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Grey River Argus, Volume X, Issue 786, 31 January 1871, Page 2

The s.s Gothenburg, Captain Pearce, from Melbourne, via the Bluff and coast ports, passed Greymouth early on Sunday morning, and arrived at Hokitika, where she could not be tendered that day in consequence of the state of the bar. Early on Monday morning the s.s Waipara succeeded in crossing and tendered her. She then came on here, where she was waited upon in the afternoon by the p.s Dispatch, which put on board nine passengers, and brought ashore two. No gold was shipped this trip. The Gothenburg then steamed away for Melbourne direct. The schooner Canterbury was towed to sea by the p.s Dispatch on Saturday, bound' for Lyttelton. A singular fact in connection with the arrival of the new steamship Queen of the Thames, recently arrived at Melbourne, is that news of her arrival was most likely received within sixty-five days of her departure from Plymouth. She was at King George's Sound on the Bth inst; the mail steamer Geelong carried that intelligence and was due at Galle on the 25th, from whence a telegram should reach London within twentyfour hours, thus accomplishing a feat which is -without precedent in our shipping news. The Cerberus arrived at Gibraltar "all well," after a rough passage from Plymouth. From the" Rock she proceeded to Malta. In a letter from Captain Panter to the AgentGeneral for Victoria in London, that gentleman expressed himself as highly pleased with his command, and spoke in high terms of the behavior of the ship in heavy weather, of which they experienced a good deal in the Bay of Biscay.