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Grey River Argus, Volume XI, Issue 939, 31 July 1871, Page 2

The p.s. Lyttelton, Captain Scott, arrived on Saturday morning from Nelson, Westport, and Hokitika. On the -way up the river the current was too stiong for her, and her master preferred to hang on to the shingle-bed on the. north-side until next tide, when she came alongside the wharf. She leaves to-day for Nelson direct. The B. s. Kennedy, Capt. Whitwell, arrived from Nelson, Westport, and Hokitika on Saturday morning, and left again the same evening on her return Northern trip. Tbe B.s. Gothenburg was in the roadstead on Saturday morning, and was 'tendered by the p.s. Dispatch on the tide, which put on board of her 25 passengers for Melbourne. Her inward passengers and cargo were landed at Hokitika. The schooner Ocean Bird, Captain Judge, from Kaiapoi, was brought to the wharf yesterday morning by the p.s Dispatch. She left Kaiapoi on the 14th, and experienced very heavy weather throughout the whole run. In the Straits, on the 18th, she encountered a yeiy heavy gale, but did not carry anything away. She arrived off the Gi ey bar on Tuesday morning, the 25th instant, but, in consequence of the prevailing bad weather, could not be brought in, and since then had been knocking about off theport, experiencing the full force of recent gales. She brings a full cargo of produce, and is consigned to Messrs Nancarrow, Henderson, and Co. The s.s. Murray, Captain Palmer, from Nelson and Westport, arrived at 7.30 a.m. yesterday, with the West Coast portion of the English mail, via San Francisco. She was detained at Nelson for four days waiting for the mail, and then received a telegram to leave without it, but could not, on account ot the bad weather, and had to remain in port twenty-four hours after the mail arrived. She left on Thursday last, at 2 p.m., but as the weather was very bad, Bhe dropped anchor at Totaranui ; left there at 2 p.m. on Friday, and got as far as the Spit-end, where sbe had to bring up, as a very heavy gale was blowing. Left again, the same night at 10.30, and arrived at Westport at 5 p.m. on Saturday ; landed mails, passengers, and cargo, and left the same tide for Greymouth, aniving as above. She leaves on Tuesday morning for Hokitika. A notice in the last Government Gazette to hand states, that in future the following shall be the scale of light dues chargeable upon vessels arriving at the ports of Greymouth, Hokitika, Westport, and Okarito : — Sailing vessels from beyond the colony, arriving through Cook's Straits from the eastward, twopence per register ton ; steam and sailing vessels, coastwise, from any part of the Middle Island or Stewart Island, to the eastward of a line drawn from Cape Farewell to South Cape, or from any place within or passing through Cook's Strait.