IMPORTS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1157, 13 April 1872, Page 2

IMPORTS.

Per Charles Edward, from Nelson: 7 sacks lime, Gas Company ; 2 kegs butter, 2 cases eggs, M'Lean; 12 kegs butter, Coates; 1 bale bay, Max; 12 cases apples, Cooper.; I case goods, White; 20 coils rope, Nancarrow, Henderson and Co ; 41 kegs butter, Glenn ; Bros ; 20 do, Orr ; 10 cases cheese, 21 do bacon, 1 bag coffee, Glenn Bros ; 1 package drapery, Kifgour ; 2 trunks boots, 7 cases, 1 box ■nails, White ; 1 bale leather, O' Brien ; sack seeds, Hammond ; 1 case hinges, Forsyth and Masters; 1 bag herbs. 13 kegs butter, 29 cases fruit, 4 coops fowls, 5 boxes eggs, Drane ; 1 parcel, Lapham ; 2 horses, 3 cows, 1 coop turkeys, Max ; 1 case eggs, 1 keg butter, Hunter ; 15 cases fruit, 1 bag nnts, Cooper. EXPORTS. Per Albion, for Melbourne : 13490z 12dwt 2gr, Union Bank ; 1005oz 6 dwt, Bank of New Zealand ; 9200z 3dwt, Bank of New South Wales. The steamship Albion, which arrived off this port on Thursday evening, proceeded to Hokitika during the night, and on the first ofthe morning's tide she war tendered by the Waipara, into which she discharged her Greymouth cargo. She then ran up as far as Greymouth, and was tendered by the Dispatch.ljreceiving fourteen passengers and landing fifteen. She sailed in the afternoon tor Melbourne direct The steamer Charles Edward arrived yes- i terday afternoon from Hokitika, having on board her Nelson cargo for this port, and a number of passengers from Hokitika . fur northern ports. Her mails and some of her passengers had arrived in town by coach on the previous evening. She sails for Westport and Nelson this afternoon. The brigantine Prosperity arrived off Hokitika on Thursday, and was expected to be towed into the river yesterday. The schooner Dunedin, Captain Stewart, brought a general cargo, chiefly produce, to Westport, from Dunedin yiaOamaru. In reference to an account which lately appeared relating to the cruise of the barque Adventure, we are informed that the murdered mate of that vessel was the brother of of Dunedin. The Chile, the third ship from Port Underwood for London this season, has completed her loading. Her cargo consists of nearly 3000 bales of wool and flax. She will be followed by the Tyrol, now overdue, and is expected to load at the same port for London. Whilst on her passage from Savu Savau, Levuka, the steamer Alice had a narrow escape from a waterspout. The spout rose right on her track, and she had to put about to avoid it. It travelled in the direction from Mokogai to Ganani, and passed within about 100 yards eff the Alice, and came to grief on the Mokogai Bocks. The spout was about 30ft in diameter. The grand old ship the Great Britain left Melbourne for Liverpool a few days ago, and the new steamer the Northumberland, of Messrs Money Wigram and Co's line sailed for London shortly after. There is a good { deal of interest taken in the race home be* tween these two fine vessels. * The Great Britain, as usual, goes by Cabe Horn, and the Northumberland by the Cape of Good Hope, so that the merits of the two routes are undergoing test as well as the sailing qualities of the two ships. An accident of a serious nature happened to the Akaroa steam launch Pioneer, which' might have caused a serious loss of life had she been further from shore when it occurred. The Pioneer was towing a cutter full of people last Tuesday evening who were returning from the Oddfellows' pic-nic, given in one of the bays in Akaroa harbor, and the steamer alone contained upwards of 60 souls. All at once she began to fill, to the alarm of all on board. The darkness and several seas breaking into the launch and drenching some of the unlucky passengers added to the general confusion. The tow> line was let go, and the steamer's heM turned towards the land, which she reached | in a half-sinking condition, the furnace fires having by that time been put out by the ' rush of the water. Fortunately all got out safely, with the exception of a good wetting. Upon examination it was , found that on heaving up the anchor the fluke 'had struck the starboard bow under the water line and made a bole some half -inch in diameter through the plate. Had the steamer been further fiooi shore a most Berious loss of life wouli have probably been recorded. The accident, caused great sensation throughout Akaroa, as the shipwrecked unfortunates were landed some considerable distance from town, which they did not reach until halfpast ten o'clock at night, most of them being women and children, whose friends were getting very uneasy at their protracted absence.