EXPORTS.
Per Magnet, for Melbourne: 3 casks quartz, E S Lapham ; 70 tons coal, Kennedy Bros ; 130 hides, 16 bis sheepskins, Maclean and Co ; 176 hides, 29 bales sheepskins, 4 bales wool, 14 bags bones, Nancarrow, Henderson, and Go. Per Wallabi, for West-port: 70 tons coal, D Maclean and Co.. Per Queen, for" Onehnnga : 60 tons coal, Veale. The s.s Gothenburg^ from~"~Nelsoh,""~is" expected in the roadstead to-day or tomorrow morning at the latest. She will take passengers for Melbourne direct, and others for transhipment to Adelaide and Sydney. The schooner Queen will sail to-day -with a cargo of coal for Onehunga. The ketch Jane Elkin arrived at Lyttelton on Saturday from Greymouth, and the schooner Canterbury from Havelock. The brig Maguet, Captain Clinskill, for. Melbourne, was towed to sea by the p.s. Dispatch on Thursday afternoon. She took seventy tons of coal and a large number of passengers. The .p.s-Charles'Edward, from Nelson, Westport, and Hokitika, arrived at the. wharf on Thursday morning's tide, and sailed North yesterday afternoon. Fiji advices report the wreck of the Auckland shcooner Albatros?, on her way from Samoa to Levuka. The vessel struck on a reef surrounding Nnkua Ambanga Island, lat' 16 deg. 20 mm. S., long. 179 deg. 30 mm W. approximate, on the night of the 21st October. The Earl of Pembroke and the crew escaped in the boats, and were picked up by the barque Duke of Edinburgh, on the ninth clay, near' Goat Island. The Albatross now lies with her port side smashed, but otherwise she is uninjured. The mate and crew came up to Auckland in the schooner Kauri, but the Earl, Captain Braund, and doctor and steward will come in the Auckland. In January, 1871, H.E.H. the Duke of Edinburgh sails from Auckland for England, calling by the way at the Falkland Islands or Monte Video. It may he as well to state that his R.R. H, no longer conunauds the Galatea. The beautiful ship is now flying the flag of Commodore Stirling, the Duke of Edinburgh being condemned (for after the Galatea any change is for the worse) to the Clio, a vessel with only half the good looks and two-thirds of the good qualities of the Galatea.
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Grey River Argus, Volume X, Issue 761, 3 December 1870, Page 2
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