PORT OF HOKITIKA.

West Coast Times, Issue 43, 12 September 1865, Page 2

PORT OF HOKITIKA.

High water, Tuesday, 2.58 a m., and 8.22 p.m.

ARRIVED.

September 9— Bruce, p.s. with passengers ex Albion, from Melbourne. Cabin — Messrs. Ashwin, Geddes, and Kingsland, and 13 in the steerage. Septembor 11— Traveller's Bride, ketch, 40 tons, Milne, master, from Dunedin, via Nelson. Passengers from Nelson— Messrs. Gibbons, Cran, Darling, Pevlio and Smith. SAILED. September 9 -Wallace, schooner, in ballast, for Dunedin. Wild Wave, sch., Black, for Dunedin, in ballast. Lloyd's Herald, in ballast, for Dunedin. September 11 — William Miskin, s.s.. for Dunedin. via Nelson. Passengers— Cabin : A. Smith, T, Cornfoot, aud 3 in the steerage. Eleanor, s.s,, for Nelson, in ballast. VESSELS IN PORTAdvance, cutter, from Grey River J).s. Yam, from Mclbouvne. ona, schooner, from the Grey. Sisters, schooner, from the Grey. City of Nelson, schooner, from the Grey. Lady of tbe Lake, p.s., from the Grey. Leonidas, brigantino, from Melbourne. Florence, schooner, from Melbourne. Katheraw, schooner, from Melbourne. Dolphin, schooner, from Dunedin. Phcenix, schooner, from Dunedin. United Brothers, schooner, from Dunodin. Hhree Sisters, schooner, from Dunedin. Australian Maid, cutter, from Lyttelton ( Minnie, ketch, from Nelson. Dancing Wave, from Lyttelton Crest of tho Wave, from Lytteltoa. Traveller's Bride, from Dunedin.

IMPORTS.

Per Traveller's Bride— Under Bond— s qr-ek brandy, Pole. Free and duty paid— 7oß sheets iron, 16 bdls and 23 sheets tin, 2 kgs nails, 2 cks rino, 61 sheets iron, 8 bdls do, 3 cs tinware, 1 caso •tin, 1 ck do, 9 kgs and 1 kg bolts, 48 bgs potatoes, 4cs tinware, 2 bgs do, 1 pair bellows, 1 cs tin, Coventry ; 2 tons coals, Reid and Baxter; 15 Imgs sugar, 2 cks currants, 1 ck soda, 1 cs sundries, 3 bxs raisins, 24 cs beor, 6 tubs butter, 10 cs sai.ces, 60 bgs flour, 1 ck popper, Anderson ; 30 bga malt, order ; 2cs glass, Walker ;24 bg3 oats, 49 bgs flour, Swanson and Ryrie ; 20 bgs flour, 2 cs bacon, Pringle ; Ics boots, order ; 6cs chemicals, order. Per Crest of the Wave— Under bond— 3o cases bottled beer, Chesney and Co ; 3 hhds whisky, Par ker; 5 qr casks uo, Moir; 10 cs brandy, 2 qr cks do, 15 bags sug-ir, 10 cs geneva, 15 bags sugar, Ching, Harris, nnd Co. Free nnd duty puiri— 3l bags sugar, 6 half chests tea, 10 boxes tea, 3 cs jams, Alcorn and Co 5 2 half chests tea, 12 bags oats, 12 bags bran, 2 ca salmon, 1 cs jams, Swanson and Ryrio j 1 ck sundries, 4 do do, 1 do hardware, Samuel ; 4 hilf chests tea, Ics bains, Ick currants, 16 bags bran, 45 bags flour, 3 boxes raisins, 4 cs bacon, 4cs stout, 25 hags flour, Ching, Harris, and <3o 5 1 bale paper, 2 cs cheese, 1 ck barley, Alcorn and Co; 1 box blue, 3 cs sundries, 2 C 3 salmon, 4 cs lobsters, 1 C 3 oysters, 6 bxs Trains, 1 cs candles, 1 cs sardines, 2 jams, Alcorn and Co ; 2 b:lls epouting, 66 tins paint, 2 cks hardware, 2 03 bacon, 7 cs sundries, 1 bag bacon, 8 drums tar, Thomas Collins ; 1 box medicine, 2 drums tar, 2 bxs gold dishes, 5 oks carb sotla, 6 cs soda, 5 cs starch. 3 cs blue, 5 cs tnrtario acid, 5 cks washing soda, 6 half-brls pitch, 4 doz buckets, 1 cs axe handles, 14 doz buckets, 1 ck sundries, 1 03 sundries, 27 C 3 iron, 6 bags oats, Ics salmon, Thomas Polo aud Co ; IC3 sundries. 4 cs cordials, Butement Bros ; 1.5 bags sugar, 32 do do, 5 chests tea, 2 chests tea, 100 bags flour, 10 bigs pearl barley, Tlios Pole and Co ; 1 cs bacon, 1 bag do, -1 drays, 610 boards, Fisher Bros ; 45 bags oats, 200 do flour, 47 do bran, 10 cs salmon, 2cs painkiller, 20 bxs soap, 10 03 bauon, 2 brls carb soda, 4 brls apples, Chesney ; 260 boards, 12 bags oats, 12 bags bran, 2 i-chests tea, 1 cs salmon, 1 ca sundries, Haworth ; 1 cs hams, order

PORT OF HOKITIKA SIGNALS.

1. Ball and red flag at the mast head . high water, take tbe bar. 3, Ball and blue flag, half mast : Half flood, wait for tide. When the bar may safely be attempted at half tide, whether flood or ebb, the red flag will be at the mast head over the ball, denoting the stato of tide. 8. Ball on the tower mast cap, and white flag : Ebb tide, bar dangerous. 4. No signal : Do not attempt the bar. 6. Red painted arm, pointed to the right-hand, entering from seaward : More to the south. 6. The other arm, pointed to the left hand, euteiing from seaward : Moro to the north. 7. Tho arms up aud down with the mast : As you go. When more than one vessel is crossing tho bar, tho foremost vessel will be piloted in, tbe others following in her wako. On a movable pole in front of the signal mast, the two in one showing the fairway, will bo hoisted (if necessary) to show the set of tho current on tho bar, thus :—: — A red and white pendant —to tho Northward ; A square yellow flag— lo the Southward. On the flagstaff not in use for the piloting signals, at high water the depth in feet on tbe bar will be denoted by Marryatt's code. A red light is hoisted on tho signal mast on the south spit each night, visible at from three to four miles. There will be an anchor and chain, and lino attached, on the South Spit, and boat and boat's crow in readiness at high water, every tide, to assist any vessel coming ovor tho bar. When tho bar is only fit for steamers to take, a red flag will be hoisted on the north flagstaff. When for sailing vessels, a red flag and ball. Masters of vessels are particularly repuested to attend to the small tidal flag on tbe spit, as the small tidal flag and the large flag in one takes them over the bar.