IMPORTS.

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IMPORTS.

Per Waipara, from Hokitika : shhds6 barrels beer, Jcnes ; 1 ■ portmanteau, 1 box,. Chamberlain. Per Lyttelton, from Nelson : 35 sacks malt, M'Carthy aud Co ; 40 do do, M'Millan and Co ; 2 drums oil, Sedgwick and Co ; 1 case fruit, Austin ; IS drums oil, Badger. EXPORTS. Per Waipara, for Hokitika ; 3£ tons coal, D Maclean and Co.

The steamer Charles Edward passed Greymouth yesterday morning on her way to Hokitika, from which port she is expected to arrive to-day. The steamer Lyttelton was yesterday promptly laden with coal, notwithstanding the obstacles which exist to the conveyance of coal in quantity from the coal-mine. The river is at present very low, and the barges are only able to bring down half-cargoes, but sufficient was received yesterday to enable the Lyttelton to leave by the first tide. The only departure yesterday was the s. s Waipara on her return trip. for Hokitika. ; The s.s Albion arrived at the Bluff yesterday morning with later English and; Australian news. The barque Ferndale, from Liverpool, has within the short space of a fortnight discharged 850 tons of goods at the Port Chalmers Railway Pier, and the greater portion of this amount was discharged during the first four or five days after she berthed alongside. Respecting the emigrant vessel Northfleet, the loss of which has been reported by telegraph from London, the Hobart Town Mercury states that Mr Reeve, the member of the firm of railway contractors resident in Tasmania, received a telegram from his partners in London, dated 17th instant, informing him that they had despatched some 450 navvies for Tasmania. The name of the ship was not given, but there is no room for doubt that the ill-fated Northfleet had on board the men referred to is the telegram. That vessel, if we mistake not, was a crack ship in the Chinese trade till steam vessels monopolised that trade ; and unless the Northfleet has been of late much battered — — ahoutwe should have said that no vessel was purpose oh which she set ou, on her last voyage. "^Th»x**Hfi»»iaccording t«- *1.-.,6' ;r * TO j r 2i'ronfotj7 2vct«V?* W«B a vessel of 895 tons, and was commanded by Captain T. Oates, the owner being Mr J. Patten, jun., of London. She was built in 1851, and classed Al at Lloyd's, and was chartered by the Tasmanian Main Line Railway Company to convey a number of • navvies ' to be employed in the construction of their line."