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Grey River Argus, Volume V, Issue 311, 11 January 1868, Page 2

Tliep.s. Lioness left this poit for Hokitika yesterday morning. We understand that she is to take the place of the Challenge whilst the latter is. laid up for an overhaul. The p.s. Persevere left for Hokitika. yesterday morning. The p.s. Dispatch went out yesterday morning, and during the day picked up the schooner Florence, from Melbourne, bound for this, port, She brought her in last night. We are sorry to hear that our. old friend Captain Perkins has again suffered misfortune with his Vessel the Brothers and Sisters, on Sunday last. He had anchored for shelter under the Steeples, but was compelled to slip his anchors and chains and had to run into the Buller. for eafety. The Brothers and Sisters was bound from Hokitika to Charleston, and was 10 days out from Hokitika.. We are gJad to be able to congratulate the owners of the p.s Charles Edward on the relaunching of #>eir vessel, although a few hours ago we feared that we should have to tell a different tale. Tlip Charles Edward was all ready for being run down the ways in the afternoon ;. the i v elson was waiting jii the stream, with a line aboard, ready to tow her up when she got afloat, and everything aeemed to, promise a successful launch. The signal for knocking away the chocks was given, but just as she got on the lower set of ways they sprerd out, and of course dropped her on the sand, with her bows afloat. As the tide made the current canted her head to the northward, thus exposing her broadside to the swell, and at last she was placed broadside on to the beach. A signal was run up for' the Dispatch, which was in the roadstead, to c,oine to her assistance, but throug

some cause or other the tug did not leave her tow, althongh both were at anchor at the time. The Dispatch came in with the Florence at 9.15 p.m.. and after she had brought hqr to the wharf she returned t • render any help that n)i.>{ht be required, bnt by that time the Charles Edward was j a l<^at, and was towed safely up to the wharf Vy the Nelson. The Nelson will tow her to IS elson to-day or to-morrow. That ' "fast and favorite" steamer the P.areora has at last turned up again ! An Adelaide telegram of the ljth ultimo, states that she was spoken by the Hampshire from Cardiff on the 23rd September last The Pareora was then "under sail, 329 days oiit from Glasgow to New Zealand. She was oxit qf fuel, and intended going into Piraamhuco for coals." Considering that this clipper vessel left the last named place on the 2Jth July with HO tons of coals on board, to enable her to prosecute the remainder of the voyage to this place, it is exceedingly difficult to imagine what she lias been doing for ab,out two months to render it necessary for her to return to her starting point Verily her captain and the shareholders will all be grey-headed ere she arrives here. — D,unediu keening Star, Jan. 3. We learn ' from the West Coast Times that the M. A. and U'.Z.S S. Company's s.s. Alhambra, Jqhn Al'Lean, commander, anchored off the Hqkitika bar at o p.m. on Thurday, and so completed a splendid run of four days twenty-two hours from Melbourne. This fine steamer left the Wil Hair, stown Railway Pier at 5.30 p.m. on the 4th, and steamed down the Bay in distinguished company,' as H.M.S. the Galatea, with H.R.H. the Diike of Edinburgh on board, bound to Hobart Town, bid farewell to Victoria in the same tj^e, .and lec| the Alhambra through Port Phillip Hearts. They must have kept pretty close together during the night, as the Alhambra sighted the Galatea next morning off Nelson's Promontory. A couple of hours she was lost to view, steaming south. At two a.m. qn the sth, the Alhambra passed a steamer off (Jape La Trappe, supposed to be the Ilangitoto. Fine westerly weather was experienced during the I passage across, the land being sighted on Thursday, at noon. The Alhambra brought down ninety-live passengers, but no cargo. She sailed at 11.15 a.m. yesterday for Dunedin, aud after leaving Dunedin will call at Lyttelton, Wellington, and Nelson, then pome on here to leave for Melbourne direct about the 2()th inst;