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Grey River Argus, Volume VIII, Issue 572, 16 September 1869, Page 2

The only arrival on Tuesday was the ketch Jane Elkm, from Hokitika, timber laden, whioh sailed in over the bar at 4 p.m., with a fine westerly breeze, and came alongside the wharf. Yesterday morning the p.'s. Persevere arrived from Hokitika, with a cargo of general merchandise, and sailed on her return trip in the afternoon with a cargo of twenty-five tons of coal, The s^s. Murray arrived in the roadstead early in the day,.but too late for the morning tide. She lay at anchor until 5 p.m., when she crossed the bar and brought up alongside her own wharf, She is from kelson, Westport, and Hokitika. The cutter Satellite, from Motueka, with a cargo of produce, made her appearance in the roadstead in the afternoon, and was brought in by the p.s. Dispatch on the tide. Her cargo will be sold to-day by auction by Messrs Nancarrow, Henderson and Co., her agents. •A report has reached' Nelson '■ of a vessel having floated into:the Heaphy, no one on board, anchor jrone, cable draw-inrr Some mggeia nave~~taKen possession. They state that the vessel's papers have the name of Captain Sims on them.. She is supposed to be the cutter Pearl, which was: washed out of the Buller River during a late fresh. ' The last report as to. the raising of the s.s. Taranaki is:—"The foremast'head above water 6 feet; mainmast about 5 feet 6 inches under water; the bow of the vessel is close to the top of the water." We learn from Mr Allen, of the Saltwater Creek/who arrived in town yesterday, that the schooner Rambler, from Melbourne, has become a wreck on the south beach Okarito, opposite the residence of Mr Warden Price. The vessel, we believe, went ashore through having missed stays whilst attempting to go about. AU the cargo has been landed in excellent order and condition. It is expected that she will become a total wreck. - W. C. Times, 14th mst. A new coasting steamer is thus noticed by the Marlborongh Express: —"We have this week been shown a beautiful model of a Steamer about lo be constructed in Port Underwood by Messrs Norgrove, the owners of the Amateur. The lines are veiy graceful and proportionate. The vessel will lie ninety feet long, with twenty feet beam, and estimated to draw four and a-half feet when loaded. She is intended to trade between Blenheim, Wellington, and the Kaikoura." Qn Sunday last, as the schooner Canterbury, timber laden, from Queen Charlotte's Sound, was crossing the bar at the Wanganui Heads, the wind suddenly died away and she was drifted hy the current on to the sand spit. Fortunately the weather was afterwards fine, and she got off without serious damage, ' ' The A.S.N, Company, of Sydney, makes the following announcement in the Herald of August 23 : —" Owing to the absence of sufficient inducement, it has been found in » practicable to despatch the steamer Rangatira as intended. Since her withdrawal, however, it has been ascertained that several orders have been received in town, and if shippers will at once intimate to the Traffic Manager the quantity of cargo which they will individually engage to ship, arrangements may be concluded to despatch a steamer for Hokitika, Nelson, Wellington, Lyttelton, and Otago, on or about the Ist September." As the Rangatira has not yefc arrived at any of the ports to which it was intended she should be despatched, we may safely conclude that the vessel has been again withdrawn. Some time ago a seaman was missed from the schooner Storm Bird, at Wanganm\ Tho body of the unfortunate man has since bpen found at a place in the neighborhood called the Bluff. The name of the man was John Bowden, : .- The news brought from New York by the arrival at Liverpool of the City of Baltimore contain no tidings of the missing sci'ewatieainer United Kingdom, which sailed from New York for Glasgow on the morning "of Monday, April 19. From that date to June 23 is a long time for a steamship to be at sea on a trip from New York to' Glasgow, arid very serious apprehensions are being felt that slie has either foundered at sea in a gale, or has been wrecked on ari iceberg, or met with some other fatal accident in- mid-ocean, where :help nnd assistance wero> out of the question. The agents of the Anchor Line in New York express themselves still hopeful of the safety of the vessel^ as she is said to have been one of the strongest steamships ever built for Transatlantic service, ftiul btvl made upwards of eighty voyages acr**s the ocean with perfect safety tr» all on bonrd, altliojigi] bhe was. a prove!bially slow sailor, even under steam, hpr average trips being from figliteeii to twenty-five days. If Captain Htmhoiise was coirpelled by some accident |o stop the engines and to resort to wir.d as a sole propelling power, it is believed that porno difficulty ni;iy bftve born experienced in (he (tagging* of tho screw, and also in the

steering |rif the !ship t ai the screw interfered with th"4 keelw,a£er, an,d may tHe/e'forej have lessened the power'of tho rudder 'as to give the vessel a' more:"or leas drifting course. \ These are gi veil* as some of tho reasons yfiy . it is possible that the United Kingd<ihws still afloat, and making for a harbor. .fsut there arc some circumstances whichlesen the hope ao sanguiuely expressed by4rlondi»rson Brothers for the safety of the. vessel. The day after she left New York she was spoken by the steamer Manhattan 150 miles east of Sandy Hook. On the 2Glh <'f April}, the City of Paris (s.s.) arrived at New York from Liverpool, and reported that in the neighborhood of Cape Race she experienced very heavy gales from the westward, and passed a large number of icebergs. The United Kingdom steamed before the wind in these very gales, with these icebergs right before her ; and it is not beyond possibility that she may have been driven upon them, ■with no record left of her loss. — Scotsman.