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Grey River Argus, Volume X, Issue 813, 6 March 1871, Page 2

The 8.8. Wallabi, Captain Daniel, left Wanganui early on Thursday afternoon, arrived at Westport on Saturday mornins;; sailed again for this port on the same tide, and arrived at the wharf here on Saturday evening. She brings a full cargo of live stock, consisting of 50 head cattle and a number of pigs and sheep. The schooner Isabella arrived off this port yesterday afternoon from Lyttelton, and will be towed' in on this morning's tide. She brings a large cargo of colonial produce, consigned in its entirety to D. Gird wood and Co. The s.s. Kennedy, Captain Whitwell, arrived last nifcht at 7 p.m. She left Nelson at 3 p.m. on Thursday, arrived at Motueka at 5 p.m, shipped about 20 tons produce, and sailed again at 7 p.m ; steamed slowly down the coast, and crossed the Buller box at 5 ; p.m. on. Friday ; discharged abouf 25 tons ! tons general cargo on Saturday, left again at 9.30 a.m. on Sunday with the schooner In in tow, and arrived off this bar at 5.30 p.m, crossing through a heavy surf at 7 o'clock. She leaves for Hokitika at 8 o'clock this evening, returning to-morrow nlgib, and. will \ take her departure for Westport and Nelson. \ at I p.m. on Wednesday. That splendid clipper ship Thermoplas has j again arrived at Melbourne from England, after a magnificent passage of fifty-seven days. She is reported as having left England on the 29th December. Even with a latitude of two or three days, it is without j , exception the fastest sailing passage to the colonies on record. She must indeed be a clipper. Her former voyage to Melbourne and round to China, and from thence to London, was chronicled as one of the fastest voyages which had hitherto been accomplished. It will be interesting to learn the detailed particulars of her present trip to Melbourne, as her average sailing must, if accomplished in the time, have exceeded 250 miles per diem. The West Coast Times of Saturday says :— The clipper schooner Zephyr, which left this port on the 11th ult., arrived at Melbourne on the 2lßt, having made an exceedingly Tapid passage to that port of a little under nine days. Immediately after her arrival she was despatched for Willnnga in South Australia, for a full cargo of flour for Hnkitika, but at the latest advices received by her owners, Messrs ( hesney and Co, she had grounded in the West Channel whilst proceeding on her voyage, but it was expected she would get off at high water and proceed. Her departure from Port Phillip is not announced in the news received by the steamer' Tararna. Captain Worsp, of the s.s. Phoebe, has been presented with a letter and a purse of sovereigns by the passengers of the s.s. Airedale, for the promptitude with which he proceeded to their assistance on hearing of the wreck of that steamer. The following notice appears in an Auckland paper :— " The buoy which marked the Tranmere shoal, at the entrance. of the Manukau Harbor, is now away. Due notice will be given when it is replaced." A steamer has been recently purchased in England by the New Zealand Meat Pre-/ serving Company, says the Timaru Herald. The boat was originally built as a yacht for his Holiness the Pope, but as the bargain was not completed, she fell into the bands of the above company. On arrival in New Zealand she will, we hear, be put on the coasting trade, including Timarn as a port of call. On Wednesday last, the schooner 10, whilst beinz towed into the Buller by the Charles Edward, grounded j>jiMr6~Tj&r, and the tow-line partedr-boif was got on board again without mu«n difficulty by the HarborMaster's boat." The steamer went a-head, and the line again parted, not, however, until the vessel was in the channel. The HarborMaster being on board the 10, sails were set, and she sailed up to the mouth of the Lagoon. The barque Malay has made a good passage of 38 days from Mauritius to Nelson, with a cargo of sugar. We (Nelson Examiner) learn from Captain Peters that the crop last year is a short one, and that there wiU be 45,000 tons less than in the average of seasons.