IMPORTS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 6, 21 November 1861, Page 2

IMPORTS.

Per India, from Melbourne : 4 cwt. steel, 1 furnace, 8 bags oats, 13 bags flour, 3 wheelbarrows, 58 horses, 3 waggons, 2 dog carts, 22 drays, 33 bags oats, 3 bags wheat. 28 bales chaff, 4 cases carriages and wheels, 1 case saddlery, 3 "bellows, 1 case horse shoes, 1 case pork, 1 barrel glassware, Order. R. Wilson & Co., agents. Per Isabella, from Hobart Town : 44 horses, 3 drays, 1,400 box palings, 3000 do., 4000 feet timber, 500 pillars, 1000 spokes, 20 pair dray sides, 900 laths, 100 5 feet hurdles. Cargill & Co., agents. ,

The cutter " Aquilla," while drifting out on Saturday morning, to resume her voyage to Otago, got aground abreast of the flagstaff. The wind was blowing hard at the time, with heavy squalls, from the westward. There was no pilot on board < —the master himself having usually taken the vessel out and in." The ship after touching rolled heavily. Her passengers and cargo were landed, the latter, consisting of nails, soft goods, &c, damaged by sea-water. She was got afloat on Sunday afternoon by means of empty casks and other appliances, and was immediately hauled round to the Iron Pot—about 40 men lending a hand. When opposite the stores of Messrs. Stuart, Kinross, and Co., she heeled over and came right on her beam-ends the mast in the water. She is considerably damaged, but it fortunately happens that the damaged planks can be got at easily, and the necessary repairs are being rapidly proceeded with. The passengers (13 in number) are clamorous at the delay thus occasioned in their voyage, and threaten proceedings against Captain Austen. It is said that the vessel will not be thoroughly repaired under £200.— Hawke's Bay Herald, October 8.

The barque "Success" left Otago at noon on the 21st of last month, and arrived in Hobson's Bay during Tuesday night. Captain M'Allister reports having, on the 22nd ult., off Nugget Point, spoken the brig Foam, Bond master. The barque " Atrevida" has made one of the best passages that has been made by any sailing vessel from Otago. She left on the 25th ult., on the same day the ship."Mary Ann Wilson" left. Captain Bissetfc has brought back 125 passengers, all of whom speak highly of his kindness, and have presented him with very flattering addresses. The " Harriet Hope" is under charter at Hobart Town to bring -a cargo of sheep for G. Austen, Esq., to Otago. The Iris, 26, arrived ofF the dockyard at Chatham on the 27tli inst., from the Australian station, the ship having been in commission since January 1857. She was commissioned at Chatham by Captain W. Loring, C.8., on the 23rd February. She was towed out of the harbour by the Cuckoo steam vessel, and left Spithead on the-7th of March for the Australian station ; on the Ist of July following, she anchored in Farm Cove, Sydney, and released the Juno, 26, Captain S. G. Fremantle, and oil the 17th of September she sailed for Norfolk Island and arrived there on the 23rd of that month, when it was found that the islanders were in great distress on account of the want of provisions, particularly flour. In consequence of this the Iris proceeded to Auckland for a supply of food, having obtained which, she also procured a vessel to follow with a further supply. The Iris again reached the Island on the 11th of October, when his Excellency the Governor landed and proceeded to inspeet the Island, furnishing a code of laws for the guidance of tlie inhabitants, and appointed, with the usual formalities, a chief and subordinate magistrate. The Iris afterwards went to the Bay of Islands, and remained there some time, in order to grace the ceremony of raising a new flagstaff in place of that cut down by the late redoubtable Heki. It afterwards sailed to Tana, one of the new Hebrides, to inquire into the murder of two Englishmen belonging to the vessel called New Forest ; it was, however, after a most diligent investigation, found impossible to discover the murderers. She was again at Sydney on the 13th of July, when Captain Loring's commission as second class Commodore arrived by mail. In February, 1860, the Iris was relieved by the screw steam-ship Pelorus, Commodore F. B. P. Seymour, to return to England to be paid off, but owing to the rebellion breaking out in New Zealand she went there to render assistance. On the 10th April she left Auckland,, in charge ol Capt. C. G. H. Vernon, for Chatham, to be paid off. She has had but very little sickness during the four years and six months she has been away.— Australian and Neio Zealand Gazette.

Picard, Frederick, Golden Spring, and Content, all outward bound —still in port.