PORT OF WAIKOUAITI.

North Otago Times, Volume II, Issue 41, 1 December 1864, Page 2

PORT OF WAIKOUAITI.

ARRIVALS

Nov. 24.— Three Brothers, 25 tons, M'D.nald, from Cbristcbuich—22l bags oats,-125 do bran, Houghton. Nov. 24.— Matildn Hayes, 20 tons, Walker, from Sha? Point—Coals and lime. Nov.-25.—Midlothian, 18 tons. Bristow, from Dunedin—26 bags bran, 91 do potatoes, M*Ken_ie ; 2 pels, 2 cs jams, 25 bags potatoes, 6 kegs butter, 6 _-eh tea, 12 boxes candles, Durden; 660 feet timber, Whinam Bros; 1 p.l, 1 cs, igi ate, 2 cs, Jones; 15 bags sugar, 1 box tea 1 side bar-on, Sweeney; 40 bags flour, Leatham ;3 cs fish, 1 do maizena, 1 do pipes, 1 do sundries, 1 do sarsapnnlla, Fiyer ; 5 bags potatoes. Murdock -, 4,600 slates, 181 ps timber, 70 hdls laths, 4 pkgs nails, 1 cs plaster, 60 pcs timber, Poulton.

DEPARTURES,

Nov. 25.—Hope, for Dunedin—4B bales wool, Jones Nov. 25.—Three Brothers, for Dunedin—sl bales wool, Jones. Nov. 26. —Midlothian, for Dunedin, 45 bales wool, J. Jones. Nov. 20. —Matilda Haves, for Oamaru—l boat, and a quantity of con.i.ictors' plant, J. Bruce.

The steamer Geeleng is advertised to leave Oamaru for Dunedin this day.

Last week this port was visited for the first time by a small vessel, named appropriately tho Oamaru. She is a smart looking vessel, ketch rigged, of 45 tons measurement, recently built at Akaroa, and intended to tiade regularly between Oamaru and Dunedin, for which lastnamed place she started on Saturday last. On this occasion a number of gentlemen met at tli9 owners' (Messrs Traill, Roxby & Co's) stores, and pledged the prosperity of the vessel in bumpers of champagne.

We observe in the Dunedin shipping report that the barque Malay airived at Port Chalmers on Sunday last from Newcastle. As soon ns she has discharged her cargo there sho will come up hero to load with wool for London The ship Star of Tasmania is expected to arrive shortly, and will load here with wool for London direct.

The Gala, the first wool ship for London, now loading atPoit ('holmeis, received the first portion of her wool fi eight on Ratmday last,; aud as wool is expected in large quantities, she will bo busy loading during this month, and is advertised to sail eaily in January. The Chile is also on the berth for London direct from Port Chalmers., and is advertised to sail in January.

The ship Commodore is advertised to arrive shortly at Moeraki to load wool for London du-ect, and sail in all December.

The screw steamer St. Kilda, out surveying Waipapa Point, put in at the Bluff on Friday, on account oi the weather being too rough outside for surveying purposes. Captain Robertson, I am given to understand, has been unsuccessful in finding the reef which extends some distance out in the Straits from Waipapa Point. The St. Kilda left the port oa Saturday morning, the wind having abated.—Daily News Correspondent.

The N.Z.S.N. Company's 5... Wellington, Captain H. B. Francis, left the Mannkau on tho 18th ult., Lyttelton on the 26th, and arrived at Otago at 6.30 a.m. on the 27th, after a very fine run.

The Russell correspondent of the "Southern Cross" says - " I have to report tho loss of tbe steamer Aphrasia, Stewart, master, in Tako Bay, on the night of Wednesday, the 2nd inst. As far as I can hear, the vessel sprung a leak, and the crew, finding that the water gained on them very rapidly, got everything they could into the boat about midnight, and then layby the vessel for some time—when, finding they could do no good, they left her. She afterwards diove ashore in Tako Bn y. The captain and crew go to Auckland in the Wonga Wonga, which vessel leaves this afternoon. The Aphrasia was making her passage under snil from Auckland to Newcastle, N.S.W. The Wonga Wonga seems to have done better this time, having bi ought some cargo and fifteen pa«sengers to this port, and she takes to Auckland thirty head of cattle and about a dozen passengers.

Vessels Loading in England for New Zealand. —For Auckland : Foam of the Sea, Nelson, Armstrong, Ganges, Ernertina, and Spirit of tho North. For Canterbury : Zealandia and Mermaid, For Nelson : Geelong, Ravenscraig, Napier. For Otago: Gazehound, Gloiiosa, Esmok, Lady Ann, General Windham. For Wellington : Wild Duck and BJallard,

On the 2nd September, at Aberdeen, there was launched from the yard of Mr Wm. Duthie, jun., on tho Inches, a fine ship, of the following dimensions and tonnage :— Length, 195 feet; breadth, 33 feet 5 inches; depth, 24 feet 6 inches; 1040 tons O.M , and 930 tons N.N.M.; was built under special survey, and is classed at Lloyd's for nine years Al. She is tho property of Messrs Richardson Brothers and Co , of London, is principally intended for tho Now Zealand trade, and will be commanded by Captain John Thomson, lato of tho ship Derwenfcwater, of London. The vessel, after being named the Glenmark, by the captain's lady, glided (gracefully into the water, in the presence of a large concourse of spectators.