EXPORTS.

Grey River Argus, Volume VII, Issue 520, 18 May 1869, Page 2

EXPORTS.

Per Magnet, for Melbourne : 82. hides., 15 bales skins, 1 bale wool, N Edwards and Co; 172cz 4dwts gold, J Stewart.

The s.s. Omeo, from Melbourne, arrived at the Bluff on Sunday morning, at 9.50 a. in. She left Hobson's Bay at 2 p.m. on the Sth inst., and cleared the Heads at 0 p.m. the same, evening- During the passage she encountered brisk easterly gales in Bass' Straits, which continued without intermission until the 15th, when they moderated. After this the wind veered round to the south-west, and remained iv that quarter during the remainder of the passage. She brings fourteen saloon and thuty-five steerage passengers, and 300 tons of cargo for all ports. "Yesterday morning the p.s. Dispatch towed to sea the brig Magnet and the ketch Elfin, both for Melbourne. The only ni'iival yesterday was the p. s. Yarra, from Hokitika. The p. 8. Charles Edward is expected here to-day from Nelsou and Westport. She is announced to sail to-morrow for Sydney direct, and will take only a limited numbeV of passengers. The & 8. liangitoto, from Melbourne, direct, is now hourly expected with the (English mail.: On arrival she will be dispatched with passengers for. Wellington and other New Zealand ports and Melbourne. ,A telegram from Dunedin, dated Sunday, 'states that the s.s. Alhambra Mas put ashore Jast night inside* the Heads, but she is on soft ground, and is not likely to sustain any damage. A tide has made, but she could not get off. She will be hauled off in a day or two. • ■ The s.s. Taiarua, Captain ffagley,' from Melbourne and New Zealand ports, arrived off Hokitika at daylight yesterday morning, and was at once tendered by the p. s. Persevere, which had been lying in the roadstead all night with the Grey mouth and Hokitika passengers aud mails for England via Suez. By .8 a. m. ahe was despatched for Melbourne. ' Her report states that she left Hobson's Bay at 3 p.Tn, on the 4th ;, passed Port Phillip Heads at 6 p.m., and cleared Banks' Straits at 5p m, next day, Experienced southerly •winds and cross seas to the land. Passed the Solander at J(s.a.m. on the 9th, and arrived at ~<JBluff Harbor at 11.30; left again at 4.30 p. mVsj-ndi experienced fine, weather, but. foggy ; amv^katPort Chalmers at 7a. in. on the 10th ; left at^rp^tnroirtfie'l lth, and arrived at Lyttelton at 10.30 a.m. next day. She then made the usual round of the ports, and arrived as above. On her last upward' passage to Melboui n% when about a degree west of. the' Solander, qho was caught in a terrific N. W. gale, and was hove-to for fortyfive hours, with the sea running mountains high ; the remainder of the rassage was niafle against adverse weather. Captain Hagley remarks that it was one of the rqughest passages he ever experienced. A touching story of a brave young life, •which was lost lately in the Bay of Biscay, is told by a. Dundee paper. The hero of it was apodr boy, the sole son of> a Scotch widow in the humblest, ciicumsbances. A few years ago he Mas sent for some offence to a reformatory, which developed a germ of good, that optimists say ia never wholly absent from the worst of our species, into a noble growtiv' of chivalrous manliness. A few | months ago he went to sea, bound for Spain. He never reached it. On the 4th of January the good ship Triumph was in. the Bay of Biscay in a storm, The, captain *<gave orders to stow the maintop-gallantsail, and not one would venture." Yes, there was one, poor "Jack Be_attie," the lad who had recently come out of a penal reformatory, willing to lay down his life for his mates. < They will henceforth speak in low tones of kindly affection of him who, but for the one chance more , offered by that reformatory, might have sunk •. ; ... into far deeper depths in simie great town* crime than was his fate when in the cause i f . duty hi« soul passed away, with the sounding | surge of the wild Biscayaa sea to aing a true . sailor's lullaby, ''Then," writes home a sol rowing shipmate: — •• Brave Jack, as I should call him, said, ' I will ve.iture any life to save the ship and crew, and if I die£ I will die at my duty,' and with that he went up j . the mast, with a smile oh his face. He had ! Scarcely towed the maintop when, to the horror, of the crew, a sea came which washed the' mainmast overboard, and poor Jack on it. Tell his mother and his friends that they may be proud of him, for he was a brave, son of Scotland. Poor Jack was my best friend." Poor, forlorn, social waif though "poor Jack" was', it warms the heart to think of him and his friend's simple little message from tha sea Other Jacks like him there are, if we would only patch them young and tame them, wandering as atreet Arabs aoout our great cities,, with plenty of " good grit" in them, who, if they could only get what Jack Beattie obtained, even through tho "hard lines" of a reformatory — just a chance — would from to time lst the world know what a brave Jack Tar is, made of.