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Grey River Argus, Volume III, Issue 186, 23 March 1867, Page 2

Thep.s, j)espatch has^jg^fe^fs good .•work. On Saturday; ; lasf^pe •■ left for . Fox's with a full cargp.and.several passengers, s^nd' returned on -Monday; morning. She left • again the;^anieiiight for the .-game. pprt. v and f >cV»nicd on Tuesdjiy nioniinf', leaving again

.the same evening withjppassengers and a small cargo, and retunfl&g. oh the following morning. Left on anotuor trip on Thursday nipriang, with sixteen' tons of cargo and 47 pass jngers, and upturned on Thursday night, "wh'jn she laiidei\4xer passengers, and went outside to- ; _wa^fpr the Mary Stewart from Melbnurne,«nd' the Crest ofthe Wave from Du-iedin, which vessels she brought in yesterdiy morning. _The w p;,W.2^Q A.R.M. Cos., steamer Ji^ont, Captain J. Vine Hall, commander, cleared Wellington Heads at 6 p.m. on the 19th and arrived at Nelson at 6a. m. on the 20th. Sailed again at 9.30 p.m. the same day, and arrived off this ijort'at4 a.m. yes.' t ;rday. Had strong head winds from Cape Farewell. The p.s. Persevere took out to her eight passengers and 44590z. of gold, i-he Egmont sailed again at 9.30 so as to reach Hokitika in time for the same tide. We are indebted to the purser for complete hies of northern provincial papers. The Mary Stewart left Port Phillip Heads on the 10th instant with a light westerly wind, which changed to the east with clear weather to the 13th. From the 13th to the 17 th had strong S.W. winds. On Friday, the 15th, shipped a heavy sea, which carried away part of the, port bulwarks, and shifted the deck cargo. Her foretopgallant sail was split, and the ship labored very heavily, large quantities of water coining outboard. The weather moderated on the 16th, and she had light^S.W. aud southerly winds until making the land on the 20th, at sa. m. Was towed in by the Despatch yesterday morn» ing. We learn by private advices from Oamara that during the late heavy weather- on the east coast two schooners came ashore there— the Vixen, and the Stately. The latter was anew Auckland-built craft, on her second trip, owned by her master, Captain Short and was S6 tons register. She came ashore near the new jetty works on the rocks, and was sold by auction asa wreck on the following day. The Vixen was more fortunate as she went ashore on the sandy beach, and will probably be got off. Severe Gale at Lvtteltojj-.— The Lvtklton Times of Monday last says.-— "Early on Saturday m<r.iing a strong sou-wester set iv accompanied by smart showers of rain and about daylight the wild, had increased to a terrific, gale. _The v.iad was a welcome visitant after the late drought, and as the day passed over with trifling damage to property on shore, and the vessels irithe harbor it was thought we should be spared the dil sisters experienced iv previous gales By three o'clock, however, waves were breaking over the sea-wall, washing away a portion of the soft clay into the harbor, and one or two small vessels had dragged their anchors, a few bowsprits were carried away, and some damage was done to bulwarks.- The gale still increased, and the sea also. The s s*Ahurii i arrived from Dunedin, but itlwas impossible to communicate, or laud the mail By five o'clock a large number of the watermen's boats had got swamped, and it was evident a nasty night was in store. A few of the watermen managed to haul their boats up on the wharf, and to place others in a position of safety near to the excavation made by erecting boatways in order to protect their frail property, but which has never yet been carried out. Ni g ht now closed in, the howliuo of the wind and the roaring of the sea in° creasing. : Cameron's lighter broke away from her mooring inside, the mole, near Officers Point, struck the tramway and sunk m a few minutes. The lighter Streamlet, a nne schooner, recently put into f^^^^L repair at a cost of over L3OO, fuaiHPS^^ to the same owners as J^t^Kl^Y nm M a broke adrift from herj^SiPF be J?"? U S from the shore. j^^|^?^ above l}S hteT > away her bowsprit, bult warks,t&c. but with the assistance of those on the wharf, and good warps, she was saved from sinking, and. brought round to the lee ' side of the Government, Jetty. The man in , charge had a narrow escape ; when the vessel Jaroke away from her moorings, he took to 3 the dingy— a mere cockle-shell; the dingy J was swamped by the sea, and he had to save j himself by swimming ashore, which he did ,» most gallantly, arriving in safety. When daybreak came, the shore was strewn with i the wreck of boats, £c, Mr George Plummer I and Mr Thos. Smeaton are sufferers ; theii 5 fine boats, known to be some of the best 5 owncd^by the watermen, are completely } broken up. The Custom-house boat has [ shared a similar fate. Fourteen boats bel longing to watermen are more or less damt aged, m addition to the loss of oars, sails, , and gear. The lighter What You Like, belonging to Mr Alfred Rhodes, broke adrift \ from her moorings, and was wrecked near to Sticking Point. • ■ The, yacht Flying Mist was I sunk in Dampier Bay, also a ballast lighter. , The Betsy Douglas was hot able to perform [ her usual trip to Pigeon Bay on Saturday. j On shore the damage appears to be confiued : to the fences and trees in the gardens. At , MrSmiley'B res-i lence, on the top of Bridle- > path, the painted fence placed rmuid the i house is nearly all washed down and dei stroyed by the storm-water from the Bridle- : path. Several other casualties have occurred, i but we have not reooived full particulars." The slip at Port Chalmers, lately in the • possession of Mr Isbisttr, was sold yesterd.iv, ; by Mr Daniels the auctioneer, for the small i sum of Ll4O. . Captain M'Kinnon was the s purchaser. -Daily Times, loth inst. The Eastward-ho has arrived at Sydney from New York under jury masts. She ; struck an iceberg, and carried away her foremast, jibboom, and forecastle. Her bows ! were stove, and her escape was altogi-tier ': jjmm;culouß. The Eivstward ho's pumps have : going at the rate of 600 gallons per hour ... since the 4th of Jainmry last, Port Charges— Auckland and 'MaxuI kau.— We find the followjug in the General i Goveniment Gazette ■■'pu'Sffiihed on the 11 th •instant :—"ln. order to obtain, from those who derive benefit from buoys arid beac «na at the ports of Auckland and Maiiukau, a ; contributiph towards the expense of the ! maintainance thereof, the Superintendent of the province of Auckland, ,by .virtue of the I power conferred on him by the Marine Act,/ 1806; dotii liereby levy the following port" ! charges, to be paid as hi the said Act pro;t yided —For every vessel or boat, whether [ coming from seaward or not, whether ex- ; emptied fr >ra pilota c lees or not; and whether i decked or not, and. whether propelled by ! steam or not, navigating or plying, whether i for hire or not, for every registered or mca- [. sured ton : If plying within the port, or em- ; ployed in coasting only; 'At! the port of ; Auckland, 2d per ton, quarterly. At the > portpf Manukau, 2d per ton, quarterly. If j not plying within the port, or employed in ; boasting only :At the port of Auckland, Id ; per ton. At the port of Manukau, 2d per I ton! To be paid each time such vessel shall ; ; enter' the said ports respectively : Provided ; that the port charges collectively made in one > half-year ajainst any brie vessel shairnot ex- \ cced sixpence per ton." [ kijn the subject of coating the .bottoms ofI iron ships, it is* popularly known that the • Great Eastern has lost five knots from the } iuipossi|||jty of cleaning her bottoni. Oui- > naval power depends on clean bottoms if , speed will give the victory to equal; guns. I Captain Roux contrives to coat the ironwork , with a sort of mastic, and thereon fastens > copper plates with copper rivets into countersunk lined holes in the ironwork. A vessel has >>een tried by the French Government' [ arid found to answer admirably. Another is • now about to lie tried, audit is thought that we may here hove a solution of a very im- ;' portiuit problem. The copper protects the mastic, the lnnstic the red :lend op the iroii. .':: London pajvr\ :;;^ :