INTER-PROVINCIAL SHIPPING

West Coast Times, Issue 1662, 27 January 1871, Page 2

INTER-PRO VINCIAL SHIPPING

[F£B JtLECTBIC TELEGRAPH.]

ARRIVED.

Greymouth. — 26th, early, Murray, from Hokitika ; 2.45 p.m., Waipara, from Hokitika.

Nelson.— 26th, 11 a.m., Kangitoto, from Greymouth.

The s.s. Waipara left the river yesterday morning fer a trip extending as far as Westport. She will be back here again in time to tender the Gothenburg. The schooner Rifleman turned out a quantity of her cargo of produce in excellent condition yesterday. A portion of it was disposed of by public auction. The s.s. Gothenburg is the next steamer for Melbourne direct. She is at present coming round the ports, and left Lyttelton for Wellington on Wednesday. She will be so timed as to sail from here on the 29 th.

Intelligence from Stornoway states that the Prussian barque Hermann Helbmann, which left Scapy, Isle of Orkney, a few days Bince, was blown up by a French man-of-war, off Dunvegan Head, on the following morning. It is stated the firing was heard all along the coast.

The body of a seaman, suppased to belong to the Cambria, has been cast ashore on the Magilligan strand ; and a few barrels of flour and other articles hare been swept in by the tide at Mallin.

The whereabouts of the wreck of the Cambria has not yet been ascertained with precision. The Belfast Fetes Letter says . — Two fishermen belonging to Innistrahull state that they have found where the Cambria steamship is sunk, but they will not give any information except upon conditions. These men found out the position of the wreck whilst' fishing. Their lines caught upon sometliing at the bottom, and as they knew there were no rocks about that place they lowered a line with a stone attached to the end aud commenced to sound, and from the stone frequently getting caught, and the difference in the depth of the water when moving along, they concluded they had found the missing steamer.

A greater tonnage of iron ships is now in course of construction on the Humber than at any previous time in the history of iron shipbuilding.

The British Admiralty is considering a proposal to raise the frigate Captain. At all events they will probably try to ascertain the position of the wreck, the nature of the bottom, and the depth of water at the point where she is lying.

A new screw frigate, to be called the Raleigh, will shortly be commenced at Chatham dockyard, England. This vessel, which will be of 3217 tons, with engines of 800 horse power, will be constructed of iron sheathed with wood.

Mr Alfred Wallen, Secretary to the Merchant Shipping Company, writes to a contemporary as follows, under date November 28 :—": — " I observe in yonr impression of today a statement to the effect that the Silver Eagle, with troops from Sydney, had been lost off Cape Horn. There never was any ground for such a report, and (for the satisfaction of the friends of all on board) have the goodness to state in your next publication that the ship arrived all well, off Queenstown, on November 25, and proceeded at once for Plymouth, where the troops are to be disembarked."