EXPORTS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XIV, Issue 1784, 24 April 1874, Page 2

EXPORTS.

Per Waipara. for Hokitika : 6 bags guano, 2 cases chairs, 2 boxes peg* 2 cas^s sundii s, 1 cheese, 30 bars steel, I hhd ale, 2 qr-casks ale. . Per Charles Edward: For Wellington, dnty paid and free- 1 package. For Nelson —I package. 46 tons coal. For Westport— 1 case tobacco, 3 cases. 2 trunks.

The Charles. Edward and Waipara both sailed yesterday afternoon, the former for Westport and Nelson, and the latter for Hokitika. Tue Russian Government has recently com leted, at a cost of 2,500,000 roubles— about L4oo.ooo— a powerful monitor, named Novgorod. She is armed with two 11 -inch steel guns. The European Mail states that the Rio Loge, from Liverpool for Otago, put into Long Island on February 12, three days after sailing, with loss of all head gear, boats, and topgallant burworks. She had been roughly handled by easterly gales when off the Tuscan The Argus of the 7th inst. reports as follows :— " Captain Gaaham, of the Cingalese, which arrived in port yesterday from Liverpool, gives the following account of five men having been found at sea in an open boat, and picked up by the Kate Carnie :— ' The Cingalese, on the Ist February, in 33deg 51min S. and 21deg 51min W., sighted the barque Kate Carnie bound to Hong Kong, and en coming within hailing distance Captain Wilson, of the Kate Carnie, asked Captain Graham if he would relieve him of three out of five men that he had shortly before picked up, as he had not sufficient water on board to last him the voyage if obliged to keep the whole of the men in his vessel. This was acceded to. Captain Wilson of the Kate Carnie then sent his chief officer on board the Cingalese, with the following men : — William Weston, of Manchester, aged 30 ; John Johnston, of Dungarvari, aged 21 ; Richard Newton, of Preston, aged 19. They were engaged as seamen on board the ship Laura, under the Costa Rica flag, bound from Valparaiso to Mote Video. When out 55 days the crew had to abandon the Laura, as she was in a sinking state, and they took to the boats to save their lives. Those rescued by the Kate Carnie were in their boat seven or eight days before they were picked up. The other boats, two in number, were not seen by those saved by the Kate Carnie bejond the second night after the men left the Laura. An investigation will be held into the matter, when fuller particulars will probably be elicited." We shrewdly suspect that the above relates to the men who were said to have mutinied on board the barque Satsuma', particulars of which occurrence were brought here by the ship Trevelyan. There is prima facie evidence to support such a conclusion. The mutiny of the Satsuma happened on the 29th January, in lat. 31 south, long. 24 west, and three days afterwards the boat was picked up by the Kate Carnie, close to lat 33.51 south, long. 21 51 west. But the report of the Satsuma states that six men left her, whilst only five were picked up. What became of the sixth man, was he eaten bytheothtrs? The yarn about the voyage from Valparaiso to Monte Video. is very like a whale. The boat was found too far to the eastward for that, quite 36deg east of Monte Video. It is not at all probable that a vessel would have been blown so far out of her course, whilst an open boat could not make a great deal of headway in eight days, unless favored by exceptional weather and winds. '"[Two of the men have since been arrested at Sand ridge, and confessed that they i>eloug«d to the Satsuma ]