SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Westport Times, Volume VII, Issue 1097, 12 August 1873, Page 2

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

WEST POUT. HIOll WATRIt. This Day ... 0.47 a.m., 1.7 p.m. o-ni»rrow 1.29 a.m., 1.52 p.m. Thursday ... 2.16 a.ni.i 2.3" u.n , APPARENT TIMK. Sun Bice. Sun Set. This uay 6.55 ... 5.7 • i-niMfi'ow ... ... G. 54 ... 5 8 Thursday 0.53 ... 5.9 ARRIVALS Aug. B—Goahead, s.s, M'Gillivray, from Wanganui. nEPAIITimES. Aug B—Aborigine, brigantine, Levens for Hokitika. Aug. 11—Goahead, s.s, M'Gillivray, for Greyiuouth. PASBENOEH LTBT. P. r Goahead, from WatiganUi—Messrs Coote and Johnson. IMPORTS. Per Goahead, from WatiganUi—4s head cattle, and 250 sheep. The brigantine Aborigine sailed at high water on Friday, tlie Bth instant, for ll> kitika direct. All sail was Bet prior to leaving the Wakefield street wharf, and as the win i was light no difficulty was experienced in Crossing tlie bar, which was very smooth at the lime with a depth of fourteen feet on it. The Aborigine will receive at, Hokitika a shipment of timber for Melbourne. The steamer Goahead arrived from Wanganui direct at midnight oh Friday, having left that port at 9 p.m. on the 7th, getting light easterly winds and fine weather until arrival. On Saturday, had weather prevailing, she steamed into the lagoon for shelter until Monday, when, having discharged her cattle freight, she left for Greyiuouth at the evening tide, and will proceed from that port to Wanganui and Manakau. Captain Andrew M'Kinnon has received from the General Government the appointment of Government Shipping Agent at Dunedin. The office, we understand, has been created with the view of facilitating mutters between masters and seamen, and will, we are toll, be regarded as a convenience by persons engaged iu the shipping trade