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Grey River Argus, Volume III, Issue 168, 9 February 1867, Page 2

Yesterday there was a most excellent bar, there not being less than 14 feet qf water, an/I the channel is now straight in, The steamer Dispatch yesterday morning towed out the schooner Qce%n Wave, bound for Melbourne, and afterwards took h<r dcv partnre for the Buller and intermediate ports, expected to return to-day, and will, be probably laid on for a trip to the ijaaet-Eicec... . Ma^.vb Signals. -t-A proclamation by the GoveKqor in Council, under the . " Marine Aot ? 186,6.," appears in the Gazette of Jar, 29, making tiio following regulations, viz.- (1) That the flag to be earned/ by a.ny yess.el from other than New Zealand ports when entering any porfc in New Zealand, Until boarded and cleared by the Health Officer, shall be. No. "8 of Marryatt's Code of Signals at the niair, (2) That the flag to be carried by any vessel in any port in New Zealand which has gunpowder on board in excess of the usual ship's stores, until such gunpowder be landed or transliipp3d, shall be a red flag at the main. (3) That the flag to be carried by any vessel employed in carrying her Majesty's mails," when, entoring any port in New Zealand, shall be Marryatt's telegraph flag at the main. *—Lyticlton Times, Feb. 4. The biug Jackmel Packet.— A runaway case w Her seizure at Aspinwall. .-— The American brig Jaekmcl Packet, of 1.20 tons, Captain John A.. Dawes, owner and master, reached Aspinwall on the 14th inst, from Singapore, under very suspicious circumstances, and has been seized by the U, S. Consul at the former port. It appears that the vesseJ sailed from Singapore with a cargo of pepper, mace, nutmegs, tapioca, cobre fibre, pearl sago, &c, worth $20,000, under a charter from Rauteuberg, Schmidt and Co, of that port, and was consigned to Haege and Co, of Melbourne, Australia, for which voyage his papers were all made out in regular order. This fact _alone created considerable suspicion, which was increased by the various rumors set afloat as to the cause of her ".'com-' ing to; .Aspinwall, one reason assigned by the captain being that he had put in through distresSto; procure new sails, &c. On obtain-, ing her papers, Consul Rice found that the ' vessel was originally built iv the States, afterwards transferred to the British flag, and then illegally transferred back again to th^UMted Statesflag, -by -the U..S. Consul ; ' The charter party, and other papers 1 proving a direot case of barrahy, were ateofound in the vessel, and having procured the fullest evidence; of an attempted ■■ swindle oh the part of the ciptainjCojisulßice seized the vessel audplftceu a' guard of niai-ibes from the U. S. ship Mackinsaw on -board of her. Immediately -on hjer arrival at /Aspinwajl, and previous to seeing the Consul, the captain disposed of the. cargo for .about half; its; value to Mr Ponalisio, but that gentleman declined having jiny thing to do with it on. hearing ; the 'circumstances. Mr E; W. Cffwanr Llbyd ? s^|gent "at' Aspinwall, reri(leTedConsul^i^^eryVdßcient service in bringing e^deSceiito- light iv regard to this. c^ii^a^Jivaiid to both these gentlemen jvieit^cretljt is due/for; the ess with

which they ferreted out all the particulars connected therewith/, and 'the steps taken immediately to briq'g the. culprit to justice. Of course, wq nrcsutn>, ; Consul Rice wi!lplace the vessel: at^ %$, (lispog.il of his Government, so that the actual owners of the cargo will in the end lose nothing beyond the I ilkkiy.—rPanama Bta7\ I