PORT OF GREY.

Grey River Argus, Volume X, Issue 853, 21 April 1871, Page 2

PORT OF GREY.

HTGH WATER This Day— ll.2o a.in.; 11.34 p.m. ARRIVED, April 19-NU. SATMTO. April 20— Luna, Fairchild, for Wellington. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Kennedy, from Hokitika. Caledonia, from Dunedin. Magnet, from Melbourne. Waterman, from Melbourne. Waipara, from Hokitika. Kangitoto, from Melbourne. VESSELS IN PORT. Dispatch, tug-steamer.

The s.s Gothenburg is expected to leave Nelson with the English mail via San Francisco for this port and Hokitika this morning. She may be looked for to-morrow morning most probably about noon, and will proceed on to Melbourne after landing her mails and passengers. A surf boat for the new landing service at Timaru is being built at the ironworks of Messrs Sparrow and Thomas, Cumberland street, Dunedin. Its dimensions are — length 40ft, breadth of beam 10ft, average depth sft. The framework is composed of 2-inch angle iron, and of timber stringers 6 inches square ; the inside stringer through the middle of the boat in the direction of stem to stern, being 35ffc in length. Each stringer on the inside has a corresponding one outside, both with the plates between are firmly bolted together. The plates in the bottom of the boat are three-quarters of an inch, the] upper plates a quarter of an inch in thickness. There are air tight compartments, both fore and aft, for the purpose of floating the boat, in the event of its getting swamped. On the top of the air tight compartment at the bow is an iron platform for the boat's crew to stand on. — Otago Daily Times. The brig Eliza K. Bateson, from the South Sea Islands arrived yesterday, and Captain Whyte informs us that so ye of the islands have been visited by vessels which were kidnapping the natives. On the 17th January called at Sydneham Island, Kingsmill Group. Mr Hoggin reported that while the second officer of the Tyra he was lying at Pitt's Island, three Tahitian vessels visited the places — viz., one barque and two schooners. They called at Captain Randall's head station on the island, and demanded provisions. Fortunately, Captain Varney was at the lagoon at the time, and sent Mr Hoggin, the second officer, and a boat to the station to protect the place. The vessels then went to Clark's Island, and Captain Randall's agent reports that the barque captured eighty of the natives. They were enticed on board under the pretence of bartering for goods, and their, canoes were then cut adrift. The natives made an attempt to escape, but were shot at and some of them killed One native was shot in the chest, and fell dead across the thwart of the canoe. The vessels fired the premises on shore previous to departing. The names of the vessels were not ascertained, but the barque is said to have formerly been the American whaler General Pike.— Sydney Town and Country Journal.