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from Melbourne : HO boxes soap, 2 I cask whiting, X do peas, 1 bale case mustard, 3. do qi)s, G do pickles, ieh. If) cosea geneva, 10 <lo G do liu£, 3 do maraschino, 3 do casks cuarants, 5 boxes raisins, 5 5 boxes oysters, 1 (jr-cask claret, 2 qr-casks brandy, 10 ] 0 do wine, 50 do kerosene, •?<> curry, order ■, 1 harmonium, ilr> geneva, M - oasks "offeo, 8 .£-• JRi s e "^ e > 2f> cases M^ r - w J Contcs ' &, Brothers ; <S f J^K^ O) I'j P ae ka.ges do, - 'C*/ -^ * f-»i)x tobacco, 1 "*• &/ / 20 lia'f=clie6ts tea, *?/ jßßp»?>e^, J ease confec- *"/ £-■ m^O3OO bags flour, 200 f *• f BiaSon, 50 half-chests tea, ■* -^jisii?o^<-Mr^Qii«wats siiijar, 5 cases toflto^^pOO oaseß poyte.% I\i) dp t^JLhail'tobacco. 2 oases do,' tf ba]e3 phaff, i (xlenn Brothers. j ¥ The p.s. Tasmanian Maid left Hokitika ' on Thursday night and arrived at the Buller on Friday morning, after calling in at Fox's. L Left the Buller again at 9 p.iu. on Friday, L and ran into Woodpecker Bay at 19. DisB charged some cargo and tpok on board a few p.issengers and got under weigh for Greyr Jmouth, where she arrived before daylight. She brought 12 tons of cargo and 30 passengers from the Buller for this port. Captain Soufcer reports the arrival at the Buller of the s.B. Go-ahead frcm Melboqrne, 12 days out. In going in she grounded on the North Spit, but got off again. The Tasmanian Maid Ba'iieA ior if cArihika on Saturday. The \i.B. Charles Edward, as. she now lies stranded on $Le North Beach, is to he sold by auction on Saturday next. We believe that she is likely to bp purchased by one oi two siearoVDat firms j»tisß-Wesfc)a»V) kraAa. The scboojier Jo left Alelbourne on the 1 .4K)th November with strong westerly winds, ' which lasted un#l the 7th inst., when a change took place to tbe S.W. Thence had fine weather and light N.E. winds to the \mvL Sighted land at Cascade Point, l>avi»£ been driven considerably to the soufch by the N.E. winds. From thence had light N.E. winds until the 13th, when the windfreshen^d into a gale, the ship taking on board a good deal of water. Had thick, hazy -weather Until the 15th, when it cleared up. The ,- barometer varied from 30- to 29-30 during ' the gale. She was towed in by the Dispatch yesijerday. Hy on Order in Cowicl), a sea-going certificate duly issned to any steam vessel by the constituted authorities of Victoria, is made as valid as a certificate issued under "The Steam Navigation Act, }86G, of New Zealand." Current Bottle. --We have pleasure in publishing tbe following letter, which was found in a bflttle picked t?p by Captain S. Yatea, fifty miles tp the S.W. pf. -Ospe Jfeinga, an the 34th of October Jast: — »'--■ " SchooiMjT TTJyve\ler, — TyacK, master, from Melbourne, bound t° JRpp>ton'ga, South PaciKc. Left Melbourne A u«nst 18, 1867, and to-day, August 30, 18Q7, are off the Three Kings Islands, north of New Zealand. Have not seen our tender, the cutter Spray, Captain Jphn Skilling, ri-ice Sunday, the 18th j»st, "We are siyw'l>e%Ai»^ towards Horotonga, with the Mind at S. W.— a seven-knot breeze. Passengers : A. B. Lyster, H. B. Sterndale, W. B. Turner, J. L. Evans. If this hottle be picked up, the finder will have the kindness to have Ihia conveyed to any officer connected \»>th lAoyd'B &ge»cy, specir fying where found ; and if at any distance -frcai tbis locality, forward to Melbourne " Argus t^e particulars. v — Southern, Cross, Nor- 5. The Sea Flower, which Jeft the Grey on the 30th ult, arrived at i^aiapoi on the 7th inst, after a fine aup \>i six days, inclusive of two days becalmea off the Kaikouras. of " what is to be done with «ac por? 1 i?Aga»« obtruding iise}f, and ia less easily answered than asked for, excepting by an enormous expenditure, we really do not see how the river is to be converted into a safe haven iot shipping, except indeed Nature \>e£n«v\daTia by making up the "North Spit to its originali (Vunensipns. As it is, flic sea. baa an almost unbroken run in at high water, and ; besides causing vessels to range excessively at their moorings, \t threatens serious damage to the wharf. TLat unfortunate structure promises to \>p a ; endin« e»argp npoa ihe Government, for notwithstanding the exteni sive and substantial repair* it has lately HI nndergpn^ it has again given way at tbe back ■I of the new eheet^piling, which— to check the H scouring aption pf tije stream- -tvas filled in large quantity of fascines and bundles flax. The section we allude to was only last week, and certainly presented a substantial appearance, but t}i& river behind the piles and undermined causing several unsightly and holes to appear in it. We believe wharf will |iave to be ref?.^ed and a hundred yards un th.^ ixxex.^ = _W\^ of Monday, jm : attempts wer^fcTade o i Ac wreck

are happy to say, successfully. A first j charge of 2401b5. of powder was laid in the } morninL', at low water, and firgd in the afternoon by the galvanic battery. The effects pf the .explosion were both decided and beautiful, a dome-shaped body of water, quite thirty feet high, beihg cast up, and when it subsided the river was covered with dehi-vs, that drifted into' the surf, and was afterwards washed upon the beach. About onerhalf of the wreck was destroyed, but the fore part remained, and to remove it auother charge of one hundred and ten pounds was tired in the evening, at nine o'clock. The eTecfc was only partial, as, in consequence of I the state of th.c tide, the boatmen were ) unable to place the charge low enough. It, however, sp shattered the bows, that we believe the heavy sea of yesterday all but completed tho' work, as very little of the wreck to be seen last njght.— fbid. It is not olten that vessels bimnd from Australia to Nelson, or the Northern New Zealand ports, strike the coast so high up as Hokitika, and therefore, when a barque and a brig were sighted on Saturday morninjji about ten miles north, their identity was excusably confounded with that of tbe Glencoe, from Newcastle, and either the Valliant or Esperav.za, from Melbourne. Early on tide the tug Challenge cast off moorings, and hastened to secure the prizes, similar action being taken by the Dispatjb. at Clreymouth, where the strangers must have been easily distinguishable. Tb,e tugs, however, went upon a bootless errand, as both barque and brif proved to be from Newcastle (N.'kW.), bound to Nelson, thejr names he'wg the Loonitlas and tne Dtovct. They reported having been driven so far south by a continuance of light east and north-east weather. — Ibid.