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Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 747, 1 November 1870, Page 2

The s.s. Eangitoto, from Melbourne, was hourly expected yesterday, but up to teu o'clock last uigbt she had not shown up in the Hokitika roadstead. She i 3 anxiously looked for, as she is expected to bring the English raail-via Suez The schooner lo was towed out of Westport by the s.s. Wallabi, on Friday last, bound for Melbourne. The p.s. Charles Edward was towed over the Buller bar on Thursday morning last by the B.s. Kennedy. She proceeds to Nelson for repairs. The schooner Wild Wave, from this port, arrived of Lyttelton on Saturday week. The schooner Sarah and Mary arrived at Hokitika on Thursday, after an extraordinary quick passage of six clays, which, but for the vessel having List her spars, would have been accomplished in twenty-four hours' less time. On the 20th the Martha and Lavinia entered out at Melbourne for Greymouth, and the Maid of Erin for Westport. The Alma was announced 'o sail for Hokitika on tLe 2Snd and the Enngiboto on the 26th. The Echo >nei Ceres, Captaiu Murdoch, from Melbourne, was towed into tbe river on Sunday, and to the wharf yesterday, after a splendid run down. She left Port Philip Heads on the 21st ulfc., with strong westerly winds ; cleared the Straits on the 22nd, and had strong northerly winds until the 24th, after which she carried strong southerly breezes until making the land off Bald Head, ou the morniug of Friday last, thus making the run from the Heads to the land in seven days. ' Unfortunately, she was bee ilmed between Hokitika and Bald Head all Friday and a portion of Saturday, but she worked lip to the roadstead on Sunday morning, was pukjd up by the p.s. Dispatch, ami brought into the river. The river was rather lovethan usual, and as the Ceres was drawing over ten feet of water, she took the ground on the ridge opposite the lagoon mtranso, and remained there during the night. About forty tons of cargo were taken out of her by the p.s. Dispatch? and yesterday afternoon she was plated safely alongside the wharf. She brings over 200 tons of general merchandise, in first-rate 'order, and is consigned to her owners, Messrs Glenn Brothers. We have to thank Captain Murdoch for late Melbourne papers. There are more than thirty German merchant ships now lying in Falmo.ith harbor, and one Saturday morning recently the men to the number of over 100, got up a demonstration on .account of the recent German victories. They hired a steamer and sailed round the harbor, a band on board playing national tunes. The authorities having re° fused permission for a procession through the streets of Falmouth, on the ground that it might lead to a collision with some Frenchmen who were in the town, the Germans landed at Trcfusis-wood on the opposite side of the harbor, where they drank patriotic tonsis and sang patriotic song?. Fortunately there are at present only two or three French ships in the harbor. The screw-steamship Somersetshire, of Messrs Money Wigram and Son's fleet, was telegraphed off Cape Otway yesterday morning from London and last evening she was berthed a* the railway pier, Suidridge. This is the fifth voyage onfc to thispovtif this fine vessel, and it is also rfhe of the most successful in point of time, freight, ami pas- ' senger.s which she has yet accomplished. Steadily, voyage after voyage, she is narrowing the duration, and but for an awkward mishap to her machinery on September 8, which occasioned a delay two days, her present performances would have been the quickest in her brief career. As a passenger ship the Somersetshire is rapidly rising in popularity, and her acminodation from saloon to steerage on the present voyage has been amply patronised. Amongst the saloon passengers were the Hon. C. Sladen and Mrs j Sladen, Mrs Harrington and family, Miß3 \ Hepburn, and other names well-known in

Colonial circles. 11l her between decks she I Carried 45 second cabin and 194 steerage pas- 1 sengers, the majority of the latter having come oub here under the Government wardahfc system.— Argus, Bth ulb. ' Four captures of vessels under tLe fla<2[ of the German Confederation were reported at Lloyds; two were taken off Malaga by a French gunboat, namely the Brilliant, bound from" Taganrog to'Anwtordnin. The other two were also captured off Malaga by the gunboat, but their names are not yet reported. Six North German ships have put into Harwich to avoid capture*; one was a barque from the Avesfc coast of Africa, Laden with palm oil &c. ; another f;om New York, with oil ; another with flax, from Eussia ; anothor from the West Indies, with a general cargo; and the others with grain. One North German barque has left for London ; and a brig has also ventured round lo the Bristol Channel. There are more than thirby German merchant ships now lyiug in Falmouth harbor. At Dover and other ports several of the German vess-jls are war-bound.