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Grey River Argus, Volume VI, Issue 373, 4 June 1868, Page 2

To-day the Panama Co's branch steamer Airedale, to connect with the ocean mail cteamer at Wellington, will leave with mails and passengers. Thep.s. Charles Edward will leave for Fox's and the Buller, and tli6 Star of the South for Auckland via Nelson ■ The Panama Co's steamer Claud Hamilton end the p.s. Southland, both bound for Mel' bourne, are also announced to leave to-day. None of the steamers that have been moored at the wharf for the last few <iay3, have been able to leave in consequence of the very heavy weather outside. The Bruce was to have sailed for Hokitika on Tuesday night but Captaiu Kerlev very wisely kept inside. Tbe Star of the South, under orders for the Bnller and Auckland, is similarly detained. The Pacific Mail Company wfll in future run a weekly line of steamers between New York and San Francisco via Panama, the first steamer under the new arrangement to arrive at Panama on the 16th inst. This change is a highly important one for the Pacific Coast and Australian passengers, as it will insure them against detention at Panama under any circumstances for more than a day or two. The heavy south-westerly "burster" that has prevailed on this coast during the last two days has resulted in at least one shipping disaster, the ketch Nile, bound from Charleston to Hokitika, having been driven ashore <>n the North Beach on Tuesday evening. The Nile left Charleston at 3p. m. on Friday, with a light northerly wind, passed the Grey at 11 o'clock, and reached off the Arahura at .4 a.m. on Saturday, when the wind chopped round to the southwest, and blew her back to Fox's by Ip.m. At about 6 o'clock the same evening the wind changed, and the Nile was enabled to reach the Hokitika roadstead when again a heavy south-west gale sprang up, and on Sunday night she ran out and dropped anchor off the Saltwater. She rode put the gale until 7.30 p.m. on Tuesday, when her cable parted, and she was compelled to run for the Grey, but owing to the strong northerly current, she was unable to make the entrance, and was driven ashore about half-a-mile up tbe North Beach. Before stranding she was repeatedly swept by heavy eeas, but was beached without injury, and will probably be got off without much difficulty. The Nile uada small cargo of coal and skins.