Trial, 25 tons, Kelly, for Wickhffe Bay, with cargo... Master, agent. ~,•„• Fanny, 25 tons, Williams, for. Catlm s River, m ballast. H. Guthrie, agent. _.__,_ Hawea, 462 tons, Wheeler, for Lyttelton, with cargo. J. Mills, agent. Beautiful Star, 140 tons, Peterson, for Timaru, with cargo. J. Mills, agent.. 1 IMPORTS. Per Beautiful Star, from Oamaru: 216 bales, New Zealand Shipping Company; 200 bags, Union Corn- Pet Wanganui, from the Coast: 43 packages, Coombes ; 1 do, Baile ; 2 do, Keast and M'Carthy; 3 do Grey; 10 do, A and J Macfarlane ; 24 do, Irvine ; 2 do,: Birch ; 43 do, Kong Sing Wing ; 2 do, Paterson and Macleod; 1 do, M Rattray; 5 do, Bennett; 104 do, Wright, Stephenson, and Co; 4 do, Pell; 6 do, W and J Scoular; 3do, Maclean Brothers; 1 do, Bayley; 1 do, Aires; 1 do, Briscoe: 122 do, Brown and Son ; 1 do, G Dowse ; 1 do, Bacon and Son ; 241 bales, Russell, Ritchie, and Co; 117 do, New Zealand j Shipping Company. |

The exceedingly unusual occurrence of a fire on board ship created no slight excitement and alarm at Port Chalmers on Wednesday night. The first intima tion ot the dread calamity was given by the clanging , of the barque Kedron's bell shortly before ten o'clock and then a waterman named Sherrif, who had been late afloat, ran up the old jetty shouting "fire," and Btating that it was on board the above-named vessel, and that buckets were wanted. The alarm was promptly re- Bponded to by Sergeant Morkane and Constable Coffy, who with Mr Andrew M'Kinnon and one or two others, procured buckets from the store of Messrs Thomson Bros., and proceeded on board. The Eedron was moored alongside the hulk Don Juan, and was loaded with au inflammable cargo of Oregon pine timber. When the police reached her, they found dense volumes of smoke, but no flame, issuing from the cabin sky-light and companion, bcth of which, however, had been closed to check draught. The second mate of the barque and some of her crew were pouring water down the skylight, but the exact whereabouts of the fire had not then been discovered. It was, however, coon ascertained that it lay in the mate's berth ou the port side. 