SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 518, 17 June 1869, Page 2

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

WESTPOKT. HIGH WATEB. This Day ... 3.36 a.m., 4.40 p.m. To-morrow 4.25 a.m., 4.49 p.m. ABBIVALS. June 15 —Kennedy, s.s., bound for Greymouth ; put buck, windbound. June 17 —Murray, s.s., M'Gillivray, from Nelson. J. W. Kirby, agent. UEPABTFBES. June 16—Kennedy, s.s., for Greymouth. Since Tuesday evening it has blown very heavily from several points of the compass, and although tlierehas not been an unusually heavy surf on the bar or beach at Westport, there has been a very high sea running outside. The steamer Kennedy sailed on that evening for Greymouth, but came to anchor for the night in the lee of the Steeples. Between three and four on Wednesday morning she left her anchorage and made an attempt to pursue her voyage, but when she had nearly reached Fox's, Capt. YVhitwell found the sea so high and the gale so increasing in violence that he found it necessary to put the steamer about, and to make for the Buller, where she arrived about mid-day, the sea apparently making a clean breach at that time over all but the principal peals of the Steeples. Even had she gone on to Greymouth, it is not probable that she woidd have been able to cross the bar, and, notwithstanding their detention, the passengers have, no doubt, preferred the shelter of the Buller to exposure off the coast during such a severe night as that which succeeded the Kennedy's arrival in port. In the manifest of the schooner Excelsior, as published on Tuesday, the Inst seventeen entries should have been accredited to MiDavid Henderson, Charleston, who is also consignee of 1 case acid, 1 case vermicelli, 1 cask vinegar, and 1 cask whiting. The brigantine Prosperity lias finished discharging her cargo at Bright street wharf, and is now being ballasted, prior to departure for Melbourne.