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Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 630, 1 February 1870, Page 2

The p.s. Dispatch in her northward passage encountered the full force of the gale oil Friday afternoon, and experienced some slight damare. She. however, reached Nelson in ~~^ goott-iunn,. a-nd-Ja-j;o-ha-a.fc_Qnce pat Jttnon jthe gridiron, and immediately on her leaving that will receive the slight repairs necessitated by the trip. She will not be able to return quite so soon as was expected, but we believe she will at the latest leave Nelson for this port on Thursday evening next. The s.s. Oineo left Nelson yesterday moraine for this port, where she may be looked for this morning, and will be tendered by the p.s. Lioness, which will come up from Hokitika to render that service. Sue will take passengers and gold for Melbourne direct. The s s. John Perm is looked for either tonight or early to-iuorrow morning. She is announced to leave on Wednesday forManukau and intermediate ports, affording a fine opportunity for intending visitors during the Btay of the Flying Squadron, as return tickets are to be issued at single fares. A correspondent of the Fiji Times complains bitterly of the interference, by the missionary ship Dayspring, with the schooner Jeannie Duncan, while the la*ter was conveying some native laborers from Tanna to Fiji. Hesays, "On the occasion of her last trip to Tanna, and back to Fiji with labor, the^ Jeannie Duncan fell in with the Dayspring;'the latter came alongside the Jeannie Duncan, and called out to the Tanna men, 1 Have you come away of your own accord, or have you been kidnapped ? If yon have been kidnapped jump overboard, and we will pick you up.' This conduct, if pursued by a ship belonging to the African squadron, might not be considered unjustifiable, but when adopted by one in command of a missionary ship, I feel that it calls for emphatic remonstrance ; it was going out of the way, and impertinently interfering with another man's business ; surely his zeal must have outran his discretion. Actions like these appear like cheap clap-trap to court the applause of Exeter Hall. What right has the commander of the Dayspring to meddle with the legitimate business of any Fiji planter?" The correspondent then proceeds to show that the natives on board the schooner had not been kidnapped, and that a fair engagement had been entered into with them.