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Grey River Argus, Volume IV, Issue 256, 3 September 1867, Page 2

The Panam^ branch steamer Airedale will leave here for Wellington, with passengers and specie, to : day. We learn from the West poast Times of yesterday that the Airedale was lying at the Bluff on Saturday morning. A westerly gale, however, blew\ith such fury threw the Straits, that Captain Kennedy .determined tc depart from the usual route via Fpveaux, and make for Hokitika iiprth about. The Airedale left accordingly on Saturday at noon direct via Cook's Straits. '".' The Hokitika bar ih reported as being now jn good condition,, both wide and deep. On _^-ounday the depth of the channel was from r }2 to 14 feet. . ' We learn that the cutter Dart is ashore at the Buller. The report ia that on the passage down the vessel Sprung a leak', and her captain was compelled to beach her to secure both vessel and cargo. The cargo has we understand been Tanded wiijjjoiit much damagej. . We regret to hear that there ia every reasp.li to fear that the schooner Emerald Isle has foundered off Constant Bay, during one of J;he heavy squalls which burst on this coast last week. ' Our information is to the effect that ishe had cleared ont from Charleston without sufficient ballast, and whilst in the roadstead was thrown on her beam ends, filled,' and sank with all hands. ... A few minutes before the squall burst she jvas seen by another schooner, but after the gale subsided she had disappeared. The Emerald' Isle was tVe property of Mr Alcora pf this town. ' " '•'• A portion of the keel of a vessel, with some planking attached, v was ' washed up at the Saltwater -township, on Sunday. " There is nothing about the wrepk tfllead to its identity, and probably it \s a portion pf some yess'el wrecked south.' ' ' ' ." ' It has been announced that the general rce/iting of the Panama) ' "New Zealand, and Australian Ro3*al Mail Company will be held on Friday, the I2th of July, 'but that from exceptional causes," which' will be fully explained in the directors 1 report, a loss has been sustained iv connection with the company's local lines in New Zealand, and consequently the accounts do not admit of a dividend. The Panama service, it is" stated, has been worked ai' a profit from 'the first,' and the traffic is increasing in a very satisfictory. manner. A unanimous decision of ihe Court of Queen's Bench was given on June 28 in favor pf the conipany in the suits of "Lord Gilbert itennedyv. the Company," and "Tb.e Cpnipany v f Lqrd" Gj|ber.t Kennedy," the legal points involved 'in which are noticed elsewhere. It has been notified that ihe warrants for j;he ' jnterest ' for .ithe halfyear ending June 3jj, oh the company's debentures, were payable at Messrs Robarts, Lubbock and C v q oii July l.—Ho??ie 2fetcs. The P.,N:Z. and'A:R : M. Go's s.s. Kaikoura, Captain Machiri, arrived at Wellington at 9a. in. on August 27. The Kaikoura left Panama on July 25, at 3.32 p.m. ; called at Pitcairn Island" and delivered 'a mail on August 10; "sighted Opara on August 13 ; since then' had head 'winds ; sighted land about Castle Poiuf; on August 26 at 3 a.m., and Pencarrow Head aj; 11.30 p.m. on the Bime day. Lay on and off till the morning of August 27, ' Passengers— Fom London _ 4 _ior Wellington : Mr 'and "Mrs' Duncan, Mr. Mrs, and Miss Carter; for Napier : Mr Dunnage and Mr Russell ; for Nelson :Mr Cross; for Otago : Mr Strelitz ; for Auckland: Mr Coillet ; fpr Melbourne: Mr Maurice (2) ; fjr Sydney: MrMacdonald and Mr Macaulay. From New York for Melbourne : Mr S. Bates and Mr Soloman ; for Wellington : Mr and Mrs Dime-ham, and Mr H. Pearson. There have been two deaths on board during the passage. P. Henderson, a second-class Eassenger from London, was found dead in is bed. , A seaman also died. The latest dates are : Londpn, via Southampton, July 3 ;'via New York, July 10. ' ' ' ' We learn that the command of the Panama steamer Kaikoura, rendered vacant by the dismissal of Captain Machin, has been coh- -' f erred on Captain Darke of the Eangitoto, who will proceed to Sydney immediately on " the arrival of the Rangitoto at Melbourne.The West Coast Times of yesterday informs , us that on' Friday' the Rangitoto Was compelled to slip her anchors to avoid a collision" with the Omeo, which, dragging her anchors, had drifted until her quarter was in a line ■with the Rangitpto's starboard gangway, arid once when lifted on a heavy sea, was hove so close to" the latter that an'active man might have jumped' from one vessel to the other. The danger was really imminent, asa terrific sea ran, but the presence of mind displayed by Captain Darke, who shouted to the Omeo ' to port her helm, and at the same time gave his own, Vessel a sheer to r port and then dipped," averted a catastrophe that might have resulted in the loss of one or both - veseels, and many lives. Both steamers ■ stood to sea^for the night, and next day came io again. Thi Rangitoto haying two hundred x^sengers i on board, ran short of supplies, r^md K^epairtureiherefore was unavoidably j^^oo*]intir yesterday niorniiit. ,y