SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Westport Times, Volume IV, Issue 662, 24 May 1870, Page 2

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

WEST PORT, lIIOH WAT Ell. Thi« rtiiy ... 5.8 a.m.. 5.44 p.m. To-morrow 0.17 a.m., 6.50 p,ui, ARUIVAf.S. May 21—Kennedy, s.s., 125 tons, Whitwell, from Greymouth. W. J. YVilloocks, a^'ent. May 21—Three .Friends, schooner, Riley, from Brighton. DEPABTUBES. May 21 —Kennedy, s.s., for Nelson. PASSENUEB LIST. Per Kennedy, from Greymouth —Mr M'Namara. Per Kennedy, for Nelson—Mrs Bedford and children, Messrs Bullock and Robertson, and ten from southern ports. IMPOSTS. Per Kennedy, from Greymouth—l trunk, Smyth and Co.; 4 pkgs drapery, Thomas and M'Beath. EXPOBTS. Per Kennedy, for Nelson—2 cases drapery, Graves. The b.s. John Penn, at 'present in Wanganui, is announced to leave Westport on Saturday next for Nelson, Wellington, Dunedin, and intermediate ports, and leave Dunedin about the 11th proximo for West Coast, via Lyttelton and Wanganui. The schooner Three Friends, from Brighton, arrived off the port on Saturday afternoon, and crossed the bar at high water, but unfortunately the wind failed her and she grounded on the spit. She was got off the following tide, and sustained no serious injury. The next steamer for San Francisco, the Wonga Wonga, is announced to take her departure from Auckland on the 4th prox. The following account of the wreck of the Walter Hood was transmitted by telegraph from Sydney to Melbourne :—" The thirteen men rescued from the wreck of the Walter Hood reached here on Saturday night. The third officer reports that the south-east gale caught the ship suddenly on Monday morning off Cape Howe. Two whole suits of sails were blown away in trying to work off the shore. On Tuesday it blew a hurricane. Cape St. George was seen, and while trying to wear ship at 8 o'clock on Tuesday night, she struck. The anchor was then let go. The captain was forward giving orders when a tremendous sea struck the ship and washed him against a spar, smashing his ribs. He lived until Wednesday, when he was washed out of his cabin and was drowned. Haynes, a passenger, and two others were drowned on Wednesday in attempting to take a line ashore. The cook died from exhaustion during the night. The weather was fine on Thursday, when another seaman was drowned in attempting to get a line ashore. Two of the mates and six seamen swam shorewards; three of the latter were drowned, and the others reached the beach. A raft was constructed on Friday, and launched, with a line attached. The current swept it southwards before entering the line of breakers. Two passengers named Smith, however, reached the shoresafely. The vessel's port sideis destroyed, and the cargo h.is been washed out. Only the starboard side of the poop is above water, and every sea is likely to destroy this. On JFiiday evening thirteen were still alive on the wieok, without food or water since Tuesday. They killed the captain's dog, and caught the blood in a sou'-wester. This and the animal's flesh sustained them until morning, when the Jllallong life-boat, after several unsuccessful attempts, rescued them."