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Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 716, 20 August 1870, Page 2

The B.s. Murray, Captain, Palmer, from Nelson; MStiieka, WestpoWand Hokitika, arrived at the wharf on the- ebb-tide yesterday afternoon.' She brings a.large.cargoand passenger list, and will leave again for the North to-day.. • •'.-'. i ; Yesterday ths .p.s. Dispatch towed to sea the ' hrigantine ;, Waterman, . bound for the Clarence Tliver. The s.s. Waipara ran in yesterday froni Wesfcpprt, landed • a few passengers, arid left the same tide for Hokitika. v. The' s.s; •' Kennedy, Captain Whitwell, from Nelson, Westport and Hokitika, arrived at the M'harf on Thursday afternoon, &hd : took her departttre at midnight on her return northern trip. The 5.3. Claud Hamilton, from Melbourne,, arrive&i& fthe yesterday inioriiing. ; Th:e,. news Iwivught 'Ay-'he'r will be' : found in anothetecolumn; : The schooner Glengarry, 'which left this port the' other day with f, a cargo of coal, went ashore whflo being towed in to the Hokitika'Ri'ver by the Lioness. : .We were sorry to ., hear yesterday afternoon that she was -fast' going to pieces, and the cargo was being lost. .. > <;.-•.:, .-,•/! A race has taken; place between the j steamers John Penri'aud Charles Edward, from Nelson tp.W^nganui. The Perm left one hour and ;,^en minutes after the Charles Edward, which had a hundred tons of cargo on board*,, and arrived at the WanganniJ bar, a distance of a hundred and eight miles, ], ten minute? before her rival, thus beating her by an hour and twenty ininutes.