PORT OF HOKITIKA.

West Coast Times, Issue 267, 1 August 1866, Page 2

PORT OF HOKITIKA.

Hian Water Tuts Day.— l.sl a.m.; 2.19 p.m. ARRIVED. • v aJulj 31.— Nil. SAILED. July 81. — Lyttelton, p.s., Scott, for Okavita. 15 passengers. ENTERED IS. Nil. CLEARED OCT. Lyttelton, 49 tons, Wm. Scott, for Okarita. Pa3sengers — cabin : Messrs F. Groor, Sands, Wahnsley, Constable, Mrs Hansen, and 6 in the steerage. EXPECTED ATtItIVALS. Oaroaru, from Oamarn, daily. Florence, from Melbourne, early. Dunedin, from Dunedin, early. Katheraw, from Melbourne, early. Jane Elkin, from Heathcote, parly. Gothenburg, from Melbourne, to-day. • Clarendon, from Melbourne, to-day. Albion, from Melbourne, early. Maid of Erin, from Melbourne, to-day. John and Jane, schooner, from Melbourne, to-day. /Auckland, from Nelson, August Ist. PROTECTED DEPVUTCRKS. Auckland, for Sydney, August 2nd. Gothenburg, for Melbourne, this day. Kennedy, for Grey and Kelson, to-morrow VESSELS IN POUT. .Schooner — Spray. TTeteb. — Elfin, Oymraes. Steamers — Persevere, Challenge, Lioness. - EXPORTS. Per Lyttelton, for Okarifa— 4 cases porter, 4 kega butter, 10 cases brandy, 3 do kerosene, 5 do sarsaparilla, 6 do claret, 2 do champagne, 1 qr-eask port wine, Chesney & Co ; 3 bags onions, Anderson & Co ; 1 qr-onsk brandy, 1 caso fish; 6 boxes candles, 4 kegs butter, 4 cases onions, 1 bag barley. Baillie & Humphreys ; 10 cases kerosene, 10 do brandy, 3 do jam, 4 boxes tobacco, 1 qr-ca3k brandy, 2 cases bacon, 1* do coffee, Spence Bros ; 5 cases geneva, 6 do claret, 4 kegs butter, 1 qr-cask brandy, 1 do port wine, 14 bags flour. 4 cases salmon, 10 do ale, G do kerosene, 10 boxes candles, 1 case soap, 6 kogs butter, 6 boxes caiidles, 2 do tobacco, 1 cast- oysters. 1 pkffe chocolate, Cassius & Comiskey; 1 box, F. Greer ; 2 trunk', N. Edwards & Co ; 1 case, Carey & Gilles ; 2 bale." hay, N. Edwards & Co ; 1 case kerosene, Stanford fc Co ; 1 Iceg pitch, Brook ; 1 case nle, J. Bilu ; 5 cases bacon, 7 pieces guttering, 1 piece piping, 1 bundle buckets, Bain, Houghton & Co ; 1 cheßt, Mrs Connor ; 1 box eggs, Ktono ; 12 cases ale, Spenco Bros ; 3 case 3 wine, Ido vermouth do, Emerson ; 1 case ab'synthe, 1 do pickles, 1 do kerosene, 1 box maccaroni, 1 do candles, 1 do preserved milk, 1 pVge bacon, 1 case marischino, Emerson ; 1 bale, Byrne; I bale oakum, 1 barrel pitch, 5 cases kerosene, II boxe3 candles, Louttit, Reid & Co ; 1 bag, 1 case glass, Holloway ; 1 do do, Stanford & Co ; 4 pkges effects, J. -Cairncross ; 1 qr-casfc ■whisky, 1 do port, 1 case ale, 2 do crockery, Kennedy. The s.B. Wallaby left Greymouth yesterday, for Nelson, and has not, as "we expected she ■would have done, paid Hokitika a visit. We hear, however, that she was freighted with cattle only, all of which were consigned to Greymouth. It; is vei*y probable that the Wallaby will call into this port on her next trip. The p.s. Lyttelton left the port, yesterday, on her second trip to Okarifa. She was full freighted, and carried away about fifteen passengers. On April 29 a young man, while in a boat off the New Quay, North Shields, pickad up a bottle in the harbor floating in from sea upon the flood tide, which contained the. following message, written upon paper which had a yellow appearance : — " Dee. 14, 1862. — My dear wife and family. — J now write you these few lines to let you know that our ship, the Star of the West, of Liverpool, is aboutgoing down. We lost three men last night. Both pumps choked. Ten feet of water in the hold. Our mate had his leg broken. This vras thrown over on the Dogger Bank. Capt. H. G. Mickelson. (It is not very legible, possibly Nicholson.) Farewell, I will meet you in Heaven. — " Sydney Empire." ShipLattnche?. — The Sleigh of the Wave, a steel yacht, 45-9 feet -long between the perpendiculars, with a breadth of eight feot, was launched at Eirkenhcad recently. The machinery constructed for her is on the hydrostatic principle, tho motive power from first to last boing independent of and thoroughly superseding steam. The engine will occupy a space of twelve feel abaft of, and driving on to, the paddle axle. The hydrostatic clement, which generates tho enormous power derivod from this agent, does not amount to nure than one pint of water to each ram : and the inventor has, by a mechanical arrangement, so adapted the power of the hydraulic press that he obtains rotation and speed with undiminiehed pewer. — Lately there was launched from the building yard of Mr John Smith, Inches, a clipper ship of* about 1250 tons, 8.M., which is intended for the Australian trade. The ship is named the Wimmera, and is owned by Messrs Potter, Wilson, and Co., of Glasgow. She trill be commanded by Captain William Bobertson, late of the Giant's Causeway. — There was launched from the building yard of Messrs Hall, and Co., at Aberdeen, a fine clipper ship of 700 tons register, named Elcctra. The vessel is to order of a London firm, and intended for the Australian trade.