PORT OF HOKITIKA.

West Coast Times, Issue 600, 27 August 1867, Page 2

PORT OF HOKITIKA.

High Waibk This Dat. — 7.0 a.m.; .7.23 p.m.

ABBITBD.

August 2G— Elizabeth, cutter, Mason, from Grcjinouth. W. S. Lockhartj agent.

SAILBD.

August 26— Bruce, p.s., Kerley, for Buller. Harry Bluff, cutter, — , for Pakibi.

hstehed in. Persevere, 27 tons, A. Robertson, from Gh-eymouth.

Bruce, 84 tons, J. Kerley, from Westport and Greymouth. 19 passengers.

CLEABED OUT.

Day Dawn, 24 tons, W. Mecklejohn, for Charleston.

Bruce, 84 tons, J. Kerley, for Fox's River and Westport.

EXPBCTBD ARRIVALS.

Egmont, s.s., from Melbourne, to-day. John Bullock, schr., from Melbourne, early Pilot, schr., from Melbourne, early. Raugitoto, s.s., from Dunedin, to-morrow. Dancing Wave, schr., from Hobarfc Town, daily. Mary, brigtn., from Melbourne, daily. Jane Lockbarfc, brigtn., from Sydney, daily. Mary Van Every, »chr., from Duuedin, daily. Keera, s.s., from Dunedin, to-day. Nil Desperandum, brig, from Dunedin, early. « Florence, schr., from Melbourne, early. Annie Beaton, schr., from Melbourne, early. Omeo, s.s., from Melbourne, to-day. Mary Anne, schr., from Melbourne, early. Anno Moore, brgtn., from Melbourne, early. Alma, barque, from Melbourne, early. Storm Bird, schr., from Dunedin, daily. Falcon, schr., from Christckurch, early. Thames, cutter, from Nclaon, early. Elizabeth Curie, brigautine, from Duuediu, early.

Harriet Nathan, barque, from Hobart Town, daily.

Claud Hamilton, s.s., from Sydney, today.

PBOJKCTED DKPABTFRES,

Omeo, s.s., for Melbourne, to-morrow.

Claud Hamilton, s.s., for Nelson, Wellington, Napier, Tuuranga aud Auckland, today. Day Dawn, for Pakihi, early. Rangitoto, s.s., for Melbourne, to-morrow. Egmont, s.s., for Bluff and Dunedin, today: VBSSEI-S IN POUT. Brig — Valiant. Brigantines — Leonidas, Ceres, Mary Anne. Isabella. Schojneis— Day Dawn, Falcon, Caroline, Alice. Ketches — Brothers and Sister, Mary Anne, Jane Anne, Lloyd's Herald, Florence. Cutter— Elizabeth. SlranuM-a — Challenge, Golden Land, Yarra, Huntress.

IN THE BOADSTEAD. Alma, barque, from Melbourne. Dancing Wave, sch., from HobartTown. Clara, brigantine, from Melbourne. Lizzie Coleson, brigantine, from. Sydney. Annie $1 oore, brgtn, from Melbourne.

IMPOSTS.

Per Persevere, from Greymouth — 36 kegs butter, 20 tons coals, Royse, Mudie and Co.

Per Bruce, from Buller — 17560zs Bdwts 2grs., Bauk of New South Wales.

EXPOBTS.

Per Day Dawn, for Charleston— 4 cases cheese, 1 cose pepper, 3 bags salt, 3 do peas, 1 pkgpapei 1 , Hart and Levy ; 20 bags flour, 10 bales chaff, Ecclesfield Bros ; 3 kegs butter, 7 bags sugar, 1 cass whisky, 2 do brandy, 1 do geneva, 1 do coffee, 2 bags bacon, 6 do potatoes, 10 do flour, 2 cases stout, 10 bags oats, 2 kegs wine, 1 box tobacco, W. Evans ; 9 packages, 2 cases onions, 1 bag rice, 1 bag peas, 1 bag oatmeal, 4 boxes tea, 2 bags potatoes, H. G. Hughes and Co; 24 pkgs furniture, 4 boxes candles, 4 bags oats, 16 bales chaff, 2 bales hay, C. Nees ; 1 bale bedding, 1 bedstead, Cohen Bros. ; 1 trunk, 1 chest, Kattlefield ; 1 case coffee, 1 keg oatmeal, 1 keg wine, J. Solomon and Co. ; 4 cases drapery, Mulligan and Co ; 13 pkgs iron, 5 cases, 6 pkgs, 3 bundles, sheet iron, 3 cases, 2 retorts, 1 bundle saws, 1 keg", 5 cases kerosene, 1 piece chain, Forsyth and Masters ; 6 bags salt, 1 case coffee, Morison, Law and Co; 20 casks beer, 2 qr-casks brandy, Spenceßros; 1 pkg leather, 1 case boots, Chesney and Co ; 2 cases drapery, J. F. Byrne and Co ; 1 case kerosene, 1 keg nails, 1 case ironmongery, Meyerstein ; 1 chest candles, J. Solomon ; 20 bags flour, Cassius and Co ; 10 casks butter, Churches and Co ; 1 box raisins, 5 cases ■whiskey, 5 cases geneva, 1 case ling, 11 mats sugar, 1 bag currants, 1 keg soda, 1 keg herrings, 2 cases old torn, t box tobacco, 1 pkg papei-, 1 case, W. Evans.

Per Bruce, for Buller — 1 bale paper, 2 boxes glass, 1 parcel, J. Holmes ; 3 hhds ale, M'Cauley j 4 hhds cgg9, J. Duff; 3 bales drapery, 35 sheets iron, E. Rrere3 and Co. ; 2 boxes blue, 2 boxes starch, 1 box, Bailie and Humphrey ; 3 caseSj 1 bale, White and Pirie ; 2 qr-casks brandy, 2 cases tobacco, 5 caßes sarsaparilla, 4 kegs brandy, 12 kegs nails, 2 bottles quicksilver, 1 tierce tobacco, Powell and Co. ; 1 chest candles, 1 case, 4 half-chests tea, 4 cases geneva, 1 case salmon, 2 boxes tobacco, 1 bag handles, 4 bundles shovels, 1 parcel, J. Solomon and Co ; 8 cases coffee, 1 case salmon, 3 boxes raisins, 10 do candles, 3 cases pickles, 5 boxes lobsters. 1 case, Chesney and Co ; 1 pkg, Paul ; 1 pkg, C. Brown ; 1 case, Smith and Co ; 3 bales paper, 5 boxes soap, £ cases pepper, 3 do jam, 2 do mustard, 2 do Bardincs, 2 'bags rice, 9 mats sugar, W. J. Patterson ; 2 pair truck-wheels, 1 packago, 1 case cigars, 1 case tobacco, Alcorn and Co ; 4 cases, 3 pkgs Bavk New Zealand ; 1 iron plate, Bank New South Wales; 8 mats sugar, 1 cask currants, 4 boxes tobacco, 1 bag oatmeal, 5 cases keroseine, Chesney and Co; 1 pkg tobacco, 1 box cigars, 1 box painkiller, 2 half-chests tea, 3 kegs wine, 1 box raisins, 1 case gin, 1 qrcask brandy, 1 box tobacco, 4 boxes candles, 1 caso sarsaparilla, 3 cases whiskey, 2 cases brandy, 1 case bitters, Cullen Bros ; 8 bags sugar, Chesney and Co ; 1 coil rope, Morison, Law and Co ; 1 case, 2 bdls, A. Shaw and Co ; 2 kegs nails, 1 box, Waller and Co ; 49 cases fruit, 4 cases figs, 2 cases raisins, 1 case confectionery, 1 bag nuts, 3 bags onions, Marshall ; 1 truss drapery, Whyte and Pirie ; 1 case stationery, Crevan ; 1 pel coffee, 1 bale calico, 1 box pipes, 1 box tacks, 3 cases brandy, 1 bottle quicksilver, 4 cases, Ecclesfield Bros ; 4 cases jam, 1 bale paper, 1 pkg blacking, 1 box blue, 1 case oil, 1 bag salt, 1 bag oatmeal, 10 hf-chests tea, Cliesney and Co.

One of the two ocean^ steamers which were due here yesterday, reached the roadstead at seven o'clock last night, and announced her arrival by gunfire. It was too dark to make her out distinctly, but from her low sit in the water and length of hull distinguished by the aid of a night glass, we believed the new coiner to be the Panama Company's s.s. Claud Hamilton from Sydney. If so, her mail and passengers will be landed on this mornings tide by the Persevere, which will again tender her in the afternoon afT half-past four o'clock, the hour she is advertised to sail for Wellington and other ports. We expect to find the good steamer Omeo at anchor in the roadstead this morning, as she was due here some time during the past night, having left Dunedin on Saturday bound round the coast via Foveaux Straits. The Omeo has a heavy freight list and many passengers for this port, and if she is not hindered by bad weather will leave on her return to Melbourne' to-morrow.

The steamers Kennedy and Murray arrived at Greyroouth on Sunday night. The former

will be sent up by, we presume, the Bruce, as in the present condition of the port, tlie ageut has decided not to allow the Kennedy to come here. The s.s. Beautiful Star has completed another successful trip to the Buller with a load of cattle and sheep. She ran from the Buller to Wellington with passengers and cargo, discharged there, and proceeded to Wanganui (N.1.), nnd shipped a mob of eattlo and between one hundred and two hundred sheep ; left that port on Fri-lay lnst, arrived off the Buller on Saturday night, and crossed the bar next morning. She will, we understand, leave again on tho samo round. Captain Leach, formerly master of the steamer Nrlson, is acting as Harbor Master for the Port of Wesport. We understand that he has not yet received an official appointment. The steamer Bruce, with both holds crammed with cargo and nearly 100 passengers on deck, left the river last night for Buller and Fox's. She crossed the bar in beautiful style, but scarcely moved at her wonied speed, owing to the heavy burden she carried.

The schooner Crest of the Wave, coal laden, and bound for the Molyneaux, was, yesterday morning, towed out of the Grey River by the Lioness, which afterwards con* veyed to sea the schooner Wild Wave, bound to Cliristchuvch. We hear that the Grey bar is open and carries twelve feet of water.

The clipper cutter Elizabeth arrived in the river la*t night with forty tons of coal loaded at Groymouth. She left that port on Saturday evening, reached the roadstead next morning, and was towed safely to the wharf as above by the p.s. Persevere. Her cargo is very acceptable to Hokitika, and we hope is only a fir3t instalment of others immediately to follow. We congratulate Mr Lockhart upon the success which has attended the first trip of his smart little vessel since her mishap.. The cutter Hai^-y Bluff, londedfewith general cargo, and bound to Pakihi, was towed to sea last night by tho Persevere. The brigantine Anne Moore, from Melbourne, arrived in tho roadstead yesterday, and anchored. We hope to see both herself aud Ihe rest of tho fleet across the bar upon the spring tides, which flow on Thursday and Friday next. Very acceptable are the service!* of the Persevere in the port's present need, and well did she work the intricate north channel last night under the skilful of Captain Robertson. The entire saltwater fraternity of the port mustered in force upon the beach last night, and watched her movements with anxious interest as she crossed the bar the first time with the cutter Harry Bluff in tow, and no slight satisfaction was evinced when the two vessels were seen safely clear of the north spit's projecting tongue. It was under-" stood that in the event of a sufficiency of water being found in the channel, the Persevere would bring in the cutter Elizabeth which hadreceived orders by signal during the after noon to hold herself in readiness for towing, but by the time the steamer dropped her first outward tow daylight was fast closing in, aud it was therefore considered doubtful whether she wouid chance the bar with a loaded vessel astorn at so late pa. how. The little boat, however, showed no disposition to shirk the trial, as she at once made fast to the cutter, and having waited until the Bruce cleared the river, steamed far the bar, and although the beacons were scarcely perceptable in the fading twilight, she hit the channel most accurately, rounded the spit vrithout touching ground, and dragged her charge in triumph to the wharf. The cutter grounded once upon the tail of tho spit, but for a moment only, as the next sea lifted her across into deeper water. Captain Robertson reported an indifferent channel as the bar proper was covered by six feet six inches of water only. It is, however, certain to improve as the spring tides make, and we therefore think it warl'antable to believe that the berths now filled at tho wharf by empty outward bounders, will be occupied in a few days by the full-freighted vessels at anchor outside. We yesterday heard the agent request Mr Trice the signal-man, to (in the event of her arrival) j instruct the Keera to immediately proceed to Greymouth, and there discharge, as he considered that tho approaches to the port were ! altogether inaccessable to a vessel of her class. To stand by, and be compelled to look helplessly on whilst our once flourishing trade is thus passing to other ports, is no less agravating than humiliating, and a most unprofitable way of spending time. Surely the Government will decide upon an effort to help the port out of its difficulty. The return of the Secretary and Under-Secretary for the district, fills us "with hope, and a belief that something will be done, especially as we yesterday morning observed the two gentlemen, attended by the district engineer, and harbor master, closely inspecting the two channels. The time was low water, aud so the strange configuration of the entrance, with its long snakelike spits, was laid bare to view, and must have somewhat astonished Mr Bouar, this remarkable change having taken place during his short absence at Christchurch. So much have the spits increased in size within the last few days, that they now enclose and at low tide protect from surf the strip of water skirting the middle bank, and connecting the north and Bouth outlets of the river. At that time of tide a boat can pass without danger from one to the other, and in fact the Harbor Master did take his boat from the north to the south channel yesterday. The latter, however, contained so little water that tho crew were obliged to jump overboard and drag the boat through it. To stop this outlet by means of a dam would indeed bo an easy matter.

The Panama Eoute. — The following letter is addressed to tho editor of the " Argus" :—: — Sir, — Since my return by tho last Panama mail queries have been frequently put to me respecting the yellow fever that is supposed to exist at the isthmus and the island of St. Thomas, aud as a considerable amount of anxiety seems to be felt by the friends of those who have availed themselves of the route, I think it advisable, in order to allay those feelings, to assure them that there is not the slightest danger on the journey. Both on my homeward and outward passage I experienced no inconvenience from it, and can assure you that the epidemic is thought far less of at the place where it is supposed to exist tho most than it is here. On the Isthmus of Panama it is almost unheard of, -while at St. Thomas it prevails mostly in the months of November and December, and is far more serious in some years than it is in others. During the past season it was far worse than it had been known for ten years before ; its ravages, however, were confined to the crews of the steamers, which were detained for fourteen or fifteen days in the small and overcrowded harbor, and who had most probably given way to excesses. In no case were any of the passengers attacked, and the usual detention there i 6 so slight that I should think there is no possibility of their being so, unless they court danger by partaking too freely of iced drinks, and exposing themselves too much to tho weather should it prove wet. On tho news arriving in England, in November last, of the prevalence of yellow fever at St. Thomas, the Roynl Mail Company made arrangements by which the calling at St. Thomas was obviated. The Atlantic steamers transferred their passengers, &c, into the inter-colonial vessels at Peter Island, distant thirty miles from St. Thomas, and then proceeded on to Jamaica to coal, receiving passengers and mail at Peter Island on her homeward voyage from the various intercolonial vessels that run in connection with her. — I am, &c, D. Talleeman. 4 Lansdowne street, East Melbourne, 23rd July, 1867.