SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Westport Times, Volume VII, Issue 1066, 25 April 1873, Page 2

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

WESTPORT. ttlOU WATER. Tide Nay ... 8.46 a.m., 0.9 p.m. i n-morrow 9.33 a.m., 9.53 p.m. Sunday ... 10.13 a.m., 10.34 p.m. Monday ... 10.54a.trt., 11.13 p.m. APPARENT I'tME. Sun Rise. Sun Set. "Tlusuay ... ... 6.38 ... 5.21 To-iii<>ri - ow ... ... 6.39 ... 5.20 Sunday ... ... 6.40 ... 5.10 holiday ... .*. 6.41 ... 5.18 ARRIVALS. April 22—Kennedy, s.s, Quance, from Chfeymotttb* Result. P-8, Riley, from Njjakawhau. April 24—Charles Edward, p»s, Whitwell, from Ntdsou. DEPARTURES. April 22—Kennedy, s.s, Quance, for Nelson. PASSENGER I/TST. Per Kennedy, from Greymotith—Messrs Younjr, Spence, Martin, and Langford. Per Kennedy, for Nelson—Mrs B. Campbell, Misses i)e lioree and Downie, Messrs Walnisley> Blundell, Mathicson, Coots, and 8 others. Per Charles Edward, from Nelson—Miss Hatinafi, &r Thorpe, Messrs Bunekley, Drew, Sayle, Meredith, Pickard, Hunter, and-5 for seutfo. TMPor'TS. Per'Chfirlrs Edward, from Nelson-~l case ■Cigars, Tloru ; 1 do books, Athenaeum ; 5 cP-ska ale. kegs butter, 6cases fruit, Simon; •5 cases drapery, 1 roll carpet, Graves and : Fletuing ; 2 eases drapery, Whyte and Pirio-, "3 casts sundries, 4 do bacon, Corr; 2 do, •Fyvio ; 1 bale, M'Coy; 7 cases bacon, 10 kegs butter, I)wan and Co.; 3 do coffee, 5 casks ale. 1 case ling, Harold and Scanlon; 10 kegs butter, Stitt Bros.; 10 do, 60 bags flour, 6 cases ling, l'case rhubarb plants, 24 bales chaff, 'Bailie and Humphrey ; 8 do, 1 pel seeds, Gardner and Sutton; 9 cases fruit, falter; i 15-stampers boxes, 15 diecastings, Kerr; 1 truss leather, Patterson; 1 do, Mailer ; •|< cage bottles, Hughes, 1 case, -»fones, i'pel, ■Belaney, l case, 1 pkg, James. A little Hnxidty is expressed as to the ' whereabouts of the Lizzie Guy, which left Melbourne on the 31st of last month for this port, ch»a r ing the heads on the 3rd instant. should -ere this have made her appearance. The -•'steamship Gothenburg, so well known in the New Zealand trade, is undergoing a complete transformation in the Yarra. The Melbourne Age says .—When next? she-goes to sea she may fairly be regarded'as a new ship. The first process was 1 to strip her fairly and to remove all her i'wooden top-sides. Thoroughly examined, > her ironwork below was found to be in as good a state as when she was first launched • eighteen years ago. The first business was to carefully cement the lower portion of the ■ hull by the kelson, so that no bilge water ■ could possibly touch the iron before the . planking was put down. Then the ship ' was built upon, "the iron sides which had ; been employed to make the Cerberus fit for tho voya£ e trom England to Melbourne having been bought by the owners of the Gothenburg for the purpose to which the plates have now been applied. The result is that a comparatively unsightly ship has been changed into a very handsome vessel and one of the strongest which hails from the port. She has been thoroughly receded throughout. Her 'tween decks now—braced with ang' e iron all round —are between seven and eight feet high, and well lined. Her new decks are of four-inch pine, carefully laid down, and her engines were taken to pieces. The Gothenburg, as her accommodations are now arranged, is not so much iuten led for a passenger steamer in the intercolonial trade as for sharing in other trades for which handy vessels of her class ■ and steaming power are now becoming more and more wanted. A very handsomely carved figure-head, representing a woman, will add u°t little to the appearance of the ship, and when—a fortnight or two hence—the last of the shipwrights, engineers, painters, and riggers, have left the vessel, the general verdict of the public will be ■ that, with great spirit and at a large expence, M'Meckan, Blackwood, and Go., have carried out a new idea of much Bm-- • portance to the port, and that the new Gothenburg will be so great an improvement on tho old one as to be known only as a new ship.