CUSTOMS ENTRIES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 825, 12 August 1864, Page 4

CUSTOMS ENTRIES.

INWARDS. August 11—Nil. OUTWARDS. August 11—Nil. INWARDS —OOABTWIBB. August 11—Geelong, 137 tons, Turabull, master, from Oamaru, with passengers. J. Janes and Co., agents. August 11.—Pioneer, 21 tons, Donnely, master, from Havelock, with cargo. Master, agent. August 11.—Midlothian, 25 tons, Bnstowe, master, from Oamaru, in. ballast. J. Kaye, agent. ODTWABDB—OOABTWIBB. August 11.—Geeiong, 137 tons, Turnboll, master, for Oamaru. with cargo and passengers. J. Jones and Co., agents. . . IMPORTS. Per Pioneer, from Havelock: 40 spars, 2 cases sardines. 2do bacon, 2do lobsters, 1 do tobacco, order; 2 chests luggage, 1 do sundries, Muirj 5 packages saddles, 1 do sundries, Tomlinson; 1 cask currants, 1 half-chest tea, 1 qr-cask do, 2 boxes candles, order; 23 hides, Driver, M'Lean and Co.; 2 cases boots, order. EXPORTS. Per Geelong, for Oamaru: under bond: 10 cases brandy, 10 do geneva, Lszarus ; 3 qr-casks brandy, Dalgety, Rattray and Co. Free and duty paid: 1 coil lead, 10 pkgs, Baines and Oliver; 16 casks beer, J Jones and Co. ; 19 pkgs, Briscoe and Co.; 17 do, M'Leod and Gibson; 24 bag 3 sugar, Franck and Co.; 25 casks beer, Dalgety and Co.; 8 pkgs. Lange and Thoneman; 15 do, Briscoe and Co. The steamer William Miskin started from Port Chalmers at 9 a.m., bound for. Invercargill, bnt soon after she got outside the Heads her way was apparently stopped, and, getting up her canvas, she returned inside the Heads, subsequently coming up as far as the white sands near the Maori Kaik. Some accident had, no doubt, happened to her machinery, rendering it impossible for her to proceed, bnt the probability is, from the circumstance of her not sailng up as far as the Port, that it was an accident of only a Blight description, and it must have been remedied without much difficulty, as at 4 p.m. she was able to resume her passage under steam. The new harbor steamer Bruce is expected to commence running between Dunedin and Port Chalmers on Monday next. She will run in conjunction with the Golden Age, which, in a short time, is to undergo an extensive overhaul, and to receive such additions and improvements to her machinery, including new cylinders oi larger proportions, and admitting greater stroke, than those she has at present. When these improvements are effected, it is probable that she ■will be considerably the fastest boat in the harbor. . A steamer for the harbor or lake navigation, named the Trial, was recently built at Melbourne, and tfoere was a belief that she was intended as an addition to the present fleet of steamers plying in Port Otago, but such, we understand, is not the case. She his been purchased for the navigation of the Gipp's Land lakes, and is shortly to proceed there. Though a large boat, she is not in any other respect superior to the larger steamers which now run between Dunedin and the Port. - The Gothenburg will not sail before Saturday, and, probably, Monday. During the last trip down, and since the vessel's arrival here, Capt. Mackie has been somewhat seriously indisposed, but he has now considerably recovered. The CUy of Hobart sailedjfirith 66 passengers and 17,5910z. of gold. The two preceding vessels, the Albion and Hero, sailed with nearly an equal number of passengers, making an aggregate of 180. The Golden Age, in her afternoon trip, conreyed to town a number of Freemasons residing in Port Chalmers, and belonging to the local ■Marine Lodge, and, for their convenience made an extra trip in the evening, returning at midnight, so as to permit of the attendance of the Masons at the installation Ceremony and BanIt is understood that the Wm.' Miskin is the vessel by which steam- communication with the Molyneux is' shortly to be established, an arrangement with that object having been made between Captain Godfrey and the Molyneux settlers. The Wm. Miskin has already paid one visit to the Molyneux, and if sheas now to undertake the tirade, it is to be hoped she may long continue in it with immunity from accident. The HawkeY Bay Steam Navigation Company's new steamer the Ahuriri is on her way out, and may be expected to arrive very shortly. A case of some interest to shipowners and others was lately tried at Launceston. Messrs J W. W. White and Co., of that city, were the. plaintiffs, and Mr W. H. Smith, captain and part owner of the steamship You Vangs, was the defendant. The action was brought to recover a sum of Ll9 6s 3a, for loss occasioned by the abstraction of twelve dozen pairs of gloves from a case; Ll3 2s 9d, for damage done to the remainder of the articles, which, damage plaintiffs THIS DAY,

alleged was in consequence of the case being opened whilst on board, permitting the sea air to enter. They also claimed L 2 2s, fees paid for surveying. It appeared that Mr White's attention was drawn by Ms clerk to a package just landed from the You Yangs. The clerk himself had not observed anything wrong uniil, on opening it, he found that some of the boxes had been entirely and others partially emptied; and the missifig articles could not well be discovered until a quantity of the goods had been removed from the top, because the abstractions Lad been managed most adroitly by cutting the ivon hoopbands, removing one of the bottom boards, cutting the tin or zinc, then taking out the goods, and then nailing the case up again. The defence was, substantially, that the depredation w<-s not committed 011 board ; that the cases were signed for "contents unknown;" and that ihey were delivered in the same order as they were received. The judge held that, as the goods in the bills of lading were signed for as " in gsrd order and well - conditioned," the captain must be presumed to have satisfied himself that they were so ; and the robbery, therefore, must have occurred on board the ship. The jury] after retiring for an hour, found for the plaintiffs—damages, L 32 9s.