IMPORTS.

Grey River Argus, Volume X, Issue 844, 11 April 1871, Page 2

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Per Kennedy, from Nelson : 1 hhd ale, Stewart; 1 trunk, Wright; 1 truss, M'Davi.t ; 5 cases, Thompson, Smith, and Barkley ; 1 bale, White ; 1 package shrubs, Henderson ; 1 pel, Slattery ; 1 pel, Reay ; 39- bales chaff, order ; 2 boxes coin and notes, Bank of New South Wales ; 2 kegs butter, 15 cases apples, 2 cases pears, 2 cases eggs, Taylor ; 2 bales leather, 1 box nails, White ; 1 keg butter, M'Dean ; 15 do do, Nancarrow, Henderson and Co; 2 cases, 1 cask eggs, M'Lean ; 12 kegs butter, Coates ; 1 case effects, Rev Mr M'lntosh ; 1 case, Thompson, Smith, and Barklpy ; 3 bales, 1 case, White; I bag oysters, Cooper ; 2 case fruit, Maxwell; 1 pel, White; 2 kegs butter, Coates; 12 bales chaff, order ; 1 case lamps, Moore.

The 8.8. Kennedy, Captain Whitwell, sailed for Hokitika yesterday. She is expected to return here to-day, when she will be despatched for Westport' and Nelson. The s s. Waipara, Captain Bascand, arrived yesterday afternoon from Hokitika, with twelve tons of Melbourne cargo, transhipped from the 8.8. Alhambra. She is expected to leave, early this morning for Brighton and TVeatport. The English papers report the loss of the ship Maria, belonging to Messrs Guthrie and Asher, of Dunedin. The intelligence is confirmed by a letter from her captain, which, states that she sailed from Porsgrund, Norway, on January 4th, bound to Melbourne, with a cargo of Baltic deals consigned to her owners. Un the 6th encountered heavy gale of wind which drove the ship in sight of Sunderland under close reefed topsails. After the gale abated thick weather set in, and on the morning of the 22nd, at two o'clock, the ship went ashoie at Bacton, on the east coast of England. On the 23rd, the crew were taken off by the Bacton lifeboat. On the. 26th a survey was held on the vessel by Lloyd's agent and Captain Francis, the result of which was the condemnation of the ship as a wreck, her back being broken, and most of her poop and bulwarks washed off. The whole of the ship's furniture, including spars, sails, ropes, anchors, and chains, with the whole cargo of timber, were expected to be ■W»l *"*f "-I* K«VM* u v* »vm va . VftSv** WMVAUIC &/GCII landed, before Captain Ritchie closed his despatch. The hull of the vessel was then buried ten feet in the sand. Both the hull and cargo were covered by insurance. Information comes from Invercargill that along the road to the New River Head 3 are scattered portions of a teak-built iron-fastened vessel, of perhaps 400 or 500 tons burthen. They show marks of fire, and apparently have not been exposed more than a few months to the action of the sea. The fact may, it is thought, afford a Blight clue to the fate of some missing vessel.