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Grey River Argus, Volume X, Issue 777, 10 January 1871, Page 2

The s.s. Tararua will not come round the West Coast on her prtsent trip ;*bnt will* return south-about from Wellington to Melbourne. The 8.8. Alhambra from Melbourne, and after doing her excuf^jpn trip to Milford Sound, arrived at the Bluff yesterday afternoon. The late telegrams brought by her will be found in another column. The B.s. Wallabi, Captain Daniels, from Wanganui and Westport, arrived on Saturday morning, with a cargo of cattle and sheep. She loaded up a cargo of coal, and left the same night on her return northern trip. The schooner Betsy Douglas, recently wrecked at Charleston, is insured in Christchurch for Ll5O. — The wreck is now cast ashore on the Nine-mile Beach, aboujb live miles from Charleston, we believe she was dragged in by a party of men who are expecting salvage. The beach is strewn with portions of the wreck, apparently of little value. A supposition might be ventured (says the Otago Daily Times) concerning the" wreck lately discovered near the mouth of ■ *he Tautuku. According to the Canterbury and Nelson papers of February and March, i'B6o, the ship Bnrmah, having *ou * board an unusually large cargo for Otago, Canterbury, and Nelson, and including a valualle consignment of first-class horses and cattle, together with 21 passengers, left London at the latter end of August, 1859, for Lyttelton, which port she never reached. She was last heard of, when spoken by the Regina, in lon. 97 E. and lat. 48 S., within 14 days' sail of New Zealand. This was on the 1 7th Nov., 1859. The opinion of the special constable, as published by us, was that the wreck, which lie describes as that of a ship, had plainly been lying upon the beach for some years, though a miner had informed him that he was prospecting on that beach in July. 1869, and had then seen no traces of it ; but it is possible that iv comparing notes of such a district as that a mistake might arise as to the precise locality spoken of. The constable also states that on the ship's nameboard were six letters partly obliterated, of which it was impossible to make out aay but the first one, which : ppjared to be a B or an F, the initial letter, ot course, of the name "Burmah" being the former letter, while the word itself consists of six letters.