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Grey River Argus, Volume VI, Issue 399, 4 August 1868, Page 2

The Panama Company's s.s. Airedale did not put in an appearance off tins port till Sunday morning, having been detained at Hokitika. The p.s. Dispatch made an attempt to tender her pn {Suuday morning, out did npt succeed in crossing the bar, as she shipped five enormous seas in succession which smashed in the forehateh, and rendered it an extremely perilous proceeding to B* through. Cp,p.seqpentlj f , she returned c Vharf after a seVere dressing. During ay tie Airedale stood off to sea, ami Returned early yesterday morning, when she was tendered' and dispatched with passengers for New Zealand ports, and pver 2000 uzs of told for England, to be tVftushippe.d into the ftakaia at W eUingtou We notice that the Panama Company's 8.8. Tararua, from Melbourne, arrived at the Bluff/ on Sunday . She will make a tour of the ports this trip, and will be finally despatched from this port for Melbourne pn or about Saturday next. The two Quo coasting steamers Nelson and Kennedy, belonging to N. Edwards and Co., arrived ' iv pprt on Sunday morning. The former is from Kelson via Westport, and has made a tine run, having left Nelson on Friday last and Westpprt on Saturday evening. The Kennedy is also from Nelson via Westpqrt, but went <>n to Hokitika, where she was detained. At Westport she shipped 4000ozs of gold for Hokitika Both steamers brought large cargoes and a considerable number of passengers for this port. The p.s. Persevere has been detained at Hokitika during the last few days, owing to the Btat« of that' bar and the heavy aeaß fanning outside. The Hokitika bar is reported to be in a very bad condition. The West Coast Timts of yesterday says : — The bar is now situated nearly one-third of a mile north of the turn round the end of the North Spit into the fiver, and inconsequence a long and dangerous reach — open to a b padside sea — has to be traversed ere the port or roadstead can be gained. Add $o this a very sh/illow bar, and seamen familiar with the port may form some idea of its blocks' >ed condition. A moderate flood, however, \i all that is needed to put the place to rights again. The result of the enquiry into the wreck l| the Hobart Town brig Daniel Watson, at Lytteltou, is as follows :— The Court found tliat the loss, appears by the evidence to have been caused by the ship fragging her anchor; that the only fault that cau lie frund with any of b,er crew is that, through an error of judgment, the mate Thomas Harvey did not let go the second anchor so early as he. ought to have clone \ and that no blame can be attached to master, officers, or pilot, beypud {he error of judgment above referred, to.