PORT oF KAIAPOI.

Press, Volume XII, Issue 1688, 4 June 1868, Page 2

PORT oF KAIAPOI.

ABUIT£I> ..,i,,'" June I Peart, ketch, Russell, j'rom Wanganui, in ballast; CLEARED. June 2 Dart, echooner, Wliyte, for Hokkika. KXVOBTB. Per Dart—l 347 bu.'hels wheat, Birch and Co, IN RITEE. Rifleman, Pearl.

The s c Gothenburg arrived ; n harbour at 8 80am yesterday from Melbourne via Bluff and Otago. The schooner Dancing Wuvo arrived in port 6n Wednesday afternoon from Hokitika. She left on Thursday, M»y 28, with a stroi-g KW wind. Spoke tfu> schooner Streamlet on Sunday off Stereos lefon-1. 1 The barque Southern Cnvs. Captain R. Thompson, arrived frosn Ilobait Town last evening. She left Hrqart Town early o:i tlie 24th ultimo, and was becalmed off Storm B<ij for two days ; light westerly winds eM-ce-doil, which when nearing the >ew Zetland coast j increased to a pale, with snow msd hail ?q.i>l!s j and thick weather; eteercd for South Cnpe. | Off Stewarts Ishn.-I ; the g-.ik' ' i!lfl tiit;k »«**'>*•■ j continuing, wu* ur..ib!e <o nuke o-.;t any land ; steered for the Bra»h Traps, off w) ieh ti.<> breakers were ir.sdo «t daylight on the 31st of May; passed the Nuggets at 9 30 v> in siwse day, and Otago Heads at 5 a ni on June lit ; when about ten miles north of Oninaru the wind shifted to NNW, blow ng fresh, the barometer standing at 29 10; s-»w a ship n-.ak- j ing for Oamnru. At 9pin on the Ist instant a heary gale sprung up from SW, with snow squall and thick weathrr; reduced ship to dose-reefed topsails", and run until 4am nest day, when rot being able to innbe out the j peninsula, hore to uivil H tviight, tiie gale still ; continuing ; barometer 28 S!». Tiio ijou'heni j Grose bring a large cargo of s'iin;;les, pilings, j timber, somo bark, aad a few casks cf apples j and pears. !