IMPORTS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1082, 16 January 1872, Page 2

IMPORTS.

Per Waipara, from Hokitika : Ex Tararua —10 cases, Hamilton and Co; 20 sacks seeds, Woolcock ; 4 cases eggs, 7 pkges, order ; 3 casks, Woolcock ; 1 cask hardware, Forsyth and Misters. EXPORTS. Per Charles Edwnrd, for Kelson ; 6 caskß ale, M 'Carthy and Co ; 1 truss drapery, Thomas and M'Beath; 15 tons coal, Nancarrow, Henderson and Co.

Blue sky with bars good was the general report fcr yesterday. Barometer was highest at Napier, 30.38 ; and lowest at the Bealey, 27.80. Thermometer was highest at Wauganui, 78 ; and lowest at Lyttelton, GO. The s s. Waipara arrived in port yesterday from Hokitikn. The s.B. Claud Hamilton, now overdue from Melbourne, was four days late in leaving the Bluff on her return voyage. This no doubt accounts for her non-arrival. The ship u.ueen Bee arrived at Wellington, from London, on the 10th, after a passage of 114 days. She brings 57 passengers, all well. The second mate died on the voyage. The Viceroy, a new auxiliary screw steamship of 2255 tons burden, belonging to and built by Nlesars Green and Co, of Blackwall, left Graveaend on the 29th September, bound for Madras and Calcutta, via the Suez Canal. This ship may be described as the first of a new line of steamers intended to ply regularly between London and Calcutta. That she supplies a want may be gathered from the face that the 100 tiist-class berths her accommodation affords have all been engaged for several weeks past, and not a berth or a yard of unoccupied e-irgo space has been left unfilled. The Viceroy is rigged as a threemasted schooner, and whenever a favorable wind prevails every stitch of canvas will bo Bet Her engines, on the compound principle, have been supplied by Messrs RavensliilL The ship is commanded by Captain Taylor (late of the Renown), who, it is understood, has pledged himself to make Calcutta within 34 days. Messrs Todil and Macgregor, of Glasgow, have just launched the largest vessel ever built on the Clyde; she is named the City of Montreal, and is owned by the Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia Steamship Co. Her dimensions are : — Length, 433 f t; breadth, 43tt ; depth, 36ft ; and gross register.; 4600 tons. A private letter from Shanghai, received by tLo Axoorioo, states that tKo.oahlo from Shanghhi.to Yokohama, Japan, has been fished np ' by the Chinese pirates, and a long section cut off and carried away. Of course telegraphic communication between the two countries is impossible for the present, and fears are entertained that unless summary measures are resorted to to prevent the renewal of such theft, the enterprise will result in a total failure. When tne Vera Crnz and Mexico Railway Company constructed their telegraph lines along the river between the two cities, the inhabitants of the Indian village of Amoso, in the State of Puebla, who are ail skilled workers in iron and steel, used the wire for finger rings, bridle-trimmings, &c ; until the company m despair offered to compromise by giving the head men of the village a ton of the wire annually for distribution, provided they would guarantee the protection of the line. The offered compromise was indignantly rejected as an aspersion npon the fair fame and honesty of the residents of the village, bat the company beat them at lost by putting up a composition wire, which would not anneal, ana would not consequently pay to steal Ho SJch expedient would be applicable, however, in this case, and it is feared the Chinese robbers will remain masters of the situation. Years ago it was a standing joke that the beets, carrots, and parsnips grown in the Illinois prairies hod proved a sort of loss to the owners ; the Chinamen on the other side of the earth having fastened upon tho tap-roots, and pulled the entire vegetables through in the night. This last theft almost equals the earlier snppo3itious one— (Saw Franc'usco Neios Letter.