EXPORTS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1253, 5 August 1872, Page 2

EXPORTS.

Per Charles Edward, for Hokitika : 4 kegs butter, Maclean ; 96 sacks coal, Martin. Per Wallace, for Manukau: 1 box gold, Bank, of New South Wales. For .Westport : 4 bags onions, Girdwood ; 2 shafts, Coal Creek Co; 2 qr-casks ale, Strike; 12 bags coal, Martin. For Nelson : 16 tons coal.

The paddle steamers Charles Edward and Wallace, of the Anchor Line, left port on Satnrday morning, the former for Hokitika and the latter for Westport. The Charles Edward will return here to-day item. Hokitik*. . The barque Kate Conley arrived on Saturday last Her master reports having left' Port Phillip Heads on July 13, and pasaei Wilson's Promontory at midnight. From that date until the 19th, met with a violent southerly gale, accompanied by a heavy sea, 'which broke over the vessel, and caused the loss of all the hones whico. : were on deck. Abut head was made on the 25tb ult., but v the weather was threatening and very unsettled, Captain Roberts deemed it advisable to stand to sea, and did not again close with the land till the Ist August, when he arrived off the roadstead. * As easterly weather preVAiled, the barqne was kept off and on until Satnrday last, when she was towed in by the Dispatch and brought safely to anchor. She is consigned to her owners, Messrs Glenn Brothers. Mr Andrews, of Dunedin, has succeeded in setting his new craft, which he has christened the Fanny, off the slip. Her length over all is 65ft, length of keel 56ft, and breadth of beam 15ft. She is of light draught, and is expected to carry a large cargo She is intended for the coasting trade, and will be ready to receive cargo in a few days. In consequence of stormy weather and a great accumulation of heavy ice, the Newfoundland seal fishing has this season been a most disastrous one. No fewer than twelve vessels have already been wrecked ; and brief intelligence has junt been received of a crowning disaster, the Greenock ship Huntsman having been totally destroyed by an ice floe, with the loss of her captain and forty men out of a crew of sixty. —Ilome Newt.