SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

West Coast Times, Issue 625, 25 September 1867, Page 2

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

POUT OF IIOKITIKA.

High Watee This Day. — 6.35 a.m. ; 6.50 p.m.

Sept. 24. — 6 a.m., wind east, light ; barometer 3021 ; thermometer 44"0 ; 1 p.m., wind S.W., light j barometer 30*15 ; thermometer sun, 82-0; shade, 700 ; 6 p.m., wind cast, light ; barometer 3Q-15 ; thermometer 6-i'O ; weather during day very fine.

AEEIVED.

September 24.— Nil Desperanduni, brig, Delandelle3, from Dunedin. Boyle and Co., agents.

Standard, ketch, Morgan, from Bullor. Master, agent. Huntress, p.s,, Murphy, from Buller. Carey and Gules, agents.

sailed. \~y September 24. — Mary, brigantine, Gml, for Melbourne.

Bruce, p.s., Kerley, for Buller and Mokihinui.

ENTEEED IS.

Huntress, 53 tons, J. Murphy, from Westport. 8 passengers. Standard, 10 tons, R. Morgan, from Westport. In ballast. Nil Desperandum, 157 tons, T. Delandelle3, from Dunedin.

Hope, 12 tons, Hy. White, from Pakihi, 2 passengers.

CLEABED OtTT.

.Aurora, 42 tons, A.. "Weir, for Slolyneux. In ballast.

Bruce, _ 84 tqn3, James Korlev, for Fox's River and Westport.

EXPECTED ARRIVALS,

Lizzie Coleson, brgtn., from Sydney, early. •Omeo, 5.5.,-from Dunedin, to-morrow. Bungaree.-^chooner, from Adelaide, daily. Claud Hamilton, from Sydney, -to-morrow. Egniont, s.s., from Melbourne," 27th inst. - Alhambra, -s.s. from Melbourno, early. 10, schooner, from Melbourne, Daily.

John Bullock, schr., from Melbourne, early. Pilot, sclir., from Melbourne, early. Mary Anne, schr., from Melbourne, early.

PEOJECXED DEPARTFBE3,

R.M.S.S. Kaikoura, from Wellington, for Panama, Oct. 8. Alice, sehr., for Pox's early. Harry Bluff, cutter, for Fox's, early. lona, schr., for Pakihi, early. Huntress, p.s., for Buller, to-day. Egmont, s.s., for Sydney, vi 4 kelson, 28th inst. Claud Hamilton, s.s., for Nelson, to-morrow. Rangitoto, s.s., for Melbourne, 28fch inst. Omeo, s.s., for Melbourne, Sept. 26. Alhambra, s.s., for Melbourne, Sept. 30. VESSEL IN TOUT.

Brigs — Mary Grant, Nil Desperandum. Brigantines— lsabella (lighter), Clara, and Union.

Sfliooners— lona, Star of Tasmania, Sea Ripple, William and Julia, Matilda, Flyin" Cloud, Nile, Alice. Cutter— Harry Bluff, Hope. Ketches — Mary Anne, Brothers and Sister, Standard, and Cymraes. ft I earners — Challenge, Golden Land, Tarra, Lioness.

IMPOET3,

Per Huntress, from Westport— loo sheep, order. '

Per Nil Desperanduni, from Dunediu — 2 qr-casks wine, Cummings and Co ; 28 cases stout, A. Cleve ; 3 qr-casks sherry, Powell ; 50 cases stout, Edward Reeve 3; 125 -cases stout, 20 cases bacon, Morison, Law and Co j 40 bags sugar, Bailie and Humphrey ; 21 cases wine, Hansen ; 8 casks beef, order ; 4 bales corks, Mace and Dixon ; 51 bags potatoes, Powell ; 2 bales paper, Edward Reeves and Co ; 25 tuba butter, JToriaon, I/aw and Co j 200 bags oats, A. Boyle ; 5 cases salmon, 5 cases pickles, 1 case yeast, 4 cases sardines, 4 salad oil, 1 case sago, 1 cask whiting, 1 cask soda, 2 cases apples, 2 cases marmalade, 1 case carbonate of soda, 5 boxes pegs, 2 cases mustard, 1 case peel, 2 chests candles, 20 bags salt, 1 cask blacking, Campbell and Linton ; 1 bale paper, 4 kegs, apples, 1 cask blacking, 2 cases sauce, 20 bags salt, Bailie and Humphrey ; 106 bales chaff, 81 bags potatoes, A. Boyle and Co ; 286 bags potatoes, 18G bags oats, 76 bags potatoes, 29 bales chaff, 65 bags oats, 63 bags potatoes, order ; 6 cases hams and bacon, J. and H. Miller.

Per Hope, from Pakihi — 3 tons coal, Henry White.

EXPOBTS.

Per Bruce, for Fox's River and Westport. For Fox's River — 2 bales, Rimmer and Co. ; 1 pkg tobacco, W. J. Coates ; 2 lilids eggS", J. Duff ; 1 case, Lewis ; 1 case, order. For Westport — 5 cases, 1 half-tierce tobacco, order ; 10 cases fruit, Watson ; 1 box, Martin ; 1 case drapery, Brown ; 1 case bacon, Solomon and Co. ; 15 tubs butter, J. Powell and Co. ; 6 bdls iron, 2 boxes tin, 12 sad irons, 1 keg nails, 2 weights, 2 roils wire, 1 pare?}, J. Lewis ; 1 scale, Spence Bros. ; 3 bags peas, Powell and Co. ; 3 bdls iron, 1 case hardware, J. Ballinger ; 3 cases salmon, 1 keg tacks, J. Powell and Co. ; 7 pkgs, Morrison ; 20 bags flour, 5 kegs peas, 7 tubs butter, 5 half-chests tea, Powell and Co. ; 12 nests billies, J. Solomon and Co. ; 12 cases coffee, Alcorn and Co.

We have to place another successful coasting trip on the credit side of the p.s. Huntress' account, as she returned to port at an early hour yesterday' morning, and landed about fifteen passengers who were picked up at the Buller and Fox's. The Huntress started on this her last trip at 4.30 p.m. on Sunday, and arrived at Woodpecker Bay at 11.30 p.m. Landed a little cargo and a few passengers and pushed for Westport, the Buller being crossed at 5 a.m. on Monday. She discharged twentyfive tons of cargo at Westport, and after transhipping 100 sheep from the p.s. Southland, left again at 4 p.m. ; touched at Fox's River on her way up, and arrived here as above. Captain Murphy reports the arrival on Sunday of the steamers Tasmanian Maid and Southland at the Buller. The former is from Manukau, where she underwent extensive repairs and overhauling. She returns to the West Coast a vastly improved vessel emir-ently fitted to resume the trade she successfully followed for nearly twelve months. The Southland brought a cargo of cattle and sheep from Wanganui, (N.1.) When the Huntresß left the Buller the Tasmauian Maid had the water-logged Louisa in tow, and was beading for the bar with every probability of getting her charge inside. We see that tho Huntress is again laid on for the north, and will leave this day.

The steamer Bruce sailed last night for the Buller and Mohikinui with between twenty and thirty passengers and a few tons of cargo. The tug Lioness \s off duty for a few days, for the purpose of having her boiler felted and covered with zinc. This heat-preserving process -will add greatly to the old boat's steaming power. She will be ready for work again by the commencement of next week.

The Mary sailed for Melbourno yesterday morning, and the wharf berth thus vacated was taken up by the brigantine Hector, which immediately broke bulk, and turned out a lot of cargo during the day. It came to hand in beautiful condition.

The brig Mary Grant was all but discharged last night, and considering that her cargo consisted entirely of flour and bran, it turned out excellently, as only a few bags that were •towed round the pump cose and a few others in the bilges received the slightest damage. The brig Nil Deßperandum sailed "from Dunedin for this port via Foveaux Straits on the 29th ult., with light N.W. winds and fine weather. The breeze veered to S.W. during the night, and continuod there until the 30th, driving her far to the southward and eastward, and then backed into N.W. again, commencing a heavy gale, that was maintained without a break until the 4th inst. Close hauled under low sail, she fetched close up to the Snarei by the Ist inst, but was

again driven to the oastward by a shift of wind to west, veering to S.W., that sent up a frightful sea. She dragged alone that night under a heavy press of canvas, but being struck by a heavy sea next day that washed away the galley and cooking range, started the boom lashings, and severely injured a seaman named Walker, she was compelled to heave to under just sufficient sail to keep her steady. The gale raged furiously from S.W. to N.W. until the 3rd, and together with the heavy sea, and a southerly Bet drifted the brig as far south as the latitude of the Auckland Islands. On the 4th the gale so far moderated that she was enabled to set lower topsails, courses, and staysails, and next day it entirely abated, and was succeeded by a period of variable weather from W.S.W. to north, that kept her south of tho Snares until the 9th, when the breeze settling steadily into S.W., she was able to lay a course that carried her clear of Stewart's Island and round West Cape by next morning. Light weather succeeding, she made but slow progress along tho coast, Bligh Sound not being passed until the 13th, and hence she was four clays fetching Open Bay Islands, off the Okuri Eiver. Light land breezes during night-time helped to make up for the calms and variables that prevailed by day, and at last on the 21st she reached the roadstead and anchored. The neap tides having reduced tho depth of the channel to seven feet, which was fifteen inches under the brig's draught, she was kept outside until yesterday morning, and then towed in behind the Challenge. The Nil Depeiundum is loaded with produce, and is now on her first visit to this port.

The little ketch Standard arrived in the river yesterday morning from Westporfc, which she left on Sunday last, and experienced vevy light weather up the const. She was towed in by the Challenge. The Standard was instrumental in saving the crow of a fine little ketch named the Louisa, a Buller built craft, which leftWestport — on her second trip only — about ten minutes before the Standard. Captain Morgan, of the latter vessel, reports that the Louisa must have snagged herself going out, as when he cleared the river she was in a sinking condition, with a distress signal flying. He ran the Standard alongside, and had just time to save the crew and their effects and one or two packages of cargo, before the hapless craft lurched heavily, and fairly " turned turtle," the surf being then close aboard her. The crew were afterwards transhipped to a small fishing cutter, and the Standard proceeded onwards, and reached her destination as above. We understand tliat the Louisa was bound to Pakihi with a full cargo.

The schooner Spray, which unfortunately ran aground on the north spit of the Kaiapoi bar, on Tuesday last, has again been launched, and is now in the river, opposite the Kaiapoi Hotel, whore being high and dry at low water, every facility is offered for examining her bottom and repairing damages. Beyond the seams being a little started, however, we are informed that no damage has been done, and that after a little caulking, she will again be all right. All the cargo was thrown overboard before the vessel could be got adrift. — " Lyttelton Times," September 17. The Captain of the brig Rita, which vessel returned to Aucklaud from a trip to Tahiti, and Rorotouga on the 10th inst., reports :—: — That great damage had been done at Roratonga, by one of the periodical hurricanes which visit those shores. • The hurricane continued with great violence for ttree days. There wore no vessels off the island at the time, or greater damage would have ensued. The island has been visited by 115 vessels during the past two years. The building of the new steam dredge and floating dock at Port Chalmers is being vigorously pushed forward. The dredge received a temporary check, through the loss of the schooner Daginar at Waikawa, on board of which some of the necessary timber required was lost. The proprietors and builders of the dock have been more fortunate by their purchase of heavy timber of tho reqnircd sizes, ex Parisian, from Victoria (V. 1.).— " Otago Times."

'iho [schooner Crest of the Wave, lately arrived from Greymouth, proceeds with her cargo of coal to Port Molyneaus, where she will load a cargo of produce for the West Coast.—" Otago Times." Advantage was taken of the line weather yesterday to make further progress with the operations in the lifting of the s.s. Black Swan, The floating' docks were towed to the spot, and the chains which were passed under the submerged ship were secured. The process of filling the docks'was also begun ; and if the work, .as was intended, should be carried on all night, some definite result ought to bs arrived at in the course of to-day. — " Melbourne Argus," Sept. 12.