IMPORTS.

West Coast Times, Issue 700, 21 December 1867, Page 2

IMPORTS.

Per Alhambra, from Melbourne — 2 cases, Alcorn ; 2 cases, Cosgrave ; 10 packages, Maneon; 53 kegs butter, order ; 50 bags onions. 168 do potatoes, Royse, Mudie, and Co. ; 4 bale 3, 6 cases, 4 barrels, 1 trunk, Rehfisch ; 9 qr-casks wine, C. Williams ; 3 qr-casks wine, Kellar ; 5 packages boots, J. Manson ; 6 boxes tobacco, 5 cases prunes, 1 do fish, Cleve ; 6 bags onions, 16 cases eggs, 29 bags potatoes, 4 hhds eggs, Peak ; 2 packages drapery, Alrnan and Co. ; 3 packages, Davidson and Turk j 2 trunks boots, Williams and Co. j 2 casks tongues, 1 case bacon, Churches and Co. ; 2 cases drapery, J. Manson ; 8 kegs butter, order ; 5 packages, Beale Bros. ; 1 case boots, Isaacs and Co. ; 1 case, Prichard and Co. ; 4 cases, 1 truss, J. Manson and Co. ; 1 case galvanised iron, Shaw and Co. ; 40 boxes soap, H. Staite and Co. j 4 case 3 iron, 6 kegs nails, 2 casks zinc. 1 case glass, 1 cask, Haworth and Co. ; 2 caseß tobacco, Louisson and Co. ; 19 bags potatoes, Bailie and Co. ; 3 boxes tobacco, 2 cases, Menderehausen ; 27 pkgs, Royse, Mudie and Co; 3 cases, Weir Bros; 100 cases milk, Carey and Gilles ; 1 case drapery, Manson and Co ; 107 pkgs, J. Lewis ; 4 bales paper, Harnett and Co ; • 5 pkgs, Riordan ; 3 trusses, Prichard ; 2 coses, Hart ; 3 cases, Mulligan ; 1 case, Frybug ; 10 cases bacon, order ; 1 case, 6 trunks, 1 truss, J. Manson and Co ; 27 tubs butter, 67 cases onions, J. Duff; 4 pkgs, Pritchard ; 10 bags potatoes, Blyth and Co ; 1 case, Mulligan and Co ; 9 cases wine, Staite ; 22 tubs butter, 67 cases onion', Peak ; 4 pkgs billiar.l table, H. Staite ; 13 casks butter, Pole ; 17 bag 3 potatoes, 1 case raisins, 2 cases peas, Ecclesfield Bros ; 3 hhds eggs, 46 cases fruit, 16 bags potatoes, Dunning Bros ; 2 pkgs, H. Staite ; 1 case, Cosgrave ; 1 parcel, Munson ; 1 parcel, Rev. Harper ; 1 parcel, Marsh ; 1 box, 1 pkg, Cowlishaw and Co ; 1 parcel, Bank of New Zealand ; 1 box, 1 bag, M'Farlane and Co ; 1 truss, Graham ; 1 parcel, Creror ; 1 parcel, Munson ; 1 box, Nelson ; 1 pkg, Pritchard ; 1 pkg, Patrick ; 2 boxes, Roberts ; 1 pkg, Forsyth and Co ; 1 case, 1 truss, J. Mauson ; 4 crates fowls, Bennett ; 1 pkg, Ross.

Per Harriet Nathan from Hobart Town : 376 bags potatoes, 11 bags onions, 40 do carrots, 28 do peas, 174 cases fruit, 5 hhds eggs, 63 bags oats, 39 cases oggs, 60 bags bran, 134 bales chaff, 8300 pailings, 113 pieces timber, 57 geese, 24 pair ducks, 32 pair fowls, 5 turkeys.. 15 pigs, 1 case honey, 160 cases jams, 9 horses, 18 cases eggs, Carey and Gilles. Per Tasmanian Maid, for Brighton, &c. For Brighton — 6 cases champagne, 5 cases whiskey, Cassiua and Co. : 1 bundle, Pritchard; 2 cases, Mulligan and Co. ; 1 case, Bank of New Zealaud ; 7 bags potatoes, 3 bags onions, Fennell and Co. For Wcßtport — 1 bag, Fenton.

Per Onehunga, for Dunedin — 40 bundles sheepskins, Flaxman Brothers ; 1 case almonds, J. R. Anderson.

Mr White, tho Company's agent, was yesterday advised, by telegram, that the s.s. Airedale would positively leavo Nelson today, for the West Coast. If not detained by weather she will arrive here to-morrow, and leave, direct for Sydney, on the same tide. The M.A. and N.Z.5.3. Co.'s s.s. Alhambra, John M'Lean, commander, left Melbourne at 4 p.m. on the 14th in3tant, with fine light weather, which held good until sho arrived in this roadstead at 4 p.m. on the 19th, after a capital run of five days. On the 16th instant, at 6 p.m., lat. 40.26 S., long. 153.7 E., tho steamer Gothenburg, steering west, was met and passed, and next day, a most interesting event occurred on board the Alhambra, one of the lady passengers, a Mrs O'Keefe, boing safely delivered of a fine boy. Tho Alhambra was tendered upon the early morning tido of yesterday by the p.s. Yarra, which landed the mails and seventy-five passengers, and then the lighter Isabella hauled alongside, and transhipped ninety-five toii3 of cargo. Last night the Alhambra proceeded to Greymouth, for which port she has passengers, and will return here this morning, and leavo direct for Melbourne at four o'clock tin's afternoon.

The Isabella was towed out by the Challenge yesterday morning to lighter the Alhambra. Jrfhe transhipped over ninety tons of cargo during the day, and was brought in again last night by the same steamer. The steamer Bruce returned to port yosterday afternoon, from another trip north. Sho completed the round in forty-eight hours, having left Gibson's Quay at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, and was again fast to the mooring posts shortly after that hour yesterday. Her arrival at Westport took place at two a.m. on Thursday, and having landed and shipped passengers and cargo, she left again at five P.m. the same day. A heavy S.W. gale and

high Sea was encountered during her run up to the Grey roadstead, whioh was not gained until seven a.m. on Friday, when the weather broke, and hence to this port light winds prevailed. The Bruce came from the Grey uuder easy steam, arriving off the bar at 11 a.m., and there anchored until the tido 6crrcd as above. She will leave again for Buller and Fox's, this afternoon. Captain Kerley reports that the departure of the s.s. Beautiful Star, from Westport, took place on Thursday evening ; she is bound to Dunedin via Wellington. The p.s. Nelson left the Bullor, for Greymouth, in company with the Bruce ; she arrived there yesterday, and will, we presume, come on here to-day. An exemplification of the respective powers of speed of tho steamers Omeo, Alhambra, and Rangitoto has been given by their Lite passages from this port to Melbourne ; and as there was a difference, of ono day only in point of time between the departure of each from the West Coast, which they left in rotation— the clipper Rangitoto being the last to sail, and therefore was two days behind the Omeo, which left the first — some interest was excited iv the probable result of what was in truth a handicapped race. The three steamers arrived at Hobson's Bay on the same day (6th inst.), tße Omeo at noon, the Rangitoto at 6 p.m., tho exact time of the Alhambra's arrival is not given, but her position in the .shipping column of the " Argus " leads us to infer thae she was in advance of the Rangitoto, The thret left the West Coast as follows :— Omeo, from Greymouth, on the 29th ult., Alhambra, from Hokitika, on the 30th ult., and the Rangitoto, from Hokitika, on the Ist instant. Considered as an handicapped race, it was won by the Omeo ; but if as a trial of speed between three ocean steamers, tho palm must be awarded to the Rangitoto. Wo see by tho Omeo's report, that she encountered strong westerly weather from land to land, whilst tho Alhambra and Rangitoto experienced fresh head winds and heavy sea during the first three days out, and moderate weather afterwards.

The steamer Tasmaniau Maid completed another coasting trip to and from the Buller yesterday morning — the last, we may observe, that 6he will make this year, her owner and commander, Captain Soutcsr, having determined to spend Christinas with his family in Auckland, and return to the West Coast early in January. One of the most obliging and courteous of men, and an able and successful mariner, Captain Souter bears away many good wishes — amongst them our own — that he will pass a merry time in Auckland, and make a safe and profitable voyage. Concerning the Maid's Bullor trip, we have to report that she left Hokitika at two p.m. on Tuesday last, and frteamed along the coast against a stroug northerly gale and heavy sea, that prevented her calling at Fox's, and delayed her arrival at Westport until three a.m. ou Wednesday ; she there discharged cargo, and on the afternoon's tide towed the schooner Heron to sea, returned to the river and ran alongside the s.s. Beautiful Star, and transhipped a race horse named " Native " from her. Sho then received a little cargo and twenty passengers on board from the shore, and left for Greymouth at six p.m., arriving off the bar at midnight, and anchored, and at daylight crossed the bar. Landed the horse and some cargo, and put to sea again at seven p.m., reaching the roadstead at ten p.m., and the wharf next morning at four a.m. Captain Souter reports that the s.s. Beautiful Star arrived at Westport from Dunediu on Wednesday last. The Tasmanian Maid staid but a short time in port, as she left, for Auckland, via Buller, yesterday afternoon. The first cargo of the season's produce grown in Tasmania arrived yesterday morning in the barque Harriet Nathan from Hobart Town, and included many kinds of vegetables, early plum 3, gooseberries, &c, which, together with sundry coops of poultry, were sold by auction hi the course of the day, and as we expected they would, fetched very handsome prices. The old bai'que succeeded in hitting the market this time, and altogether has made a very fortunate trip, as the nine horses she brought over turned out in splendid condition, and will we havo no doubt excite spirited competition arnong«t buyers at the sale which takes place this afternoon, and will .be presided over by Messrs Carey and Gilles. Concerning the Harriet X athan's passage from Hobart Town, we are informed by Captain Simpson that she left tho Derweut on the 7th inst with a fresh N.E. breeze, which held with remarkable steadiness in that quartcr,and kept her within sight of land until the 9th, when it free 1 a point or two, and allowed her to lay a course off shore. Moderate north and N.E. winds prevailed until she was within 140 miles of the New Zealand coast on Thursday morning last, and then changed to a S.W. gale, which carried her to the roadstead that afternoon. She came to an anchor for the night, and was towed in yesterday morning by the tug Challenge, but not without grounding in the river, as the strong north current running along the beach set Her upon the North Spit, just inside the bar, and it was only by extraordinary efforts on the tug's part that she fetched .the wharf upon that tide. A Waterspout. — Captain Johnson, of the barque Bella Vista, which arrived at Hobart Town on Tuesday from Hokitika, after a stormy passage of twenty-one days, reports that on Monday night, 2nd inst., the barque was close to a large waterspout, about eighty miles E.S.E. of tho Pillar. The waterspout came in a south-westerly direction, and was of great size. It broke within two mile 3of the barque, causing a great disturbance. Tho barometer stood at 29.30 dusirg the time the waterspout was visible, and the wind, which was bloiving light at the time, dropped when the" waterspout broke,- and the weather continued almost calm. Very severe weather was experienced during the passage, which occupied twenty-one days. — "Launce3ton Examiner," Dec. 5. The schooner Jessie, from this port, arrived at Sydney on the 12th inst. GREY RIVER. Hrcra Water, This Day. — 5.37 a.m. ; 6.2 p.m. To-Morrow. — 6.17 a.m. ; 6.42 p.m.