PORT OF HOKITIKA.

West Coast Times, Issue 309, 19 September 1866, Page 2

PORT OF HOKITIKA.

High Watkp. This Day.— 4.55 a.m. 3 5.20 p.m. ARIIIYSD*. Sept. 18— Bangitoto t s.s., Darko, from Sydney. John White, agent. Elizabeth, ketch, Stevenson, from Lyttelton. leister, agent. SAILEH. > T il. % , ENTERED IN. Kennedy, 125 tons, Thos. Whitwell, from Nelson nnd Groymouth. 12 passengers. CLEARED OUT. Nik EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Francis, schooner, from Ileatheote, early. Elizabeth, cutter, from Sydney, early. Albion, s.s , from Melbourne, via Dunedin, etrly. Dunedin, schooner, from Dunedin, daily. Aurora, schooner, from Dunedin, early. Cymracs, schooner, from Dunedin, daily. Mary Van Every, schooner, from' Dunedin, early. » Julin, schooner, from Dunedin, early. Isabella, schooner, from Dunedin, early. Lady Darling, schooner, from Melbourne. Pilot, schooner, -from Melbourne. Lord Ashley, from the North, early. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Hangitoto, for Nelson and Northern Ports, to-day. . Lord Ashley, for Bluff Harbor, 21st inst. Kennedy, for Okarita, to-day. Jane Elkin, for Grey Birer, to-day. Beautiful Star, for Nelson, Lyttelton, and Dunedin, to-day. VES3ELS IN TORT. Brigantiue — Northern Light. Schooaers — lona. Emma Eliza, Mary Jane, Tiger, John Mitchell, Tambo, Moyne, Ketches — Jane Elkin, Elfin, Elizabeth. \Steamers — Kennedy, Challenge, Yarra, Lioness, Beautiful Star.

The ketch Elizabeth arrived in the river yesterday, after a somewhat eventful passage from Lytteltou, which port she Ibft on the Ist inst. Carried N.E. winds and fine weather to the latitude of Cape CampbiHl, when (he wind hauled to th« southward, and kept there un(il the ketch was abreast of Manna Island. It then died away, aud was Buccceeded by a heavy and suddou blow from the N.W., which drove her under Manna for shelter on the 6th inst. Auchored ; but the wind shifting to the southward again, 6hc lost her shelter, and wa3 brought dead upon a tee shore off the Norlh Island. Endeavored to hold her own by shackling both chains to- ■ gether, and pajiug them out to tho clinch; but on the Bth, the gale blew with such terrific violence that 6he commenced dragging, and as the anchor refused to bite again, and the shore by this time was close under her lee, slipped, made sail, and ran for Pararua. In crossing the bar, a /succession of heavy seas swept her decks, and broached the ketch to ; so to save his vessel, the captain ran her on the beach in a sheltered spot, as he found it impossible to gain the anchorage inside. Having lost all her ground, tackle, no attempt could be inado to heave her off until fresh cable 3 were procured, so she lay on the beach for seveu days, and in the* meantime, the captain proceeded overland to_ Wellington, *nd sent down two new chains and an anchor. On the loth she was hove into deep water, and favored by a slant of wind, cleared the surf, and stood on her course to the southward. Parsed Cape Farewell at midnight, arrived off Hokitika on the 18th, and as the bar was unusually smooth, she refused towage, and entered the river under canvns, reaching the wharf a little after mid-day. The Elizabeth brings a full cargo of produce. She reports passing th« Tiger, Spray, Isabella Jackson, and Bonnie Lass schooners off Rocks Point.

The P.N.Z. and A.B.M. Company's s.s. Rangito, G. R. Drake, R.N.R., Commander, arrived yesterday, almost to the hour of her advertised expected arrival. We have not Tret been al>le w to sseertnizi the particulars o£ her trip, further than she sailed from Sydney fi little after noon on the 11th inst, and arrived in the roadstead at 2 p.m. on the 18fh. ' She has, consequently, allowing for difference of longitude, msde the run in about 4 days, 1 hour, which is certainly' the quickest on record between the two ports. The Rangitoto brings 104 passengers for Hokitika, 20 for Greymouth, and 40 for other ports ; she has also a little cargo fey Hokitika. When the signal '" a steamer to the northward " was hoisted at the flagafaff, the p.s. Yarra left the river to be in readiness to tender her ; but owing to the heavy, N.W. gale and sea, which sprung up suddenly about noon, it was impossible to tranship passenger* with any degree of safety. A boat with the mail bags passed once, and once only, between the two vessels, and so strong was the current and sea that that the trip to and fro occupied her nearly an hour. The Rangitoto brings fuller European intelligence; the English July mail-having arrived in Sydney the day prior to her departure. She sails for Nelson and Northern Ports, to-day, weather permitting. The Schooner Dunedin sailed from Dunedin, bound to this port, on the 9th inst. Late advices from Sydney, inform us that the brigantiae Jane Lockha'rt was to sail for Hokitika on the 14th inst, and the Lizzie Coleson on' or about the 20th inst.