IMPORTS

West Coast Times, Issue 359, 16 November 1866, Page 4

IMPORTS

Per Bruce, from Okarita — 10460zs gold, Bank of New Zealand ; 2 cases hams, Cassius & Comiskey ; 1 trunk boots, 13 cases, 2 bales drapery, R. Isaacs ; 2 cases drapery, E. Reeves & Co ; 8 cases sarsaparilla, 2 cases vestas, 3 hlf-chests tea, Carey & Gilles : 4 hhds, 1 qrcask, 1 bag bottles, 1 case, 1 jar acid, 8 baskets, 1 cask whiting, 1 cask cream of tartar, 2 cases machinery, 1 tub, 1 wheel, 1 rack, M'Carthy ; 17 bags bottles, Mace & Dixon ; 1 dray, 1 bag harness, 11 pkgs bags, J. Chesney. Per Elizabeth, from Christchurch — 30 bags carrots, 24 bags turnips, 50 bags bran, 160 bags chaff, 2 casks butter, 5 cheeses, Moir and Staite; 62 bags potatos, 102 bags flour, 77 bags bran, 40 bags oatmeal, 8 bags biscuits, 70 pieces bacon, 13 casks butter, 2 casks eggs, Clarke Bros. ; 280 bags flour, 5 cases jam, 45 bags bran, order. Our old friend, the s.s. Gothenburg, put in an appearance yesterday morning from Melbourne, bufc, owing to the condition of the entrance, neither of the harbor steamers were able to cross the bar to tender her. Communication, however, was effected by signals, which enables us to report that tho Gothenburg has on board 102 passengers, and 100 tons of cargo for this port. List of passengers by the p.s. Bruce, from Okarita — saloon : Mr and Mrs Chapman and child, Mrs Golding ; Messrs Roberts and Murray (Bank of New Zealand), Mr Yates (Bank of New South Wales), Mr Isaacs ; and 45 in the steerage. A wretched bar prevailed throughout yesterday, the heavy sea having quite sanded up the entrance and compelled tho river to make its exit by a tortuous and dangerous channel round the point of the South Spit. On the morning's tide the p.s. Bruee ran In, and being uncertain as to the channel, made a straight dash for the river through that part of the bar where a fair channel existed on Wednesday. But she found it not, and for a few moments stuck hard and fast, aud at last ■was washed by a succession of heavy rollers into the deep water between the spits. Her report of the bar clapped a stopper on the days shipping business, and moreover, with the events of last Monday fre?h in their recollection tho captains of the Yarra, Persevere, and Challenge objected to run the risk of another "barring out," as the rain of Wednesday night sent a heavy freshet down the river. Of course the s.s. Tinonee remained at her moorings, and she will, we feur, be compelled to postpone her departure for a day or two. Several sailing vessels which should have left the river were also condemned to a further detention. The p.s. Bruce left this port for Okarita on the Ilth inst., with thick, dirty, N.W. weather, and arrived in the southern roadstead afc 6 p.m. the same day. Crossed the bar afc 10.30 on the following morning in the midst of heavy rain and a rising gale, but succeeded in making a good entrance, and moored at her usual Derth abreast the town. On the 13th she discharged cargo, and was ready for sea in the afternoon, but a heavy surf upon the bar kept her a prisoner until the next day, when she proceeded to sea at 4 p.m., and arrived off Hokitika at 11 p.m., entering the river yesterday morning at daylight. Sho experienced a very strong southerly current on her way up the coast. The Bruce brings up 7 saloon and 45 steerage passengers, and 1046 ounces of gold dust, consigned to the Bank of New Zealand. She again leaves (weather permitting) for the Grey, Pakihi, and Buller, this day. Captain Kerley reports thai on Mondayand Tuesday the rain fell so heavily in the Okarita district as to flood the lagoon there to an extent never beiore witnessed, and so strong was the freshet discharged from it that the flood tide was beaten back, and the water, which under ordinary circumstances is quite salt abreast the town, was, on the above days, nearly fresh. The schooner Phoenix left Okarita for Dunedin on the 10th inst, and the cutter Volunteer forPukihi the same day.