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Grey River Argus, Volume IV, Issue 273, 12 October 1867, Page 2

The brig Clareudon, Captain Hughes, was towed into the river «n Thu rsday morning by the Dispatch, She left Williamstown on tlie 21st ult, and had a five run over until she made the laud on the 2nd jnst.- Since then , she has been detained outside by heavy weather. Although drawing over nine*feet «.. when sire was brought in by the Dispatch, ; she did not as much as graze thegronndbut wh.en qrosping the f}at in the river bc?ow the . Government Township she tcok the ground, and as the tide was fca L - ebbing shft was allowed to lie there till the pve'ning's fide, when, having been lightered of somc^if her cargo, the Dispatch hauledsher up to the usual mooring place. She hiu&t have got on a log on the river, for many of the bolts are started, and she is strained considerably about the main hatch: Conseq; c .tly during the last two days of bad weather a quantity of water has poured its way iuto the hold, and damaged a portion of the cargo. She brings a large general cargo of merchandise, and is consigned to. Messrs Qlenu Bros. The Storm. King, from Melbourne, was towed into the Buller on Thursday morning by the Lioness, 'The barque Nightingale was still off the Buller on Thursday last. She has on board nearly 500 tons of general merchandise, and on Wednesday the Lioness .towed out. the Rambler to lighten her j after winch she will • be towed into the river, by the Lioness. ■The P..N.Z. and- A.K. JI. Co's~Bteamer ""' Otago arrived at, Hokitika. from Melbourne pn Thursday, and i? expected to. leave (his port to-day for Nelson, Wellington and Southeni pcrts. The Phpebe,' which was expected yesterday from the north, is not coming to the coasVthi? trip. The s.s, Eg-, inbnt is advertised to be dispatcliecl for Sydney direct to-day. . The p.sT Tapmanian Waid, Captain Souter, left -this^pprt on Tuesday evening last, and inconsequence of the heavy sea running cpuld Kot call at iFpx's, , but ]>roceeded direct to the ; Buller, ■where she leached the wharf oh the ; ''fp]lowing'mb^mg.fltji,-»^-»;.tl^ft same day

for Mokihinui, and arrived the following _ I day. She left again at 5 p.m. on Thursday { evening, and with a freßh breeze and a good. ; gya nwuiing she made a fine run down the \ £-.iast, arriving off.this bar about 11 p.m. She ; iT'osasd the bar 'yesterday morning, dis- ! t.-hnrged ten passengers, and 23700z of gold ! f:-n- tije Bank of New Zealand, and moid i hsv-s siiiled again yesterday , but the weather j lniilwi! very dirty in the aftevuoon, and she • liK.ored for the night. . The s.s. Gotheuburg arrived off the bar yesterday morning, and was immediately tendered by the. p. s. Persevere, from which | she transhipped her passengers .and 24000z df gold shipped by the Union Bank of Australia. She then steamed away for Melbourne via Hokitika. We take the following account of her trip from the W. &. Times j of 'yesterday :— TheM., A. and N.Z.S.S. Co's , ; garner Gothenburg, T, Underwood comj mander, left Hobsou's Bay at 6 p.m. on the ■ | 26th ult, passed the Hends at 9 p.m., and r i plearcd the straits by Bank's Passage at 6 p. m. j next day. Moderate westerly winds and | tine weather were expsrienced until the'29uh, ■ when a strong N.E. gale came on, raising a high sea that checked her progress for twenty houi s. Next day the gale abated, and 1 \w\ was sighted, and at 5 p,m. she passed Solan- | der Island, and arrlyed off Bluff Harbor at I 11 {\m. on the Ist. Htive-to for daylight, and then ran in and anchored ;. • landed passengers, cargo apd mails, and proceeded on her voyage at 11 a.m., arriving at 11.31) p.m.' same <lrty, after an unusually rapid ran of twelve ai.d a half hour?, Discharged eighty tons cf cargo, received on board heavy consignments for northern ports, and coaled ; at 5 p in. on the 4th- instant put to sea for Lyttelfcor, and reached that portat 1 p.m. on the sth. There she discharged fifty tons of cargo, and left again at 9 p. in,, against a northerly breeze, which freshened to a smart gale'dur-ij)-,'the night, and continued, with a heavy hoad sea, until neon on the 6th. She reached Wellington Harbor at 6 p.m. on that day, I landed cargo and passengers, and sailed for Nelson on the next day at 1 p.m. ■ In the Straits she encountered strong head winds that defcvyed her arrival at Nelson until 5.30 a.m. on the Sth. Landed cargo, coaled, and sailed for Hokitika at 4 p.m. the same' day ; steamed up the coast against strong head winds and sea, and ai:ch rjd off the bar at 2 a.m. yesterday. Ths Gothenburg was - tendered on yesterday ? s tide by the Yarra, s which landed 170 passengera and the mails ; 3 whilst the lighter Isabella transhipped the [> seventy fe ns of cai'go brought round by her. | ; The cuiter lapwing left Greymouth on the ' , 23rd ultimo, with very light southerly and 'J c istc r'y winds, which continued to blow till s off Kecks Point, when a strong north-east n wind, with high confused sea, was encounl tcred until rounding Farewell Spit at 1 a.n\ , on the Jst instant. The wind then changed s to S.W., and veered round to N.W., which - carri>id her through the Straits ? passing ;■ Cape Campbell at midnight on the same daj' ; .1 light N.E. and northerly breezes and fine t weather were experienced for the remainder s of the passage. The Heads were e.itered at o 8 p.m. on Thursday evening (Oct. 3), and s she brought up in the cross channel for the o night. She brings a full cargo of Greymouth { coal consigned to order,— Daily Times. b Two sets of rocket apparatus for the aso sistancc of shipwrecked vessels on the coast 0 have been imported in the ship Red Rover 1 by the Canterbury Provincial Government, s One is for use on the West Coast, .and the J other f»>r Tirnoru. - s Paper BoATs.rr-George .A. Wateis.of ;, Troy, New York, has demor's^.rated that ', paper makes the best meterial f r shell boats, ;, Ity constructing one thirty feet long, which ■3 weighs only forty pounds, and is in every s respect superior to boats made of wood. It i, is quite thin, lighter than a wooden bra 1 ;, is ;, rendered impervious to water by a coating 2 of cil and other compoandr, and it is as--5 serted that it is more durable, and that it C will stan4 shocks which would destroy a 0 wooden shell. s Wiucck or Tup Manukau.— Intelligence 1 reai-hed town yesterday afternoon to the 0 effect that the N.Z,S.N. Company's threes ma: t:d schoouer Manukau was lost on Weds nesday night, and now lies a total wreck ; about four miles from Mahawatu Heads. 2 The mate and a boy were the only persons s drowned ; but when the person who brought s the intelligence into town left Manawatu, the 1 carpenter of the vessel remained in the rigs ging, and there seemed very little hope of , saving lum, owing tp the heavy sea that was - 'running. Most "of the crew got ashore in a ) boat, but Captain Bryant and a colored man •: saved their lives by means of pieces of wreck. - The survivors were stopping at Mr Langley's, , and were muph exhausted by their sufferings ; , otherwise Captain Bryant would himself 2 have ridden into town with tho sad news. S The Manukau was a three-masted schooner s of about 500 tons burthen, and was lately s refitted at a cost to the Compan}' of LIOOO. - She was, M'hen wrecked, on a voyage from i Newcastle, N..5.W., to this port, with a ; cargo of coal," which is insured to its full - value ; the vessel herself being partly , covered by insurance , — Wellington Independ- ) ent, October 5. V