EXPORTS.

Grey River Argus, Volume VI, Issue 441, 10 November 1868, Page 2

EXPORTS.

Per Persevere, for Hokitika : 26 tons coal, D Girdwood and Co. Per Rangitoto, for Melbourne: 54880z 6dwt sgr gold, Bank of New South Wales. Per Charles JSdward, for Westport and Nelson : 1 package cigars, Harling ; 1 case acid, 2do drugs, Williams. For Nelson : A quantity effects, Jago.

The weather during the past few days has pontjnued very fine, and the bar has been as smooth aa a pond, with scarcely a ripple to disturb its placidity. The channel is straight and contains plenty of water. The only regret is that so few vessels arrived to cro.^s it. The ps. Charles Edward and thep.s. persevere have been the only trrivals and departures There are no sailing crafts yet due from Melbourne, .as the Sat ah Ann or the Clarendon had not sailed at the date of pnr last advices, on the 28th nit. T.he p. s. Persevere arrived from Hokitika pn Saturday afternoon, and aFter loading up twenty-five tons of coal, sailed for the same destination early yesterday morning. The p.B. Charles Edward, Captain Palmer, arrived in port on Saturday afternoon from Nelson and Westport, via Hokitika. She Jeft Nelson on Monday last, and crossed the Buller bar on Tuesday at 11 p.m. Here she shipped the Kennedy's passengers and cargo and left on the 6tb, arriving at Hokitika the same day after a fine run of ten and a-half hours. To that port she took 1G240z gold, and 1500 soys, from Westporfc. Yesterday she left again for Westport and Nelson. The S..S. Alhambra is expected from Melbourne direct to-morrow, and is announced to sail on Thursday with passengers for Nelson, Southern ports, and Melbourne. The shareholders of the New Zealand Steam Navigation Company have decided pot to attempt raising the steamer Taranaki, which now lies in Tory Channel. She is to be sold for what she will bring, which it is believed will not be more than some L2OO or L3OO, as the difficulties which stand in the way of raising her, and the great cost wbich would be involved in the attempt to do so, will be sufficient tq deter persons from entering upon what is apparently a rash speculation. Telegrams from Wellington state that the schooner Crest of the Wave, which recently left this port for Picton, is reported to ]je Iprt. The schooner Anne, after l>eiog three hours on the South Spit, got off with Saturday evening's tide, and came into the river damaged, with four feet of water in her hold. She is the property, we believe, of Messrs Kennedy Bros, and had only recently left Charleston bound for Greymouth, when she sprang a leak, which obliged the master to run to the Buller and put her ashore on the bar, to avoid foundering. — Wedport Times. The schooner Ceres, which a few days since went over to the Lagoon, is in a very shaky condition. She is not seaworthy at present. Her bottom and keel are driven about six inches up. The master intends culling for tenders to see if she can be repaired.— Ibid. A case came before the Resident Magistrate, at Nelson, of a novel character. A seaman named John Nelson having' sued Captain Dillon, late master of the Nelson, for a month's wages due to him, which Cant, Dillon contended the roan bad forfeited by ieayiug the vessel at Motueka when on her way to the West Coast, without giving notice. Nelson Bet up a claim of usage, and that it -was a customary practice for sailors to leave their employment in such a manner. The Resident Magistrate did not recognise such usage, and nonsuited the complaiuant. — Examiner.