SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Westport Times, Volume VII, Issue 1037, 14 January 1873, Page 2

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

WESTPOItT. IIJOK WATEB. This Day ... 10.40 A.m., 11.0 p.m. To-morrow 11.2U a.m., 11.31 p.m. Thursday ... Il.dßu.ui.. jj.u . APPARENT TIME. Sun Rise. Son Set. This any 4.4,2 ... 7.20 Tiiursday 4.43 ... 7.19 ARRIVALS. Jan. 10—Kennedy, a.s, 125 tons. Quance, from Greymouth. Waipara, s.a, 70 tons, Bascand, from Nga•Tcawhau. Jan. 13 —Charles Edward, p.s, 89 tons, •Whitwell, from Nelson. DEPART ITRES. •Jan. 10—Kennedy, s.s, Quance, for Nelson. "VVaipara, s.s, Bascand, for Grey•mouth. PASSENOER LIST. Per Charles Edward, from Nelson—Mrs Morrow and family, Miss Spittle, Messrs s3erry, Douglas (2), Burden, Greenwood, Js?urflett (3), Morgan, Scott, Lloyd, Fulham, :Price, Michaels, Levvick/Barclay, Costello, r --Wooucock, Jones, Hall, Burns, Gear, 3 Spittle, Shannon, Hunter, and 24 for -south. IMPORTS. "Per"Kennedy,from Greymouth, exTara'iua —16 cases drapery, Thompson, Smith, sand Mlatkley; and original cargo for .north. Per Charles Edward, from Nelson, ex T-ararua —1 bale, Thomas and M'Beatb ; 1 pkjj, :J. .Munson. Ex Wellington—l pkg, Munson. Free and duty paid—l pkg : scythes, 1 do Tiodks, J case, 1 wheel, Field; :8 bales chaff, Stitt Bros.; Bdo Ballam; 1 case, 1 pkg, Wooley; 2 cases eggs, 6 kegs : ale, F&lla; 8 oases, Ido bacon, Ido cheese, Powell and Co; 1 case pepper, 4 caacs'bacon, 2 casks eggs, Bailie and Humphrey; 2 casos, "Charleston Herald; 2 casks eggs, 1 keg butter, Gardner and Sutton; 1 parcel, Trent; 20 sacks malt, Macartby ; 1 horse, G cows, Btvrry. The St. Kilda left Wanganui yesterJay at 8.30 a.m., with a cattle freight for Westport, and may be expected in the river by this evening's tide.

Some sui prise and annoyance Is expressod •that the AVaipara, coming up specially from llokitika to load coal at the Ngakawhau, should have returned unladen. From en- ; quiries made a3 to the exact incidents of • her visit to the Ngakawhau, we learn that on. the Bth instant, when off the bar, the signal was hoisted on shore showing 7 feet of water on the bar. It so happened at the time the barometer was falling, and the weather looked so unfavorable that Captain Bascand thought it best to return to Wisiport and wait for a tide or two. On the 10th the steamer agnin went up, and allow- . ing for the tides making, the depth of water must have been at lea3t a foot and a half r more than on the Bth. The signal given to the steamer was for 6 feet only on the bar, ■ & :d as the beacons were not in position to show the entrance clearly, the captain of the Waipara again declined to enter, nnd after again returning to Westport, his pending engagements at Hokitika precluded another trial at the Ngakawhau. It would ■ thus appear there is something wrong in wie maun* —,~4 -c ii-. .:„»,u. „„ ,-„ + i Ifi Ngakawhau channel there is about ti»o feet - of water at low water, and the rise of tide • on the Bth instant would be about 8 feet. ' Thus allowing the Waipara, with a draught •of 5 feet when unloaded, and 6 feet 6 inches, with a cargo of 70 tons of coal on board, to go in and out in perfect safety. •It is only right to state that the signalling ; asyethas been gratuitously performed by the Ngakawhau ferryman, and; that although • Chief Harbor-master J. S. Cross, of Nelson, promised, as far back as June last, tj come ■ tiown and make definite arrangements for : a proper sigual station at the Ngkawhau, nothing, as usual with Nelson officials, has •been done therein. The lessees of the coalmine an? now able to get out 200 tons of • coal per week, but lack of means to get the -coals to.a market .keeps the men over half time idle. The company propose to put two suitable steamers on the coast, one of which will be employed exclusively in tho coal trade, and as a tug-boat; but pending the ~: conclusion of arrangements, the coal trade •remains inactive.