SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 455, 21 January 1869, Page 2

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

WESTPORT. HIGH WATEB. TV. finy ... 3.52 a.m., 416 p.m. To-morrow 4.3G a.m., 5.2 p.m. DEPARTURES. Waipara, s.s., fcr Grey month. The steamer Charles Edward is telegraphed as having left Nelson at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, but she has, no doubt, been detained on the other side of Cape Farewell by the heavy weather which has prevailed. The steamer Omeo arrived at Nelson on Tuesday, and is now probably on her way to ifokitika, where a number of Westport passengers have been waiting her for some daysMr Criswick, Mr Hughes, and others, on their way to Melbourne. The steamer Yarra, after being 1 stranded .iume two mouths ago, was purchased by Mr Louisson, and subsequently became the proparty of Mr W. S. Lockhart, who, under bis own immediate supervision, caused her hull, boilers, and engines, to be thoroughly overhauled. This morning steam was got up and she proceeded over the bar for the purpose of ascertaining that the boilers were correct, which proved satisfactory, the pressure of steam employed being up to the regulated government guage. It is the intention of the owner to run between lids and Greymouth, carrying general cargo from Hokitika and the above port, and returning coal laden.— West Coast Times. Lieut. Woods, of the New Zealand Marine Survey! returned to Wellington after a five months' cruise on the West Coast of the Middle Island. This gentleman, we are informed, after plotting the difficult works he and his able assistant, Mr Knight, have just completed on that dangerous coast, will at once proceed to the north end of this island, in order to verify the position and survey various dangers in the proximity of Manukau Horbor. We understand that the labors of Mr Woods have not proved fruitless on the West Coast alone. Lieut. Woods found several important headlands much out of their proper position. One of them for instance was verified to have been placed on the existing charts some 15 miles out of its true longitude.—2v". Z. Advertiser. 'I he clipper schooner Crest of the Wave, from the Buller viaPicton, arrivedatDunedin ■on the sth inst. The schooner left Westport on Sunday the 20th ult., and had a fine run of 48 hours to Picten, where she loaded her cargo, and cleared Tory Channel at 10 p.m. on the Ist instant. Strong northerly and N.E. were experienced on the run down along the coast, and she was in close proximity to Otago Heads at 3 a.m. on Sunday last, when she encountered a heavy easterly gale then prevailing, and worked off uuder a press of canvas to sea. Captain Black describes the gale as terrific, accompanied by a mountainous sea, and that he hove the deck cargo overboard to ease the vessel. The barque Indus, which left Newcastle for Port Chalmers on the 14th of November sprung a leak shortly after leaving, and put into Sydney, where it is understood she discharged her cargo, and was taken into CuthbertVdock.