SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Westport Times, Volume IV, Issue 634, 19 March 1870, Page 2

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

WESITOET. HIGH WATER. Thin Day ... 11.33 »•>«., 11.48 p.m. To-raorrow 0.3 tun., 0.25 p.m. 'Monday ... u.47 a.m., 1.9 p,m. ARRIVALS. March 15—Mary Jane, schooner, Hay, from Dunedin. Bailie and Humphrey, agents. IMPORTS. Per Jane, from Dunedin—7o bags sugar, 10 cases stout, 10 casks ale, 40 bags Bait, 1 keg saltpetre, 50 bags oats, Bailie and Humphrey ; tO bags salt, order; 8 kegs pearl barley, 5 jases salmon, P. F. Smyth and Co.; 4 bars iron, 1 ease dPhdles, 1 bundle washboard*, 2 do buckets", G grindstones, 9 kegs ■nails, 1 case sundries, 8 kegs paint, Field j 70 bags bran, 70 do oats, Freeth and Greig ; 40 kegs blasting powder, Field ; 30 bags flour, West.

Okarito letters state that tho entrance to that port has b*'tn, during the last, few days, nearly closed, tha channel being nortii as far as the cemetery, and, in places, m.t more than 15ft in breadth. On the morning oi the 9th, there was a narrow break in the bar close to the South Beach, but it had not sufficient water in it to admit of a vessel being brought in, but it was hoped and expected that in a few more tides the break would become a navigable channel. Captain Francis, formerly of the s.e. Taranaki, is to be chief officer with Captain Kennedy in the City of Melbourne, in the new mail service. Most of the Wonga Wor.ga's cabins have been engaged at Sydney for the Californian route. The Zingara, from Mauritius, bound to Dunedin, with 300 tons of sugar, has arrived at Hobart Town, and will discharge her cargo there. Previous to the mammoth steamer Great Eastern giving up her American passenger trade she carried 425 of a crew, which were classed as follows : —Seamen department—9 nautical officers, 3 pursers, 2 surgeons, 17 petty officers, 10 quartermasters, and 79 seamen. Engineer's department—lG engineers, 2 boiler makers, 2 blacksmiths, 1 tin and coppersmith, 25 petty officers, 155 firemen, and 1 clerk. Steward's department—2 head stewards, 2 second do, 2 bar-keepers, 4 stewardesses, 3 bakers, and 90 stewards. The latter department, sinee her employment of laying telegraphic cables, has been reduced considerably.

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. ARRIVALS. Lyttelton.—March 18 Tararua, from Wellington. DEPARTURES. Nelson.—March 18 John Bunyan, for Newcastle ; John Penn, for Wangaaui, late. Wellington.—March 17—Philip Nelson, for London.