IMPORTS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XV, Issue 1820, 5 June 1874, Page 2

IMPORTS.

(A special charge is made on consignees' announcements inserted in this column.)

Pcr 1 Waipara, from Hokitika: 20 cases 'geneva, 4 .trusses, 36 cases fruit, 4 bags ' sugar. 3 barrels, 1 hhd ale, 2 boxes candles, and 70 cases and pk*.'B merchandise. Per Kennedy, from Nelson. &c. Ex Seabird, from Melbourne : 139 cases, 30 bags, 7 casks, 11 kegs, 2 half-tierces merchandise, 3 coils rope, 5 cases fruit From Nelson, &c : 2 hhds ale, 12 bundles plants, 2 boxes. 10 vases, 15 kegs butter, 4 cases hams, 10 .cases cheese, 2 trusses, 2 cases, 2 oa'es, 10 .cases sauce, 10 sacks lime, 1 bag onions, 5 kegs butter, 1 case eg^s, 1 pkge b&con, 2 :<; cases ' apples, I keg butter, 1 pkge, 1 case - fish, 2 bags oysters, 1 case boots, 2 cases, 3 bags onions. ■ " °

The s.s. Kennedy and Waipara run up from Hokitika yesterday afternoon, and came in easily. The channel is good, although narrow, and contains plenty of water. The Waipara brought the Greymouth portion ot the Taiarua's cargo from Melbourne, and the Kennedy a quantity of cargo transhipped ex Sea Bird, from Melbourne. The Waipara leaves for Hokitika at 11 am to-day.

The B.s. Alhambra is expected to arrive "here to-morrow, from .Nelson, when she will : be despatched with passengers for Melbourne direct. „'-.*' '•The port light at the Hokitika signal station has been fitted with gas in lieu of kerosene, and it is expected that the chanae 'will be advantageous to vessels, as the light thereby secured will be far more "biilliant. At present the fittings are more experimental than otherwise, but; if the new light answers as well as is expected gas will be permanently

laid on.

• ,- We, notice by our exchange papers that Mr .HI J. Ellis, the purser of the s.s. Mongol, . r .and late' shipping reporter of the Daily Southern Cross, in Auckland, was the re-

cipient of several flattering testimonials from 'ihe -passengers -of that vessel on her arrival atKandavau.

' Work on the wreck of the Surat, at Catlin's *■'■• ' River, has' been discontinued for the winter season, and the hands engaged in getting salvage have been discharged. . A short >' time since seventeen men were at work upon ■:;:]&./.■-•■.-■■-■.- ' ■■■' ; ■■ : ;-' ' ■' V

■-•■-: -Anian named Michael Lyell, chief boatman < '-in the'iNapier pilot boat; was killed on May .18, by being crushed between the steamers 1 'Paterson and Pretty Jane, as the latter was was coming alongside the wharf. He leaves >- a' wife and two children unprovided for. •1 ,■;-•!■?,■.' ; : ■ :