SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Westport Times, Volume VII, Issue 1061, 8 April 1873, Page 2

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

WEST POET. Hlfllt WATER. This Day ... 6.44 a.m., 7.15 p.m. I o-morrow 7.55 a,m., 8.15 p.m. Thursday ... 8.41 a.m., 9.2 p.u.. APPARENT TIME. Sun Rise. Sun Set. Thuuiiy ' 6.20 ... 5.37 To-morrow ... ... 6.21 ... 5.36 Thursday 6.22 ... 5.35 ARRIVALS. March 7—Result, p.s, Riley, from Ngaka■whau. DEPARTURES. Nil. The p.s. Wallace, after being bar-bound 'at the Grey for some days past, made Hokitika yesterday, and will, unless unusually bad weather prevails, leave here on Wednesday next for Nelson. The Kennedy ■may probably show up from the northward 'this afternoon. The p.s. Resalt returned from' the Nga'■kawhau yesterday, coal laden- She reports the ketch Standard ashore, young William the gallant skipper having ventured to hug the shore too closely, and got washed by 'breakers "high and dry on the sandy beach. His tight little 'Craft is not damaged, and has-been already lifted on the ways preparatory to launching. It was, and. probably ■Btill'is, the intention of her owner to take 'in a' cargo of coal for Nelson. The Standard ""will'Hot again, for some time at least, return "to the Buller, her "owner having decided to -winter at Nelson. An incident, says the Independent, • occurred On the last trip of the Rangitira, 'in which .the heroic and ludicrous are mingled. While between Napier an Poverty Bay, with the steamer running about ten 'knots, 'Wind and sea favoring, an intoxicated fireman who had been ordered out -of the engine.room came on deck, and in 'lolling ■about the tail lolled himself into'the sea. The cry ''man overboard' was heard'almost • simultaneously, and before the tpeor fellow 'had swept by into the wake of the -steamer, Captain Hepburn thundered out the order to clear away the boat. '"She was quickly lowered, and the chief mate-and four of the ■ crew put off after the drowning man. The • captain then altered 'the 'course of the • steamer —no easy task with the rate of • speed on—and weiit after the boat. This ' was done so expeditiously that in a few ' minutes the steamer i was up to the fellow, ' who was at his last gasp, Hep- • burn saw this, and knowing' be lost life was -at stake) clapped a bowline under and jumped overboard. -'He thehJ^ld'the. exhausted'man afloat until*bg#£wfre soon after taken on board.^.-Tii^^^uad;'ntiin : 'was taken into *he j^WSlwftetch'ed oh-the table, end the usuJpßßstorative means taken, the -captain superintending in his wet clothes. -After 'twenty minutes labor and anxiety their . efforts were rewarded, the partially dead drunken'fireman fetched a deep «igh, opened his eyes, and on meeting the well--known swarth and dark-bearded face of his captain bending over him, he rather amused 'those in the cabin by ejaculating," By , -Black • Jack, I owe my life to you." But • checking himself he added, "-I beg pardon, ■ Captain Hepburn,"