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Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1040, 25 November 1871, Page 2

Blue sky with bars good was the prevailing meteorological report for yesterday. The barometer was highest at Napier and the Bluff, 30.20 ; and lowest at lEe Bealey, 27.60. Thermometer was highest at Tau^ranga, 60 : and lowest at Queenstown 1 , -SO: We are indebtei to the purser of the Kennedy for files and the following account of her run :— The s.s. Kennedy left Nelson at 4.30 a.m. on the 21st, and arrived at Westport at 6 p.m. on the 22nd. Left at 7.45 on the 23rd, arriving at Hobitika.at 6.30 a.m. on the 24th • left at 7r»M. the same evening, and arrived at Greymouth at 9.30. The B.s. Waipara arrived from Westport in ballast yesterday morning, and sailed for Hokitika on the afternoon's tide. The s s. \lhambra arrived from Melbourne at the Bluff, bringing Melbourne news to the 18th, and Sydney, Adelaide, Brisbane, and Hobart Town news to the 17th. She will - leave this port for Melbourne direct about the Ist December. The- following are the names of the pas- ] sengera who were on board the Ahuriri when she struck— Saloon : Meßsrs Day, Edmunds, Cohn, Manning, Willmer, R. Campbell, Butterworth, and Austin. Steerage : Messrs Bromley, Brown, Lazenbey, and Hewer. Amongst the freight on board there were fouT horses— Arundel, PetwOrth, Clara, and another horse not named— proceeding to the Dunedin races; one of them landed, but died immediately after, probably from the exhaustion consequent upon its struggle to. get to shore. On August 11, alar ji was created in the East India Docks owing to itß being discovered that the ship Dolnua, lately returned from Madras, had taken fire. The necessary intelligence was promptly forwarded to the proper quarters for assistance, and in a comparatively brief space of time tinguished until the cargo was cleared out of the hold of the ship. It is stated that the cargo had taken fire more than once on the homeward voyage of the vessel, but the fire was kept down by the crew of the vessel. — Homt News. The banjue Woodbine, from Sydney to Hong Kong, arrived at her destination after ft seventy-seven days passage, haying had a continuance of calms and light winds until within seventy miles of Hong Kong, when she encountered a very severe typhoon, which smashed all the starboard bulwarks and carried away the rigging, The steward was washed overboard, but a hook catching in Ids* leg he was hauled on board again. Telegiams from London, dated September 28-30tu, and October Ist, state :— A terrible gale, experienced in Yarmouth, occasioned great damage to property along the sea coaatj^on the river Yare, and to the shipping in the roads. --^The master "of theAmericau ship Bertha Thayer was swept from her deck •duongithe. continuance of the gale, .and was drowned; off Lvndy Isle.; The Bertha Tnayer Eit back to Penarth Roads.— The Sundernd steamer, with seven -hands, and an Italian brig with nine persons aboard, foundered off the trouth. of the Humber ■daring the gale. —The brig Manly was wrecked on Drogheda Bar, in plain righ,t of the lifeboat men, who refused to go to their assistance during the prevalence of the gale. Six men were carried off the hulk by the surf and drowned. A lady put off from the chore in a«maU boat, and, at the risk of her own life, saved one of the men on board the Tesßel.