SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Westport Times, Volume VI, Issue 1012, 11 October 1872, Page 2

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

WESTPOip. moil WATER. I This O'.y ... 4.10 a.rn., 5.24 p.m. To-morrow 5.56 a.m., 6.?0 p.m. Sunday ... 7.0 a.m., 7.33 p.m. Monday ... 8.8 a.m., 8.29 p.m. AFi'AKENT TIME. Sun Rise. Sun Set. Thisuay 5.36 ... 6.26 To-morrow ... ... 5.35 ... 627 Sunday 5.34 ... 6.28 Monday "5.32 ... 6.30 AUNIVAI.S. Out B—Charles Edward, p.s., 89 tonß, Whit well, from Greymoufh. Wanganui, s.s., 164 tons, Linkliiter, from Wanganui. Wallace, p.s., 50 tons, Palmer, from Nelson Oct 9—Kennedy, s.s., 125 tons, Creagh, from Nelson. Oct. In Dunedin, schooner, 66 tons, Stewart, from Dunedin. departures. Oct 8 —Charles Kdward, sea, Whit well, for Nelson Oct y—Wanganui, s.s., Linklater, for Wongmui Wallace, p.s. Palmer, for Nelson Kennedy, s.s, Creagb, for Hokiiika PASSENUER LfST. Per Charles Edward, from Greymouh— Messrs Coates, Seaton, Palmer, Rates, Moribkton, Joheson, and 9 for north Per Wanganui, from Wanganui.— Mr Davidson. Per Wallace, from Nelson—Miss Kasmit, Messrs Shapter, Brown, and Graves Miss Jennings, Messrs Our, Wilkinson, Bullock, Stobo, Pickard,De Carle, and 4 for south. IMPORTS. Per Charles Edward, from Greyniout.li—--1 case seeds, Hunter; 1 case drugs, Williams^ 3 bdls turnery, Hogan; 1 log timber, Mitchell; IUOO feet do", Bull and Bond ; 2 casks eggs, Stuart; Stuart ; 5 pkgs billiard table, Corr ; 293 sheets iron, 2 pairs bellows, 2 tre irons, 1 case hardware, Patterson Per Wanganui, from Wanganui—4o bead eatllc, 30 sheen, Seaton and Davidson. Per Wallace, from Nel-on—o bah", 32 c.isC", 8 trusses, 8 pkgs, 1 trnnk, 7 rolls drapery goods, Graves and Fleming; 3 b lea, 8 eases, 3 russes, 3 pkgs do, Thomas and M'Beath; 24 pkgs, 6 cases, 4 bales, 1 truss do, C.Brown; 2 eases, Rowlands; 3 trunks, 2 cases, Mailer ; 1 trunk, 3 cases, White and Piric ; 2 cases apples, 1 do oranges, 1 do lemons, Salter; 3 do oranges, 1 do eggs, Gardner and Sutton. Per Kennedy, from Nel on, ex Alt ion—--1 case boots, "Mailer j 1 ease, 1 truss, 1 bale, Whyte andPirie ; 1 pel newspapers, Munson. From Nelson —1 bdl I ags Corr; -1 htids nle, 4 qr-casks do, Falla; 4 bdls boards, Etevcneaus ; 1 keg butter, Powell and Co.; 1 pel seeds, Gardner and Sutton; 1 ease plants, Graves ; 1 pel seed*. Hay ; 1 case, 1 bdl washboards, i pkg saws, Field ; 6 cases furniture, Fleming ; Wilkinson. Per Dunedin, from Dunedin —500 cartridges, Collector of Customs ; 20 hbds ale, 2." cases do. 30 sacks. 400 qr-sa ks flour, 20 -Packs wheat, 20 do oatmeal, SO do bran, 150 xio oats, John Munro ; 60 sacks oats, 10 do wheat; 40 do bran, Stitt Brothers ; 10 bags nails, 40t> bajTs flour, 5 do pearl barley, 40 do onts, John Corr; 200 qr-bags flour, 2~co bags oats, 20 bats wheat, Bailie and Humphrey; 200 qr-bags flour, D. Stewart; 120 qr-bags flour, J. Powell.

The schooner Dunedin, from Dunedin and Oamaru, arrived in the roadstead on Wednesday and crossed the bar at afternoontide yesterday.[but coming up channel -she torn-heel on the shingle spit on the ■south hank, and it was found necessary to bring a lighter alongside and discharge sonic 23 tons of cargo. She v ill probably came up to the wharf this morning.

The Wallace arrived from Nelson on Tuesday evening with a full cargo for this port, romirtingof transhipments from the the Melbourne steamers, chiefly cases of drapery goods, consigned to Mi ssrs Craves and Fiemiug, MrC. Brown, Messrs Wbyte

:nd Pine, and Messrs Thomas and M"Heath. She left again in the afternoon for Nelson.

The Wancranui Steam Navigation Co.'s steamship Wanganuij Captain Linklater, commander, arrived here on Tuesday morning, after an unusually rough passage f :o;ii Wanganui, bring a shipment of cattle unci sheep for Messrs Staton and Davidson. Unfortunately i large number were lost during the gale experienced in the •■traits. '1 he seas washing over the deck «nd drowning the sheep by scores, the cattle also suffering severely. The Wanganui ha 4 just under gone a complete overhaul, and is by far the smartest craft that Las lately entered the Buller. The forecabin has been transformed into two wellventilated and commodious cal ins for steerage passt tigers, the galley has been new fluored, repainted, and relined, the donkey engine and boiler lifted, repaired :iud reset, and the officers quarters shi ted under the bridge. lucrtased space has been made in both fore and after holds; in the latter instance by carrying the poop deck forward to the bridge, giving :,n additional currying capacity in both holds of ahout tiO tons, and affording waking space on the poop deck of 60 feet. A new bulwark has been erected, and a wire netting worked along the stanchions. In the saloon and ladies cabin the who'e rieeo at'o is an i fittings have been renovoted and replenished. In the boiler aud ensrine room equally extensive repairs have been made, New tubes, combustion chambers, furnace sides, and ash pits have been introduced, and the boiler lifted, new cased and reset, and the engines thorough y ovei hauled. The hull has received a new coat ot paint, a new fore yard has been siung. all the running aud standing gear made good, and, from stem to stein, alow and aioft, the Wanganui is now as smart as goo' workmanship .and li'.icral expenditure enn make tier. It is to be regretle 1 that her first trip to this port after her overhaul has not proved a more successful venture for her charterers. The Wangaiiiii left at mid-day on Wednesday for Wanganui direct, arriving there at 1.35 p m. on 'l'hurs ay. The Nelson ' Examine' snys—The s s. Albion arrived at the a:i borate on W ednesuay a t-srnoon, at 3 p.m, from Melbonsne and the West Coast. On coming up the bay she disp'aved a considerable list to starboard, more than was apparently coiufortab'e for either the passengers or crow. Tier c.irgo, which was large, and which container about 240 tons for the West Coast and Nelson, had not leen well slowed while loading. This gradually Biuited on th • voyage, and the weather bo h at Hokitika and Greymouth not perfnittiag -*ny lighterage jt>f her at either

place, she hail to briup; on the goods for these pons here. Tn the gale of Tuesday on Passing Rock's Point, she was struck by a heavy sea which occasioned a further shifting of her cargo, and and accounts for the sntte in which she readied Nelson. The fine weather of Thursday enable'l her to discharge all goods for this and West Coast poies, and to re-adjust the remainder of the cargo in better trim for her further voyage, on which she left for Wellington yesterday morning. The difficulty which these intercolonial, as well as our coasting steamers seem invariably to experience in communi'ating with or entering our western harbors, owing to the rough weather which prevails with little exception at nil seasons ot the year on such an un- he'tered shore, is a strong argument as we can advance for the prosecution <.r a through railway horn Nelson to the West Coast. We do not like to import poliics into nautical or commercial notices of this sort, but we consider we have a better chance of a speedier realisation of this great object from the Stafford Ministry than what we had from the late one.