SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Westport Times, Volume VII, Issue 1134, 19 December 1873, Page 2

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

WESTPQ&T?. 11 Kill WAT Kit. f • M. nd>v ... 6.14 ft.ni., 6.40 p.m. 1 u<> day ... 7.15 a.m., 7.40 p.m. Wednesday 8.10 a.m., 8.3 m p.m. Thursday ... 8.54 a.m., 9.15 p.m. Friday ... 9.87 a.m., 9.58 p.m. Saturday ... 10.19 a.m., 10.38 p.m.* Sunday" ...10.58 ti.in,. 11.19 p.ir. APPARENT TTME. Sun Rise. Sun Set. Monday 4.33 ... 7.29 Tuesday ■ 4.33 ... 7.29 Wednesday 4.33 ... 7.29 'l'fiin-day 4.32 ... 7.30 Fridav 4.32 ... 7.30 Saturday ... . ... 4.32 • ... 7-30 Sunday ; 4.32 ... 7.30 AItTtTVAJiS. Doceniber 16 —Dispatch, p.s , Kitching- : . ham, from Groymouth Dec 16—Wallace, p.s, M'Arthbr from Nel--son. Alma, barque, 300 tons, Patching,' from Melbourne. Dec. 17—Kennedy, s.s, Conway, from 'Greymouth. DEPARTURES. Dec. 17—Dispatch," p.s, Tvitehingham, for i ' Grovmouth. Wallace, p.s, M'Avthur, for Hokitika and 'Gresmouth. Dec. 17—Kennedy, s.s, Conway, for Nelson. PASSENGER T.TST. Per Wallace, from Nelson—blisses Keating •and Leech, Messrs Bentley, Snow, Kelling, Gardner, Zeller, Dobson, Master Munro, and ' 38 for south. Per Alma, from Melbourne—Mr and Mrs ' Chambers, Mr Hughes, and one other. Per Kennedy, from Greymouth—Judge Harvey, Messrs Seaton, Pctrie, Northcroft, and 10 for Nelson. IMPORTS. Per Wallace, from Nelson—6 cs, 4 trasses drapery, Fair; one bale, 5 cs do, M'Beath ; 2 cs glass,-3 legs nails, 3 pkgs, Struthers ; 3cs drapery, Whyte ; 1 trunk, 3 trusses boots, Hannah ; 4 os, one truss, one pkg drapery, Graves and Fleming; 2 cs drapery, one pel, 4cs twine, -1 kegs butter, one bag hops, 6 cs fruit, Gardner and Sutton; 4 cs, Braynin ; one cs, Simon ; 20 kc<js butter, Bailie and Humphrey; 3 cs merchandise, one cs sun- ■ dries, one do pickles, one box raisins, one cs jams, Hay; one cask tar, 6 bars one bdl iron, Field ; one cs clocks, Pitcher, and 40 pkgs, congsignoss. Per Alma, from Melbourne—s cs 3-star "Hcnnessy brandy, 20 do Menken's brandy, 1 cask Turberou's sherry, 1 do Tuvvric port, 10 . . cs Dutch Exhibition gensva in jars, 5 cases slurps' tongues, 5 do oysters, 5 chests new tea. 5 do extra, 4 do greeu tea, 1 cs chocolate, 1 do Maravilla cocoa. 2 do Bell & Black's vestas, 1 pack clothes lines, 1 qr-cask Geelong red wine, 1 do A bany wine, 1 do white wine, 1 qr-casks H. brandy, 1 ton No. 3 llobson's Bay soap, 1 do cossac blue-mottled soap, G casks currants, 1 cs fancy biscuits, Jules Simon, Advt. ; 2(50 pkgs sugar, 1 tierce, 1 brl earthenware, 4 qr-casks sherry, 2 cs ginger, 40 cs, 10 qr-casks wine, 6 cs iron, 2 do shovels, 1 do handles, 20 boxes soap, 10 qr-casks, 100 cs brandy, 21 do sundries, 10 do salmon, 26 do sauce, 30 do salad oil, 4 do painkiller, 142 boxes, 20 chests, 44 half-chests tea, 20 cases sarsaparilla, 3do rod herrings, 119 do kerosene, 1 bale papen, 1 crate pipes, 13 boxes raisins, 6 cs cocoa, 2 do peel, 16 bags guano, 1 cs spice, 10 do jar salt, 2 do castor oil, 4 qr-casks vinegar, 3 bells twine, 30 cs whiskey, Bailie and Humphrey ; 3 casks hardware, 3 ovens, one pkg handles, one case, 2 boxes tin plates, 2 bdls copper, 22 kegs nails, 9 bars, 105 bdls, 30 sheets iron, one bdl ridging, one do trypans, one cs chimneys, one do picks, one roll wire netting, one cs sundries, 9 grindstones, 1 roll wire, I pel, T Field; 3cs stationery, 2 do tobacco, one c 3 sundries, A. Horn ; 16 pkgs sugar, one qr-tiercc, one cs, 2 pkgs tobacco, 2 cs cigars, 2 qr-casks wine, 5 cases bitters, 5 cases, 2 qr-casks brandy, 2 cases vestas, one cases confectionery, 2 cases currants, one case figs, 3 cases herrings, 12 kits mackerel, 4 cs honey, one cask nuts, 2 cs hair oil, one do lemon peel, one pkg paper, 5 es sundries, 5 do sauce, 2 casks washing soda, one bacr rock salt, 4 cs starch, 4 qr-casks vinegar, 77 boxes, 5 half-cheats tea, 2 cs, one hhd ale, one bag almonds, one cask blacking, one cs vestas, G cs pickles, 31 salt, one-hale twine, 2 do paper, one d > bags, Dwan and Co.; 2 qr-tierces, one cs tobacco, one cs lemon peel, 2 half-chests tea, 2 csmustard, one bale bags, 2 casks currants, 5 cases lobsters, 13 boxes raisins, 5 do oysters, one cask earroways, one bale paper, J. Powell & Co.; one bale, R. Rowlands ; one cs peel, 10 half-chests, 30 boxes tea, 5 qr-casks brandy, 25 cs kerosene, 3 do honey, 10 do milk, 5 do maize.in, 4do vinegar, 20* half-boxes soap, 4 boxes mliseatels, Stitt Bros.; scs whiskey, one do tobacco, 3 qr-casks, 5 cs brandy, one qrcask wine, one box tobacco, one cs cigars, 5 cs old torn, 5 do geneva, one qr-cask port, 10 chests, 10 boxes tea, Gardner and Sutton; one cs paper, one bale corks, 5 crates ,2 cs, 4 baskets, 11. Pain ; 2 cs galvanised iron, 2 bdls spouting, 6 boxes tin plates, 4 bales twine, 3 ingots tin, 4 cs glass, one bale paper hangings, one crate, one hhd earthenware, Struthers ; 2 bales paper, Reid and Co.; 835 pkgs merchandise, consignees; and 308 pkgs, order.

The tug-steamer Dispatch came up from Hokitika on Tuesday afternoon, and after running up to the C.obden street wharf, and putting tho Melbourne and southern mails ashore, steamed back and towed in the Alma up to Wakefield street wharf, where she is now discharging cargo.. The Alma left Melbourne on the 53rd ultimo, clearing Port Phillip Heads on the 24th ; and from that date until dropping anchor off the Buller met with fair weather and light easterly winds. The passage, though tedious, being a most pleasant ono for passengers.

The screw st3am launch Bella, built to order at Auckland for harbor service at Napier, when on her trial trip steamed at the rate of nine knots an hour. The engines working splendidly. Her estimated stowage room is eighty pressed bales of wool. The vessel was built, and fitted ready for sea in eight weeks from the sign-, in«jr of the contract. The Bella is said to be ■a thoroughly staunch steamer. An additional shifting beacon has boon erected on the North Head, Port of Wanganui; and masters of vessels crossing tho bar by day are instructed to keep the beacon and signal mast in one, and take signals from semaphore. At night a moving green light will bo used in lieu of the semaphore ; and masters of vessels arriving off'tho bai are instructed to burn flash or blue lights to make their positions known at tho look-out station. These now signals will be used on and after tho Ist January, proximo.

The Otago Guardian says that an iron steamer could be built in Dunedin at a much less cost than it could bo brought out from England, either wholo or in part.

Coals are now soiling by Messrs Chesney and Co. at Hokitika, for 20s per ton from .ships side.