IMPORTS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1202, 5 June 1872, Page 2

IMPORTS.

Per Murray, from Hokitika : Cargo from Westport, EXPORTS. Per Garibaldi, for Hokitika : 73 tons coal, D Maclean and Co. Per Murray, for Westport : 1 bundle iron, 3 kegs nails, 1 case hardware, 1 package, 3 reams paper, 75 bars iron, 3 bundles. 15 pkgs hardware, 1 sausage machine, Forsyth and Masters ; 3 tons cuke, Gas Co.

As will be seen by advertisement, the clipper schooner Ceres is laid on for hew castle, New South ales, and will sail on Friday next. She will take passengers for the Roper Rivar Gold Fields, aud as there are already a number of lively spirits on the wing, there is eve«y prospect of her obtaining a large number of passengers. The 88 Murray will sail this morning for Westport and Nelson about nine An opportunity is therefore afforded to those who havo been dilatory with their home correspondence, as she carries the outward San Francisco maiL The ss Gothenburg arrived in the roadstead last evening about half-patt nine o'clock. She will be tendered early on the tide this morning by the Dispatch. The Thames and Mersey Liner John o' Gaunt, which came into port on Saturday, has had more than her share of adveuture this trip, At one time she was in great peril from the icebergs which encompassed her. The icebergs were first fallen in with oh the 7th April in latitude 44deg 32mm sputb, and longitude 7deg 23min east. At 2 o'clock on the morning of that date the lookout reported something like a largo white cloud ahead, but which was speedily discovered to be on iceberg, and the ship narrowly escaped coming into contact witk ifc_ The bodies of ice were very large, and at uuuu iu.i>i — jLrt- — , *„.,. timu IVO lavQQ icebergs pasßcd. There were, also quantities of drift ice floating about, and it was not until 5 p.m. that the ship, which during that time hod run 132 miles, had passed the last of the icebergs. There had been no unusually cold weather previous to falling in with the ice, and its appearance was therefore as unexpected as unwelcome. Two more large icebergs were sighted and passed on the 25th April, but a wide berth was given them. — Melbourne Telegraph. ' ■ In reporting the arrival of the Nebraska at Auckland, the Southern Crew* of the 23rd May says : — The United States, New Zealand and Australian mail's splendid steamship Nebraska, from San Francisco via -Honolulu, arrived yesterday afternoon, bringing a large number of passengers, and about 170 tons cargo, also the March and April English mails, after a splendid run of a little over twenty-fotlr days from San Francisco. The Nebraska on her trips to and from San Francisco to Honolulu, made the fastest inn on record, doing the distance in less than eight days cash way, She also made excellent running between Honolulu and this port, having come down in fourteen days and a few hours, thus fully proving that these vessels can steam the distance in the contract time, if not connecting at Honolulu, where, we believe, the delay has generally arisen.