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Grey River Argus, Volume XI, Issue 921, 10 July 1871, Page 2

lii our notice of the imports by the Wanderer we omitted the following items :- -334 sacks oats, 14 do wheat, 24 do bran, 10 do meal, 39 pieces bocon and hams, Glenn Bros ; 30 sacks grass seed, 9 kegs butter, 63 pieces bacon and hams, Orr and Co. We should state that the omission arose from the fact that the vessel had not at the time entered at the Customs, and that we had inadvertently thought that the items .enumerated in our Saturday's issue comprised the from Melbourne, showed up in the roadstead yesterday morning, at about half-past nine o'clock, but after dod«ing about for a short time put out to sea again. Whether she had made the coast rather more to the north than was intended, or whether she had failed to be tendered at flokitika, we know not. Most probably she had found the Hokitika bar closed for that tide, and had come on here to save a second call. In any case she will be in our roadstead to-day, and will, if the weather permit, be duly tendered. ,„.,.. It is stated that Mr J. Martin, of Wellington, has sold the steamer Ahuriri to a Southern firm at a small advance on what he gave for her, and that she will proceed South in a few days. Thes.s. Murray left Westport not before yesterday afternoon, having been detained by bad weather and heavy sea This unavoidable detention at Westport has completely dislocated the subsidiary English Mail Service, as the branch steamer from Nelson leaves to-day, aud no other opportunity, has been afforded for sending on the West Coast portion of the outgoing English Mail. We understand that the mail made up at Greyrcouth was very small, so that probably the accidental missing of the present outward mail will not be productive of any serious public inconvenience. The brigantine Sarah and Mary, and the brifantine Zephyr, both from Melbourne, -were towed into Hokitika on Friday. The Dagmar, for Oamaru, and the Cleopatra, for Lyttelton, sailed on the same day. The recent accident to the s.s. Murray at Westport, which occurred whilst the captain was making an effort to render assistance to the s.s. Wallabi, then in danger, evoked the following testimonial, signed by a large number of Westport residents and passengers by the respective vessels :— " To Captain Palmer, s.s. Murray. Dear Sir— We cannot allow the circumstances of to-day to pass unnnfip.ftd Wh,ite we congratulate you upon and manly spirit which induced you to offer assistance to a brother sailor, whose vessel was in distress, and apparently in imminent danger. Your readily offered services, suggested by the natural impulse of a kindly feeling, would no doubt have proved successful, without extraordinary risk to your own vessel but for the altered and unmarked changes in our river entrance. That you were not able to help the Wallabi is not attributable to any want of energy on your part ; and we, as residents and travellers on the West Coast of New Zealand, take this opportunity of expressing an appreciation of your conduct and seamanship on the occasion."