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Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 694, 30 June 1870, Page 2

The fore-and-aft schooner Excelsior left Oamaru on the' loth inst., with a fair wind, for this port. She rounded Cape Farewell in two and a-half days, when strong contrary winds set in, and although she was off the „ bar eight days ago,. she was then compelled to go to the southward of Hokitika. She again .. arrived off the bar on Tuesday night, and was towed to the wharf by the Dispatch yes- ■ terday morning. In addition to the recently large shipments , from this port, the Omeo yesterday took away nearly three thousand ounces of gold, exported by the Onion Bank and Bank of New Zealand. In addition to this, she also took a full complement cf passengers. The agents of the Dispatch and the Gothenburg adopted a course of tendering the latter vessel that ensured the certainty of shipping and. transhipping intending passengers and arrivals and cargo, inasmuch as the tug proceeded to the roadstead at Hokitika, and there effected her work. We have often had to comment upon the ocean steamers passing without being tendered, so that the work ' done in this instance, by the agents shows the strong interest they take in keeping up regular communication. The outwards were four saloon and four steerage passengers; and inwards, three saloon. Ihe S.B.* Omeo, Capt. Calder, left Hobson's Bay on 1 the afternoon of the 14th June, and passed Swan Island on the following evening; encpniivli 01 *^ - l'»M^i| flTi "*! ,\u \\ T». nn t.hfi JWth ; discharged cargo, embarked passengers, «nd left at 5 p.m. on the 21st, and experienced thick, foggy weather until arrival t>fl\ Port Chalmers Heads at daylight on the 22nd ; cleared Otaco Heads at 5 p.m. on the 23rd ; -experiehcea light southerly winds to abreast jOtAkaroa Heads, and arrived at Lyfelton at 12.40 p. m. on the 24th; left , Lyttelton at 6.30 p.m. oh the 25th ;-experienced fresh S.W. winds and fine weather /throughout the passage, arriving off the bar > yestepUy morning early. She was. as soon m-^.-J*?? 9 "" 6 tendered by the p.s. Dispatch,! :«d afterwards proceeded to Melbourne via ;f HbWtika. • The s.B. Kennedy returned from Hokitika on Tuesday, and will leave for the north, . weatherpermitting to-day. ; . The wreck of the Star of the South has been sold at auction, at Napier, for L 175 ; the c0a1,. &c., realised L 296. We* learn from the Melbourne Argus of the 17th, that the brig Magnet, which arrived in port the previous day from Grey Jttver, reports leaving on the 2nd instant, with^a light north-east breeze, which on the - 4th instant increased to a gale, attended with thick rainy weather. On the sth inst. the wind was from the north-west, light, and there was a heavy swell from the westward, which continued until the 9th instant, when the wind freshened into a strong gale from I the north-west, veering round to south-west, and causing a high cross-sea. Babel Island was made on the 13th instant, and since then light easterly weather has been expenenced. ; . The Sfagnet was the only vessel loading at Melbourne for this port when the Gothenburg left