PORT OF HOKITIKA.

West Coast Times, Issue 136, 24 February 1866, Page 2

PORT OF HOKITIKA.

HIGH WATBR. Saturday .. 4.24 am. .. 4*48 p.nv Sunday .. 5.12 a,m, .. 5.36 p.m. i ARRIVED. Feb. 23— Amy Robsavt, brigantino, 72 tons, Ives, from Sydney. No passengers. R. Emerson and Co., agents. Cosmopolite, brig, 145 tone. Girdwood, from Hobarton. No passengers. Carey and Grilles, agents. Bruce,, p.e., 82 tons, Korley, from Okarita. Passengors, 20 ; and 5,000 ozs. gold dust. F. Greor, ageut. SAILBD. Feb* 23— Bnllarat, p.s., Quance, for Nelson. Bruce, p.s., Kerley, for Okarita Passengers — Saloon : Misses Curtis and Currin, Mrs Smith, Messrs Sheehan, Lubning, Marks, Sweenoy, and Cheßney. ENTERED ISWARDS. Amy Robsart, from Sydney. Bruce, from Okarita. OLKARED OUT. Ballarat. for Nelson. Bruce, for Okarita. IMPORTS. Per Amy Bobsart— 4 hhds eggs, 28 bags onions, order j 8 casks pines, 4 pkgs bacon, 15 cases eggs, 7 mats dates, 8 caßks nuts, Griffiths; 143 pkgs tea, 75 bags sugar, 10 casks port wine, 210 do bottled porter, 12 cases muscatel wino, 64 do porter, 1,749 bagsflour, 9 cases sardineß, 52 cheeses, 1 case sundries, 5 cases cheese, 5 do, salmon, 180 bngs potatoes, 30 do onions, 10 cases eggs, 1000 palings, 40 cases brandy, 1 half-cask rum, 1 cask walnuts, 6 bags oysters, Emerson j 1 case, order j 116 bags sugar, order. Per Bruce — 3 boxos, containing 2000 ozs. gold, Bank New South Wales ; 2 boxes, containing 2000 ozs. gold, Bank Now Zealand ; and about 1000 ozs. gold in" hands of diggers. JPor Ballarat— 4o bags flour order. Per Cosmopolite— 22 cases and 1 tub fruit, 3 bales leather, Cook; 42 bags onions, 25 cases apples, 55 do jam, 64 half-bales hay, 50 bales chaff, 25 bags onions, 4 casks whiting, 2 do split peas, 125 bags potatoes, 1676 bushels bran. 20 do carrots, 5 cases eggs, 122 sheep, 12,700 palings, five feet ; 4980 six feet do, 70 bags oats, 104 caseß apples, 72 cases and 4 boxes eggs', 25 cases apples, 4 bags bacon, 6 tubs butter, 7 bales hay, Carey and Gilles. EXPORTS. Per Ballarat, free and duty paid— s casks porter, 1 caso suudries, Murphy j 1 bale chaff, 1 parcel saws, Burrows; 1 parcel effects, M'Girr ; 186 sheets iron, 357 pieces timber, 8 do ndging, 38 pkgs merchandise, Murphy j 14 cases do, Marks ; 3 pkgs do, Colo and Scully ; 2 bales drapery, Murphy ; 2 half-cheats tea, 10 bags sugar, M«>ran ; 8 pkgs, M'Fotrick j 2 bales drapery, Byrne ; % 20 bags flour, Hehir ; 7 pkgs sundries, Ohosswas ; 7 cases, Medard 12 oars, Nash ; 16 pkgs sundries, Bronner and Byrne ; 21 pkgs sundries, Mjtcholl and Co j 7 cases do, Wood ; 2 bags carrots, 6 do oats, order; 2 pkgs, Keif; 4 cases porter, Medard; 15 pkgs sundries, Marks and Co ; 1 hhd ale, 1 keg vinegar, Munro ; 1 dozen wheels, Harkey j 13 pkges sundries, order ; 9 cases do,' Wood ; 27 pkgs merchandise, Chino and Co ; 24 cases do, Sweeney ; 4 pkgs sundries, 2000 feet timber, Bond ; 5 casks porter, Murphy"} 50 sheep, 1 dray, order. • EXPECTED ABBIVAM. Lloyd's Herald, ketch, from Dunedin. Auckland, s.s., from Sydney early Thane, b.b., from Nelson via Grey. William Miskin, s.s., from Dunedin. Isabella, from Dunedin. Dispatch, from Dunedin. Pearl, from Dunedin. Alma, from Melbourne William, brigantine, from Sydney Spray, sohoont-r, from Ohristchurch Claud Hamilton, 8 s, from Bluff and Dunedin, 2Cth February Egmont s s, from Nelson. 23rd February Otago, s s, from Nelson, 2nd March. Storm Bird, s s, from Nelson, daily Kennedy, s s, from Grey early Persevere, ps, from Melbourne, early Gothenburg, a s, from Melbourne, Ist Mar. South Australian, from Melbourne, via Dunedin and intermediate ports, 26th Feb. PROJKOTKP PEPARTOREB. John Mitchell, for Grey River. Jane Lockhart, for Sydney early Otago, s s, for Sydney, 3rd March Kgmont, s s, for Bluff and Dunedin, 24th Feb. Claud Hamilton. S3, for Nelson and Northern and Southern Forts, 26th Feb, Storm Bird, s s, for Nelson, early John Mitchell, for Okarita, early Lapwing, for Grey, early ' ' Bruce, for Okarita, this day VBSSELS IN PORT. Brig -Cosmopolite Brigantines— Jaue Look hart, Colonist, Amy Robsart. Schooners— Caroline, Meteor, Emma, Eliza, John Mitchell, Kate, Lady Darling. Cutter— Lapwing Steamers— Yarra, Lioness. Thebrig Cosmopolite leftHobartT>.wn, bound to this port, on the 11th instant, tho weather being fine with light westerly breezes. Next day the wind shifted into tho north and commenced blowing fresh in squalls, one of which struck her and carried away the mom yard in tho slings. For two days tho wind blew a steady gale from tho north, but through the accident to her yard she was unablo to tako advantage of it, being occupied most of tho time in fishing it and getting it aloft again. On tho 14th the wind died away and shifted into tho east, and hence to tho laud, light variable airs (blowing all round tho compass,) and calms prerailed. Tho Cosmopolite made the land on tho 22nd and nnchorod in the roads at oarly morning of tho 23rd, towing to the wharf astern of tho Lioness the same day. She brings a full general cargo. . The brigantine Amy Robsart oleared Sydney Heads on the lllh inst. with light N E. winds and fine weather, which she carried with her until within two hundred miles of the New Zealand coast, when the wind veered in'o the S.W. and freshened to a gale Reduced canvas and ran before ii until the land by calculation was not more than sixty miles off, when fearful of making a lee shore of it in ugly weather the brigantine* was rounded to and remained by the •wind for twelve Lours awaiting the abatement of the gale. As the weather moderated she was once more kept on her course, but through a prevalence of light east winds and calms she did not reach the roadstead until two days later, ■when she anchored on the 22m1, towing to the •wharf astern tho Lioness tho next morning at daylight. The Amy Robsart brings a full genera! cargo to tho port. The p.s. Btuce has again returned from the South, having this time extended her trip to Jackson's Bay. She left Hokitika at 4.30 pm. on the 19th, and af'er a pleasant run of five hours brought up off Okarita bar at 9.30 p.m. Next day, at 10 a.m., she orosued the bar and reached her nsual mooring place without mishap, remaining off the town that day diechargiug cargo and passengers. On the 21st, she left for Jackson's Bay, although a falling glass and rising wind from the S.W. gave evidence of an approaching gale. She, however, steamed against it until abreast of Bruce Bay, when the gale having considerably increased, accompanied by % heavy head sea, she wa;. compelled to run in for' shelter and anohor. The weather haying tqPffrmtftli lt)l>l»f» »t daylight pn the 22m), and

proceeded on her voyage with tho intention of hugging ilio const Hue all Iho way down; but on attempting to pass between Open Bay Islands and the main, the lead guvo notice that the water had suddenly shoaled from ten fathoms to fivo. At once her head was turned off shore, and an ofting made, tho passago between tho main island and reef beiug taken instead. Whilst running through it, the lead was kept cons'antly going, but no bottom was found at ten fathoms. Jackson's Bay was reached at 1.15 p.m. the same day and tho anchor Jet go in four fathoms water, there being good holding ground and excellent shelter. Here she landed twenty passengers and discharged a small quantity of cargo, leaving again in a couple of hours. Okarita roadstead was reached at 1 a.m on the 23id, and the bar crossed at daylight. After shipping some few passengers and 6000 ounces of gold dust, she left the same tide, and arrived safely at the wharf at 2.20 p.m. On her return from Jaokson'a Bay, when off tho Haaat river, a umall vessel was sighted at anchor inside, supposed to be the Oity of Nelson.