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Grey River Argus, Volume VIII, Issue 597, 13 November 1869, Page 2

Thes.s. Wallahi sailed for Westport and Wangamii early on Thursday ■mornins. The B.s. Kennedy was expected to arrive »t Westport yesterday. She may, there r ore, be looked for here this morning or afternobn. Thes.s Omeo, from Melbourne, was yesterday at Port Chalmers. She may be expected here on or about Wednesday next, when she will ship passengers and gold for Melbourne direct. The outter Planet. Captain Bain, from Dunedin, arrived in the roadstead on Thursday about tide-time, and as a fine leading S.W. breeze was blowing at the time, her skipper determined to take advantage of the opportunity to sail in. This he did in fine style, coming to the wharf easily. She left Dunedin on the Ist inst., but the trip was protracted by light and head winds. She brings a cargo of general merchandise, and is consigned to Messrs. D. Maclean and Co. The s.s. Waipara ran up from Hokitika on Thursday, crossing the bar on the af ternonn's tide. She will tow down the lighter Isabella coal-laden to Hokitika. The Otago has been recently launched by Messrs Robert Duncan and Co., Port Glasgow, for the Albion Shipping Company, Glasgow. She is a composite ship of 1200 tons, and is for the Glasgow and Dunediu trade. A letter has been reoeived in Dunedin from the Messrs Hoyt. The steamer Albion has been sold for L 28,000; A portion of the wreck of the sunken ship Leichardt, which was, last November, run down by a steamer a mile below the Nore, has been destroyed. Divers attached to tl c Royal Engineers at Chatham succeeded in placing- five charges of gnn cotton beneath one side of the wreck, containing in all about 4001bs, eqnal to lOOOlbs weight of powder. It was fired by voltaic agency. The result was that it carried away one-half the wreck. It is intended to resume the operations in a i few_ days, when larger charges will be fired against the remaining portion of the wreck. — European Nnil, Her Majesty's frigate Topaze, just homo from the Pacific, got into a dead calm on Aug. 7, in lat. 42.45 N,, long. 28.20 W.— a little northward, and westward of the Azores. The calm was one of those great stillnesses of the sea which are rarely witnessed in any 9one, and certainly not with especial frequency near the western isles, at least for anything like the length of time during which the husn of the elements on the present occasion appears to have continued. At sunset on that day no fewer than sixty-two vessels were all lying asleep upon the sleeping waters, not a breath of wind ruffling the glazed roll of the ocean, the splash of of every flyinf-fish an event, the falling overboard of a beef-bone causing a commotion. One of these vessels, the Agra, had been locked in this trance of nature for fourteen days, and the frigate had to supply her with provisions, bo that the calm must have lasted a long while before the Topaze drifted into it. Sixty-two sail visible from the masthead at once on the wide Atlantic, and not one puff to blow the vane-ribbon straight!— lbid.