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Grey River Argus, Issue 282, 2 November 1867, Page 2

B*tf*~!Rhe &.Q. Airedale, the branch steamer ■ whicß carries the Panama mails and passen- ■ gers lto Wellington, is expected off the bar ■ : to-ddy, when she will be despatched with H ]o,oj6oozs gold and passengers. We see H t'lere are 10,000 ozs waiting for her at ■t Hokitika. K The bar during the last two days has been K beautifully smooth, and the channel conmsnues straight, full, and deep, \vi,th 14 feet •yii&st. ___ lW'^rnsuieo arrived off tb^s port on Thursday morning, but passed on to Hokitika, wher« she was, on the same tide, fe tendered by the Y arra. She returned to this T purt yes.ter.day mgrnipgy and the Persevere, I \mbg arrived, took outj her passengers and I nearly^ 11, QODO3 pi gold, whkh. were tTauI smppeifat once, and the Omeo steamed away L* on her "voyage to Melbourne. Ik '•> The tug" Dispatch and Persevere returned l^jfr^uTtheir trip to, Hokitika yesterday. T. he ere appears to ii« none the worse ior mishap, at Hokitika. p.g. Nelson arrived- off the bar about on Thursday night, and when the PR§»cohs were lighted ran in about 11 o'clock, I'M landed a nuniber of passengers. , She is Nelson,, but last from the: Buller, and hrpaghk a\s?g& ipaaaiity o{ produce aud stock, which were landed, yesterday. A quantity of cargo was shipped yesterday for Northern ports, and about the N.elspn left the rryc&on her return

''i^ftirium, jumped overboard. Captain | i&llls immediately ordered the boats to b<s 1 iwerell, and he rowed about for half-an-hniir, b'pt no signs tf the unfortunate man c mid beMiscoyered. The ti\;| r steamer Favorite, Captain Adams, steamed, over the bur about 1 p.m. on Thursday. !ipe left Port Chalmers shortly before 7 p.m.,; on Thursday, the 24th, going north against a strong N.E. breeze until reaching Bank's Peninsula, which was rounded at noon on Friday. At 4 a.m. on Saturday moriiif, she passed the s.f. Keera off the Kaikoura Peninsula. The wind freshened and for four hours blew a gale from the S.W., which was taken advantage of by cracking on every stitch of canvas, and at 1 p.m. Cape Campbell was passed, when the weather became calm. At 6 p.m. she was off Wellington, heads, when the. wind shifted; to the N.N.W., blowing fresh, and she ran into Torey Channel, and anchored fpr the night in Oyster Cove Next day, Sunday, a strong gale was. blowing from the N.W., and the anchor was not got up till 4 p.m., when the Favorite steamed fop Ship Cove, Queen Charlotte's Sound, and came to an anchor at 6.30 p.m. Cm Monday a strong breeze still blew from the N.W., aud the vessel was again under weigh at noon, running as far as Current Basin in the French Pass, where she had to come to an anchor and wait j for tide ; blowing strong from the west. At ' 4 a.m. next morning, ghe was again got underapigh, and started for Nelson, with light WW. winds, where slie arrived at 9.30 a.m. Here, on Tue3day f the 29th, she took in fifteen tons of coal, sailed at 4 p.m., with light S.W. winds, and came to an anchor at 7.30 p.m. in Tonga! At 4 a.m. on Wednesday morniig, she was again under weigh, was off the Spit at 7 a.m., rounded Cape Farewell at 11 a.m., with the wind from the S.E. when >he spoke the's.s. Murray, bound for Nelson ; pissed Rocks Point at half-past three p.m., where there was a heavy head sea running ; passed the Steeples at 3 a.m. on Thursday morning, from whence she had light winds and fine weather fco this port. She ran alongside the wh«irf, but shortly afterwards dropped down the stream and commenced work by putting her tow-rope on board the schooner Australia,' wjth the intention of tewing her to sea, but some time was lost in getting her auchqr home, and the tide was consequently lost. Yesterday morning she took the schooner over the bar, and steamed away for laokifcjka, which is her destination for the present. Early on Thursday morning, the schooner Anne sailed over the bar^ bound for the Pakihi, and about mid-day the p.s, Bruce left the wharf and steamed for Hokitika, taking about tifty passengers, j The full details of the narrow escape pf the s.s. Kennedy from foundering on the Mokihinui bar during her last trip to Nelson are coutained fa t2ie ye?3on Colonist of ttie 29fch ult., from which we take the following extract .-—The Kennedy left the Grey on Wednesday at sp. m. , and entered the Buller at Ba. in. on Thursday. The same day she left Westport at 4.30 p.m., and cross id the Mokiuinui bar at 8.30 that evenivg. where she moored iuside f oy the night. At d. \y light on Friday morning, she commenced discharging her deck cargo; but as the morning passed, the fresh in the river increased so rapidly that only a few'tons could be got out of the hold, and prepai -ations had to be made for leavi «g the river. ' The hatches were then put on, but— such was the violence of the current— as soon as the operation was completed (it had been raining heayily since eleven o'clock the previous night) all the moorings were carried away, jyid the vessel was swept into the middle o£ the i-j ver by the force of the <stie.ain. The port anchor was still down, and 50 fathoms of cable were payed out tp hold the ship iv ppsiticm until the deck cculd be cleared for crossing the bar, at the same time steaming full speed ahead to keep her up to the anchor. In spite of all this, the increasing force of the current was too much for the ship, and she dragged her anchor at the rate of four to five miles an hour. Then Captain Carey saw that nothing could be done but slip the chain ; and this being effected, he tried to get the vessel out stern first, as there was* imminent danger of her going broadside on to the sh«eaj», then ! runuiug at a very lapid rate. Shortly after this, she struck her stern on the North Spit, and carried away her steering apparatus, slewing rftund broadside on to the sea with i her head to the southward. TChe captain i immediately set men to work tp 1-ppk on I relieving tackles. "This took some lime to [ accomplish^ as the seas poured on the vessel I and nearly washed the men overboa?d, and , frequently during this very hazardous Qperai tion daslung therax away from the stern, as the steersman had repeatedly been washed i away from the wheel. ' "At this critical moment the engineer reported that there were from two to. three feet pf water in the engineroom, and that the coal aud ashes weie washing ab.(>ut so" violently" as to preclude men working at the iifes, aiid, consequently, the steam was going down rapidly. Fortunately a sufficient" pressure of' steam was maintained tp,keep the vessel go\ag ahead or astern in the swing oi the current, and aho to keep her off the beach, lentil the steam strengthened aud the. relieving tackles were hooked on and secure^. Tile engineer by-and-by repprtcd '.'more steam,'' a/id the helm being put "hard-a-port," the steamer went full speed ahead yi order to, get her head to the sea. This, 'however, was «ot accomplished uaial she hack' gone o^itte a mUe south of the entranse. At length, getting her head to the sea, she got through the break. During the occurrence uf what we have been describing, the sea was making clean "breaches aver the ship, the green sofid breakers decending on her deck in massive bodies of water.' - The' cabin doprs were carried away, and about two feet of water was in the' saloon. One' boat was all but wrenched frp,m thp davits, ami the ore along->svle-4tt tow .v&ensbi broke away itom hey moorings— wai3. picked up,in the tyeaic on the bar by means of the winch aiui. brought on deck. The peril of the tf me was very great, as every one on hoard felt. The euergy and readiness, together with the cool prompt seamanship of Captain Carey were the theme of every tongue, and that feeling received expression in a testimonial, signed by the Superintendent and^ other passengers.