SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Westport Times, Volume II, Issue 193, 13 March 1868, Page 2

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

POET OF WEST PORT. IIIOIE WATER. This Day ... 1.12 a.m., 1.36 p.m. ARRIVALS. March 12—Nelson, p.s., from Hokitika and Ci'eymouth. DEPARTURES. March 12 —Murray, for Nelson. OUTWARDS. March 12 —Murray, s.s., 56 tons, Holmes, master, for Nelson. J. Kirby, agent. Waipara, s.s., 48 tons, Baseand, master, for Mokihinui. A. Beauchamp, agent. Constant, ketch, 15 tons, M'Donald, master for Charleston. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Northern Light, from Melbourne. Mary Ann, from Melbourne. Mary dimming, from Melbourne. Maid of Erin, from Melbourne. Kennedy, from Nelson. VESSELS IN PORT. Schooners—Ada, Mary. Ketches—Constant. Cutter—Dart. Steamers—Waipara, Nelson. EXPORTS. Per Wanganui—l4o hides, F. P. Atkinson. Per Murray—7 kegs, 2 boxes butter, Falla ; 12 empty hhds, Hooper; 3 bundles bags, Jones. Per Waipara—l keg butter, 1 case milk, Smyth ; 2 cases porter, 2 kegs brandy, Stitt. Per Constant—2 casos ling, 4do porter, 12 bags sugar, 2 cases champagne, 4do brandy, 2i doz shovels, 10 cases geneva, 4 do claret, 8 half-chests tea, Henderson ; 6 cases porter, 6 do brandy, 2 mats sugar, 1 half-chest tea, 2 cases champagne, 2 do sarsaparilla, 10 do claret, 6 do geneva, 20 do old torn, 4 do whiskey, 2 do bitters, 1 qr-eask brandy, 1 qrcask port wine, 1 qr-cask sherry, Rooney ; 12 cases porter, Clung and Russell; 7 hhds ale, 12 qr-casks ale, 2 cases, 1 trunk, Jackson; 31 mats sugar, 4 pkgs white sugar, 12 qr-boxes soap, 14 cases porter, Allen; 2 hhds ale, Kennedy Pros.

The screw-steamer Murray left at midday yesterday for Nelson. She had on board nearly sixty miners who are going by the Tararua from Nelson to Queensland.

The Nelson left lfokitika on Wednesday morning ; stayed four hours in Greymouth, and arrived in the Buller at 11 p.m. yesterday. •She was loaded with passengers both on her up and down trip. The ketch Constant is loaded with a general cargo for Charleston, and is all ready for sailing.

TiiuouGit Mail Line between England asd the IsTimus of Panama.—The announcement that, as soon as the necessary arrangements can be made, the Atlantic vessels of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company will extend their voyages to Colon, will be received with satisfaction by all who are interested in the communication between England and those countries which lie beyond the Isthmus of Panama. The increasing importance of the traffic between this country and the North and South Pacific, Central America, and, though last, not least, New Zealand and the Australian Colonies, calls for a means of communication more suitable to its value than that which has hitherto been provided, and we rejoice in the prospect of a line of first-class mail steamers running through from Southampton to Colon, by which arrangement the inconvenience so much complained of by passengers of having to change fro>n ship to ship will be avoided, •and embarking at Southampton, they will be able to proceed in the same ship through to Colon, which, as our readers are doubtless aware is the Atlantic terminus of the Panama Railroad. While the arrangements in question will be a great boon for outward passengers it will, perhaps, be still more advanta, geous for those who arc homeward bound as arriving at Colon they will be able to walk on board the Atlantic steamer which will convey them either to Plymonth or Southampton. The arrangement will probably also be found very satisfactory to merchants, as goods for the Isthmus shipprd in England will be conveyed to that locality in the ship in which they were originally received, and in the same way goods from the Pacific, &c., received at Colon, will be delivered in England, witnout being transhipped from one vessel to another. We have nut heard when the through service is expected to be commenced, but we lose no time in drawing the attention of our readers to the decision which has been come to, as we are sure that it is one which will be received with the utmost satisfaction by all who are interested in the communication between this country and the Pacific— West India and Pacific Mail, Jan. 1- J