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Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 742, 20 October 1870, Page 2

Yesterday afternoon the p.s. Dispatch towed to sea. the schooner Wild Wave, bound for Lyttelton with a cargo of coal. The s.s. Waipara returned from the on Tuesday morning, and sailed the same afternoon for Hokitika. The s.s. Ean^itoto. from Melbourne direct, is due here to-morrow morning. On arrival she will take passengers for Nelson, southern ports and Melbourne. The s.s. Alhambra may be looked for here on Saturday, when she will ship passengers for Melbourne direct, also to Adelaide and Sydney. After much delay the s.s. Wallabi has fina'ly completed her repairs, and was to have left Wellington- on Saturday last for Wanganui The s.s. Stormbird is said to have been chartered by Messrs Seaton and Davidson to run with cattle from Wanganui to Auckland. A Mrs Gillibanl brought an action in the Court of Common Pleas, under Lord Campbell's Act, against the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co., to recover compensation for the death of her husband, who was drowned in the Carnatic in the Red Sea, in September last. The vessel struck about 1 a. in., but did not go down until 11 o'clock ou the same morning, and the main question was, whether the defendants' servants could, by reasonable diligence, have saved Mr Gillibard's life. The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff for L3OOO. Some interesting particulars are given by of registered vessels belonging to ports in New Zealand The vessels are classified as being of and under 50 tons and above 50 tons, and are of course divided into steamers and sailing vessels. At the end of ISG9, the Colony owned 3SI vessels, with a tonnage of 25,990. They were distributed amrnjj the various ports as follows .—Auckland, ICI vessels of 10,113 tonnage; Wellington, 24 vessels of 1896 tonnage ; Napier, 8 vessels of 364 tonnage ; Nelson, 25 vessels of 1167 tonnage ; Lyttelton, 66 vessels of 4772 tonnage ; Dunedin, 69 vessels of 7401 tonnage ; and Invercarnill, 8 vessels of 217 tonnage. The ketch Brothers and Sister, which left here a few days ago. has been very unfortunate qn_uer present visit to H okitika. When she arrived, and was being hauled to the upper wharf, she had the misfortune to swing across the tide, and her helm being starboardeil, the stream caught the other bow, saooting her up .against the s.s. Kennedy ; through this she lost her jib-boom-The second mishap occurred on Monday morning during the freshet. She broke adrift from her moorings, and got iuto collision with the ketch Huon Belle, this itme carrying away her fore-topmast, a circumstance to be regretted, as Captain Perkins will scarcely get so good a stick at Hokitika.