POUT OF HOKITIKA.

West Coast Times, Issue 591, 16 August 1867, Page 2

POUT OF HOKITIKA.

Hum Watkb This Day. — 10.40 a.m. ; 11.5 p.m. ARRIVED. Auguat 15. — Nil. SAIT.KD. August 13. — Bruce, p.s., Kerloj, for South GoUfk-Lls ports. Caledonia, sclir , Falconer, for Dunedin. Elizabeth, cutter, Mason, for Grey. Flying Squirrel, ketch, Collins, for Pakihi. CLEARED OUT. Bruce, 84 tons, Jas.' Kerley, for Okarita. and Bru^e Bny. Mary Ann, 10* tons, W. J. Careless, for Port Philip, in ballast. EXPECTED ARUI7AU. Mary, brigtn., from Melbourne, daily. Jane Lockhart, brigtn., from Sydney, daily. Lloyd's Herald, ketch, from Dunedin, daily. Mary Van Every, sohr., from Duuedin, daily. Keera, s.s., from Dunedin, early. Nil Desperandum, brig, from Dunedin, early. Florence, schr., from Melbourne, early. Annie Beaton, aclir., from Melbourne, early. Oineo, s.s., from Melbourne, early. Mary Anno, eehr., frdin Melbourne, early. Annie Moore, brgtn., from Melbourne, early. Alma, barque, from Melbourne, early. Storm Bird, schr., from Dunedin, dally. Falcon, schr., from Christchurch, early. * Thames, cutter, from Nelson, early. Elizabeth Curie, brigantine, from Dunedin, early. Florence, ketch, from Dunedin, early. BUOJKCTRD DKPABTORES. Harry Bluff, cutter, for PakiJii enriy. Day Dawn, for Pakihi, early. • Alhainbra, s.s., for Melbourne, to-morrow. VK3SEIS IN rOET. Brig — Valiant. BrigtnUines — Leonidas, Ceres, Mary Anne. Si'luvMitrs — Day Dawn, Falcon, Caroline, Alice, Three Friend?. Ketches — Brothers and Sister, Mary Anne, Jane Anne, Standard. Cutter— Harry Bluff. Btoiiiiiera— Challenge, Golden Laud, Yarra, Huntress. IN THE BOADSTEAD. Alhambra, s.s., from Dunedin. Mary Van Every, ketch, from Dunedin. Lloyd's Herald, ketch, from Dunedin. Emma Eliza, schooner, from Greymouth. Emerald, ketch, from Kaipoi. Isubulla, lighter. Two schooners, names unknown. M ary, brgtn, from Melbourne. Storm Bird, schr., from Duuedin. Florence, ketch, from Dunedin. EXPOBTS. Per Bruce, for Okarita and Bruce Bay — For Okarita — 1 bag maize r 3 cases, 1 bag, Loutitt and Reid ; 2 ca^es drapery, Cairncross ; 9 • packages. Price ; 3 cases eggs, Burrough ; 1 package shovels, 1 case. 4 parcel, Loutitt and Keid ; 1 package, M'Cracken ; 4 half-chests tea, 4 boxes soap, 2 dozen shovels. 2 kegs nails, 1 case glasses 1 case pepper, 2 cases bitters, 2 easi-8 fruit, 1 case, J. M'Fettrick. For Bruce Bay— 6 cases, 1 ca*k, 2 bags, 1 case drapery, 1 hilf-chest tea, 6 boxes candles, 2 cases tobuceo, 1 ense sardines, 1 case salmon, 1 case kerosene, 1 case vaisins, 1 case soap, 3 cases porter, 1 case vestas, 1 case cheese, 2 cases gin, 3 cases hams, 3 bags bran, 3 cases brandy, 2 cssßes claret, 2 kegs butter, 2 bags sugar, 1 bug peas, 1 case jams, 4 kegs spirits, 1 twg bacon, 10 bags flour, 6 nests billies, 1 case hams, 23 bags potatoes, 4 bags oats, order. Yrsterdny forenoon a sail was sighted to the S.W., heading as nearly for the road* stead as the breeze, then dead off the land, would permit. By sunset she had risen her hull out of water, and was pronounced to be the brigantine Mary, from Melbourne. We dare say she fetched the anchorage some time in the night. The three-masted schooner Stormbird, so long overdue from Dunedin, has at last reached the roadstead, and will toif in on the first favomb'e epportunity. She anchored off the bar on Wednesday. The si earner Bruce left port yesterday morning fin* the south ports. She first proeecis to Bruce Bay, hence to the Haast and Jnckson'g Bay, and calls at Okarita on her return. She took away two passengers only, and about twenty tons of cargo. We are informed by the agents, Measrs Morrison, Law and Co., that the brigantine Clara is lying at Nelson waiting for advices of a clear bar before making another effort to land her cargo here. The Clara it will be remembere'l lay outside the port for many dayi, lost both hause pipes in a gale, besides sustaining other damage, and so fan to Nelson for repairs and also to recruit her stores which had ran rather low. Messrs Boyle and Co , agents for the schooner Banshee, received a telegram yesterday containing the disagreeable intelligence that she had gone ashore at Omaru whilst loading up potatoes for this port. It is feared she will become a total wreck. The spring-tide flowed yesterday, and yet the bar continued too shallow to be worked by either the Yarra or tho Challenge, as their Masters declined risking them in the narrow gutway which, lacking a better, is yclept the channel. In other respects the tido was very favorable for working, as surf there was none, and a brisk, pleasant breeze blew dead off the land, affording vessels of light burden an excellent chanoe to clear the river. It was not neglected, as three craft crossed the bar under canvaB — the schooner Caledonia, cutter Elizabeth, and ketch Flying Squirrel— the hut with a full cargo for Pakihi, the others in ballast trim, bound respectively to Dunedin and Gr» yraouth. The Elizabeth is under weigh for the first time since her mishap, and being fresh from the shipwright's hands, looked remarkably "well as she glided past the wharf and across (he bar at racin? speed. TLe Persevere also left the river, and transshipped nearly twenty tons of cargo from the Alhambra. She returned to the wharf on last night's tide. Captain Pobertson reports that he found only six feet of water on the bar going and returning. Excepting 120 bales of chaff, which will be discharged into the Persevere this morning, the Alhambra is now clear of fargo, and will leave for Melbourne to-morrow morning at — elesen-o^clofek, W& understand Snj will call at Greymouth to ship passengers and gold. We learn that an official examination of the long looked for steamer Pareora, wa» held at Sur nam on the 2nd of May, by a number of shipmasters who had been called upon by Her Majesty's Consul at that port. The report it to the effect that the vessel (then lying at anchor in the river Surinam) put in there on the 2nd of April last, hi a very foul condition This circumstance, combined with the effect of a large iron elbow on each quarter, intended for supporting- the shafts of two propellers, is stated to have been the means of retarding the vessels progress, and rendering her unmanageable. The examiners considered that it would bo very injudicious for Captain Graham to proceed ngain to sea without having the propellers placed, and proceeding under steam. Were he to leave under sail, it is doubtful where she would be able to fetch, as the currents o:\ that coatt running to leeward would greatly influence ■ her course ; especially as she is not found with sufficient sails to counteract the effect of the fame. The steamer will therefore remain in port until the Captain receives instructions from the Company. This unfortunate detention is the xaoT6 to be regretted, inasmuch as the vessel is sadly needed for our coastal requirements, and it is to b* hoped both on account of the shareholders and the public, that tiwrp wiu b# pp delay in rri»»iwg it from jfo

present unprofitable condition. — " Otago Daily Times." She schooner Wild Wave, which entered the river yesterday, has had a. most narrow escape of being lost on tho voyage from Christchurch. She left Christchurch on the 30th ult., the wind being from tho N.E , and weather fine, which continued until when off the Kaikoras, on the 28th, a strong breeze from the northward set in. Ou tho following day the breeze freshened into a gale from the the south, with thick weather. Next day, ran through tfie Straits, sighting the Brothers at 2 p.m. on the 30th. At 4 p.m. that day tho gale had increased tremendously, so much so that the vessel ran before the wind under bare poles. At 6 p.m. tho gale had become a hurricane, and a sea struck her and threw her on her beam-ends, where she lay for fully a minute, everyone on board expecting her to go the bottom. Everything was swept from the deck, including fifty pigs and a lot of fowls, and Mr Smith, the owner of the vessel, the captain, and mate, were washed overboard, but luckily managed to cling to the mainboom, which was lying on the lee rail. The ship broached-to and could not carry any sail, and the seas making a clean broach over her. Hoisted the peak of the close-roefed mainsail to keep her head to it, but it buried her, and they had to lay all night without a stitch of canvas, broadside to the sea. No one on board expected to sco daylight, as sea after sea burst over the unmanageable craft ; and, indeed, had the gale lasted two or three hours longer, the vessel must have been dashed to pieces on the rocky shores of Cape Egmont, for at daylight the land was sighted about eight miles dead on the'lee. The gale having moderated, sail was set — a reefed foresail and rot-fed staysail only — and the vessel managed to clear off the coast and make a safe offing. The weather became fine for a day or two, and Cupe Farewell was made on the 2nd, Had fine weather to the sth, off Rock's Point, when the S.W. gale was met with, which compelled them to heave to, tho ship laboring much and taking a great deal of water on board. To lighten her, a quantity of flour and cheese was thrown overboard, after which she made much better weather. Next day, rounded Cape Farewell and anchored under tho Spit. Got under weigh again, aud had to briug up in Astrolubo anchorage, Blind Bay. Startled again on the 7th and had fine weather to the Grey,' arriving off this port on Tuesday night, and was towed in yesterday morning by the Dispatch. — " Grey River Argus," Aug. 15.