IMPORTS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XIV, Issue 1734, 24 February 1874, Page 2

IMPORTS.

(A special charge is made on consignees' announcements inserted in this column.) Included in the manifest of the Gleaner, from Melbourne, are the following consignments : — 9 qr-casks wine, 50 packages merchandise, Duncan M'Lean. 12 cases apples, 20 bags potatoes. 18 bags onions, 2 bags cocoa nuts, 2 bags Barcelona nuts, Thos. Collins, EXPORTS. Per Wallace : For Sydney — 1 case. For Westport— l case, 1 do axes, 2do hardware, 16 sheets iron, 1 case, 1 truss, 2 boxes glass. For Nelson — 31 tons coal, 27 bags fire-clay, 11 bags coke. The p.s. Lioness, which arrived from Hok> tika yesterday afternoon, left the wharf at 2.40 this morning with several passengers, including the Hon. H. H. Lahman, one of the members for the Borough of Greymouth ia the Provincial Conncil. The gold shipped by the Otago, for Melbourne, was as follows:— 2 boxes, 14170z 18dwt 12gr, Union Bank of Australia; 1 box, 11320z sdwt, Bank of New Zealand. The Arabia, from Calcutta to Boston, has foundered at sea. Thirteen persons, including the captain and officers, were drowned. The ship Chile, which leaves Auckland, for London, about the end of the present week, has a large cargo on board, consisting of 150 tons mixed minerals, 900 bales wool, 998 cases gum, 99 casks tallow, 263 bales cotton, 20 tons and 285 bags cotton seed, 94 bags cobra, 900 bales flax, 97 casks oil, 2 tons whalebone, and 116 hides. A, correspondent, describing the wreck of the steamer Agra, off Galle, bound from Calcutta to London, via the Suez Canal, says that after the vessel struck on the rocks the passengers and crew had barely time to escape into the boats, as the seas came tumbling over the sides sweeping everything before them, carrying away one poor invalid sailor, and bursting open the cages and dens of an extensive menagerie on board going home for the Zoological Gardens. The escape and striking out amid the waves of a number of tigers, elephants, &c, and their roars and screams adding to the terror of the wretched passengers, presented a spectacle that will not soon be forgotten. One elephant managed to swim ashore, as did one of the inhabitants of the adjacent coast, who are said to be living in a stage of Beige, not daring to venture outtide their barricaded doors. The Agra, which sank in deep water, belonged to the Red Cross line of steamers, plying between Calcutta and London, and was to have taken a number of passengers home from Ceylon. Her wreck comes on the heels of that of the Arracan, lost the other day on one of the Maldive reefs, where no vessel should have been, as she was, at midnight, — Argus.