PORT OF OAMARfJ. • KiWARDS. jetT 1. Samson, p.*., t24 tons, £dle, from Dunndta. EL Altfeas.. want. VESBSTL9 tK PORT. JCLT 7. Stmunar—Saronon. Brtg- Wava. THE " POST'S" JttoREPRE3i:..VrATto:.'3 REFUTED. D»« "■Wanington Posts"' of the 3rd inst.. U discursive 08, tha subjaot ot tha haavy weather which Che boats of til* Pacific Mail Steam Company always seem to cn eountar Us thair pasmvm along tha coast. and appear* to Imagine thu naxy ideas entertained by the com* mandors of thaaa vusfais of the localities o£_ several port# ot cull should b« considered ua a sufficient and nudutli axewsa why thaso jsan»t«>in«n atwuftt run pant on* occunionally. as in Captain Waddell's case with She City of Siuv Pfancisco. whan that gentleman, for aoma raasoa b«»t known to himself. ran past Kapter in Utv taath ofa protest against his doing so- by the nuwl IMQt Wit hava benn assured th« weath 'f wm liuc at tsa lim«, and that the mail boat could have easily en* tared tha port * yut it pleased not Captain Waddott to da tile result? has been that both mail.* ami DMBangatfs were ttyfctm on to- Auckland- conr.eni* porory faitaratas'tfttf old talo about, the captain of tho •>«. Australia heaving-to in a fog, and wastfulty <? v panding tha Company's rockets. blm'iights. and powder under tha Impression that ho was off Jfapisr,. and re caivtag no- responsive signals in reply, became tost in woitdarmant thereatwhereas. the fact is., had he kept anything iika dead reckoning. he mast have known himself to b« Some tifty miles off papier. This* if very well in its way- if tho object be to make a point., but Whin tha "Post'" unwittingly, we hope. assert* that the City of Siva Francisco touched on tha bars at I'urt Chalmers,, both in cominir in and 'joins out. on her tost visit,, we unhesitatingly declare that journal 13 writing about that which it either kn»w» absolutory nothing op it gives utterance to. statements as far removed from tha teutll a# error possibly can be. We would remind tAa "'Post'*' that severe persons connected with tha ttuMie service ot tha country were on board the City ot Baa Ffcancisco-on tho occasion referred to -n<>fe»f>ty. we wilt Instance Captain W. Thomson, the tlhief Harbour* WIM ot Otagow and Captain ftich. the coastal pilot. 