HOKITIKA SHIPPING.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXI, Issue 2606, 24 November 1865, Page 4

HOKITIKA SHIPPING.

VSy the (iiuv.il m tho Jfnnukau ycbtcrtlay of the cutter Kagle, of this poit, wo have Intel shipping news from lloki tika, and make the following extracts :—: — The cutter Iliii;rio\c, Uiptam Tinner, arrived over tho bar on the sth inslint fioin AucUind, after a tempestuous passigc The "llokitik.i Leader" of the 10th instant snjs •— " The cuttei Kingdo\ o lias had a remarkably stormj passnge from Auckland. Sho left that port on the 23ul Soptembci, and on the 20th the first of a succession of hem yh \V gale dro\e her into Onarua Ha) for shelter Twice she attempted to lea\ c this ha\ en, and each time was driven back , but succeeded in getting to sea again on the 3rd of October , and on the 7th she spoke the schooner Shamrock, from Wang unit to the Fiji Islands, and on the 9th the lloso of Castile, from tlws (?rent li iruer, bound to Chustcliurcli Running Uioit ol wood and water, she r.u> into Wellington on the 10th, and was ag.un twice dmeu bickb) heivy &T& T W. g.iles ere she finally succeeded in getting to sea on tho 2Jrd The day after she agun anchored tluousli stress of v.eathei undci Kapiti, in coinp.in> with tho Wild Wa\e and Duiung Wa\e, sthooneia, and bi lg Ale\'indei She loft X ipiti on the 27th, and tho d.i) after encountered a hea\j blow from tho N W., w Inch earned aw ay her fore btay .and blew the storm jib out of tho boltlopes iheute to Hokitika, hca\y westerly gale? pre\ ailed She camp to off tho btu on the morning of the Jul instant, and during that night s heavy q lie, her cable paiting at the luiwaepipe, she lost 70 fathoms of chain and an anchor, and wai obliged to stand out to sea agaiu Run in on the morning of the sth, and at tide time same day towed (nerthe bar, and reached the wharf safelj " The schooner Kate Uiant, of this poit, arrived nt Hokitika, on tho lth instant, after a smait run of 17dajs The samo paper repoits her ainval, as follows •—•' The schooner Kate Grunt, Captain Mntzen, left Auckland on the 17th ult Fine weather and moderate breezes pre\ailed until she armed off Capo Farewell The remainder of the passage nas tlmr.icterlsed by stiongnesteily brewes.nul hea^) sea feho arn\edin the roadstead on the lth, and « is towed up to the wharf by the Liont.33 the daj alter "