IMPORTS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20, 7 December 1861, Page 2

IMPORTS

Per Lord Ashley: original cargo from Sydney to Otago; 22 cases fruit, as addressed ; 3 mortars and 3 package pestles, E. M'Glashan ; 1 box as addressed; 1 case, Bishop j 110 boxes soap, Order; 1 ca^e, as addressed; 2 bales wool-pack1?, 8 cases cordials, 1 case ironmongery, 1 package do., Francis Fulton; lease drapery, 1 ca?.e confectionery, 2 bundles baskets, Or-: der; 1 case, 1 hat-box. 5 paresis, as addressed. Shipped at Nelson duty paid and free, 20 kegs butter, Jones & Co.; 6 hgsds ale, Pateraoa & Co. Shipped at "Wellington, under'bond ; 6 qr. casks brandy, L. Moav.j 10 qr. cask* whiskey, Youug & M'Gladhau ; 1 cask. 1 case, Nathan. Shipped at Wellington duty paid and free : 3 kegs butter, Young & M'Glashan; 3-i kegs do,, 7 bullocks, 1 cow and calf, Jones & Williamson ; 8 doz. shovels, 13 kegs butter,' M'Leod & Gibson; lease, David Bateman; 10 hogsheads ale/Martin; 1 case, as addressed; 1 case, 17"kega, 7 bundles, Order ; 2 bales paper, 1 bale shirts, 23 kegs butter, 59 cases cheese, 2 cases bacon, 2 cases Hues, 7 cases confectionary, 11 cases jams, 1 ea>e tinware, Moss; 2 horses, Vantreytryson ; I case" as addressed; 1 pole dray, Order; 1 case, Hania.; 6 kegs butter, unknown; 2 horses, Adams; 2 do., Frazer. Shipped at Lyttelton, duty paid and frse: 1 case, Dalejety & Co.; 15 ca3ks cheese, Fisher & Green : 2 pareils, 1 box books as addressed ; I horae, 2 casks bsef, Solomon^

The screw-.'teatDor Gazelle, the property of Messrs. Miles &c Co., arrived in port on Sunday morning. November 10., from Melbourne, which place she let'? on the 18th of October. She is a very smart-looking iron steamer of about 80 tons measurement, and, from her build, promises to he very fast. It is intended to run her between this port and Timaru, calling1 occasionally at the northern parts of the coast when sufficient inducement offers.— Lyttelton Times.

H.M.S. Driver. —This fine vessel, Commander Horatio Nelson, was'lost upon one of the numerous keys which surround tha Bahama islands, which have ever proved so destructive to shipping. The v/hole o' the officers and crew were saved, aid it is expected that the gun 3 and oth?r public stores will be recovered. The Driver was commissioned at Woolwich in the month of May, and finally sailed from England in June. Sh-3 was a fine roomy sloop, mounting 6 guns,, 1056 tons, 239 horse pov/er. j

Blondm had a narrow escape, while making his twenty-fourth ascent at thf Crystal Palace When he had got a short distance on the rope, the balancing pole weighing 60lbs, snapped in the centre, and was only held together by the slight rod of iron, which was bent double. BSondin fell with an easy s'jride across the rope and grasping it with his thighs, wa3 safe, the pole hanging in two pieces from the cord, held together by the thin clasp of iron, He remained calm and cool; all the spectators were io an agony of apprehension, and with the broken pole he finished the performance in- safety Xifto officers have been murdered at Preston, where there are at present the depots of several regiments. A Captain Crofton and Captain Hanham were crossing the barracksquare in company, the report of fire arms were heard, and it was immediately discovered that both officers were wounded. Medical aid was at once procured ; but both died soon after, from the effects of their wounds. The assassin is a man named M'CafFbray, who, having beeni round guilty of some neglect of duty, had been sentenced to 14 days confinement. Immediately afterwards he had from his quarters taken deliberate aim at Captain Crofton. The ball had first struck Captain Crofton in the left side, passing through the lungs, and going out at his left side; it. then struck Captain Hanham in the upper part of the arm, and lodged in the spine. The Culprit was at once. taken into custody, ;

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