PORT OF HOKITIKA.

West Coast Times, Issue 345, 31 October 1866, Page 2

PORT OF HOKITIKA.

Himi Wi-rm Tma Day. — 2.27 a.m.; 2.54 p.m. BULKD. October 30.— Nelson, p.s. Whitwell, for Nelson. Win Miskin, s.s., Hepburn, for Dunedin rin Greymouth. Br uco, p.s., Kerley, for Okarita.

ENTERED IN.

Bruce, p.s. 95 tons, James Kerley, from Greymouth. In ball st. Twenty-time p-is-sengers.

CLRABED OUT.

Nelson, p.s., 84 tous, Thomas Whitwell, for Greymouth. Ten passengers. Win. Miskin, s.s., 115 tons, F. Hepburn, for Dunedin via Greymouth.

Clarendon, 158 tons, Thos. Hughes, for Melbourne. Bruce, p.s., 95 tons, James Kerley, for Okarita,

EXPECTED ABEIVALS,

Eliza' Blanch, schooner, trora Auckland, oarly. Mivry Jane, schooner, from Onehunga, early. Alhambra, s.s., from Melbourne, to-day. Francis, schooner, from Heathcoto, early. Mary Van Every, schooner,, from Dunedin t\vt\y . Frederic, barque, from Melbourne, early. Mary Grant, schooner, from Melbourne, earh . Florence, schooner, from Melbourne, early. Alexandra, schooner, fi om Melboiirne, early. lloyne, schooner, from Melbourne, early. Sarah and Mary, brigantine, from Melbourne, early. Susa.. lah Booth, from Sydney eai-ly. Tinonee, 0 s., from Sydney, early. Gothenburg, s.s., from Melbourne, 7th prox. 10, schooner, from Melbourne, early. Otago, s.s., fion. Melbourne, to-morrow. Kennedy, s.s., from Nelson, to-day.

PROJECTED DEP ' RTUBES. Hope, cutter, for Pakiiii, curly. Alhambra. s.s.. for Melbourne, 3rd prox. Gothenburg, s.« , for Melbourne, Nov. 12th. Kennedy, s.s., for Grey and Buller, to-day. Otago, s.s., for Nelson, Wellington, Dunedin, nnd Melbourne, 3rd prox. Tambo, schooner, for Pakihi, to-day. Bruce, p.s., for Grey and Buller, 2nd prox. Keera, s.s., for Dunedin and Bluff, this day.

TE3SELS IX POBT. Brig — Clarendon. . Schooners — Ici.a, Ju'm Mitchell, Cymraes, Emma Jane, Tambo, Glengarry Little Fred, Emma Eliza. Cutters— Klizabclh, Hope. Steamers — Yarra, Challenge, Persevere.

EXrOHTS.

Per Nel.'on, for Greymouth — 50 cases porter, Cussius and Comiskey ; -4 kegs butter, Abbott and Co ; 9 legs butter, Hamilton and Co: 6 kegs butter J. Duff; 1 case drugs, 1 tin, E. Prosser ; 1 case, Pisszey and Co ; 1 case pine apples, 4 cata t a raisins, Dunning and Ross; 5 hhd' brandy, 4. octaves sherry, 5 qr-casks brand\ . E. Reeves mu[ Co.

Per Wm. Miskiu, for Dunedin via Grey — 1 parcel, 3 boxes, tobacco, F. Luhning; 6 bales, 1 case, M'Laudrcss ; 1 case drapery, Bullcn and Co ; 3 boxes, Chitfingß aud Co ; 10 cases moselle, Cleve and Co ; 2 bales, Smith and Co.

Per Clarendon, for Melbourne — 40 cases beer, W. Graham ; I bottle quicksilver, J. North; 1 case hats, D. Allen.

Per Bruce, for Okarita — 20 casks beer, 1 do currants, 2 cases bacon, Cleve & Co ; 8 mats sugar, 4 boxes tobacco, 6 cases claret, 4 do champagne, 1 qr-cask brandy, 4 kegs butter, 5 cases brandy, Cole & Scully ; 6 cases claret, 3 kegsbutter,2 cases bacon, 1 do cheese, Chambers & Millar ; 3 kegs butter, I case sardines, 1 do pickles, 1 do jams, 2 do champague, 20 bags oats, 10 casks beer, .T. Jt'Fettrich ; 6 casks butter, 6 do pork, Clevc & Co ; 10 cases porter, P. Hehir ; 2 cases hams, 3 do sardines, 6 do brandy, 3 boxes lobsters, 11 bags sugar, D. Murphy ; 13 ea*es wine, 1 rat trap, Medard; 4 tubs butter, P. Hehir ; 5 ciises eggs, 1 do hams, 6 cases ' beer, 1 do sardines, 5 kegs butter, Louttit and Co ; 10 boxes candles, 1 case coffee, 3 half-chests tea, 2 ca«es Bardines, 2 cases salmon, 1 bag rice, 1 cask currants, Cole and Scully ; 4 cases soda water machine, 1 wheel, Chambers & Miller ; 3 hhda beer, Medard ; lqr-cask beer, M. Prioe ; 5 bags coal, Kennedy ; 10 cases porter, 1 bag suit, 2 boxes soap, 1 bag paper, 1 case vestas, 1 case bacon, 2 bags oatmeal, 10 cubki ale, Colo &. Scully ; 6 pair sashes, Hunter ; 1 hlid eggs, Burr >ugh ; 2 cases eggs, M'Nee ; 10 cases apples, 3 bags potatos, order ; lqr-cas»k brandy, 1 box egg, 2 boxes tobacco, 1 bag rice, 1 bag barley, Cium and Co ; . 1 case almonds, 1 cask cheese, 1 case salmon, 10 cases porter, Louttit & Reid ; 1 case bacon, J. Nash ; 1 bag oatmeal, Chambers and Co ; 1 parcel, Arnott ; 1 pel, Helmes •, 2 bags lime, Bank of New Zealand; 1 pel, Miss Foy ; 1 case drappry, Poole ; 1 hhd eggs, 1 keg butter, Chambers' & Miller ; 1 case 1 truss draperj', M'Beth & Co ; 1 bale leather, order; 12 bags pot arc, M'Fettrfcb. ; 1 box glads, Cohen ; 1 pel, J. Nash ; 2 pels, Mrs Poole ; 2 pels, Cairncross ; 5 bags potatos, 3 eases moselle, 2 boxes pipes, 1 pel, 2 cases jams, M Cullough ; 1 case bacon, 1 case jams, 1 case sardines, 1 ,case fish, Clum and Co ; 1 case, Helms.

The p.s. Bruce left for Okarita yesterday, with about a dozen passengers and a full freight of miscellaneous merchandise She is expected to return this evenir g, and will leave again for Greymouth and the Buller ou Friday next.

The 5.6. Keera g ive duo notice of her arrival in the roadstead lsst night by firing a gun and burning the usual blue light. Sho has made a fair run from Dunedin, as we understand she left that port ou S.iturdav last.

The stay of thu William Miskin in port was of short duration, as she left yesterday on her return to Dunedin, calling at Greymouth to land part of original cargo, and a few passengers who shipped here. We trust she will experience pleasant weather and irake a quick run round the coast.

The p.s. Xelaon left tho river yesterday, on her way to Nelson via Greymouth and tho Buller. She took away about twenty passengers, and a pnrt of original cargo which was consigned to Greymouth. We extract the followiug report of the case against the b.h. Albion for non-dchvery of raails from the " Otago Daily Times." It was, forwarded to that paper from the Bluff: — " A of case considerable interest to captains, mail ageuts, and pursers of stunners, was heard at the Resident Magistrate's Court, Campbelltown, on Wednesday, the 17th hist. Captain Kidney, of the O.C. ss. Albion, was bummoned hy the Postmabtcr at Cnmpbelltown on the 21et July iabt. It appeared from the evifor non-delivery of mails at Campbeltown dence of the plaintiff that a mail bag from Wellington was carried on to Melbourne instead of being landed at the Bluff. But the plaintiff failed to prove the delivery of the bag in question to defendant, or to any of the officers on board the ship. For tho defence, Mr Sainsburg, the purser, handed in a copy of the receipt for all the mails received on board from the different Post Offices ; also the receipt showing the delivery of all the mails according to the Post Office way-bills. It wa» also stated that the mail bag was put on board without his knowledge, and that no receipt was given for it, and when he wab sorting the English mail n^ar to Hobson's Bay the bag was discovered, and that the Post Office department was clearly liable for tho non-delivery of the bag in ques,tion, having failed to take a receipt for it, aud sleo for neglecting to enter it on the way-bill. His Worship said that as it was admitted that the bag ns on board the ship, hfr would be obliged t» infliot. % ponalrj ; but as the negli-

gence of the Post Office department was quite apparent, in not entering the bag on the waybill, he would inflict the lowest penalty — viz., LlO without costs."

Anotui:k Whl*ok on Cape Fabkwhll Sandspjt. — \Va regret to have to announce that another wreck took place on the SaiuUpit, nt an early hour on Wednesday last. It ap pears that the birque Juno, of Hobarfc Town, with 46G tons of coal on board, consigned to Messrs Laurie and Gannon, of Christchurch, and the sole property ot the captain, J. 0. B. Grant, left Newcastle on the 16th instant, and had make a lair run to Cape Farewell, which she reached at 4 a.m., on Tuesday morning, the wind being light at the time. The correct bearings for D'Urville's Island were found at sunset, and everything promised a successful termination to her voyage. During the night, however, the wind became " pulf\ ," blowing from the northward, the rain likewise falling steadily ; and at 4 a.m., on the Wednesday morning, the captain, calculating that file barque had made for^v miles between that time and sundown on the previous day, imagined that she must have passed Stephen's Island. This,howevcr,soon proved to beamistake, for, half-an-hour afterwards, the vessel struck on the Sandspit, aud lay broadside on, bumping very hea\ily. Her sails were at once clowed up an. l furled, as the wind wns fast increasing in violence, in order to prevent her being imbedded iv the sand. Both the boats were then got out, and attempts were made to " hang the vessel " by running out a stream anchor with a hawser hove-faut, whilst the coals with which she was loaded wore discharged from the after-hatch. These precautions, however, proved wholly inellectudl, for the hawser quickly parted,* and the sea on the weather side made a clean breach fore and aft over the barque, which was beating heavily on the beach. It was evident that nil had been done which could nossibly avail to save the ship, and the captain, calling all hands aft, decided that she should be abandoned ; and the boats, which were ready under her lee, were immediately manned. Tho captain, previous to leaving the vessel, souuded the pumps, and found more than three feet of water in the well. T l :e two boats, one -(the long-boat) containing seven men, with the captain and mate, and the other (the whale-boat) containing six, witb.tUcße.-ond mate, then shapad-ibr the end of the Saudspit, the sea meanwhile running very high, and breaking over the boats, which several times narrowly escaped destruction. At length, when they had almost abandoned all hope of saving their lives, they contrived to reach Spit End, and to their inexpressible joy a sail shortly appeared in bight, which proved to be the Wild Wave, of Lyttelton. Her crew fortunately observed the boats, and, making a lack, ran down to the whaleboat, auJ took her crew on board. They then attempted to rescuu the men who were on board tho lougboat, but one of their oars being broken, it was found to by impossible. The Wild Wave, immediately on seeiug tin's, made sail, and succeeded in getting some of the crew on board her, but owing to tbe heavy sea running at the time, four of them could not get out of the boat, und were therefore towed asti-rn of the vessel. In this condition, the boats which were in tow, being frequently vory nearly swamped, and the whale-boat being entirely destroyed by fouling the long-boat, they steered their course for Separation Point, the sea running heavily aB she ran down to Astrolabe Road, where she arrived a little before five p.m., the same evening. Here they found the schooner Mary Thompson, and the cutter Ann, of Nelson, at anchor, weatherbound Mr Eure, the master of the Ann, on learning the vicissitudes they had experienced, consented, at the request of Captain Grant, to bring tli'* shipwrecked men to Nelson, and the crew having been taken onboard, the cutter set sail at ouce, under a heavy gale, for Nelson, which shr'rJached athalf-pastten on Wednesday night. We regret to state that the crew have arrived here with but little of their clothing ; the greater portion, as well as most of the captain's property, having been lost ; the ship's papers and the chronometer were, however, saved. We understand that Captain Grant only purchased the Juno in July last, but she was not transferred to him till September last ; this was therefore his first venture with her, and he estimates Ins loss at L 1350, uncovered. The ship was insured in a Victorian office for L22so.— Nelson " Cokmist," Oct. 27.

GREY RIVER.

High Watkb .This Day. — 2 24 a.m.; 2.51 p.m.

ABBIVKD

October 28. — Airedale, s.s., from Hokitika,

SAILED. October 27. — Fanny, schooner, for Palrihi. Hercules, cutter, for Manukau. October 28. — Airedale, s s.. for Sydney. Mary Anne, schooner, for Palihi.