EXPORTS.

West Coast Times, Issue 370, 29 November 1866, Page 2

EXPORTS.

Per Airedale, for Bluff Harbor, &c. — For Lyttelton, 2 cases, 2 gallon measure, 1 pkg Hawkes and Sfcrouts ; 1 parcel, Narliani ; 1 box, 1 bdl, Police Depailnient. Per 10, for Melbourne — 1 case playing cards, B. Falck and Co.

The P.N.Z. and A.E.M. Co.'s s.p. Chud . Hamilton, G-. Ponsonby, commander, loft ' Sydney on the 23rd instant, and ai*rived off this port at 2 p.m. on the 28th. During the greater part of the passage Bhe experienced strong head winds and a high sea and thick rainy weather. Her passenger lißt shows fifty-two names, and the manifest thirty tons of cargo, for this port. During her stay in Sydney the Claud Hamilton was overhauled and thoroughly cleaned both inside and out. She is now in first-rate sailing trim, with the fairly earned reputation of being one of the best sea boats and comfortable passenger carriers in the colonies. The Claud Hamilton will leave for Nelson and Wellington at noon this day. Passenger list per Claud Hamilton— Saloon, Messrs Churches, Myers, Lockhart, Graham, Fisher, Davis ; and 47 in the fore cabin. The brigantine Lady Don sailed from Lyttelton on the 14th in&t. with light easterly winds and fine weather, which prevailed until the 19th, when the wind shifted to the N.W., and increased to a gale. As there were no signs of its abating she, on the morrow, ran Under Kapiti Island and anchored, remaining there until the 23rd, and then put to sea again, the ealo having moderated and hauled to the N.E. Stevens Island was passed on the 24th, and the breeze falling away, it was not until tho 26th that the brigantiue rounded Oape Farewell. Then a. strong northerly wind sprung up and carried her down tho coast and into the roadstead by tho 28th, when she was fastened to by the Challenge, and towed into the river. Tho Lady Don brings a full cargo of colonial produce, and a d«ct load of pigs 74 in number. Tho .ange of her barometer during the passage, was from 29-50 to 30-23. The brigantine Elizabeth Curie sailed from Dunedin on the 9th instant, with light S.W. ;winds and fine weather, which carried her up 'to Banks' Peninsula by the next day, when

tho breozo hauled to tho N.E. and, for a few hours, blew a bliff topaail breozo; then sud- ! donly foil calm. Variable unsettled woathor prevailing kept her iv the latitudo of tho ! Peninsula until a slant from tho N.W., on the ! 12th, enabled her to lay along the const and reach Kaikora Peninsula, tho next day. Calms and light variable airs prevailed during tho next twenty-four hours, and wore followed on the l'lth by a breozo from N.W., tho bavouiotor falling to 29-40. This indication of a " blow" was soon realisod, as in an hour or two, the brigantiue waa dowa to doubl»-reefod mainsail and brought to the wind. At rniduight the gale suddenly broke, leaving a tremondoua sea running, and thero being no wind to steady her, tho Elizabeth Curio labored heavily, and of a- necessity rnado very bad weather. Variable winds, sudden squalls — which as suddenly were succeeded by dead calms — aud a high cross sea, kept tho vessel beating about the N.E. coast until the 18th, tho glass iv tho inoantinio sticking at 29 > 30, when signs of a tempest from N.W. induced her to run into Robin Hood Bay for shelter, but just as she gained the anchoi'ago tho wind camo out of the south, which change sent her off tho laud again. It then backed to N.W., and commenced to blow hard, so Robin Hood's Bay was again sought and anchored in for the night. Next day she up anchor and tried to work through tho straits, but a heavy N.W. gale and sea on tho 21st drove her to shelter in Guards Bay. She had, however, succeeded in getting through the " narrows," and on the following day put to sen, the wind having hauled to E.N.E. This slant carried her past Stevens' Island that evening, and round Capo Farewell on tho 23rd, when light variable weather again setting in she was four days working down the coast, and finally gained Ihe roadstead on the 27th, in the midst of a heavy nor'wester, which sent her to sea for the night. Next day, the gale having abated, she ran in, and accepting the sei'vices of the Yarra, was towed safely to the wharf. During the passage the barometer ranged from 29-30 to 30-20. The Elizabeth Curie brings a full general cargo. The cutter Volunteer arrived in the river yesterday from Pakihi, having left the Cove on the preceding afternoon at. 3 p.m., with strong north winds and heavy i*ain. She ran out of the bad weather that night, and reached the roadstead iust in time to save tho tide. The Volunteer reports that as sho was leaving, the schooner Emma Eliza effected a safe entrance into the Core. The schooners Murray, Cymrees, and Sea Shell were at" anchor outside. The latter vessel haa suffered a most disastrous detention, having been throe weeks off the coast, and out of a full cargo with which sho is laden only succeeded in landing some soven tons. I The foro-and-aft schooner Aurora left Otago j Heads on tho 16th iußt., with light southerly winds and .hazy weather. Ran slowly along ' tho coast, aud was abreast of Aniuri Bluff on I the lilth, when a shift of wind to north kept | her tack aud half-tuck until tho following | day. Then sho was faroied by' a slant j from S.E., which carried her round Capo Campbell and up to Terawitti by the 21»fc. H«re •be was nuit by a, strong N.W. gale, and for twelve hours fore-reached under a closereefed foreaail, when the gale broke, and the breeze again came out of S.E. Nexb day she rattled through the Straits, and breasted Capo Farewell in the evening, from whence to Capo Foulwind light rariable weather pre Tailed. She there, on the 27th, picked up a nor'weater, which carried her to the roadstead by sundown, and the next day she waa fastened to by the Challenge, and reached the wharf safely. The Aurora bringB a full general cargo. She reports 6peaking the cutter Pilot — bound to Wanganui — on the 19tb, and on the 21st sho paßsed the schooners Dunedin and Excelsior, both steering to the southward. The 8.8. Airedale left for Bluff and Duucdin last night. She ran up to Greymouth in the morning for passengers, and returned in the afternoon, and after transhipping a few passengers from tho Claud Hamilton, proceeded on her voyage south. There is no alteration in the state of tho bar as two good navigable channels run through it, one to S.W., the other straight out. The former was worked by the Challenge, which towed in the Lady Don and Volunteer, then towed out the 10, bound to Melbourne, and returned inside with the Aurora behind her. The Challenge reports two fathoms water in the S.W. channel. The Yarra commenced work by taking out passengers to the Airedale, and after the transhipment was effected, she made fast to the Elizabeth Curie and recrossed the bar. The arrival of the Claud Hamilton brought her services again into requisition. She concluded her day's work by bringing in that vessels mails and passengers, and the ketch Jane Elkin laden with cargo from the Aireda eat the same time. The Yarra worked the straight channel, and found therein from ten to eleven feet of water. We have to correct an error which appeared in our shipping columns of yesterday's issue. Instead of "Elizabeth Curie" we should have written " Annie Sloore, as the ffame of the schooner towed in by the Challenge. The " Sydney Morning Herald" informs us that the barque Bengal sailed from Newcastle for Bluff Harbor with 230 head of cattle and twenty-six tons of hay. We see by the " Sydney Morning Herald" that the cutter Elizabeth, from Hokitika, arrived at Sydney on the 23rd instant. She was again laid on 'the berth for Hokitika, and expected to leave with a full cargo on the 26th instant.