SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Westport Times, Volume II, Issue 222, 17 April 1868, Page 2

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

• PORT OF WESTPORT. lIIGII WATER. This Day ... 5.0 a.m., 5.24 p.m. ARRIVALS. April IG—Nelson, p.s., from Southern Ports. John Penn, p.s., frcm Nelson. DEPARTURES. April 16 —Bruce, p.s., for Hokitika. Nelson, p.s., for Nelson. Waipara, s.s., for South. CUSTOMS ENTRIES. INWARDS. April 16 —John Penn, s.s., 122 tons, Carey, master, from Nelson. N. Edwards and Co., agents. Nelson, p.s., 88 tons, Dillon, master, from Hokitika and Greymouth. N, Edwards und Co., agents. OUTWARDS. April 16—Dart, cutter, 15 tons, for Mokihinui. pa Nelson, p,s., 88 tons, Dillon, master, for Nelson. N. Edwards and Co., agents. Waipara, s.s., 48 tons, Bascund, master, for Southern Ports. A. Beauchanip and Co., agents. PASSENGER LIST. Per Nelson—Eight males and four females in the saloon. Per John Penn—Saloon: Messrs Hughes, Usher, Simpson, Kirwon, Seward, Mr and Mrs Falla, Mrs Murdoch and child, and Miss Steward ; steerage —Messrs Hessey, Murray, Young, Pennie, Walsh, Innes, Sims, Young, Rennet, Pickford, Russell, Hill, Mollow. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Northern Eight, from Melbourne. Nightingale, from Melbourne. Queen of the Isles, from Dunedin. Florence, from Melbourne. Kennedy, from Nelson. Murray, from Nelson. VESSELS IN PORT. Cutter—Dart. Schooners—Ada, Mount M'Laren. Ketches—Mary, Constant. Steamer —John Penn.

IMPORTS. Per John Penn—lß head cattle, 69 bales chaff, Johnson ; 2 hhds ale, Tonks and Co ; 3 hhds ale, Beauchamp ; 3 hhds als, Corcoran ; 16 qr-casks ale, Jackson ; 120 bags potatoes, 2 bags cabbage, 8 kegs butter, Burrell; 5 bags oysters. 1 bag onions, 1 case lollies, King; 3 cases cucumbers, 1 case eggs, 2 cases fruit, 3 kegs butter, Order; 5 cases ammunition, 1 case firearms, 1 case swords, Kynnersley; lease wearing apparel, 1 trunk wearing apparel, Morey ; 1 trunk boots, Roberts and Law ; 12 bags potatoes, 1 bag wheat, 7 bags carrots, 12 bags potatoes, 3 cases fowls, Hill; 20 cases fruit, 4 cases, Butler; 1 case eggs, 2 bags cabbage, 1 case fowls, 6 bags potatoes, Pickard ; 10 cases apples, Askew ; 42 sheep, Bell; 4hhds ale, 16 qr-casks ale, Order ; 36 cases fruit, 2 cases eggs, Barrett; 1 revolver, Tyler.

EXPORTS. - P-er_D.art—L pomoei, 1 keg'butter, 1 pkg drapery, 4 casos candles, 2 cases porter, 1 barrel raisins, Stitt Bros. Per Waipara—ll pkgs Ironmongery, J. B. Clarke.

The paddle-steamer Nelson on Tuesday left Hokitika, the bar very rough, at 2.30 p.m. Got to Grey same tide. Left again at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, and got off the bar at 11.30 p.m., and crossed the bar at 4 a.m. yesterday. She left again for Nelson by the afternoon's tide. The Waipara left for Southern Ports yesterday. The John Perm crossed the bar at 1.30 p.m. She left Nelson at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, and arrived of the Puller at noon yesterday." She brings 23 passengers and a general cargo of merchandise, and some live stock. The barque Helen S. Page, which a few weeks since visited this port with cattle for Captain Johnson, was wrecked on her trip up to Sydney. Crew saved and most of the tackling. She was insured for .£BOO, and belonged to her commander, Captain Evans.— Colonist.