IMPORTS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XIII, Issue 1545, 18 July 1873, Page 2

IMPORTS.

Per Kennedy : From" Nelson, transhipped ex Excelsior, from London— s ' casks ale, Coates. From Nelson— so boxes candles, Kennedy Bros ; 10 cases geneva, Levy ; 2 bales paper, Reid; 1 bale, Peters; 1 sack ' malt, Strike and Blackmore ; 1 parcel, Greenwood ; 1 bag, Hart ; 1 package trees, Hammond; 50 sheep, order; 1 bundle skins, Collins; 6 packages, Roberts ; 1 case, 1 trunk. Brown. Yesterday, the Albion, from Nelson, and the Kennedy, from Westport, appeared in the roadstead, and at three in the afternoon •the "Kennedy,' in obedience to the signal "Take the bar," came with safety andap- , parent ease through a pretty heavy ' surf. Going out, however, was a different matter, arid,' the signal being to the opposite effect, the Dispatch did not attempt .to tender the which accordingly proceeded towards Hokitika. The .Claud Hamilton, from Melbournej is understood to have sailed from Hokitika for Nelson. Mess s Gibbs Bright, and Co.^ are sanguine of establi hing'a steam service via the Cape At a pub ie meeting in a ; western town in Wales, Mr Tyndall Bright, on the ; part of the promoters, explained that it. was proposed* to provide a service of six' fullpowered ste merg, to do the passage between Muford and Melbourne in forty-two days eastward and forty-four, days ; , homewards ; that all passen era, mails, specie, wool, &c, would be landed at Milford, and the Victorisin Government were ■willing to grant a liberal subsidy for the conveyance . of the mails: Mr Hamilton Fulton, the engineer to the proprietors of the town of Milford, , explained to the meeting that they were prepared to provide the necessary dock and warehouse accommodation ; for the trade which is likely to be created by these important facilities for steam communication. Resolutions were carried affirming the approval, by the meeting of the scheme, and it was announced that the Great Western Company were prepared, when the steamers ire ready, to run trains from London to Milford in eight hours. . ■ „.! -There lives at Taranaki, where he has resided for some thirty years the only represeritative. now alive to commemorate the •victory of Cape St. Vincent, which was fought seventy years ago. His name is King, and he entered the navy in- 1795. He was senior lieutenaet of the Seahorse at the capture of the citysof l Alexandria, and in all the operations of the Potomac, &c, in 1814, ,aod^ was ; gazetted: He became; commander 'in 1844, and was afterwards for many years Resident, Magistrate at Taranaki.: He became retired captain in March, 1852.