EXPORTS.

Grey River Argus, Volume X, Issue 861, 1 May 1871, Page 2

EXPORTS.

Per Charles Edward, for Westport and Nelson : 82 tons coal. Per Lyttelton, for Nelson : 25 tons coal, 80 bags coke, Nancarrow, Henderson and Co.

The departures on Saturday were the p. 8. Lyttelton, for Nelson direct ; the p.s. Charles Edward, for Westport aid Nelson ; and the s.s. Waipara, for Hokitika. There were no arrivals either on Saturday or yesterday. The schooner Waterman still remains at anchor in the roadstead, but as the tides are now making fast, she will soon be at the ' wharf. , The schooner Twilight, trading to Kaiapara, has been lost in the recent gale which passed over Auckland. Ciptain Meiklejobn and two seamen were washed overboard ; captain saved ; Peterson and Lewis (seamen) drowned. News has been received at Sydney of a fearful hurricane at Fiji. Great damage was done at Levuka and to the shipping. The new theatre and other houses were blown down. Total town damage, L2OOO. The Zephyr, Kestrel, Black Eagle, and other schooners were driven ashore. The steamer Wainui was slightly damaged by collision. On Friday last, the p.s. Lioness was piled up on the South Spit at Hokitika, and, so far as we have heard, has not yet got off. It appears that while proceeding out, more for the purpose of sounding, whilst in the narrows of the channel off the tongue of the South Spit, which at the present time overlaps the north beacb, was met by a roller, causing her to touch the ground, and before she could be got head to seaward again, was driven upon the bank. Her position was changed as if heading inwards when on the bank, but she was powerless, and each succeeding sea drove her higher up on to the Spit. It is fortunate these are neap tides, as there may be a probability of heaving her off by appliances brought to bear from the north beach. At low tide on Friday night, she was quite high and dry on the south bank, if anything, to seawards ; but the necessary winches on the beach, and warps, were being conveyed to her, so that if she does not come off next tide with those appliances, she will, at all events, be secured from the action of the sen driving her higher upon the bank. At present she is not in the slightest danger, and with moderate weather, and the tides making, she will be again afloat in a tide or two.