PORT OF KAIAPOI.

Press, Volume XVIII, Issue 2491, 25 April 1871, Page 2

PORT OF KAIAPOI.

AEBIVED. April 23—Jane Elkin, ketch, Leslie, from Greymouth. April 23—Jupiter, ketch, Petersen, from Hokitika, via Lyttelton. IMPORTS. Per Jane Elkin—4o tons coal, Belcher and Fairweather. Per Jupiter—lß,ooo feet timber, Birch and Co. IN BTVTEE. April 24—Annie, Margaret, Jupiter, Jane Elkia. The barque John Knox hauled into the Government wharf yesterday morning to discharge. The s.s. Bangatira, Captain Reuner, sailed for Dunedin yesterday at 1 p.m. The schooner Spray, Captain T. K. Clarkson, cleared the Customs yesterday for Hokitika. The brigantine Isabella, Captain Priest, sailed for Hokitika yesterday morning. - The Harbor Company's s.s. Beautiful Star. Captain J. Hart, arrived in harbor yesterday at 7.35 a.m. from Dunedin, via intermediate ports. Sailed from Port Chalmers on Friday, at 4.30 pan., arriving at Timaru at 5.30 a.m. on Saturday; left again at 6.45 p.m., and arrived at Akaroa at 6.50 ajh. on . Sunday ; remained there till 1 a.m. yesterday, arriving as above. We have to thank the steward for files. The Beautiful Star sails for the Sonth this day, at 11 aon. On Saturday, at 5 p.m., in attempting to take the Kaiapoi bar, the schooner Nile, Captain Early, from Akaroa, went ashore on the spit. Her cargo of 7800 feet sawn timber and 25 cords of firewood, for Messrs Belcher and Fairweather, has mostly all been " rafted" alongside, so as to lighten the vessel, and she will be got off comparatively easy, very probably next tide. The accident occurred, it is believed, through the vessel missing the channel, as the pilot informed us some days since that the deep-water channel was in very good condition.