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Grey River Argus, Volume III, Issue 135, 22 November 1866, Page 2

The p. s. Nelson left Nelson at 8 am. p:i Sunday, j Put into Mutton Bay at 2 p.m., and left at 2 o'clock the following lnoguiug and arrived at the Buller on Tuesday lnoruilgat 6 o'clock. Left ihc same evening, and brought up off the Grey at daylight yesterday, came in at 8 o'clock. Had strong yariaulc winds alj the passage. When at the Buller the schp'oncr. Fancy, whilst eiiteringthg river, by the sputl} chai ncl at low water, \oqk. the ground, and th.c strong fresh sea swept hci : ou the §puth sjiit, she remained hard and fast when the left, bumping heavily. W^^The s.§. Airedale arrived at Hokitikn from X Syducy pn Friday. She brought 40 pas- . jsengers. ' ' The linp schooner Storm Bird left. Mcl; bourne on the 4th inst., with a lriode'rate breeze from the northward. Passed, Swan Island on the .mcniing of thefith. On the 7th the wind set in from the N.E., and conr iinued to blow a strong easterly ' gale for nearly six days. On the 12th the wind shifted suddenly to the west," blowing a heavy galo, during which time a heavy sea ; ptruck the. yessel on the quarter, causing her to broach to, and sweeping a quantity of kerosene from tlie'^Ueok. Had variable ' ..■■! yincls for the rest" of Ihepassage,' and made Bold Head on ihe 18th. Airivcd off the **' prey at daylight on the 20th, and sailed iii • v - pyer the bar yesterday morning. ' The.'capt; r- taiD, who has had several years' experience in the New Zealand trade; states that he ■'••" never encountered such a stormy passage as the one jtist made. Messrs M 'Kinnon . and , Murray, ship : yrigUts, have commenced building a schooner ' to wie order of Mr M. Joyc^, of Port Chalwhich will be einployifd l>y him for the K^«nve3 r anee of powder from> ships in harbor - ' toßthe Magazine. Her • dimensions are 38 fee^pver all, 34 feet kc'clj' 10 .-feet six inches; l^lieamSand four feet six inches depth of hold.; carving capacity will' be abo\it l^^ins %Ijt,-pn a light draft of watcrrpffci 1 ; Kr.d dein pests are of b]\ie : "gtiiu ; and fian.e of native red. nrdii \it\\ plai.kiiig r.iul "decks i

"will be of kauri. She is to be copper-fast-ened throughout, and coppered above the water-line/ When completed, slie will be schooner-figged, and from Tier model, she will prove -a very handy craft and a fasi sailer. As' a jfowder-boat, she will' be hatched over, and fitted with lightning conductors, and all other precautions taken faith.; safe transhipment of powder. Mr Joyce was for some time the supervisor of the 'transhipment of powder 'in Hobson's Bay for the Victorian Government. --.Daily Times. ■"* Notice to Mahijtbks. -Constsnt Bay, Pakihi.— A 'flagstaff 'has been erected on the North Point, "where the following signals will be shown :— lied Hag at masthead': Boats can enter. Blue flag, half-mast : Low water, wait for tide. White Hag : Entrance danger jus, surf too heavy for boats.— Buller .River.— A signal station* hag also been established on Ihe South Beach, ' where the siune signals wiii be used as at the Grey and Hokitika. T. Sneyd Kynngrsley, Warden. November 17, 18UG. '1: ' "ExcrriJ.o Scene at Okartta.— The bar ; was the scene of an exciting incident on Thursday evening, when numerous' specta ; tors on shore were for some time interested ami alarmed by the probable fate of a boat which had attempted to make "the entrance on arrival from Bruce Bay. It was at the time well on 'tpwar/is. 'dead low water, and j although' there' was only a very light surf, a strong stream was running out, and running for a considerable distance parallel to the bealh in a southerly direction, an extensive saiHl r bank"havii)g"lorihecl across the entrance proper. As the boat approached the liver, the crew lowered the sail, and took to their oars, pulling steadily in over the outer line of small br. akers. There were, on very reasonable grounds, fears that they would not Jje able to stein the outward current, but bjfore they bad 'reached even so far' they came to grief, and were for some time 'iix a position of eminent danger. Touching her bow on the tail of the spit as she rose over a breaker, she broached to, and a few waves soon filled her,. 'and sent her crew over the i side. There' was ari^uiiineiliafe rush " of 2«oplc to the beach, aifd there was an alarm: that some of the liion were being carried!; away by the current, several dark object!; being seen in the water, but these proved to. be some empty kegs, which were subset fluently washed ashore. The men stuck to) their boat,' ami Captain Heron's boat bavin J been launched, the two hands which consti* tute the harbor crew, along with a voligjj tecr, pulled down towards the spit^BP beaching their- boat on the ixuutij/j^^ ' sisted the men to bail out aatf<?**VlV K 'i aS I into the stream. AjjP*^ 1 "! the h ™* . after all had [W'™™" 6 , exertion, and at fmu^**^«" un " er a 15 fj above the wattr Aj^iJlßut intervals, this was accomplished, tJ.e boat was brought safely up to the landing' place, the crew having every reason to be thankful that their hazardous experimei.t of attempting to enter against the ebb tide ai d a strong outward ' current," had not a more ' s jrious tennimitpn. — Wextlund Obsereer. The schooner Falcon cleared out at Dunedin for the Grey <m tlife (sth hist. Tl c folhiwing information was telegi'aphed from "Wel!Jngton ori'tnc " 14th inst., and is pu'> isheel in the Ohristchurch papers : — • file s.s. tif. Kilda, from the Chatham, ri'po ts, sati f «ctorily relative to the liauhau prisoners. The Sda Serpent, Captain Blair, is quite "gh en up a? lost j§ it has been missing four mouths. The Flying Cloud had put iv there in a leaky condition. The barque Liz. Ie Scott, ' from- Wellington to Callao, Avas Avrccked n\ the south cud of the Chathams on the 3n. i'.st. The ne.vt morning the crew took to the boats, and after sailing 30 miles they reached a Maori village, and walked to Waitangi, Avhere an enquiry was held, a 1 id a y^rdict of negligence returned. Tiie cri w came up in the lit. Kilda. The A.S.N. Company's s.s. llaugatira left the roadstead for Nelson, Wellington, an.l Dunedin yesterday afternoon, immediately afler the transhipment of her passengers and cargo Avas cli' ctcd, bhe sailed from Sydney on the 10th iust., and made a fair fun of betAvcen live and six days from land to land ; reaching the roadstead at early morning on the l(ich. She has been detained here two days by tempestuous weather, but will. Are trust, makeup for this loss of time by a sn. art run round the coast. The liangatka brought 70 passengers, and live tons of cargo.: — W. p. Timed, Mpn.lay. Tiik Okaiuta Habeok-boat. — The ]Ve<f-. land ObseiTif says:— "The harbor officials here, when examining, a few days ago, the boat belonging to that department, made a rather unsntisfactorj^ discovery. The Loafc is furnished inside Avith Avhat Avas purported to be cork floats covered with caimis, and so attached to the thwarts as to prevent her from sinking if filled Avith water, or to enable her to right herself if capsized. These were examined a day or tAvo ago, and; behold, the cork was -found to be roit.n. This was bad, but it seen cd so far satisfactory that the cork only served as an outir coA rering to ajjparently air-tight cylinders, constructed of tin. It Avas worse, hoAvevei, when these cylinders were found to be filled with Avnter, instead of the proper element— air. The apparatus avHs, in fact, better calculated to sink than to float the boat, and to ensure the destruction rather than the safety of life in the event of accident. The discovery Avas a complete explanation of the fact that the boat was always a heavy one ; and it is certainly satisfactory that it Avas made in the ordinary course of harbor duties, and not on the occasion of an inquest into some irretrievable disaster. Ifc is unnecessary to say that Captain Heron at once rectified the matter, procuring without much difficulty a supply of corks, and manufacturing floats upon Avhich some more dependence may be placed than those which, yn the discovery of their character, were very properly condemned. • The N.Z.S. N. Company's f.s. Taranaki, Fraiuis, commander, sailed fjpm Hobson/s Bay on the 10th inst., and {;rrived in the Hokitika' roadstead on the 10th inst., having experienced thick easterly Aveather from the Auitralian coast. She has been detained off the port two days by bad weather, but yesterday succeeded in landing, her passengers, 70 in number, and will, Aveather permitliiip, s.ail for Wellington to-day.— JK, CJ. -Timeis, Mondaj'. The M, .md A. S. S r Co..'ss.g. Gothenburg. H. Mackio, commander, left Hobson's Bay at 4 p.m. on the Bth inst., Avilh a moderate S.W. breeze and thick weather. After clearing the Straits the Avind shifted to theS.E., and freshened up to a heavy gale, bringing the steamer cloavu to closereefed fore-and-aft convas Avith the engines going a quarter speed, . The "blow", continued for 48 hours and then abated, and during the remainder of the passage moder rateN.JS. Avinds and thick. Aveather wasex« perienced. The Ncav Zealand coast Avas sighted at 6 pjm. on the 14th, and Hokitika roadstead reached the following rnqmirip, but OAving to heavy Aveather and an impassible bar it was n'pt imt'ilthe 18th that the Gothenburg succeeded iii landing her passengers, 120 in number. She avt.s to sail again for Melbourne, yesterday.— lK. G. Times.