SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 550, 2 September 1869, Page 2

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

WESTPOKT. HIGH WATEB. This Day ... 5.48 a.m., 6.11 p.m. To-morrow G.-10 a.m., 7.10 p.m. ARRIVALS. August 31 —Lyttelton, p.s., Scott, from Hokitika and Greymouth. Sept. I—Charles Edward, p.s., from Nelson. Waipara, s.s., from Hokitika and Greymouth. Bailie aud Humphrey, agents. P.EPARTVRES. August 31—Lyttelton, p.s., for Nelson. Sept. I—Waipara, s.s., for Brighton. Churles Edward, p.s., for Hokitika. PASSENGER XIST. Per Charles Edward, from Nelson—Mr and Mrs West, Mr and Mrs Wells, Mrs Clough, Dr and Mrs Henry, Miss Armstrong, Mr Gallagher, M.H.R., Messrs Hewittson, Harrison, M'Guiggan, Porter, Mailer, aud 9 original for Greymouth and Hokitika. Per Waipara, from Hokitika and Greymouth—Messrs South, Harvey, and Cook ; 4 in the steerage. Per Charles Edward, for Greymouth and Hokitika—9 original. IMPORTS. Per Charles Edward, from Nelson —1 case, order ; 26 bags potatoes, 3 kegs butter, Callaghan ; 2 cases eggs, Pickering ; 10 do fiuit, Moller; 14 pkgs, order; 15 do Henry; 3 bags vegetables, Meller; 1 truss, Fair and M'Coy; 6 pkgs, Alcorn and M'Farland ; 1 case, Horn ; 10 kegs butter. Bailie aad Humphrey ; 1 truss, Fleming and Murray ; 1 bale leather, Jackson ; 2 bales straw, Jail ; 7 pkgs, Wells;. 3 casks butter, Alcorn and M'Farland ; 9 bales chad', 2 cases eggs, O'Neill;. 5. do, Callaghan; 20 sheep, Max. Per Waipara, from Hokitika—3 cases stationery, Bank of New South Wales ; 1 case cigars, Shuloff; 4 hhds,B barrels beer, Organ; 2 eates leather, Byrne; 1 case, 1 box, 1 case acid. Bank of New Zealand; 2 boxes luggage, Brown ; 1 do, Davis ; 1 ease, 2 pkgs luergage, Reid ; 1 collar, M'Kee. Per cutter Hope, from Charleston—3 pkgs furniture, order. EXPORTS. Per Charles Edward, for Hokitika—l box gold (HSGozs 14dwts), Bank of New Zealand. Per Waipara, for Brighton—2s bags potatoos, 5 do salt, 4 bales cliaff, Freeth-and Greig; 8 cases brandy, Bailie and Humphrey.

The p.*. Lyttelton, which was the first Nelson steamer which has entered Ilokitika river since that port has been blockaded by the almost impassal lo state of its bar, returned to Westport on her way north, at an early hour on Tuesday morning, and at mid-day sailed for Nelson. The steamer Charles "Edward, since her return from Sydney, has been making a succession of very rapid trips along the West Coast. She returned from Nelson yesterday, and in the evening sailed for southern ports. The s.s. Waiparu arrived in port yesterday morning. Since she visited Brighton she made a trip as far south as tin- HaaSt, Jackson's Bay, and Smcothwater Buy, and at the Haast several parcels of gold were received from the diggers. At Bruce Bav, however, ocv in tiuu it nits impssiuiu iu ell ecu a lanuing. and Okarito was also unapproachable on account of the heavy sea. S;e returns thither on her present trip southward, Okarito being at present, somewhat short of supplies. The steamer Kennedy arrived at Sydney on the 20th instant, after a favorable passage of eight days. The s.s. Wallabi has sailed direct from Greymouth to Wanganui. The Greymouth people do not intend to give up their tonnage dues without a struggle. They have consulted another lawyer, whose opinion is their own, that the recciu decision is wrong in law. An appeal against that decision will be made.

The Blanche has brought to Sydney a sailor named Harvey from Fiji, charged with murdering a shipmate at sea. Lieut. Woods, who for some time back has been conducting the marine survey of the of the coast and harbors of New Zealand, is now in Melbourne, having been deputed by the New Zealand Government to take charge of a schooner which they have purchased at Sydney for the further carrying on of the survey of the coast line. The schooner Aborigine, which arrived in Hokitika last week, left Port Phillip Heads on the 27th of June, and was fifty-two days in the roadstead. A small quantity of prepared flax has been employed at Balclutha, Otago, in caulking a punt, oakum not being obtainable. The experiment is said to have given satisfaction. Captain Peter Thompson, of the schooner Swallow, which arrived in Hobson's Bay on Saturday, 14th ult., from Tasmania, reports havin;; seen a sunken schooner adjacent to Sea Elephant Hock, in ten fathoms of water. It is supposed to be the missing schooner Sarah Barr. A considerable improvement has been effected iu the blades of steamship screws. Instead of being fixed or made so as to lift, they are constructed to "feather" fore and ait. The system is admirably adapted for ships of war pr sailing ships with auxiliary power, and is likely to be extensively adopted. Thomas Munro, master of the ketch MargaEet, has'becn drowned at Little Akaloa, Canterbury, by getting foul of some kelp while swimming. ' ,s The Kearsage, now in Sydney, and expected at Port Chalmers, was principal in the great naval duel between the Federal and Confederate States of Aiuerica, on the 19th June, 1861. Her present commander was, during that action, the first officer. In armament and appointments sire now is what she was. N > change has been'allowed to pass upon her, save the removal of the chains that protected her engines during tho v engagement, arid even the bolts are left by which these were suspended. The Kearsage was one of the nine gun-boats furnished to the United States Government within ninety days from the date of the order being given, the period actually occupied in building the vessel in question being but sixty-nine day's*. ~ •