EXPORTS.
Per Goldseeker, for Melbourne : 50 tons «ml, Nelson Coal Co. Per Flying Squirrel, for Hokitika : 30 tons coal, Girdwood and Co. ; The s.s. Tasmanian Maid left Hokitika at 3.15 p.m.' on the 15th instant, in the teeth ; of a heavy N.W. gale, which moderated towards 9 p.m., arrived off Fox's at\mid- • nightj and found a very heavy sea running in.} made for the harbor, where she succeeded (after shipping some heavy seas) in dropping her anchor. At Ba. m . next day landed the passengers during a comparatively -sinobth time, but both Avind and sea rising was unable to discharge cargo. . At 1 'p. m. the p.s. Bruce, which was in company with the" >. Maid-under the very small shelter afforded by the Bluff, lifted her anchor and made for the offing, aud. was., deluged with water in going over the bar.^ At 8 p.m. on Sunday commenced discharging .cargo and le|t;with twenty passengers for Greymouth at 6 a.m. on the 18th j 'where, she. arrived at 9.30 am. The Volunteer cntter, and the schooner-Entei-prise were both, floated off the beach last evening withouf hanng. sustained any • injury, r— Brighton Time&. '. 5.,. The cutter Harry Bluff, fvom Oriehunga, crossed over the bar In safety, arid camel' up the river yesterday afternoon. -r-Ibkl. " The p.s. - Bruce, from Haast River and . Okarjta, arrived in the ? rivcr yesterday at 6.3o '.a. in,;" '.with fifty-s«ve:i passengers and lOOOozs of gold for the Bauk of' New land, ;124Spzs for the Bank of New^uth Wales,; and"s2ozs. held by the passengers shipped at Haa>t River, the larger quantities being the produce of the Okarita District. — We*iG'QU'fst.Thneß.- .: ; . ; .. The screw steamship South Australian has beep placed under the command of Captain Hugh M'Meckan ; and Mr Underwood, late V chief officer of the .Gothenburg, has been apf pointed chief office^.— Jlrr/iiw, March 6. 7 The p. s. Dispatpp left the river on Saturday morning, but oh {irrivirig at Fox's found the sea too heavy to allow her tc land her cargo until Sunday -afternoon, She returned '-yes- ■;;.'' : fer^y,m.prnmg'iandbroiig^|-eighteenpaßsen;---gers. Shefafter wards towcd'o'ut the brigari- } tine Gold Seeker for Melbourne, andtopk her jjeparture again for Fox's in the evening. : Tie Brnce arid Kennedy both^ from Hoki- '£ tjka ajriv^cl Yesterday morning, and brought as tasscrigerß- a/good many visitcrs to-Grey- - ; v'Thcy Loth left again in the '"■ A'^ ' -,■ ■' - ' On the Eaßsagp pf the s.s.,Goth.enburg from :^HoKiti^S^ns pprt, CaptwnMackie^when -^etweritKen^s Group and theLDevil's,lower, a mile of a lai-ge ship that Unmistakable evidence .either of : '^ h^iiiit^bcdi An colli^ioll with aiipther,|or of ' :^vni| iM% ariioj^it itc, or cle^.
sustained Cfliisiderablejiairiage from the fury ' ( of tie events, inaiur ; | topgallant, jind. :.iflizentojigallaut masts were' i' , all gone, find on the. jury foremast she had a ' topgallant -sail;; §et for--a/foi-esail. The jib-" ;1 b6oin; b6wsprit,";tbpgallant; "forecastle, 'cutC, ] &c, r < appeared as if they had been cut :', glean away by tl|e ship coming in sharp con- | tact with some other vessel, or with an icer '' herg. She was steering a north=east course, '< us if bound for ' Sydney, but she made no signal to tjie Gothenburg— Melbourne Argus, March p, ; . . Captain Baker, of the brig Esper-anssa, report? that qn hjs pasgage from Hokitika; to Neweagtle he spoke the barque itilanden. Captain Macarthur, qf Hobart. Tqwn, oii the goth February, with 320 tuns sperm oil, and Captain. Macarthur informed /him thg,t on the. Jlth February he sighted the schooner WaterWitch, also of Hobart Town, with 300 barrels. qiL— & M. Herald March 1. '
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Grey River Argus, Volume III, Issue 184, 19 March 1867, Page 2
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567EXPORTS. Grey River Argus, Volume III, Issue 184, 19 March 1867, Page 2
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