IMPORTS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XIII, Issue 1548, 22 July 1873, Page 2

IMPORTS.

Per Murray, from JNelsoti and Hbkitika : 2 cask butter, 2 cases eggs, D M'Lean; 2. cases drugs, 1 keg spirits, Williams ; 1 ; box, Telegraph Department ; 8. kegs, , butter, Joyce ; 1 coil wire rope, Kilgour ; 1 trunk,Browne ; 1 bale, 1 trunk, 1 parcel, O'Brien ; 2 cases eggs, 4 kegs bntter, 1 package bacon, Woolcock ; 2 kegs butter. 2 case's eggs, 1 do fish, Allen ; 1 bale leather, White, 1 box ' coin, Bank of New Zealand; .48, sheep, 164 sacks potatoes, order. Shipped at Hokitika : 1 parcel, Austin ; 1 bale leather, Wright ; 2 parcels, Geisow. . ■' EXPORTS. - ■Per Murray, for Weatport and Nelson : 70 tons coal, Nancarrow and Co ; 12 sacks coal,. Martin; 24 .do do, Gilmer Bros ; 1 package, Thompson, Smith, and Barkley ; 15 packages, Foray th arid Masters.

There were no arrivals or departures at the port yesterday. , The s.s Murray will leave for the north this morning. The p.s Wallace is expected to arrive from the north this morning, ; ; ; •■ r To show what , the? shipping, trade pE this colony with Great Britain .has^ reached, we give below the number of ships, and their tonnage, which arrived in New Zealand lass j ear :— Otago, 16 ships, 17,034 tons ; Aucfc • land, 17 ships, 13,292. t0ns ; Canterbury,. 12 ships, 11,683 tons; ' Nelson, .5 ships, 2800 tons ; Nelson and 1 : Napier, 1 ship, 389 tons. ; Tota^ 66 ships, registering 56,006 tons. f; . The Treasury ; Department of the United Stateß Government has issued the following circular to Collectors of Customs and others —"The Government of the United States is requested by that of Great Britain to endeavor to establish the identity of a certaiu large sailing-ship which, while navigating the Baltic Sea, somewhere between Copenhagen and Dantztc, on the 10th November, 1872, about 1 a.m , cimeinto collision wi*h and sank the British steamer Herald, and then proceeded, without rendering assistance to persons on hoard the sinking vessel, all of whom perished, except the fireman, though many might have been rescued by the ship from the bottom, of a lifeboat, . to which they clung until washpd away. . The unknown vessel lost' her bowsprit and jibboom. You are requested to give this Department anyjnformation which you may be able to obtain concerning the name and nationality of the sailing ship referred to."