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. Jan. 9 steamer Wakatu, 78, Evans, from Wellington. Passengers : Mesdames licveH • and. 3 children, Ryder, 'Pennant, Messrs „ "Eevell, Binuie, Young, Morse, Brown, Coalcy. 10, _ steamer Patea, 50, Gibbons, from . Wellington. Passengers: Misses North (2), -Mrs Kennieworth, Messrs Foster, Killock, - Currie. ''' — steamer Star of the South, 174, Bascand, from Wellington and South. SAILED. Jan. 9, si earner Waitaki, 228, Edie, for .Picton and Wellington. Paseugers : Misses Syrne, Stanton, Clouston, Turner; Mesdames Cook and 6 children,- Kinsett, "Leighton, -Armstrong ; Messrs Richmond (2), Durrant, Thompson, Raine, Dixon, Parker, Cook, Thompson, Sherwood, Weeding, Davidson, McGowan, Levering, Mackay, Muncaster, . Nichols, Nesbitt, Bradshaw. Kinsett, Dyson. — .'steamer Wellington, 279, Anderson, for Taranaki and Manukau. Passengers : Miss /^Harman, Mrs Quick and 2 children, Mr aud n- : --Mrs Geary, Messrs, Meritt, Pendman, Brand- "■'•,- muller. .... ; IMPOSTS. •';.-V Patea, from, Wellington— 1 cask hams, _Patterson. .-; Wakatu, transhipped afc Wellington ex _Lutterworth, from London— s cases fancy -gooda and cuttlery,. 2 cases Schwectens painos, 21 crates eartbpnware, 8 hhds cbina and glasswnre, 2 crate... jolly jars, M. Davis ; ; __a cases, Franzen.

. The Wellington sailed for Taranaki and Manukau a. six o'clock last night The Arawata will be due at the Bluff from Melbourne on Monday morning. The Wakatu sails for Wellington and Wanganui at 10 o'clock to night. The Kennedy leaves Wellington this evening, will arrive to-morrow morning, and proceed to- the Weal Coast on Tuesday morning. The Lyttelton is due from Blenheim this ' afternoon. She returns there on Monday morning. . v The Charles Edward arrived at Hokitika . this morning, and leaves there for Greymonth to- morrow morning. , ; vThe~ Murray left Westport at 8 p.m. ; yesterday; and may be expected this evening. 'She leaves for Wanganui at 4 p.m on Monday. The Star of the Sonth from Wellington and South arrived at the outer anchorage at 9.30 a.m. to-day, and being too late for the . tide she came to an anchor, where she remained until 3 p.m., when she came into harbor.. She sails for Westport and Greymouth by the same tide at 6 p.m. A The Waitaki arrived at Wellington at 8 " sun. to-day. She leaves there on Monday at midday^ will arrive here on Tuesday morning, and sail for Picton, Wellington, aud South by the same tide at 9-30 a.m, with the outward Suez mail. The Patea arrived here from Wellington this morning. She sailed for Patea at 3 p.m. The Wallace has been hove-up opposite the Anchor Foundry for the purpose of ■undergoing repairs. Her boiler will be . thoroughly overhauled, and for that purpose .-;. - it was this morning put ashore and taken into the Anchor Foundry yard. .The Penguin, on her excursion trip to the : Sounds, had thirty-four excursionists, who .enjoyed themselves immensely though they were not favored with as much fine weather •as usually prevails at this time of the year. . Nine of the passengers were from Dunedin, ~_ five- from Melbourne, five from Christchurch, ' five from Auckland, and the same number from Sydney, three from Oamaru, and one t each from Wellington and Lyttelton. Col- - . lecting/pawa shells and curios, hunting and fishing, were largely indulged in, and some sketching. { At Milford Sound news was ' .obtained of recent atmospheric phenomena. Mr D. Suther and his mate, on a prospecting trip- at the Sound, furnished tbe following in reference thereto :— On December 20th, in .<: the forenoon; the sky became almost as black as ink, and loud claps of thunder broke over the Sound, accompanied by the most terrible lightning. This continued until the 24th, in the afternoon, peal after peal and flash upon flash followed almost continuously dpring the whole ninety-six hours. At about 3 p.m. a sharp shock of earthquake was felt, its direction being from N.E. to S.W , and at _ that instant, almost as if by magic, the darkness of the heavens was dispelled and a cloudless sky appeared. V . -