EXPORTS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XIV, Issue 1728, 17 February 1874, Page 2

EXPORTS.

Per Charles Edward : for Westport— 2 bundles sacks. 30 packages, 1 bale, 56 tons •oal ; for ,Wellington-}-2 cases. .

Th^p.s. Titan was; safely Abated off the ■pit at Hokitika. yesterday, and is now in harbor. The schooner Florence has already been lifted up ,3ft 6in on to the bank, and Jamjched about 3tf«. ■ . -The Waipara has also been moved some, 26ft nearer the channel : The 22nd .ult-, reports that Mr Hatcjh'al schooner; Awaruai after lying ■windbouhd at the Bluff for about ua fortnight, got away yesterday with a fair slant ipi3;. the West Coast. She wsls |ade,.i chiefly with assorted provisions for disposal at Martin's Bay, Big Bay, and other settle inents, on owner's account, having received a alight subsidy f^pin. the! 'Provincial »Jovernment for ca'hng at the former pace. whe c proviMons have been scarce for some time. Her spare space is filled up with oats from Riverton, withwhich she will proceed to the Grey, and return, with a cargo of coal The patience of the settlers at Jamestown must be sorely tried,as it is now fully two months since the Awarua was expected at Martin's Bay.. . „, , ; :....■ ....■.., ■■..:■>; The following are the details of the loss of the cutter Flora Macdonald : -Tho cutter Flora Macdonald. 18 tons, was lost on the 2nd February, in attempting •■ to cross while the signal " bar dangerous' y was flying. When all danger was thoughttp be past shebroached to. capsized, aud sank immediately. piece of , mast identified as belonging to the Flora Macdobald, has bee» picked, up by a vessel which arrived' at'Onehuhga. There is little doubt now that. the cutter was the Flora Bugs of flour have been seen ft ating about; but there is no si»;n of the bodies of the passengers.. xOf these, J. Graham was a married man, and a large land-owner in the' Raglan district; Piaka Johnstone, a half-caste, brother-in-law to W. H. Brabant, Opotiki; Kobertson, an unmarried man, about eighteen years of age^who arrived from Great Britain about a month ago in. the Hindostan, and waa going to join his tujcle in Raglan ; T Gmhnn, about twelve years! of age. the son of W.J3alvin, a blacksmith in Raglan ; and Miss Phillips, aged four years, the daughter of J. Phillips, fanner, Raglan. Captain Kenny leaves a wife and family at Onekonga. It appears that the vessel when on, the, -bar^kept broaching-to, and was-un-l manageable, showing— that something was* "wrong with the steering apparatus. ' At the time the sea struck her, she was broadside on, the wave, passed. right over her, and she was never seen after.