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Grey River Argus, Volume X, Issue 810, 2 March 1871, Page 2

Thes.s. Oineo, from Melbourne, is expected to arrive at the Bluff this morning. The |>.a. Ch'irles Kdward is expected this morning, anil is announced to be despatched for Westport and Nelson (forwardinir passengers to Taranaki and Manukanl to-night at midnight. The Kennedy, belonging to the same line, will sail for the same ports on the 7th inst. • The schooner Waterman, Captain Le Bmn, is rapidly di-<charfiiMg h<:r cargo, and is announced to leave the wharf on Saturday, f <r Melbourne direct. She has first-rate accommodation for a number of passengers. The schooner Mary Van Bvery, Captain Deuchass, frim Dunedin, showed up iv the roadstead yesterday, and was brought to thewharf on the evening's tide by the p.s. Dispatch. She made the run round iv nine days, and generally experienced fine weather. She brings a large cargo of general merchandise, a portion of which will be sold by auction to-day, alongside the schoouer, by Messrs Nancarrow, Henderson and Co. Tue American whaling barque Matilda Seers, five months out from Hobart Town called off the Otago Heads last week with 900 barrels of sperm, and 150 barrels of other. whale oil, and bone, for the pnrpose of t-an-ahipping her cargo to a vessel at that port bound for the United States. A pilot

boarded her., and _cave hp.r master the iuformation that his vessel would be taken in free of all charges, but that there was no vessel at present loading for the States. Whereon the barque proceeded on towards the Bay of Islands for surplus stores, where such were kept for American whalers. The whole of the oil was obtained off the Otago coast.