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Grey River Argus, Volume X, Issue 864, 4 May 1871, Page 2

The s.B. Omeo is making her way very slowly round the ports, and need not be expected here until Sunday or Monday. The S.S. Alhambra is due to-day at Holdtika, from Melbourne direct. On arrival here she will be despatched with passengers for all New Zealand ports and also for Melbourne, via the Bluff. The weather changed on Tuesday night to a strong nor'-west gale with heavy rain, - tending home a lumpy sea. The p.s. Dispatch ranUflt yesterday morning, finding 'over ten feet of water on the bar, and the channel otherwise good, and would have brought in the Magnet had there not been a gale of wind blowing. She will be towed to the wharf ■when the weather moderates. The s.s. Kennedy, Captain Whit well, arrived at the wharf yesterday morning, from Nelson, Westport, and Hokitika. Her cargo could not be landed yesterday, in consequence of the heavy rainfall, but it is expected to be got out this morning, and should the weather moderate, the Kennedy will leave on the morning's ti e for Westport and Nelson. The West Coast Times of yesterday says that the brigantine Sarah and Mary, of Messrs Spence Brothers line, came to an anchor in the Hokitika roadstead on Tuesday morning from Melbourne. The schooners Annie Beaton and Anne Moore, which have arrived at Melbourne, from Newcastle, New South Wales, met •with heavy weather on the passage. The former about sixty miles frnin Kent's Group experienced a gale which lasted forty- eight hours, and in which she shipped a tremendous sea that carried away six stanchions and the biunacle, besides doing other damage. The Anne Moore also encountered % gale off Cape Howe, where she was struck by a heavy sea that carried away her galley and did other damage on deck. The steamer Lioness was successfully removed from her position on the south beach yesterday morning by the aid of the warps and winches, and has suffered little or no damage to her hulL The wheel rims were slightly bent, but a few hours work of the blacksmith has placed them in order, and it is, weather favorable, contemplated by Capt. Nolan to tovr in the Zephyr and Sarah aud Mary, from Melbourne, and the coasting vessels outwards, the Kifleman and Dagmar. Captain Nolan has made a satisfactory declaration before the Collector of Customs as to the cause of the disaster, and the present efficiency of the vessel, which will do away with any official enquiry as to the accident. Her certificate, therefore, remains in force as hitherto, as a seagoing vessel.— West Coast Times, May 3.