SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Westport Times, Volume VI, Issue 969, 10 May 1872, Page 2

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

WESTPORT. HIGH WATETt. This Day ... 11-47 a.m., p.m. To-morrow 12.20 a.m., 12.36 p.m. Sunday ... 12.54 a.m., 1.13 p.m. Monday ... 1.31 a.m., 1.52 p.m. APPARENT TIME. Sun Rise. Sun Set. This day 7.3 ... 4.56 To-morrow ... ... 7.4 ... 4.55 Sunday 7.5 ... 4.54 Monday 7.6 ... 4.53 ARRIVALS. April 7 —Kennedy, s.s., 125 tons, Oreagh, from Nelson. April S—Florence, schooner, 54 tons, Boaton, from Melbourne. Mary, ketch, from Anatora River. departures. April B—Kennedy, s.s., Creagh, for Hokitika and Greymouth. PASSENGER LIST. Per Kennedy, from Nelson—Messrs Stobo, Hughes, Bonnington, A kins, Stubbs, Hoskins, l'liseoo. Andrew, Weston, Sanders, Martin, Fenton, Shannon, Pickard, and 5 for south. Per Kennedy, for Hokitika—Mr Organ, Mr J. K. Grant, and 4 original. IMPORTS. Per Florence, from Melbourne—2 tanks malt, 2 bales paper, 1 case sago, 6 bags peas, 1 case macearoni, 20£ chests tea, 6 cases lobsters, 7 cases vestas, 1 cases cigars, 10 cases bitters, 1 cases arrowroot, 1 case tapioca, 2 pkts hops, I ease medicine, 1 bale paper bags, 1 bag carraway seeds, 1 case lemon peel, 134 pkts sugar, 10 half-chests tea, 6 doz buckets, 18 bags onions, 100 cases kerosene, 2 pels bags, 145 bags potatoes, 30 eases stout, 1 case ginger, 1 tierce, 1 bid, 7 crates, Bailie and Humphrey; 10 qr-casks brandy, J. Powell and Co.; 16 half-chests tea, John Corr ; and 1557 packages for Wanganui. Per Kennedy, from Nelson —-13 boxes candles, 1 case beer, 100 do brandy, 10 kegs butter, 2 cases coffee, 3 cases axes, 20 bags bran, Bailie and Humphrey ; 4 cases chicory, Powell and Co.; 2 cases bacon, 2 do cheese, 10 pkgs shovels, 1 case acids, 3 do jams, I keg soda, 49 sacks flour, Stitt Bros.; 4 cases chicory, Trent ; 3 trunks, 2 cases, Mailer ; 6 trunks, Simpson ; 1 case, Whyte and Pirie ; 3 cases, 1 bale, 1 wheel, 1 ease axes, 2 cases galv. iron, 10 kegs nails, 17 camp ovens, 1 nest tubs, 1 crate buckets, 1 cask ironmongery, 1 case canvas, 1 cask blocks, 1 case iron, Field ; 1 bale Kowlands, 6 :-ase< axes, Corr ; 15 sacks flour. West; 10 hl'.ds, 10 qr-casks, 6 kegs ale, 1 ease eggs. 2 kegs butter, 9 cases npple9, Falla ; 2 kegs butter, Gardiner ; 2 do, 6 cases apples, 1 do eggs, M'Leod ; 1 bile, 1 truss, Collings ; 1 case, 1 anvil, 1 vice, Zala; 1 qr-cusk vinegar, 2 eases lobs-tor, 2 do pipes, 1 do confectionary, 1 do blue, 1 pkg pipes, Patterson; 1 keg butter, Cooper; 1 pkg, Soutar; 9 cases fruit, Leech ; 2 parcels, Niven ; 235 bass salt, Organ ; and 345 pkgs for Hokitika and Greymouth. EXPORTS. Per Standard, for Karamea—l2 tierces beef, 39 sacks flour, 9 kegs butter, 24 mats sugar, 5 bags bacon, 9 pkgs tea, 8 boxes candles, 3 cases cheese, 6 bags oatmeal, 3 bags rice, 3 bags wheat, 1 bag pearl barley, 3 boxes raisins, 3 bags salt, 6 boxes cocoa, 2 cases coflee, 4 boxes tobacco, 4 bags currants, 10 bags potatoes, 5 cases milk, 40 cases sundries, 30 pkgs ironmongery, Stitt Bros.

A small ci-att, about 6 tons burthen, manned by three men, came in at the new channel yesterday morning without mishap, not shipping a single sea. Shf> hails from the Anatora Creek, and has put in for a cargo of supplies for the diggings there, on which some 150 men are now working. Considering that the skipper and his crew are strangers to the port, it was a somewhat plucky attempt, to enter the river unaided. But their craft is just the build for such w rk. A close decked surf boat, without bulwarks, and drawing only two feet and a half of water. Favored with a -slight breeze from the north, and propelled bv two hands at the sweeps, she came in with perfect safety. A three-masted schooner, supposed tD be the Garibaldi from LytoUon to Hokitika, was seen in the offing at 10 a.m. yesterday, steering south, with all sails set, The G.iribaldi left Hokitika some seven weeks since for Lyttelton. The ketch Standard, liawlings master, with a full cargo for the Karamea, has cleared at the Customs. The Newcastle shipowners are taking active steps for the abolition of towage duties. The barque Mary Hamilton has been pu--chased at Sydney, by a Melbourne firm, for •whaling purposes. The wreck of the Queen of the East, bound to California from Newcastle, on an unknown reef, is reported. The captain and'crew reached the Clarence Heads, Sydney, in safety. Any one (says the Graphic) who has had opportunities of observing the progress of ship-building in r cent years, must have observed the increasing length of all sea-going steam vessels ; but it is only those who have a practical acquaintance with the subject who are aware of the fact, that step by step with the increasing length and slenderness, the iron plates of these vessels have been growing thinner and thinner. The cause of all this is very clearly printed out by a writer in the city article in the ' Times' of a recent date, who calls attention very energetically to the disasters likely to r suit from these new fashions. Briefly, the owners of ve sels have discovered that a long vessel can be driven through the sea just as fast as a short one, by the same steam power ; and of course, the thinner the iron plates the less the cost of building. The consequences are obvious. Engines sometimes break down ; a id occasionally vessels will find themselves thus disabled, on a lee shore. Under these circumstances, it is manifest that their enormous length must render them far less able than the old sailing vessels to cope with a gale ; while the weakness of the plates would render them very likely to break up, even without stranding, if they once becume unmanageable. That numbers of vessels arc annually wrecked ■with great loss of life from these causes is certain ; the recent loss of the Delaware is an example ; but these disasters must go on in increasing ratio as the plates of the vessels built during the last few years become thinner by corrosion. All this, however, is but another illutration of the truth, that the lives of seamen and passengers have no efficient projection under the present system. The competition of the shipowners renders this fatal economy almost imperative; while tbe fact that all sea risks may be covered by a certain rate of insurance, and, above all, the great reluctance of underwriters and insurance offices to resist claims, make it certain that no improvement will be attained until Government takes in hand the duty of protecting those who are clearly unable to protect themselves.