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Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 682, 2 June 1870, Page 2

The brig Magnet has turned out her large cargo of 240 tons of general merchandise in splendid order,. landing the whole of it by means of the donkey engine in ten working hours. This is very smart work indeed. ; Yesterday afternoon she took in a cargo of coal, and she will positively . be towed to sea for Melbourne this forenoon. She has accommodation for a number of passengers. The schooner 10, Captain Wade, left Port «Philip Heads on the 15th May, with light variable winds and weather overcast ; from the ,17th iUp .to the 29th encountered ' strong easterly gales, with a succession of •light variable winds following up to the 26th; 'had a strong south-west gale on the 27th £*a& 28th; with hea,yv. i ßeaw^n.e. *£>*??•* fiU , ing ner decks lore and aft; made the land between .Hokitika. .and Bold Head on the 30th ; but owing to calms and light winds, did not arrive off the port until early yester- ' day " morning. She was towed in by the. Dispatch at noon,' and commenced discharge . ing cargo shortly afterwards. She brings a \ full cargo of general merchandise, consigned to her owners, Messrs Glenn Bros. .' A passenger by the last San Francisco 'steamier to Auckland supplies the following particulara of a wreck i— " The steamer ; Golden City, belonging to the Pacific Mail Company, left San TJTancisco February 18, with about 300 passengers. We had been . out ; from port about 13 days and 19 hours, an'dhad run about 1000 miles, when, on -the morning of the 22nd, the first passengers on deck were' alarmed at finding the steamer '. running head on into a thick fog, and hearing the heavy roar of the breakers, apparently in close proximity to . Point Lazurus, Lower Shortly before seven a.m., just as the tables were letdown to breakfast the steerage passengers, the ship was felt thumping against the bottom, sufficient to cause a ;:rusn on deck. She rode over this obstruction, and careered on with slightly diminished speed. .She kept on her course, without any . change of position, for about two minutes, when she struck again with great force. It , -seemed as if it was intended to drive her ..over that, but all efforts to clear it only drove her farther on. The engines were then reversed, with a view to backing off. It was too late, she was hard aground. Her ; fate was sealed ; at this juncture she careened from side to side, with fearful force, sending men, women, and children, .into prostrate masses over the decks. The passengers were all landed safely, and afterwards picked up by the s.s. Colorado. Most ; of the baggage was lost." The steamer Colorado, while on her way up, passed so near the point that she discovered thesignals of the wrecked party. The Colorado could not take them aboard at the place of the wreck, but anchored in Santa Maria Bay, 23 raiZes distant, and tue passengers had to walk that distance across a desert of sand hills, and some of them were left there. Provisions and water were put ashore for nine passengers left behind.