CUSTOMS ENTRIES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 1168, 29 September 1865, Page 4

CUSTOMS ENTRIES.

TW.'AUDS. September 28—Nil. OUTWAUD3. September 28—Nil. INWARDS ■ COASTWISE. September : 28—Hero, 765 tons, Logan", master, from Lyttelton and Northern Potts,, with cargo and'passenger*. Bright Brothers and Co., n gents. . September 28-Red Kover (Maori vessel), 3 tons, Mason, master, from Waikouaiti, with produce. Maptw, afjor.t. September 28—Anne, 30 tons, Russell, master, from Mntrakl and Oamaru, with cargo. Keith Ilnfnsiy, agmt. OUTWARDS —COASTWISE. September 25?— William and Margaret, 22 tons, Wilson, tnas'cr, foe Wnikouaiti, with cargo. Master, afroi.t. September 23 —L-i'ly Bird, 220 tons, Rcnner, master, for Lyttcl'.oa and Northern, Ports, with cargo and 6 passengsrs. Lloyd, Taggart, and Co., apenrs. IMPORTS. Per Anne, from Oamaru : 12 hags potatoes, 12 do artichokes, 3 do copper, Armstrong ; 2 Cases, Miskin; I• cuxe, Cargill and Co ; 1 pkg, Bing, Harris and Co. EXPORTS. Per Laly Bird, for Northern Ports : Un>ler bond for Lytteltun—l2 pkgrs sugar, 2 caees books, Bright, Brothers and Co. For Wellington—2 J-Uerccs tobacco, C Steiohoff. For Napier—2 qr-tierces tob.-icco, Turnbu'l and Co. Free and duty paid goods : For Lyttelton—l box, 1 pkir, 1 tni^s printing materials, A It Livingstone ; 1 bundle ridginj?, I coil lead pipe, 1 roll kjncl, 1 cask scythe stones, 1 Case sundries, 1 bundle forks, 20 coils wire, I case sundries, A Briacoa and Co ; 1 parcel merchandise, Mrs Soanhin ; 1 case merchandise, Feldheim Brother--; 3 cists drapery, Bing, Harris and Co -, 7 ensos merchandise, .1 Kohn and Co ; 2 do drapery, S;|rgood and Co ; 2 casks, 3 cases drugs, Yuungmrra and Co. For Wellington—l bale merchandise, Cohen Brothers; 2 cases sundries, 5 colonial ovens, 1 pair dog-rat sfiufts, 1 c.ise grates, 5 kegs nailii, C coils lead piping, 2 , axL; arms and boxes, 1 keg of shot, 2 bundles spouting, 2 csises sundries, A Briscoe and Co ; 1 case, 1 trus-s drapery, 1 trunk boots, Sargood and Co ; 7 cas'S carriages, 4- poles, 4 shafts, 8 wheels, .10 boxes maizena, F Coleman ; 1 case merchandise, Steiahoffand Co; 1 truss cloth, TurnbuJl and Co. For Napier: 21 coils rope, 13 bundles do, A Briscoe and Co ; 7 cases merchandise, JKohn and Co ; 1 roll wiie netting, 15 camp ovens ami covers, A Briscoe; and Co ;, 1 bag seed, Turnbull and Co. For Auckland : 2 cask?, 4 cases paint, H Brooks ; 1 parcel Jraperjy Sargood and Co ; 1 case merchandise, W Gregg and Co. ' ' *■ ■ . The P.N.Z.' and A.R.M. Co.'s s.s. Egmont arrived in the afternoon from Hokiiika via Foveaux Straits, but brings nc-ither passengers, mail, nor news from the West Coast. . She Bailed on Monday; making three days' passage. Took 110 passengers from Nelson and original cargo from Dunedin, which were landed on the 24th by p.s. Bruce. The Airedale had also arrive;! at Hokitika with 200 passengers from Auckland. The Eleanor from Nelson, Ballarat from Wellington, and .Maid of the Yurra from Dune-din, crossed the bar in safety on the 25th. Tho s.s. William Miskin had also arrived the day previous, after a nine days' passage from Nelson. All Bailing vessels wc-rs standing off and on, except the John Bullock, which tho steamer Yarra was attempting to tow in.

The e.s. Barwoti sailed for ITokitika and Sydney on Wednesday evening. It is the intention q£ Captain Lowrie to call in at Jackson's Buy on his way to Hokitika, and it will be seen that the Alhambra. on.her next trip, is desdned for the same place. During a rtcent visit to that bay, Captain MLean found diggers at work on the beauh. This of itself may be an inducement to call there, but there is an idea also that Jackson's Bay may yet become the depot for the- West Coast Gold Fields. It is much more conveniently situated than any other port from which supplies are at present obtained, and it is supposed that, by the larger steamers and sailing vessels calliug there, and discharging their goods and passengers into small steamers trading to Hokitika ana the other rivera, the work of supplying "the diggings would -b&' greatly facilitated. : It is necessarily a more convenient port for such a purpose than Nelson, and $<»uwke; it a "general place of call •would serve 1, thaopurpose;.of c shippers ;bettep« than the present inconvenient and dangerous plan of discharging in the open roadsteads off Hokitika and the Grey. •On the first occasion on which Captain M'Lean visited Jackson's Bay, he skirted the shore during unusually fine weather, and on the second occasion there

was smooth-water in the bay, the wind Wpw-, ing, a gale from . B.W. ,J.t ia most exposed during " •aorth-easterly weather^ but the extent 'of :its Exposure' to; a keayy uea ia probably: ' .exaggerated.' The follow ing w "the -description', of the ,bajgireri in'the "NeV Zealand Pilot:"—" With the,exception of the roadstead under Cape

Foulwind, in southerly winds, Jackson's Bay ia the northernmost anchorage on this coast, where shelter can be procured for: large vesiels. > .From Cascade Point, the projecting point < f Jackson's Bay. hears N.E. by E. i E. distant 10 miles. '■ This latter is a remarkable point, rising boldly from the sea, with a low neck separating it from higher land. It will be readily recognised approaching from any direction, the coast" between it and Cascade Point being a sandy bight, and that to the eastward a straight sandy beach* 20.miles.in; exfenf, with low land stretching a few miles from the beach. The bay is 55 miles northward of Milford Sonnd, and at the south end of the long extent of sandy beach just mentioned. The bay is occasionally visited by whale ships, from the facility of gaining or leaving the anchorage, as also for chance supplies of vegetables from the natives. It ] a/lords good protection from southerly or westerly winds, "and some shelter even as fat' round as N.N.W., but between that bearing and NE. is perfectly open. In making for the anchorage, Jackson Point must be given a berih of half a mile, ts several rocks above water and a wash extend nearly that distance from it. On.rounding these rocks a email conical islet, with bushts on the summit, will be seen a short distance from the western shore. The anchorage is in seven fathoms sand, a short half mile to the S.fi of this islet. There would be no difficulty in quitting Jackson's Bay; at the commencement of a N.W. gale, and it would not then bd prudent to remain, as, in the event of the wind backing round to north a vessel wonld be exposed to great risk; northerly gains are generally preceded by a swell setting-in-to the-bay. Buats can land in moderate weather."

Captain Alex. M'Kinnon, who is already owner o£ the. hulks California and Wiliiam Hyde,, has lately acquired possession of the hulks Industiy and Cincinnati, and we understand thttt in future the steamer Albion will be coaled by him. The steamer Star of the South, when beirg putalonpsidcthehulkCalifornia for the purpose of coaling, came into collision with the stern of the barque P.G.8., which was moored in the centre of the bay, and did some damage to thnt vessel, carrying a*ay her spanker-boom and some of her own goar.

The steamer Otago starts on Friday en her first trip between Otago and Melbourne, from which port she returns with the August English* mail. The July mail will, most likely, be brought on by the Albion, which mny* come by Hokitika and Cook's Straits. The K-idar, having now discharged her home cargo, is advertised to proceed to Newcastle, from which port she will niako an intercolonial tripprevious to returning'to this or some other New Zealand port, for the purpose of loading wool, for the conveyance of which she is admirably adapted. , The Thomas Brown, lately from Newcastle, returns to that port, taking some cargo free. The steamer Enterprise, which lately returned to this pnrt from Lyttelton for the purpose of undergoing repairs to machinery and hull, is advertised for sale.

The schooner Elizabeth Curie, prior "to being despatched to the, West Coast, is receiving a new outfit of canvas, and otherwise undergoing an extensive overhaul.

The-stemier Egmont, on her last passage from Danedin to Hokitika, got into a somewhat critic-il position in Cook's Straits. A passenger by her writes —" About twenty miles off Wellington, as night came, on, the engine broke down, leaving the captain to get in the best way he could by help of the scanty sails. In a few hours it came on to blow from the S.E. About three miles off the lighthouse the captain attempted to make for the entrance to the harbor, but finding the vessel would not steer well, haulel oft again with the determination of making for Cook'a Straits. Our position then became very hazardous—a dead lee shore—a disabled steamer, and a furious south-eas-ter. Fortunately the Kgmont proved herself an excellent sea boat, and spars and canvas all held good. Giving her three knots an hour tlirough the water, a few hours only would decide her fate. The weather was so thick that' nothing could be seen of the much dreaded land under our lee, and when the given time had expired without our sei-ing it, a great relief was felt t>y all on board who were aware of the danger. I, for one, after 'examining*the chart, fully expected the Egmont would share the fato of the City of Ducedin in the same locality, and believe it was only fhe current setting us along and offshore which saved her. Having safely passed through this, tbo captain, who showed great judgment and coolness, bore away for the Strait, which be hit very nicely, for soon after we could just make., out bold Wellington Heads, looming through the. mist about a couplo of miles under our lee, passing the Brothers afterwards, and then shaping a course for Stephen'^lsland rtt the entrance to Blind Bay, the gale all this time blowing furiously, but the vessel sitting the sea like a duck. Getting under the lee of Stephen's Island at 6 p.m., on the 10th, we stood close hauled to make as good a course as possible up the Bay; but next ■ morning found U3 at. the entrance of Massacre Bay, having: made in the night a great deal more lse than headway. Ac six o'clock, however; the engine was again got into working order, and wo managed to get into Nelson the same afternoon, leaving that port again on Tuesday, the 12th, after another nor-wester, and, also, encountering, a souwester by way of a change. We arrived off Hokitika on the evening of thel4th, and next day being fine were carried safely over the bar by the jolly little steamer- Bruce, and landed at the tewnship."