HOKITIKA.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 6, Issue 300, 24 August 1865, Page 2

HOKITIKA.

The Nelson Examiner of the 10f,h gives the fot* lowing later intelligence from Hokitika : By the arrival of the Lyttelton last evening, we hear of the safe arrival of the steamer Eleanor at Hokitika on Saturday morning last. The Lyttelton left Hokitika for the Grey with a full cargo. The Grey bar is said to bo very good for the season of the year; channel straight. No fresh in the river. While at the Grey, a report was circulated that the steamship New Zealand was on the bar at Hokitika ; hut we have no authentic information on this matter, and trust it may prove to be unfounded. Ihe Wallaby bad discharged her cargo at the Grey, and is expected to have reached Hokitika by this lime. The rush to the Grey still continues, and the Eleanor will load at Hokitika for the Grey. His Honor the Superintendent is said to have gone to the Twelve-mile rush. The Ruby has been washed olf the spit at Ho--kitika. The weather was tolerably good at the Hokitika. On Sunday, the 30th ultimo, a strong gale from the N. W. was experienced in the roadstead oil' Hokitika ’ey the numerous vessels which were anchored there, but, as the glass was high, it was generally considered that it would prove but of short duration, and accordingly, on the day following, Monday, the wind fell, and the heavy swell from S.VV. began again to roll in as usual, when no gale is blowing, from an opposite direction. The Lyttelton, as we hear, steamed out of the river to lighter the Lady Darling, and received her cargo, but refused to take on board her passengers, about 100 in number, until the following morning, as she found she would be unable to get back into the river that night. Besides the steamer Lady Barling and Lyttelton, there were then at anchor outside the bar several sailing ves-seis-the John Bullock, Maid Erin, lona, Travller’s Bride, \V allace,Leonidas, Wild Wave, Montezuma, Jennie Dove, Defiance, Lloyds Herald, and one or two others. In the course of the evening the wind rose to a strong gale, and by midnight it; was blowing a perfect tempest. The La y Darling was supposed to have got up steam and put to sea, but had not returned to lur anchorage up to the time the Barwon left Hokitika on Saturday morniug last. The Lyttelton steamed up to her anchorage, and so kept from dragging ; while, of sailing vessels some were driven ashore and wrecked, and the others escaped by almost a miracle. The brig Montezuma finding it impossible to keep off the shore, slipped the only cable she had remaining, and ran ashore about three miles to the north ef Hokitika, where, though the cargo was saved, the vessel became a complete wreck. The Defianee draoged her anchors and got in so near to the surf, that escape appeared hopeless, and this vessel was likewise run ashore. The Lloyd’s Herald dragged her anchors in a similar manner, was on the edge of the surf, and only waited for high water to run in as high on the beach as possible, when a slight shift of wind was discovered, which gave the vessel a chance of getting off, and was embraced with success. This vessel, while lying among the breakers, had her decks completely swept —nothing being left on them but a single water cask. Of the safety of the Leonidas, the Traveller’s Bride, Wallace, Jennie Dove, and Lloyd’s Herald, we have assurance, as they have ail arrived here in a more or less damaged condition, and the John Bullock was spoken off the Sandspit, while the lona held on safely to her anchors. But there one or two of the little fleet of which we Lave yet no account, and the master of the Lloyd’s Herald, on the morning after the gale, observed several spars, which spoke of a probable wreck at sea.