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December. 13, St. Kilda, s.s., 91 tons, Flowerday, from Wang- nui. Passengers — Messrs Bevan and M'Neilo. 13, Taranaki, ss., 299 tons, E. Wheeler, from Lyttelton and Port Chalmers. Passengers — Messrs Horton, Wilson, Stock, Prendergasfc, Clayton, Fookcs, Hadfield, and three in tho steerage. SAILED. Nil. I_IFOET3. In the St. Kilda, W. and G-. Turnbull and Co, agents— 37 bales wool, 1 bag baoon, Rhodes ; "74. bales wool, Pearce ; 10 ditto ditto, Krull and Co ; 50 ditto ditto, Lyon ; 25- cwt potatoes, Yennell, Mills and Co ; 8 casks tallow, Order. EXPORTS. In tho Halcione, Levin and Co, agents— l 2 casks meat, Webster Brothers ; 61 bales phormium, Edwards ; 9 ditto ditto, 1 box beeswax, T. and W. Young ; 220 bales wool, 2 tanks oil, 8 casks ditto, Kinross and Co ; 18 casks tallow, 13 bales wool, 4- pkgs, 2 cases rabbit skins, 13 pkgs wool, 1 ditto drapery, W. and G: Turnbull and Co ; 59 bales wool, 79 ditto phormium, Watt Brothers ; 1074 bales wool, 2 ditto skins, 48 bales phormium, 2 cases shells, 6 casks beef, 32 kegs butter, 76 casks fcallow, 163 hides nnd calf ( ekin9, a quantity of bones and horns, 3 bales sheepskins, 1 box provisions, Levin and Co ; 1 case shells, 1 do whalebone, 1 do ink, 40 kegs buUer, 30 pkgs wool, 145 bales wool, 35 bales phormium, 38 pkgs wool, ICrull and Co ; 13 casks tallow, Taylor a?_d Watt; 23 hides, 1 cask tallow, Berger; .5 pugs wool, Stevenson; 60 boxes tallow, 29 bundles skin 3, 15 bales phormium, Taylor ; 72 ditto ditto, Dodson ; 4 casks hams, M'Rae; 8 pkgs spun yarn, Mils ; 73 bales phormium, Dodson, Fell and Co ; 20 bales wool, Stokes ; 474 hides, 6 casks tallow, 6 bales leathei-, 30 sacks leather, Hirst; 16 casks beef, 16 kegs butter, Bishop; 19 bags sheepskins, 6 qr-casks brandy, 41 kegs butter, 100 casks tallow, a quantity of bones, Johnston and Co ; 8 casks beef, 16 do tallow, 1 do skins, Pearce; 55 pkgs wool, Gibson ; 77 bales wool, 186 bales phormium, Edwards and Co 5 21 bales wool, Shuttleworth Brothers ; 1 case apparel, Smith ; 1 bale phormium, Hector ; 72 bales wool, 4do skins, 51 do wool, Dodson, Fell and Co ; 24 kegs butter, ,35 bales wool, Young ; 67 bales wool, 19 bundles skins, Mnrtin ; 1 box apparel, Pharazyn ; 632 bales wool, 10 ditto skins, Pearce ; 158 bales wool, 140 ditto phormium, 17 casks fcallow, 157 bnles phormium, 1 bale skins, New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Ageacy Company ; 1 case, Pilcher. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Tararua, s.s., from Melbourno via the South, this day Go-Ahead, from Wanganui and Manawatu, this day Rangatira, s.s., from Napier, this day Wellington, s.s, "from the North, 16fch Phcebe, s.s, from fche South, 21sfc Albion, s.s., from Melbourne, 2lsfc. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Tararua, s.s., for Nelson via the West Coast, thie day Taranaki, s.s., for Picton, Nelson, Tarannki, aud Manukau, this day Go- Ahead, s.s,, for Manawatu and Wanga--nui, 16lh Sfc. Kilda, s.s., for Wanganui, this day Rangatira, s.b., for Lyttelton and Otago, 15th Albion, e.s., for Napier and .Auckland, 24th

The steamer Taranaki, Captain Wheeler, arrived in harbor yesterday at G p.m. She left Porfc Chalmers on Monday last, afc 2.15 p.m., and arrived at Lyttelton next day, at 11 a.m. 5 left again same day, afc 6 p.m., arriving here as above. Experienced a very heavy N.W. galo from Ljttelton to Wellington. We are indebted to Mr Bowden, purser, for files. The s.s. Wellington was appointed to leave Manukau yesterday for Southern ports, and will be due here on tho lGih instant She will sail for Lyttelton and Otago tho following day. The s.s. Phcebe, Captain Worsp, with the English mail via San Francisco, left Lyttelton yesterday, at noon, and will be due afc Porfc Chalmers early this morning. Yesterday afternoon, Mr Sawyer, signalman at Beacon Hill, rodo into town to inform the authorities that a schooner was anchored off the old pilot station wifch a signal of distress flying. Ho described her as a schooner of aboufc seventy tons, with hor topsides painted white. From the description ifc is supposed to bo the Huon Belle. In a letter to the " Lyttelton Times," Capt Paddle, of the ship Monarch, at present in Hobson's Bay, makes a complaint, in the following terms, of the port charges at Lyttelton. A portion of the letter says: — "I coneider the charges are enormous for the accommodation they receive. The following were mado against the Monarch, and paid when Bhe entered inwards afc fche Custom House * — Pilotage, in and out, £56 9s -id ; lighfc dues, £36 2s ; port dues, £12 Os 8d ; two removals, £12 Os 8d; total, £116. 12s Bd. Wo had a fair wind oufc, and 1 suppose tho pilot was on board two and a-half hours, and conducted tho ship aboufc four miles from heu anchorage, for which the enormous charge of £28 4s Brl was levied. Inwards, the wind being lighfc, the ship was towed in by the Gazelle. The same charge was made. In London, Calcutta, and I belicvo in most parts of tbe world; if a ship is towed by steam any part, one-third pilotage is always deducted ; not the ease in Lyttelton. The master is also liable to a penalty if he moves his ship only a few lengths. The charge of £6 03 4d was made against us in fcwo instances, although .lie was towed astern by steamer." After recommending the merchants of tho porfc to bring tho matter before the Chamber of Commerce, tho Captain further complains of tho want of fresh water in the porfc, of the want of wool-pressing accommodation, and of the want of courtesy iv extending to captains of vessols free permits on fche railway, a privilege accorded to nil captains of vessels arriving in Melbourne, in which port the ship is afc present lying.