SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Westport Times, Volume VII, Issue 1095, 5 August 1873, Page 2

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

WESTPOET. HIGH WATER. This Day ... 6.49 a.m., 7.20 p.m. ' o-morrow 7.48 a.m., 8.8 p.m. Thursday ... 8.3K a.m. 9.9 u.i... APPARKNT TIME. Sun Rise. Sun Set.. Thisuay 7.3 ... 4.59 To-morrow ... ... 7.2 ... 5.0 Thursday 7.1 ... 5.1 ARRIVALS. Aug. I—Wallace, p,s, M'Arthur, from Nelson. Goahe.id, s.s, M'Gillivray, from Wanganui. Aug. 3 —Goahead, s.s., M'Gillivray, from Grey mouth. DEPARTURES. Aug. I—Goahead, ss, M'Gillivray for Grejmouth. Aug. 2 —Wallace, p.c, M'Arthur, for Hokitika. IMPORTS. Per Wallace, from Nelson —6 ovens, 1 bdl buckets 10 kegs nails, 4 cases hardware, 1 bale paper, Struthers ; 1 pkg trees. Corr ; a cases eggs, Simon; 1 truss drapery, Graves and Fleming! 8 bales chaff, 1 bag bncon, 14 bags carrots, 1 pel, Bailie and Humphrey ; 1 cask butter, Hay ; 60 sacks po atoes, Powell 5 8 bales chaff, 10 sacks oyster , Falla; 1 pkg stationery, Munson ; and 1 cs drugs, 12 bags potatoes. 32 bales chaff, 7 coops poultry, 1 cask, 1 keg butter, 5 sacks oysters, 2 1 oxes, 1 pel, 1 ease, 1 case catsup, G do fruit, 1 do eggs, 1 pkg bacon, 8 stampers, 8 b ttoms, 25 fire bars, consignees.

The Grcymouth bar is nearly closed up, and unless the present rain causes a strong fresh in the river there is little eh nice of improvement in the entrance. The steamer Murray, that should have leit on Sunday morning, was unable to get out, an 1 up to 5 o'clock last evening, was still bar-bound. The Goahead, with cattle from Wanganui, c>uld not enter the river, and returned to the Buller on Sunday morning, discharging her freight at the South Spit, and then procee ing to Wanganui; leaving the Buller one hour only before low water.

Tiic p.s. Charles Edward is now undergoing a thorough overhaul at the works of Messrs N. Edwards and Co. (which, by the way, are to bear the appropriate name of the Anchor Foundry for the future), mid. on completion will take up her old. trade between Nelson and the Coast. Outside and in will be carefully looked after, an 1 she will the l ' be in a position to eomn ence t te spring trade. The s.s. Wuipara has been reported ashore at Okarita, on the north beach. Last week the estu ry of that river was closed up and will probably remain so until a fr ah sets in. The Okarita bar is liable to be closcd-up periodically. Tuis awkward dilemma was, experienced about six years ngo, and at a time when there were two vessels inside. A hard beach of considerable breadth was formed right across the mouth of the channel, and this lock-up continued until heavy rain set in, and a fresh channel was cut by tho ships' crews, assisted by the townspeople. The fol'owing description of the Manawatu a ean.er may interest those who anticipate the use of steam vessels of light draught in the Bu ler coal trade :—-The new paddle-wheel steamer Manawatu was built by Nichol and Sons, of Auckland, to the order of the New Zealand Steam Shipping Company, and is a staunch, compact, little craft, of about 130 tons builders' measurement, possessing good wealheily qualities. She is of composite build, her framework being iron, with heart of kauri planking, The following are her dimensions: —Length of keel, 120 feet; beam, 18 feet ; depth of hold. 7 feet; draught when loaded, 5 feet G inches. She is fore-and-aft seboont r rig, has a good quarter deck, spacious bridge, and her deck forward is put up to the head of the rail, forming a topgallant forecastle. The steamer steers both from the bridge and from the end, the appliances being very powerful and of modern typo. Sho is fitted with a single cylinder, direct-acting, condensing, steeple-<n.ine of 45 (nominal) horse-power, working up to 1:20. The .engine was n'ade by Scott and Russell, of Greenock and fitted up in the company's workshops at Wellington. Her boiler is tubular, and constructed with three furnaces and dry bottom, and will work up to a pressure of 35lbs to the square inch, it having been tested by hydraulic pressure to 7. r )lbs., and was manufactured by ilr Yeoman. The paddles are 15 feet in diameter, and fitted with ten ordinary floats, the outer end of the paddle-shaft being carried out on a wrought-iron bracket. The Manawatu is commanded by Captain Griffiths, late chief oilieer of the Company's steamer Taraimki, and formerly master of the Napier, Her chief office is Mr Ellis, late first mate of the Rangatira. On her trial trip she steamed the measured mile in eight minutes against tide, and with only from IS to 16lbs pressure of steam. The boat will undoubtedly do her nine knots comfortably, and more if necessary. Her paddles performed 28 evolutions to the minute, on half steam.