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Grey River Argus, Issue 101, 4 September 1866, Page 2

The schooner Murray cleared out, at Melbourne for this port on the 23rd August, and as this smart clipper generally makes a rapid run she may be daily expeetfed to arrive. The s.s. \Vm. Miskin.- The tenders sent in to the agents, for the re-launching of the William Miskin, riot being satisfactory, they have determined to undertake the work themselves, .which will comrar^e to-day, and be proceeded with urider the superviei m of Captain Hepburn. Yesterday morning a survey was held upon her by Captain Turnbull, the'harbor-niaster, and Captain Girdwood of* the Cosmopolite. We annex the report •':-_" We, the. undersigned; " haying been called upon to survey the steamship William Miskin, now stranded upon the North Spit, report that. we find ier in no way damaged, and recommend that she be launched into the river in a direction towards the south flagstaff, and -with as much despatch as possible. : Signed, T. H. Turnbull, W in, Girdwood: "—Shortly after the above report was made, Messrs JRoyse, Mudie arid. . £(k received a telegram from the Miskiri's ogent in Dunedin, which instructed^hem to lose uo time, but to launch' her" forthwith. — W.C. Times, Ist instant;- ' . : -- We (New Zealand Adrertiser). understand that an amicable" arrangement has been concluded between the. Otago Company and Captain Benson, General Manager of the P.N.Ziand A.R.M.Company, by which the latter Company will" assist to cany out the mail, contract between Otngo and Melbourne. This desirable agreement will be beneficial both the public'and the Companies. •; - Rapid Passage. —On her last voyage, the Otago s.s. Company's mail steamer Albion made one of the fastest, if not absolutely the fastest, passage on record. She left Port Chalmers at 8 p.m. on the 20th July, and arrived inside Port Phillip Heads at 4 plni. on the 25th, thus making the passage in four \ days 20 hours, including three and a half hours' detention at Bluff Harbor, having: been ouly four days sixteen and a half hours \ underweigh. On the rfirst day, after.leaving! the Bluff, with a strong's. E. breeze, she ran:. 340 knots, fully 14 knots an hour for the ray. '■ . —Daily" Times. The barques "Rachel and Prospector, had an interesting race to Valparaiso ; both vessels left Otago on the 29th of-April l, the former having about two hours start, and. had moderate- variable-weather to arrival-at A 7alparaiso, on the morning of the 28th May, the Prospector arriving two days and a.half afterwards. —Daily Times. Stranding of tue Lioness.-It is with „ extreme regret that we chronicle the stranding of th«p.B. Lioness.^ Yesterday,' at halfpast twelve,- she left the river with the indention of running alongside the s.s. Ota<jo to welcom§ onp of; her owners who arrived in that vessel from Melbourne, and had almost cleared the; bar when she grounded, and was hove up high and dry upon the beach by a succession of heavy seas, which unfortunately rolled in just then. This occurred so rapidly !thatno- time was left for any attempt |to hea\e her off again, and as the'tide made'she worked- herself further up • upon the beaoh uritiTnearly^pn a level, and just astern df hsr cb^partner in woe the Win. Miskin. At "high water she wa^ lying on her poiii b'caui ends deck to the surf, which, as it rolled in knockedHlie old; boat about sadly,- and sanded her up some-threej feet. As the .tide receded she was lightered"; of her coals, and eycrything else: that 'was- available, arid at low water a gang.- of men were put on to clear av,'ay the sand frbiri under her. starboard bilge, arid by screwing ]feV~up r ff6jn the opposite side endeavor, to, cant hcrpverwith her deck on shored At'infdriijeht' ltbis.^as'j?pt''cffecled, and we mucKfeir'-the then "rapidly making title, wculd necessitate the. abandonment of the woi k. lliis ' mishap was"'caused' fey. a foolish attcir.pt to leave.the river; two hours before high -water, • when the. Ghannei contained a draught of six feet only ; ifc was :by; the ucarett chance that the p.s. Challenge, which, immi diately preceded her, did-: not , share the same fate, as she took the ground also, Init being dead in the fairway managed to clear herself. The Lioness was' not so fortunate, ard now lies helpless" upon' the" beach. Although there were nine feet spf: .Vater in the .channel at high tide., Aye must ■ ..cciifcfs tknt tln'eughcut yesterday it was in-: -very bad .« l-ditirn,. as.. the -South Spit hacM fbfeoa woikcd bone by the [heavy swell, and IjiVloijjicqueitce the, channel was very much cdntriS^' I",** 10*; *%" c wss'rictLing but ■ 'agu^'^vay,; and to : liit "this fairly required : ckse/ Peering. $o blainc nn He^aftaclied to the captain, who ..hq't the JjeacwJS in a line, and sypiild wiih a footmbr!c Wfiter have cleared the'baf.'. Wp, .however, •' ihirk le slicuJd lave, delsycd Lis depnriure' for half an h&uh ir>ovJd the Im;ess voi lx'< $. irp #$WBe liftf.il, l#ccd (11 y;avs,;

and then launched across the Spit .into the riyer,ta^ proceeding that will entail a heavy expense upbn ter owners.' — W. C. Tityes, 3rd I iSt. -0 : * ' : ;■'■• ' ■'" : ' •