IMPORTS.

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IMPORTS.

Per Bruce, from Nelson : G kegs butter, 1 case eggs, Coates. Per Murray, from Nelson : 1 bale leather, 1 truss, O'Brien ; 1 parcel, Kenrick; 48 bales chaff, Maclean ; 2 cases clothing, Bastings ; 50 bags chaff, order. Per Wallabi, from Westport : 64 bags salt, 8 tons potatoes, D. Maclean and Co ; 1 cask fruit, Waters ; 4 horses, M 'Shane. EXPORTS. Per Spray, for Lyttelton : 70 tons coal, D Maclean and Co ; 4 casks smelting house refuse, Bank of New Zealand. Per Murray, for Wellington : 50 tons pool, Kilgour and Perotti. Per Walhibi, for Westport : 70 tons coaL 14 bags salt, 24 bags potatoes, D. Maclean and Co. * Per Persevere, for Hokitika : 3 boxea produce, 1 case apples, 1 box produce, D. Girdwood and Co ; 2 cases, Bastings.

The a 8. Tararua, from Nelson, is expected to arrive in the roadstead during the night, and will be tendered on this morning's tide by the p.s. Persevere, which arrived from Hokitika yesterday afternoon for that purpose. She will take passengers for M elbourne direct, and tranship others for Sydney. For export by her the Bank of New South Wales has passed at the Customs 15000z., aud the Bauk of Australasia lOOOoz. The s.B. Gothenburg, from Melbourne, arrived at the Bluff on Tuesday, at 11 p.m. The 8.5.. Murray, Captain M'Gillivary, steamed into the river on Tuesday, at i 6 a. m., from Nelson and Westport. She left Nelson at 8 a.m. on Sunday, and was off the Bnller at 6 a.m. the following morning. Left again at 11.30 p.m. on Monday, and, poming down the coast under easy steam, arrived here as above. She left again at midnight for Westport, Nelson, and Wellington. Th", schooner Spray, Captain Ruxton, for Lyttelton, with a cargo of coal, was towed to sea on Tuesday niurning by the p.s. Disspatcb. The p.B. Charles Edward and p.s. Bruce left on Tuesday morning for Hokitika. The Edward returned yesterday. The b.s. Walhibi, Captain Daniel, from Wanganui and Westport, arrived off the bar yesterday morning, and crossed at 11 a.m. She left Wanganui on Saturday, at 11 p.m., and reached the Buller River at niue o'clock pn Monday evening. Her cargo was nearly all landed at Westport, except a small quantity and five horses which she brought on here. She left again on Tuesday night, and arrived here as above. Yesterday she took in a cargo of coal, and left on her return trip last night. At the Nelson Resident Magistrate's Court pn Friday last, John M'Laren, a miner, sued A. D. Gillivray, captain of the Murray, for having had more passengers on board the Murray than her certificate authorised. Plaintiff, who is by no means a favorable specimen of the genus miner, entered the witness-box, and talked a great deal about the public duty he was performing, and prgued that it was a case in which the Resident Magistrate should have instructed the Crown Solicitor to prosecute. He termed Mr Win. Adams, who defended the captain, *'bis learned friend ;" and it was with difficulty, and only after repeated calls from the bench that he was induced to . state the facts and give his evidence without comment or argument while in the box. He then deponed that he had been on board the steamer ! Murray on the morning of the 10th instant, and that there were about sixty sheep, thirty pigs and two calves, and he believed jihirty passengers forward and thirty aft. He was not prepared to swear that there were sixty, but he would that there were thirty in all In cross-examination, he vehemently protested against a question as to whether he had been brought up as a vagrant in Wellington, and declined to answer the question, refused to admit the fact, but also declined to deny it. When asked how he knew that all these were passengers, he said he knew most of them personally. He called James Lowe, pilot, -who deposed to his attention being called to the pigs and sheep on board the Murray, but nothing was said to him about passengers. This was all the evidence, and the Court dismissed the case; as plaintiff had established nothing and proved nothing. He refused to pay the-Court fees, and was locked up. He lately formed one of a deputation of diggers in the late rush from Auckland for Wakamarina, who waited on the Superintendent the other week and requested his Honor to pay their to Wettport. We believe it was M'Ltu-en who on that occasion said to the Superintendent, "You jtnow, sir, if we stay in Nelson, Me wight be troublesome." "Ah!" cheerily replied his Honor rising and dismissing tile "deputation" — "Ah, we'll see to that," wbereupoa M'Laren aud his would-be troublesome friends crcst-fallenly departed. — NehonVulo■fiht, March 20.