SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

West Coast Times, Issue 614, 12 September 1867, Page 2

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

PORT OF HOKITIKA.

High Watee This Day. — 8.5 a.m. j 8.30 p.m.

ARRIVED. September 11. — Nil. SAILED.

September 11.— Gothenburg, s.s., Underwood, for Melbourne. Egmont, s.s., Jack, for Melbourne. Bruce, p.s., Kerley, for Buller. ENTEEED IX.

Persevere, 26 tons, A. Robertson, from Greymouth, in ballast.

Egmont, 308 tons, A. W, Jack, from Bluff Harbor &c. Passengers : cabin — Mrs Dennison, Messr3 Phillips and Ross. 35 steerage.

CLEABED OUT.

Gothenburg, 459 tons, T. Underwood, for Melbourne. Passengers: cabin — Mr and Mrs Rich, Mrs Moore, Mrs Lees, Messrs Skeine, Cosg.ave, Russell, Cohen, Solomons. Henry, and Bathurst. 33 steerage. Egmont, 308 tons, A.W.Jack, for Melbourne. Passengers — 10 steerage. Queen, 46 tons, W.D. Veal, for Lyttelton. Harry Bluff, 12 tons, G. Brown, for Brighton.

EXPECTED AEEIVALS.

Phoebe, s.s., from Nelson, to-morrow. Otago, s.s., from IVielbourne, to-day. Jessie, schr., from Sydney, daily.

John Bullock, schr., from Melbourne, early.

Pilot, schr., from Melbourne, early. Nil Desperandum, brig, from Dunedin, early. Mary Anne, schr., from Melbourne, early. PROJECTED DEPABTUBES.

Otago, s.s., for Nelson, Wellington, and Dunedin, to-day.

Phoebe, s.s., for Bluff Harbor, Dunedin, and Melbourne, to-morrow. Alice, schr., for Fox's, early. Jane Anne, ketch, for Pakihi, early.

VESSELS IN POET. Brigantines — Isabella, (lighter.) Si'hojners — Falcon, Alice, Queen, lona. Ketches — Mary Anne, Jane ' Anne, Florence, Brothers and Sister.

•Strainers — Challenge, Golden Land, Yarra, Lioness.

IX THE EOADSTEAD. Alma, barque, from Melbourne. Star of Tasmania, schr., from Dunedin. Sea Ripple, schooner, from Hobart Town. Bella Vista, barque, from Hobart Town. Glencoe, barque, from Hobart Town. Jane Lockhart, brgtn., from Sydney. Sarah and Mary, brgtn., from Melbourne. Mary, brigantine, from Melbourne Mary Grant, brig, from Melbourne. Union, brigantiue, from Melbourne. Dunedin, schooner, from Dunedin. Harriet Nathau, barque, from Hobart Town. StormbiH, schooner, from Dunedin. Clara, brigantine, from Dunedin. Anne Moore, brig.-mtiue, from Melbourne. Rambler, schooner, from Greymouth. GlimpsL', cuttor, from Napier. Hannah Newton, brgtne., from Sydney. Canterbury, schooner, from Lyttelton. William an>l Julia, schooner, from Greymouth. Elizabeth Curie, brigantine, from Dunedin. Florence, schooner, from Melbourne. Falcon, schooner, from Greymo.uth. J. B. Russell, schooner, from Christchurch.

IMPORTS.

Per Egmdnt, from Dunedin, Bluff, &c. — 21 cases, 1 truss, 100 cases kerosene, 1" case paper, 9 lihds eggs, 12 tubs butter, order ; 1 parcel, Gilles ; 1 parcel, Hannaghan, 60 bags potatoes, Dunning ; 1 case, Marks ; 1 case boots, Banks ; 2 cases, Perkins ; 1 case, Tait Bros ; 1 truss drapery, Moss ; 1 case, 2 trunks, order ; 1 case, Reeves j 4 cases, 1 truss, order ; 8 cases, 1 bale, Pritchard j 1 package, 1 case, J. Hirsch, 1 case, Marks and Co ; 1 case, 1 cask, J. Lewis.

EXPOBTS.

Per Gothenburg, for Melbourne— 33ooozs. gold, Urfion Bank, Per Queen, for Lyttelton — 32 kegs butter, 2 cases, Rovse, Mudie, and 'Co.

.Per Harry Bluff, for Brighton — 10 cases stout, 4 do fisli, 6 do champagne, 2 do blue, 5 half-chests tea, 1 bdl handles,* 6 kegs butter, 3 coils rope, 1 cask soda, 4 brls herrings, 2 boxes maizena, 3 cases sauce, 2 pkgs tea, 4 mats sugar, 5 boxes raisins, 6 bags rice, 10 boxes biscuits, 1 qr-c«sk whisky, 7 cases jam, 12 bag 9 bran, 4 do oats, 5 cases stout, 15 do brandy, 3 do bitters, 3 do salmon, 4 do lobsters, 4 chests tea, 4 cases pickles, 2 do candles, 1 bag oatmeal, 2 cases bacon, 16 do whisky, 10 do soap, 4 bales chaff, 39 bags sugar, 20 do flour, 8 cases, W. Evans.

The Melbourne and Adelaide Company's s.s. Gothenburg took her departure for Melbourne yesterday forennoon, with a goodly complement of passengers and 6,600 ozs. of gold-dust. Concerning the passengers, fifteen saloon and forty second cabin shipped at this port, and five saloon and fifteen second cabin at Greymouth ; she also embarked thirty-five of both classes at Dunedin, making a total of 110. 3100 ozs. of the gold were shipped at Greymouth, and 3500 at Hokitika.

The Panama Company's s.s. Egmont sailed yesterday afternoon, for Melbourne, with fifteen passengers and 2600 ozs. of gold, shipped at Greymouth, and ten passengers who embarked here.

The steamer Bruce left yesterday morning, for the Buller and Mokiliinui, with a full freight and some fifty passengers. The ketch Cymraes, which had been engaged by the agents to lighter the three-masted schooner Stormbird, was towed out to that vessel by the Bruce.

That handy little steamer the Persevere did j good service to the port yesterday morning by I towing out the lighter Isabella to the steamersGothenburg and Egmont, and so facilitated' their despatch, which otherwise would have been delayed another day. The Persevere also?, conveyed passengers and gold to the Gothen- ' burg, and passenge.rs to the Egmont, ' and returned to the river on first ebb, finding six feet of water on the bar. /

If working the bar yesterday had depended upon the state of the weather and surf.not a few of the many vessels outsKj| would have been transferred to the wliijrf, as a finer morning or smoother water could scarcely be desired. But, although a very marked improvement was per. eptable in the condition of the channel, it was yet harJly deep enough to admit even the light-draught vessels of the fleet, only six feet of water being found by the Persevere when she ran out at three-parts flood, and- seven feet by the Bruce, which left about an hour afterwards. We are sanguine however, that a good tide's work will be performed this morning, as a very fairly defined channel has at last formed, the North Spit having thrown out a long tongue seawards, whilst the sand flat extending out from the south beach, which may be considered as a continuation of the old south spit has silted up amazingly, being just awash at low tide yesterdayj and so formed a very good soutli boundary to our erratic river. One week's continuation of fine weather — with not too little surf — will we believe effect a complete alteration in the configuration of the entrance, and render it safe to navigate, and passable to vessels of as heavy a burden as either of those now at anchor in the roadstead. -Its capabilities will be tested this morning, the masters of both tugs having determined to turn to at an early hour, and thin the fleet, should such a procedure be possible. • We believe that a general signal was made last night at the flagstaff, commanding the smaller vessels of the fleet to be aweigh, and in readiness to take the tow line on board, and well we wot that the order will be right cheerfully obeyed. A telegram from Echuca has brought the news of the total destruction by fire of the Bteamer Lady Darling, on the Murray, about four wiles distant fvow Kohtosv '.Che. I,a.dy

Darling had only returned on the day bcforo, from the upper part of the river, with a full cargo of ■wheat and other produce. She 'had then taken on board a cargo of goods— not supposed to be large — and started on her return Voyage, when the disaster occurred. No further particulars are as yet to hand. The Lady Darling was a stern-wheel vessel, and one of the largest and fastest on the river. She had been thoroughly strengthened and re-pla-ked with hard wood during the season when the Murray is not navigable, after numerous mischances with snags; and she had made several fortunate voyages this season. She had been insured for about L2OOO in a Melbourne oflice, but the policy expired about a mouth ago, and it is doubtful whether it was renewed. The Lady Daly, which has been a favorite vessel on the Upper River for several years, was telegraphed for from Adelaide, as soon as the destruction of the Darling was known, to take her place. — Melbourne " Argus." This city, says the San Francisco " Times," is the terminus of one of the most remarkable events on record. Two first-class clipper ships — the Governor Morton and Prima Dorma — sailed together from New York on the 14th of February. They were towed outside Sandy Hook side by side, so near to e.aeh other that conversation was maintained by the two commanders. Large sums were wagered by the friends of these ships, on thwr respective favorite reaching this port first. The racing vessels crossed the equator in the Atlantic on the same day, although not in the same longitude. They entered the Straits of Le Maire the same day, and came out of them the same day. They crossed the equator in the Pacific on the same day, within three hours of eacli othex*, after a race of sixteen thousand miles. These facts demonstrate the accuracy that has been attained in the science of navigation, and also prove the reliance which may be placed upon the wind and current charts prepared under the direction of Mr Maury. That misguided man — whatever his other faults — was animated by a true love for the science of navigation.