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Grey River Argus, Volume XI, Issue 1027, 10 November 1871, Page 2

The 8.8. Kennedy on-ired at Hokitika yesterday evening from Nelson and Westport She may be expected here this morning, and will be despatched on her return northern trip to-night. The 8.8. Tararua arrived at thh Bluff from Melbourne yesterday forenoon. She will come round the ports, and may be looked for here on the 16th instant, when she will take passengers for Melbourne direct. Telegrams brought by the s.s. Tararua inform us that the Kate Conley had sailed for Greymouth. The p.s. Dispatch, after towing in the schooner at Westport, arrived in port yesterday morning, and towed but the schooner Melbourne for Shoalhaven Bay, New South Wales, and brought in the schooner Garibaldi, from Hokitika. The American steamship Nevada was taken into the Waterview Bay Dry Dock lately, (for the purpose of being stripped, chalked, and re-coppered. The dimensions of this vessel are beyond the ordinary class of ships visiting this port, and from the fact of her beam being 70ft wide, will at a glance demonstrate the provisions that, are available for vessels of large tonnage visiting Sydney. Captain Donald, the Government Marine Surveyor, has examined the hull, and found that the stem has been seriously injured. The. main stem-piece had been wrenched to starboard from the 8-feet mark to 25 feet towards the stem-head,- and the wood ends have been' opened 1£ inch. The damages hare probably resulted from the collision of a vessel as reported. Ia addition, we may state that rive of the floats hate been broken off .short outside the outer rim of the port wheel A portion of a spar, apparently a yard-ara? or end of spankerboom, was picked up on the spar-deck of the Nevada shortly after the collision, it had been broken off short by the sheavehole and then split in half, the mark of the dogs being quite fresh.— Sydney Morning Herald We have inspected, at Messrs Bristow and Abel's boat-building shed, Port Ahuriri, the hull of a screw steam launch, which they are building for Mr Thomas Symes. The vessel, which is a splendid model, is clinker built, and copper-fastened throughout. She is 39ft Bin overall, breadth of beam 9ft, and depth of hold 4ft Biu; and is expected, wheu afloat, two draw about 2ft 9in of water. The engines and boiler are being made to order by a Dunedin firm, Messrs Kincaid, M'Queen and Co, and are expected in Napier by. the Rangatira, when she makes her first trip from the South. From the well-known ability of Briatow and Abel as boat-builders, it is anticipated that the launch will be an excellent one. We believe she will be .finished about the end of next month.— HawJx's Bay Herald,