LATEST FROM HoKITIKA.

Evening Post, Issue 89, 23 May 1865, Page 3

LATEST FROM HoKITIKA.

The Ota/.. Times, 20.h says:— Five small vessels arrived from llokitika in the fore noon, two of them, the Cymraes and Lady Franklin , havi- g niude very rapid passage* They sailed at noon on Sunday last, and having arrived at the Heals at midnight on Thursday, made the run in four days and a half. Had strong NE. winds as far as West Cupe, and, but for twelve hours' detention by thi. k and contrary weather, the Cymraes would have made the passage in four days. Her passage down, via Co>k's Straits, wua made iv seven days and t, half. From C^tFerkinp, of the Cymraes, .which brings some hides and sheepskins, we have received copies of the " West Coast Times " of Saturday, 13th inst., and, in addition to the items of intelligence contained therein, he reports the arrival of the paddle-steamer Naw Zealand from Melbourne. She arrived on the day he sailed, and crossed Hokitika bar in safety but grounded in the river, her extreme length preventing her fiom re dily taking the turns of the stream. The schooner Wallace had Billed, snd the Brothers was about to leave She made a passage thither of thirty-four days, having experienced very rough weather dv ing which she carried awny booms, rudder Irons, &<•„ and reoived other damage. The Matilda Hayes had sailed for Ohaiitu. Among «he vessels in port, there were Mary Van Every, Flying Squirrel, Craigievar, Many, Joanna, Star of Tasm mia, Glasgow Ch&rlottH, Ada, and Oonnaught Ranger. The *J|'a wns at anchor outside. JVothing was *Sfe*>f lue Omeo, nor had the Lady Darling 4jS»Hmmbra arrived. Of the other vessels •*W tJie Elisabeth Curie called at the Bluff •»» her paßsage round, and the Wild Wav-

i- o call (1 theie for a supply of water, having been out some days with a number of passengers on Honr '.