IMPORTS.

Grey River Argus, Volume X, Issue 862, 2 May 1871, Page 2

IMPORTS.

Per Wallabi, from Wanganui : 40 head cattle, 100 sheep, 7 tons potatoes, 1 do bran, Seaton and Davidson ; 7 bags butter, order ; 1 tomb stone, Miller.

The s.B. Wallabi, Captain Daniels, arrived yesterday morning from Wanganui and Westport, with a cargo of cattle, sheep, and produce. The live stock was landed at the lover end of the wharf, and the Wallabi came up to the coal wharf, took in a cargo of coal, and left again last evening on her return Northern trip. Yesterday morning the p.s. Despatch ran out to the roadstead, and brought ashore from the Waterman about two tons of cargo in order to lighten her. It is fully expected that she will be at the wharf this morning. Yesterday's West Coast Times says:— The Lioness still remains hard and fast on the south beach, all the appliances which have been brought to bear, up to the present, being ineffectual in her removal. The tides are very slack, and it may possibly be a few tides before she is afloat again. If the present appliances are not found to be sufficient, she will have to be launched ; which, by the way, it is thought, would at the present time be the safer and cheaper method of placing her in the river. Among the imports per Caduceus to Auckland, from London, were three very fast and handsome little steam launches, which are finding active employment about the bays in the harbor. They cost from £180 to £250 in England. With reference to the reported vestiges of a wreck at Green Island, the Daily Times says :- A rumor is current at Green Island to the effect that a large ship was wrecked off that portion of the coast on the stormy night of the 19th instant. On the following day a settler named Duncan M'Coll observed four large fragments, supposed to be those of a ship, tossed upon the waves within half-a-mile from the shore. In order to make certain he procured a telescope, by means of which he could plainly discern the remains, of a large vessel and could distinguish the paints. When observed, these fragments - nuiolnniro-Vj blip vmicnti nmnA il*o Poaln— sula, where they were lost sight of. On the Forbury side of Green Island, the shores are so iron-bound that half-a-dozen wrecks might take place without the remains being observed. Old settlers along the coast state that at no period within their recollection have they observed the sea so tempestuous as on the eight in question, when they describe it as having been truly terrific. The supposition ij that the ill-fated ship, if such it should prove, might have struck upon the reef jutting out at the end of the islet called Green Island ; or the fragments seen might have been borne by the currents from a distance. A person has been employed to examine the shores for waifs.