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Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1042, 28 November 1871, Page 2

The 8.8. Wallabi sailed yesterday morning for Wanganui. . „ The schooner Spray was advertised to sail from Lyttelton for tais port on the 23rd instant. Weather overcast and gloomy, withbars good, was the report for yesterday. Barometer was highest at Wanganui, 30.22 ; and lowest at the Bealey, 27.70. Thermometer was highest at Lyttelton, 74 ; and lowest at Balclutha, 55. } . The schooner Waihopai, reported- in town on Saturday as a total wreck in Palliser Bay, has fortunately fared much better than was supposed, having arrived alongside Wellington wharf yesterday, very slightly injured. She did go ashore during the late southerly gale on the second spit between Wairarapa Lake and the sea, and remained bumping on the beach for two days. The floods in the . interior, however, filled the lake, and, as usual, when it reaches a certain height, it burst through the spit— in the present instance, just where the stranded vessel was lying helpless. There was a sudden rush arid a roar, the beach melted away around „the Waihopai, she plunged heavily forward, »nd in a few minutes was qlear of the land, held by an anchor which was dropped previous to her going ashore. She got to sea with the loss of the anchor, and as soon as -practicable shaped a course for this port, — ? M i" inct — ""-"lrftftdv me.ntioned,_xeßterday. : lucky, as, but for the .accidental bursting om of the lake at the spot where it did, she would in all probability have become a fixture in Palliser Bay.— Wellington Post, Nov. 21. • Capt. Leslie, of the ketch Jane Elkin, which recently arrived at Lyttelton, reports losing a seaman named Nichol Barbno, a Greek, overboard. The vessel was under closereefed mainsail and staysail at the time, and the captain and the other seaman had gone below a quarter cf an hour before the accident happened. The circumstances were reported to the Custom authorities, and the man's effects given up to them. A Wellington telegram in a contemporary states that the steamer recently reported to be kidnapping in the South Seas is the Wainni, of Dunedin. Captain Stewart, of the schooner Midge, which vessel arrived in Auckland on Tuesday last, reports that a whirlwind passed over the island of Tahiti, doing immense damage .; to property. A number of houses and trees were blown down, and several vessels received considerable injury. The steamer Holland arrived at Calcutta on the 2nd September, thirty-three days out from Liverpool, including two days aud five hours occupied in passing through the Suez Canal. This is said to be the quickest passage on record between the two ports. Three officers and three seamen belonging to the wrecked troop ship Megsera lately arrived at Auckland from the island of Sfc Paul's, The men were quartered in Albert Barracks for the present. They and the officers await the arrival of H.ftf.S. Blanche or Basilisk. The boat in which the captain and part of . ; the crew, of the Corypheus escaped from shipwreck, with her sai's, compass, and watercask, was sold by auction at Rockhampton, for L 24 9s. A purse of L 65 was presented by the mayor to Captain Rae and his comrades, to relieve their misfortune. There is every reason to hope that Mr Davey, the mate, and his companions have safely reached one of the islands occasionally visited by shipping. ' The Chary bdis, 18 guns, 400-horse power, Captain Algerton M. Lyons, unarmored screw corvette, which has been in commission, upwards of four years and a half, having been stripped and dismantled in the Sheerness stream basin, and returned the whole of her guns and War Department stores into the Ordnance wharf, Chatham, will be paid out of commission, wheu she will be placed in the steam service in the river Medway. During the whole time the Charybdis has been m commission she has beeu attached to the Pacific squadron.— Standard. It is stated that the Germans are carryiuj; out the idea of tbft " Battle of Dorking." Three minute ir n lids h tj been built in Dantzig, called Beroassenj 60ft long and only 7ft broad, and intended to fix torpedoes under au enemy's ships. The torpedoes and engines are in" the hold, and the calculation seems to be that the swift little vessel, as sharp as a knife, will run up to the enemy, fix her torpedoes, and run away again without being dangerously hit. That seems possible, but we do not see what is to protect .such a boat being run down like a walnut shell the moment it is seen. She would aink like a Thames wherry under a blow from a Thames steamer. (The following shipping items are from late American papers .-—Captain M'Lellan, of the British steamship Britannia, was drowned off New York in attempting to save a lady 1 passenger.-^The British ship Talavcr.i, with coal, for Liverpool, went ashore in San Ramon Bay, Lower California. She was sold by the underwriters at San Francisco for lOOOdol The Spanish man-of-war Churraca fired into the British sloop, bound thence from Nassau, with the crew of the Haytien war steamer Montonganise, which i« repairing at Nassau. The British Consul and the Hiytien Government are trying to -•vwng« the matter. ,