HOKITIKA SHIPPING.

Otago Daily Times, 2 October 1865, Page 4

HOKITIKA SHIPPING.

There aire now no fewer than seven steamers thit may be said to belong to Hokitika, aa tbey are sent here to run in the coast and harbor trade. Their names are the Samson, the steam-tug Tarra, the Brace, Ballarat, I_dy of the XAke, Una, and __eanor. .. These, fi. in aggregate, ■ mmcv _

purer of two hundred ancl twe*ty horses, aod _ burden of _o_r hundred and twenty-one tons. -Tnis is indeed an _»proTea_e_t upon j tbe oU state of thinKS. T_b steam-tag Samson, reached here on Tuesday last. She left Port Chalmers September 14% calling into Lytteton for coal oa ihe 15th ; arrived at Nelson on the 17fcb, and laid there until the 19t_, coaling and weaib_r-b#ia_d. On the night of the 19th ehehadtorßuf into Totarsnni for shelter, in company with the G.theaharg and Wifliara Sfiskia ste_mers, aod three schooner*. She arrived at the Grey oa the ___d, remaining there three Atyt. Another useful Tessel has been added to the fleet. We allude to the p.*. Ballarat, which arrived on Sunday last. Sbe belongs to aa A__fcl__d firm, and has been running between that port and Wasgaaui, but in con_eq_e_e.of our is creasing requirements her owrpnt considered it aivieabJe to put lier en the West Coast trade. The Ballarat, through her lisht draught cf water, possesses an isdvantage over erery other bo-f, she drawing, whm loaded, four feet six inches of wattr, and only two feet when *he has three days' coal on board. S'le is built of iron, is 45 horse-power, with a burden of 62 Urns register. The cotter Finny, which arrived in the river on Sunday last, baa {xperier..ed a somewhat long passage from Invercargill. She left that port on September Ist. but in c~n-tc-qiesceof contrary winds, ran into Port *iYilJ'_tn and Breaksea Scand, arriving off Hokitika oa tbe 15th, where she anchored. hut it wes not until last Sund-ty she could eflect au entrance. The Fanny has thus been twenty-three days from port to port. The Rangitoto arrived in the roadstead on Tuesday morning. Seventy pissenjiers from her were transhipped on board the Bruce and safely landed on Tuesday at noon. She brought mails from Du.edin and intfrtnedi'tte ports, bat in consequence of thf re being no provisroa made for the conveyance of such lumber from tbe .roar's:end to tbe office fhe carried them back to "Nelson, leaving for that perl the e&me afiern-xm. Ths Maid of xhe Yarra, we are glnd to say, bas msde another and mo?t success'iil trip this time nnder the command of Captain Hughes, and she is now safe*, and sound at the wharf, having landed her csr jo and passengers in excellent order and cocditi.-. She lias made a rapid passage, having come r.orth _bo'_f, called at "Nelson and .shipped cargo, and yet only occupied six days io t_«s trip. The Dancing Wave, we ars pleased to announce, was safely launched on Ssiurday last, arid is now in the l_g*r*on. She has sustained little or no injur;.-, and will soon be again in the trade. Captain Brown, late of the C-est of the Wave, takes command of her.—" Wen Co rut Times."