PORT OF HOKITIKA.

West Coast Times, Issue 80, 7 December 1865, Page 2

PORT OF HOKITIKA.

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AUHIVED.

.December G— Jet, schooner, Binon, from 'K'apava. Prince Consort, schooner, Ritohie, from %ttelfon. •Appaiina, schooner, Clare, from Invereargill. Aurora, schooner, Irving, from Dunedin SAILKD. December 6— Gothenburg, s.e., Miwkie, for Melbourne.

■IMPORTS.

Per Tommy ! 40 000 feet timber. Per John Mitchell : 22 dozen vinegar. 29/lwbls bran, 1344. .1bs mutton 2400 U>s pork , 3200 lbs beef, 1 cask pickled salmon, 6'hf-barrels mack, prel, 3 eases mustard, 1 do herrings, 4 tons soap, 1 pair heavy purchase blocks, 1 iron crab winch, 2 dozen shovels, 6 do wood hand ppflcea, 1 cask split peas, 3 bgs rice, 6 blocks, 1 iroribound do, 3 portmanteaus, 3 fish ket'les 7 pots 58 lamp heads, 470 lbs spiced beef, 29 sides bacon, 100 lbs bacon and tongues. 1 case, 1 tent, 1 case porter. 1 do ale, 4-ton salt. 3J doz pickles. 2 pack saddles. 2 leather saddle bags, "200 feet lumber, 1 bolt canvas. Christie. Per Dispatch : 'Under bond— 6o cases bottled l>eer. 8 qr-casks wine. Preo and duty paid— l ps Spicer and Hurray; 25 tons iron, 1 bdl do, 8 bars cast steel, 1 bar blister do, 3 boiler plates, 7 lulls sheet iron, 4 cart boxe3, 1 anvil, 1 bdle handles, 1 smith's bellows, 1 cask, Stone ; 12 •cs «iiU, 20 do herrings, 2 hhds sugar, Walker nnd Thompson ; 4 slates, 8 oases, 2 pkg3 timber, 1 piece spouting, 2 shades, Anderson and Mowatt; IV hhds ale, 5 brls do, 3 kegs do, 2 lihds porter, 0 crates bottles, Burke ; 80 bags oats, Oassius and Co ; 400 do Chilian .flour, order ; 5 minks "boots, 80 bags flour, 1 express wngon, 1 light cavt, 60 bales chaff, Daniels ; 1 hud, I cask, 1 crate, Hirsch ; 40 bales chaff, Boyle nud Co ;' 40 deals, Driseoll ; 101 bags potatoes, 21 kits do, I*2 bags oats, Daniels: 191 bills boards, 12 deals. 3 boards, 12 bdls, 27 battens, 100 bdls, C 96 btiips, Grey.

Th« Yarra tng, which left port on Sunday list wiih the schooner Tiger in tow for the Giey River, was obliged to cast her loose near tho Saltwater Creek owing to the severity of the gale. The latter vessel was trying to beat her •way up. The sdhooner "Victoria, from Auckland, was capsized at her mooi ings in the Grey river on Sunday last, owing to her resting on a snug, which as the tide weut down threatened to rip her open. She was ultimately canted upright, after some 20.000 feet of timber had been with difficulty discharged from her. The solioonor Julia, winch nrrlvea > here on Triday last, experienced a long wod most tempestuous p;is<uige from Dunedin. She left that port on the 14th ult., with the wind at NE., intending to go south about, but falling in with a southwester the next clay, bore up for Cook's Straits. On the 17th, 18th, ftnd 19th, it blew terrifically from tho N E. and uoith, with heavy thunder and severe lightning, the vessel making ,bad weather of it, labouring very heavily, a. high and remarkable cross sea running tho whole time. Up to the 26th stormy wca'her prevailed, ami from that da' o to her arrival ljght variable winds. fOn her passage from Hokitika to Dunedin, a seaman, named George Blays, foil ■overboard one very dark night, and although the vessel was rounded to, acd every effort made to recover him, was unfortunately drowned. The Apariraa, Clare, master, left Invereargill •on the 80th, bound to this port. She expelienced, during a quick run of tour d.iys^sonie very fitrong ,bicez n s from S. \V., arriving in the roadstead on the 3rd inst. Captain Clare reports the schooner Spray, of Sydney, having been cast on shore at Invereargill during one of tho Into very heavy gales that visited that port. Also, that the cutters Pilot and Volunteer had left for Hokitikn the day previous to his sailing, the former via Jackson's Bay.

The Bchooner Jet that arrived here yestorday, left Kiapara on the 27th ulfr., v Wowing freshly from the N.E. accompanied by heavy rain at the time. Strong breezes from N.E. nnd N.W. prevailed up to the'3Oth, on which day she experienced a severe gale from the former quarter, and a remarkably heavy cross sea. Reduced canvas, and ran the vessel under closs-reefed mainsail and square sail, the sea threatening to poop her ■every moment. At 4 p.m. one broke on board over the starboard quarter, carrying away the •wheel, and a heavy squall striking her at the same time Hew the square sail out of the bolt ropes. This sudden reduction of head sail very nearly broached her to -, she was. however, kept ■before _it, and tho next day the pale moderated. On the 2nd inst. made the land off the Grey, arriving in Hokitika roadstead on the 4th. The Jet reports that on the morning of her departure the schooner Wild Wave arrived from Hokitika, having made the passage from pott to port in fifty-nine hours,