SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 490, 13 April 1869, Page 2

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

WESTPOBT. HIGH "WATEB. This Day ... 10.28 a.m., 10 52 p.m. To-morrow 11.14 a.m., 11.38 p.m. ABBIVALS. April 11—Charles Edward, p.s., Palmer, from Greymouth. N. Edwards and Co., agents. Bruce, p.s., Christian, from Greymouth. G. Harper, agent. Kennedy, s.s., Whitwell, from Nelson. N. Edwards and Co., agents. DEPABTFEES. April 12 —Kennedy, s.s., for Greymouth. Charles Edward, p.s., for Nelson. PASSE3"GEB LIST. Per Kennedy, from Nelson—Miss Eeardon, Mr Black, Mr Boyle, and 3 for the south ; 5 in the steerage. Per Charles Edward, from Greymouth— Miss Byan, Mr Tonks, and 9 for Nelson ; 7 in the steerage. Per Charles Edward, for Nelson—Mrs Lambert, Mrs Parer, Mrs Leech, Miss Buggy, Detective Lambert, Messrs Cooper, Trimble, Hatch, and 9 original; 7in the steerage. IMPOSTS. Per Charles Edward, from Greymouth—l case drugs, Beauehamp ; 1 parcel, Bank of New l?outh Wales. Per Kennedy, from Nelson—l case, 1 truss,. Atislow; 1 bale, 1 case, Patterson; 2 trunks, 1 box, Collings; 2 bales, Kowlands; 1 case, 1 parcel, Anslow; 1 case, Dick ; 25 bags turnips, 12 do carrots, order ; 10 bags oats, 4 kegs butter. Carter ; 4 bales chaff, Powell and Co; 1 case eggs, 1 keg butter, 1 case, Hay ; 3 pkgs, Tudor; 2 do Mailer; 2 jars wine, Roberts and Co; 40 bags bran, order; 12 kegs butter, Powell and Co.

On the Sunday evening tide, the Bruce and Charles Edward arrived from the southern ports, and the Kennedy, from Nelson. Yesterday morning the Charles Edward sailed, with a number of passengers from Greymouth and this port proceeding to Nelson to be present there during the races and the visit of the Duke of Edinburgh. The Bruce sails this morning for the same destination. A late telegram from Wellington stated that it was feared the steamer Beautiful Star ■would become a total wreck at Porirua. We learn by subsequent shipping telegrams, however, that she has proceeded on her passage to the south, and that yesterday she arrived safely at her destination, Port Chalmers. The s.s. Wallabi, instead of returning to this port, has proceeded direct from Greymouth to Wanganui. The s.s. Waipara has again started from Hokitika to Okarito and the southern ports. The cutter formerly named the Satellite, which was wrecked near the Totara some time ago, got safely out of that river on Saturday, when there was nine feet of water on the bar, and has since arrived in the Buller.

Capt. Inglefield, R.N., has invented a new method of steering skips. The power employed is the pressure of the water in which the vessel floats. The details of tho invention have not yet been published; but the apparatus is said to be very simple, consisting only of an hydraulic chamber screwed fast to the bottom of the keel, from which an iron rod passes to the deck and the rudder head. No wheel is required, no tdler beyond a short bar, and steering-ropes arc dispensed with, and yet the power of the apparatus is such that a boy would be able to steer the largest ship in the navy.