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Grey River Argus, Volume III, Issue 139, 1 December 1866, Page 2

The s.s. Alhambra firrived at Hokitika, from Melbourne, yesterday. She brought 17S passenge'-s, and dates to the 24th i.nst. The P..N.Z., and A.li.M. Company's steamer Claud Hamilton arrived in the roadstead on Thursday, and was tendered by bqth fjhe Persevere and Dispatch, the latter remaining all njght to receive the cargo. The schooner Mary Stewart sailed from Port Phillip Heads oii the 2lst insfc, for this port. It is state<| in a Sydney telegram in the ZHelbourne papers that the P..N.Z., and A.R.M. Company's steamer Mataura will not have her repairs completed in time to take the Panama mails in December. £0000 if being expended on the steamer. The cutter Yplunteer arrived in the river yesterday from Pakihi, having left the Cove on the preceding afternoon at 3 p.m., with strong north winds and heavy rain. She ran ont of the bad weather that night, and reached the roadstead just in time to save jjhetide. The Volunteer reports that as she was leaving, the schponer Emma Eliza effected a safe entrance into the cove. . The schooners. Murray, Gymraes, and Sea Shell weye at anchor outside. The. latter vessel has suffered a most, disastrous detention, having been three weeks off the coast, and out of a' full cargo with which she is laden pnly succeeded in landing some seven tons. — W. V. Thnev, 22th hist. The s,chooncy Canterbury, belonging to Messrs Peacock and Co., which" has been undergoing repairs, at Messis Grubb and Allen's yard, Avas to have been launched yest'jday aftprnoon at half-past three. At forty-five minutes past one, while some men were employed in coppering her keel, tlae hawser which held her parted, and sl;e slid fiff the stp.cks into the water, passing through, the opening in the tramway for the Government works into the harborj without any damage. (She was decorated with flags and we believe a large number of persons were to have been present at the launch. — Press, Now 23