PORT OF HOKITIKA.

West Coast Times, Issue 685, 4 December 1867, Page 2

PORT OF HOKITIKA.

High "Water, This Day. — 3.20 a.m. ; 3. 15 p.m. Moox — First quarter, to-day, 9.36 p.m. December 3. — 6 sum. : Wind, N., fresh ; barometer, 29 Si j thermometer, 54. — I p.m. : Wind, >'„ strong; barometer, 29-8G; thermometer, G2.— G p.m.: Wind, N., strong; barometer, 29GS ; thermometer, 58. Weather during day, constant rain. akeiv;ed. December 3. — Nil. SAILED. December 3.— -Tasmanian Maid, p.s., Soutei*, for Buller. Enterprise, ketch, Hat Geld, for Pakihi. KXPKCI'ni) AUIUVAI.S. Claud Hamilton, s.s., from Nelson, on tlie Gth inst. PhcEbe, s.s., from Sydney, about 17th inst. Otago, s~.s., from Melbourne, about 10th inst. Harriett Nathan, barque, from HobartTown, early. Maid of Erin, sclnv, from Melboxirne, daily. Susannah Booth, schr., from Sydney, early. Lizzie Coleson, brgtne., from Sydney, early. Sarah Anne, sehr., from Melbourne, early. 10, schooner, from Melbourne, daily. Beautiful Star, s.s., from Dunedin, early. PROJECTED UEPAItraUES. Claud Hamilton, s.s., for Sydney, 7th inst. Kile, sehr., for Fox's, early. Tasmanian Maid, p.s., for Auckland, Gth instant. Gothenburg, s.s., for Melbourne, 10th inst. Otago, s.s., for Northern Ports and Melbourne, lGth inst. VES3Er,S IN TORT. " Schooners — Nile, Bessie. Ketches — Brothers and Sister, Jane Anne. Cutters— Hope,,Harry Bluff, Elizabeth. Steam pi-3— Challenge, Golden Land, Yarin, Favorite.

IN THE ROADSTEAD AND OFFING. Anne Moore, brgt., from Melbourne. Mary, brigantine, from Melbourne. The Fauama Company's 6teamer Airedale left the Gt< y roadstead yesterday, en route for Wellington. Before sailing she transhipped several passengers who left Hokitika to join her in the steamer Tasmanian Maid. The agents, Messrs Carey and G-illes, were duly apprised by telegram of the s.s. Keera's arrival at Greymouth yesterday afternoon. Having very little cai'go on board for Hokitika, she will not extend her trip so far this voyage. Her departure from Greymouth direct for Dunedin ia fixed for thia afternoon. The p.s. Tasmanian Maid loft for the Buller yesterday afternoon, with about a dozen passengers and fifteen tons of cargo. The ketch Enterprise, bound to Pakihi, also departed. She was towed out by the Challenge, but is more likely to increase than decrease her latitude during the next twenty-four hours, and her chances of fetching the Cove within a week are rather doubtful, as the weather is any thing but settled, and a change can scarcely be hoped for until the full moon. We hear that the schooner Mary Asne Christina, which left here last week for Pukihi, is yet at sea, the Cove having been closed by surf. ' The long-desireJ. change in the weather seems as far off as ever ; certainly a day or two of sunshine is no warrantry that it has come at last, otherwise the bright skies, which rendered Sunday and Monday so enjoyable, would not have been succeeded yesterday by the downpour of rain that — driven up by a strong north wind — reduced tho town to, wo are tempted to say, its normal condition of sloppiness, so prolonged has been tho spell of dirty weather, that is, with good reason, regarded as a downright nflliction by the halfdrowned and wholly drenched West Coast residents. Clouds, surcharged with moisture, hung like a pall over the town up to mid~xii«ht,~aTid~thcrr~mdicntion: i of -a change were apparent only in barometers, which, strange to say, had risen two-tenths since noon ; those a tenth or so above standard range marking

..Important to Mastebs and Ownebs of Vessels Trading to the South Sea Isia^tds. — Captain Rogers, who arrived from Rarotonga by the schooner Herald, on Monday last, has .placed us in possession of the appended Harbor Regulations, fte., recently brought into force by the natives of Raratonga, and which will be found very useful to masters of vessels trading to that port. The following are the harbor regulations of Ngatangiia, Rarotonga : — "Pilots, Kuinuku and Tehha. Anchorage" free. Vessels (whatever their rig) of 30 tons, 5 dollars ; 40 tons, 5£ dollars ; 50 tons, 6 dollars ; 60 tons, 6£ dollars; 70 tons, 7 dollars ; 8 tons, 8 dollars ; 90 tons, 9 dollai-3; 100 tons, 10 dollars; 120 tons, 11 dollars ; 150 tons, 12 dollars. Water free, except fee to natives tho captain may engage to fill the casks. No boat or canoe from shore shall be allowed to go off to ships when making the land, excepting the one appointed by the authorities. Natives engaged for a vessel one dollar per day. The sale of spirits strictly forbidden, either frosi the vessel in harbor or on shore. If any spirits are brought on shore by a captain or foreigner residing on the island, or a native, the Judge shall break the

barrels or bottles containing said spirits, and spill the whole, and each man engaged shall be fined five dollars. Any one found drunk will be fine 1 five dollars. If anyone brings either spirits or intoxicating wines Secretly on shore he shall be fined thirty dollars, and all the spirits spilled — ten dollars to go to the King, ten dollars to the informer, and ten dollars to the Judge 3. If any one is obstinate in the side of spirits, either foreigner or native, having been judged twice, shall at the third offence ba banished the land. It is requested that no captain, shall engage or take uway on board 1113 vessel any natives from the shore. Any captain wishing to engage natives for a cruise is requested to make arrangements before proper witnesses on shore with any willing to go. A contrary proceeding will bo reported to the nearest consul of the nation to which the ship belongs. It is requested that on the desertion of a man from a veasel, the captain give immediate information to tho - chiefs of the station, and that the vessel do not leave the island until tho deserter be apprehended. That for every deserter delivered to the captain by the natives two pieces of cloth be paid — one to the chief of the station, and another to the parties who secured his apprehension. That in case tho deserter be not found until tbe vessel has left the island, he shall become a prisoner, and be employed in public works until ho leaves tbe island. That in any case considered necessary for a captain to leave a man on shore, the sum of thirty dollars be paid for each inidvidual so left. Pao." — " Southern Cross,' October 30.