IMPORTS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XIII, Issue 1586, 4 September 1873, Page 2

IMPORTS.

Per Crest of the Wave, from Lyttelton : 100 bags oats,' 200 ,do bran, 47 do pollard, 73 do potatoes, lTcheeses, 1 billiard table, Nancarrow. . :■ . Per Mary Ogilvie, from Westport,: 75 sheep, D.Maclean and Co.

Captain Turnbull, Harbor-master : for Westland, is at present on a visit to Grey-.' mouth for the purpose of selecting,: with. Captain AUardyce, sites ior, the erection of beacons to indicate the channel from the bar to the wharf. The beacons are' to be erected' on the Greymouth sirte; of the river, in the vicinity of the Camp; Reserve,! and are to be furnished with lights, so that any vessel entering the port at uight will be enabled to keep in the channel with' greater certainty than at present. •■■•■:.■■ i j | . The Crest of the Wave discharged part of her cargo of produce at Hokitika, previous to coming to this port, where she is now loading coal for Lyttelton. Part of the Waipara's cargo also consisted of products, including 300 bags of oats, and 50 bags of bran. I The schooner Mary, Ogilvie: was ;brought to the wharf yesterday afternoon by the pis. Dispatch. She left Westport at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, was picked up: by the tug off the Steeples, and brought to port. ; The steamer Kennedy is not to return to the Coast for some time, as she is about to receive her periodical overhaul at Nelson. I The steamer Go-Ahead, from Wanganui bound to Westport, with cattle, arrived |in Nelson on Thursday last.: She left Wanganui on Saturday last, and met with very heavy weather in crossing the Straits. Her supply of fresh water failing, she put into Nelson to replenish her stock. . Motueka wharf has been let for a year at a rental of Ll4O or L4O more than it brought last year. ..; ••. : A rule nisi has been granted delaying the decision regirding the grounding of the Ladybird until cause be shown against it. • The crew of .the William Tapscott have abandoned their wages to be released from . the ship. . . : ; '. : The cutter Tradewind, Savory, -master, was capsized on the:2lstinstant, about two miles outside Rangitoto reef,' Auckland. The he^vy squall which .swept over, the sea at 8 p.m.,.struck her fiercely, and as she wentjup into the wind a second gust,: as if firm a whirlwind, caught her again, this time sending her comp:etely on her side. .Fortunately for those on board, the dingy was free ion deck, and the .three men who comprised the crew scrambled into herj baling out the water with their boots. ;No oars; being at haiid, the men snatched up a few pieces of scantling which lay by, tp..serve, for.,paddies. They also had time to tie part of the hatchways to a rope,and make it fast tothecutter. r Within a, few moments from the time of (her capsizing she sank. The crew then roved to the schooner Lesh'e^ which lay at anchor about.one and a-half miles away, and ;got safely aboard. Everything in the cutter went down with her; not time being allowed to save even the men's clothes. \ ' '