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Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 740, 15 October 1870, Page 2

The ketch Jane Elkin, from this poit, arrived at Kaiapoi on the 9th inst. The Angelina sailed from Kaiapoi for this porton the Bth inst. , with the following cargo : — 860 bushels oats, 102 do wheat, 5 tons potatoes, 17 bags peas, 14c wt cheese, 197 dozen eggs, 2 kegs butter. The s.s. Kennedy left Kelson on Tuesday at noon, and arrived at Westport on Wednesday at 11 a.m. Owing to the heavy Tain she did not discharge cargo that day, but did so on Thursday ; left the Stiine day and arrived here about midnight. She was expected to leave here ab midnight for Hokitika. The p.s. Lyttelfcon left Wangauui at midnight on Sunday, and arrived at Westport on Tuesday night. Discharged her freight of cattle aud sheep at the South Spit, aud moored alongside the wharf at noon on Wednesday ; left again on Thursday and arrived here during same night. She took in a cargo or coal, and left at 2 p.m. yesterday for Westport. The schojner V/ild Wave, Capt. O'Brien, from Lyttelton, was towed to the wharf yesterday by the p.s. Dispatch, after a firstrate run. She brings a large quantity of produce, principally consigned to Messrs Kennedy Bros. Tho brig Magnet, Captain Cliuskill, for Melbourne, will be towed to sea at one o'clock to-day. All her ample passenger accommodation is taken up. The s.s. Alhambra, Captaiu M'Lean, is once more on the New Zealand coast, having arrived at the Bluff yesterday morning from Melbourne. She may be looked for in this roadstead in about a week. CLiaa, papers revived by the last mail state that the steamer City vi Yeddo, p tying between Yeddo and Yokohama, had burst her boiler and foundered in shallow water, just as she was leaving Yeddo, having 140 passengers on board. Key E. Cornea, wife, child, and servant were killed, and several other Europeans were wounded. The Dewdrop, IS tons, twin-screw steam cutter, has lately been creating a "sensation." She is a pretty little craft. Her lower mas fc,, serves for funnel, and there is a tiny discharge pipe just above the copper abreast of it. She steams fast, and the strange sight of a full-rigged cutter moving swiftly and noiselessly along, without any other apparent cause than that of actual animation, was rather surprising. One of the quickest passages on record has just been made from Quebec, via the Straits of Belle Isle, by the Allan Company's steamer Scandinavian, commander Bailantiue. Ihe Scandinavian left Quebec on the afternoon of July 9, arriving in the Mersey on the morning of July 18. This splendid passage was thus accomplished in eight days sixteen hours, according to nautical time, aud including stoppages. The particulars of a very fearful collision near tbe. Equator, which resulted in. the foundering of the Royal Berkshire, of Sunderhind, and the loss of seven lives, have been received. The ill-fated vessel left Port Louis, Mauritius, about the 9th of April, with a cargo of sugar, for England. She crossed the line at midnight, on the 27th, at 1.40 a.ra., weather thick. The look-out man reported a light on the port bow, which proved to be a red. light within a quarter of a mile. Cap fcain Grant, the coinmnnder, came on deck at the moment. Tbe helm had been put hard a-port, anil the captain repeated the order to put the helm hard up. fn the course of a minute, and whilst the ship was still falling off a green light came in view, anil almost instantly the strauge sail struck the barque right abeam on the port side, and she immediately began to sink. Six of the crew who were forward in the Royal Berkshire had just time to jump on board the stranger, which proved to be Ihe ship Bengal, of Boston, United States, Captain Burgess. She lowered her boats, and remained by the spot uutil after daylight. Two more of the crew were picked no on a spar the next morning by a boat from the Bengal. Those who perished were the master, Captain Graut, and his sister, two Heamen, and throe apprentices. Captain Burges3 landed the survivors at Rio, on June 16th.