IMPORTS.

West Coast Times, Issue 650, 24 October 1867, Page 2

IMPORTS.

Per Dart, from Molyneux — 288 baga oats, 18 tons potatoes, W. Brown. EXPORTS. Per John Bullock, for Melbourne — 3 bales wool, 44 hides, N. Edwards and Co, ; 7 pkgs luggage, Carey and Gilles.

The steamer Keera left Greymouth for Dunedin yesterday evening, and according to a telegram received in town was to be followed by the steamer Tasmanian Maid, bound here. The latter has been engaged, we understand, to tranship and bring ashore live stock from several vessels in the roadstead, including the Gleneoe, Harriet Nathan, and Leonidas. If not prevented by the freshet, which, from the weather of last night seemed impending, the Tasmanian Maid will enter the river on this morning's tide. The Westland portion of the English mail via Suez will be landed at Lyttelton, from the steamship Rangitoto, and despatched overland by the Clmstchurch coach, which doubtless will reach town on Saturday at the usual hour. The Rangitoto proceeds round the coast via Cook's Straits, and may be expected here on the 28th, and will be dispatched direct for Melbourne on tho tide following her arrival. Concerning the Rangitoto's-late run down to Melbourne from this port, which, she left in company with the s.s. Omeo, we have been informed by private advices that she arrived in Hobson's Bay at 8 a.m. on the 7th inst., after an unusually long passage of nearly seven days, out of which she was driven by heavy westerly -weather to seek shelter in Waterton Bay, where she remained for twenty-five hours ; yet, notwithstanding tins detention, she beat the Omeo by nearly twelve hours in the run, as the latter did not reach j Hobson's Bay until 7.30 p.m on the 7th inst. The schooner Dart is still aground upon the j bar. She was further lightened yesteiday by the removal of the lost of her cargo to shore, and, as the qides are making steadily, we hope to see her released either to-day or to-mor-row. She lies high out of the water at low , tide, and as the bank she is resting on is j heaving home and making up at the same j time, it is just possible that her release will entail the expense of a veritable re-launch. - The only vessel to cross tho bar yesterday was the steamer Bruce, wliich arrived in the roadstead from the Buller and other ports on the previous night, and entered the river upon early morning's tide. She left port on Sunday last, at 2.30 p.m., with mails and passengers for the s.s. Phoebe, and having transhipped them she ran to tho brig Esperanza, received 90 sheep from her, and then steamed away on her course North, arriving at Westport at 4 a.m. on Monday. Disembarked passengers and freight, and loaded up for Mohikinui, and left at 2 p.m. against a strong N.Wi breeze and heavy headsea, and reached her destination at 5.30 p.m. Landed cargo at once, and on the next tide, which served at 3 a.m. (Tuesday), she put to sea for Hokitika, intending to call at Sox's on her way . This purpose she was obliged to forego, Woodpecker Bay being closed by a heavy sea, so she proceeded onwards, and arrived in this roadstead at 8 p.m., having fought her way up the coast against a piping S.W\ breeze and bad sea, that in point of time extended her passage very far beyond its usual limits. The Bruce anchored for the night, and having transhipped passengers from the Jane Lockhart, Gleneoe, and Ocean Wave, and a mob of sheep from the Leonidas, she took the bar, arriving as above. Captain Kerley reports that the steamers Nelson, Murray, Stormbird, Tasmanian Maid, Southland and Lioness were lying at Westport when the Bruce left. The Lioness was in the Lagoon undergoing certain repairs to her port, cy lender. The Bruce will leave again this afternoon, at five o'clock, for the Buller and Mohikinui.

The xin settled, broken weather of yesterday resolved itself in to a hard blow from N.W., commencing at about ten o'clock. Torrents of rain fell, giving promise of a flood in the river that we expect will be redeemed today. The passengers from the Jane Lockhart, Gleneoe, and Ocean Wave were landed yesterday evening by the Bruce. By the courtesy of Mr Lockhart, the owner of the "Jane," we have been supplied with a file of Sydney papers from the Ist to the Bth inst.

The steamers, Yarra, Persevere, and Challenge have been inspected by Mr Nancarrow, who passed the first two, alter applying the usual severe tests to their boilera. The Challenge was also declared sound, excepting one faulty plate in her boiler, which is now being replaced by a new one. By telegram from Melbourne we learn that th* clipper ship Australian, Captain Duthie,

arrived there on the 26th ult., in seventy-one days from London. Even in these days of clipper passages, the performance of the Australian is perhaps the most extraordinary on 'record, and will compare with anything accomplished by the tea clippers. Launched at Aberden in August, she left England in October, arrived in Sydney in 75 days, discharged and loaded fnll cargoes here, made the voyage Home in. 79 daya; loaded for Melbourne, where she has now arrived, thus completing the round voyage in 198 days, and having sailed 48,000 miles, and carried three full cargoes, in ten months and seventeen days.—" S. M. Herald." The Wreck of the Manukau. — We have received some additional particulars relative to the wreck of this vessel from a correspondent at Manawatu, who writes as follows on the oth inst. : — " You will no doubt have heard already about the wreck of the schooner Mnnukau, about four miles from the Manawatu ferry mouth, still I question if any details have yet reached you. Two men were drowned, and tho body of one — Mr King, the chief officer — having been found washed ashore, an inquest was held upon it on Friday last, before Batten Smith, Esq., coroner, and a jury, which included Major Edwardß, Resident Magistrate, as Foreman, Captain Bascand of the steamer Waipara, and several experienced nautical men. Evidence was taken at considerable length, which, made two things perfectly clear; fir3t, that poor King was not drowned, but accidentally killed by the fall of the mizeninast j and second, the Mauakau was in an entirely unseaworthy condition. So strongly was the jury convinced of this, that after returning a verdict relative to the cause of death in accordance with the evidence, they added the following rider : — 'The jury beg to call attention to the grave responsibility which rests on those who permitted the Manukau to I go to sea in the condition sho was in,it appear- [ ing from the evidence that she was not only very leaky, but that some of her timbers, spars, and planking were absolutely rotten. The jury therefore request that the coroner will see that the above expression of opinion is for- ! warded to the proper authorities.' I perI fectly agree with this rider. The condition of I the vessel was absolutely shameful. She struck at four on Thursday morning, and almost imjnediately went to pieces. Most of the men got ashore on pieces of the wreck, and the cai'penter, who had been working in the after part of the vessel, was rescued by Mr Nicholson, who, with a rope attached to his body, boldly swam out through tke surf to the vessel, and brought the man ashore. Ifc was blowingvery hard at the time of the wreck, and so far as could be ascertained from the evidence, the captain and crew of the vessel wore perfectly sober. The s. s. Waipara is still in the river I weather-bound. It is blowing a gale now j (Tuesday). The body of the other man ! drowned has not yet been found." — ".Wellington Independent," Oct. 10.