces hams and bacon. T':e s.s. Kennedy, under command of Capt B. Creagh, reached the port from Hokitiku' ,aud Grey on .Sunday evening, crossing the bar at low water. She left for Nelson yesterday at noon. We • have nearly heard the last of the Sussex. She has broken her back and canted over. There is very little of her to be seen at high water. The U.S. frigate ChattanoogO, lying in the Channel League Island, Philadelphia, sprung a leak on December 25. It is supposed to have been caused by the ice. The vessel sank, nothing being visible of her except the masts. Captain Frazev, who has commanded the mission vessel Dayapring for eight, years, and •who is about to h j nve for England, has been Dresented by the Sabbath school teachers of ■"•he Presbyterian Church of Victoria, with an address, accompanied by a purse of sovereigns, as a mark of esteem. The P. and O. Company's steamer Baroda, on her late passage from Galle to King George's Sound, maintained an arerage speed of 14 km ts. The schooner Gem. of Melbourne, has been capsized and sunk in the Clarence River. Tho British ship Edward foundered off Palmouth on December 29, and all on board perished. TESTIMONIAL. The following address was presented to Captain Bmjaaim B. Creagh, of Messrs Nathaniel Edwards and Co.'s steamship Kennedy, by the passengers on the arrival of the vessel in the Wes.tport roadsteads — To B. B. Ckkaoh, Esq., Commander of the s.s. Kennedy— Dear Sir, —We, the passengers on board the s.s. Kennedy, have great pleasure in congratulating you on this your first voyage as commander, and wish to testily our high opinions of you as to your able and seainanlike abilities, and your attention at. all times to the duties connected with the ship. We beg further to acknowledge your courteous and centlemanly conduct, and also that of the officers of the ship on all occasions, and we trust the career before you so well begun may be long and prosperous. We are, &c, R!oSr ~ ... ~.,...,. a. D i.u ~_.._ aengers, by Edward DeCarlg and W. B. Gordon. West port roadstead, April 2, 1872.