CUSTOMS ENTRIES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 1120, 24 July 1865, Page 4

CUSTOMS ENTRIES.

I^WAIEDS. July 22—Hero, 7G5 tons, Logan mnster> from Melbourne, wiUi r:argt> and passsng^rs. Bright, Bros, and Co, ,'igerits. OUTWARDS. July 22—A1hambr;i! 407 tons, M'Lean master, for .Melbourne, with cargo and p isSerigors. Koyse, Mudioand Co, agents. IMWAltt>3 -CQASTW/BIS. July 22—Nil. outward-; —coast wrsß. July 22—Eastward Ho .' 007 tons, Byrne master, for Auckland, with cargo. F. Coleman, agent. July 22—Midlothian, 20 tons, Briscoe' muster, for Oartiuru, with sundries. Dalrymple, jun. and Co, agents. EXPORTS. Per Alhambra, for Melbourne?— Under bond : 8 qr-ticrces tobacco, 7 kegs do, II B Martin and Co; 2 cases drapery, Jtoyse, Mudie and Co. Fro; :nv.\ duty paid : 1 case gluss, S Dj Courtht ; 1 coil rope, Faterson and M'Leod ; 1 ess:: drapery, T S Harrison ; 1 trunk boots, Ji-L-uvsress. Produce of the Province : li.z 12 iwts of gold, J Lyddy ; j 2oz 8.1-.U3, C Brown ; 87oz lu-rs, II Burnett. Three steam ve-s.-ls arrived nt, Port Chalmers, on Sunday fore oon—the Itangatiraand Gcelong from the North, and the Auckland from Blufl ll:irb::ur. Th': Ifcmgati'rn, left Lyttclton nt noon on Friday, and arrived inside Otiigo Hea^s at 11 p.m. on Saturday, having experienced strong Ik ad wi.,ds ■with a head sea. The Auckland left the Bluff at 5 p.m. on Saturday, and was off the Heads at 2 n.m, on Sunday, heaving to until daylight, and nnchoriuer at 8.30 a.m. The Geelong proceeded direct to Dunedin. Naukow Escapk Fii'oM Siiipwkeck—Loss or Oni; Life.—The tliree-mnsted schooner Littla Fred, Captain M'Kenzie, arrived in harbor on Tuesday night last, in a very crippled condition, having lost her mizenmast, and narrowly escaping from being shipwrecked on the Kuipar.a bar. Rlio took the pilot, on board at Knipara at 8.30 a.m.. on Saturday last, and got underweigh with a fresh S.S.E. breeze ; upon the pilot leaving her, steered out of hurbor with a heavy sea running, and occasionally breaking across the channel. The wind shifting to south, was obliged to make several tacks. About 10.30 when uprni the bar, she shipped a heavy sea abaft the fore-rigging, which carried away the rnizenmast by the deck, splitting the mainsail to ribbons, washing overboard the boat, which was lashed over the main hatch, and knocked the captain, cook, find two seamen overboard. Fortunately three of them succeeded in getting hold of some of the gear of the mi/.cn rigging which was hanging overboard, and were thus paved ; buc one of the seamen named John Prowell was carried far away from the vessel and drowned, as it was impossible to render him tiny assistance, the boat ■ and other gear having been •washed'tfwny.* A,.large quantity of timber on deck, the top-gallant rail bulwarks, paint locker, and sky-light, were also washed away, the cabin filled half-full of water, nnd otherwise damaging the ship, more or less, from stem to stern, and the deck load was shifted over to leeward. Owing to the crippled state of the ship, a strong ebb tide, and the heavy sea breaking across the channel, it was impossible to return to port, so as soon as possible the hands-■were got to work ot the pumps, there being 2ft. of water in the hold, the ship trimmed, deck load re-stowed, and the wreck cleared away. Sail was then made, and tho vessel headed for the North Cfipe. Fortunately she was favored with fine weather and a quick run round tho coast, arriving in this harbor at 7 p.m. ou Tuesday last. Cape. TUESDAY,

M'Kt-nzie states that ho never experienced anything like it before, the sea rising as high as the iJiizea mast head, and 'completely engulphing the ship. JELe thinks that the boat must have been dashed to a thousand atoms, a3 not a restige of either her or the m;zen mast and timber which was washed overboard, was seen again. Within two minutes after the men had been washed overboard, the drowning man, John Prowell, was carried a distance of over 100 yards from the ship on the top of a breaker.—" Nevr Zealand Herald," July 13.

Mr R. W. Daniel, who signs for himself and party, at Maeti Settlement, West Coast, writes to the "Southland Times" as follows: -—" For the information of seamen and others, may I beg you to insert in your columns the following information:—The boat Maori Girl, from Riverton, bound for Hokitika, having been caught in a severe S.W. gale off Open Bay Islands, was compelled to run lor shelter to Arnot's Boat Harbor, but owing to the heavy sea running at the time, could noC make in. and had to run further north, to the third point from Arnott's, where we found a fine lee and shelter for shipping of any tonnage, and were aole to land on a fine sanciy beach, in a sea as smooth as a mill-pond. As this part of the coast is highly auriferous, this place must soon be the centre rind only saf« place of disuhar&rc for vessels of more than 20 tons, between Milford Haven and Massacre Bay. We having heard that it had bten re- j ported that myselt and parly were all lost in the abovt-tne-ntioned gale, we be^ to stale for the information of our friends und families, that we are all safe and well, and ;iresanguine th'it a gold field will soon !;e opened between this place (which we venture to call Daniel Harbor, if. having no other name, on any map or chart we have .seen) and Hokitika. Forty miles north from here there is a party of about filty, caiii.-ii Yankee Dans, who arc getting p:iyahle gold, and nt present there arc about fifty here, and some coming and going every day. We would warn parties from coming here, there being ax present but a a mere supply of tucker, and nothing payable having b'.-en struck yet."