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Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1049, 6 December 1871, Page 2

The s;'s. Kennedy, arrived on the early mprning's tide from Weitport and Nelson, and took: .her departure on the afternoon's tide for Hokitika. : .' - The 5.3. Murray an ived in port early yeaterday morning from Westportj and sailed again in the afternoon on her returu voyagp. The p.s. Charles Eclward, Captain Holmes. ai«ived: yesterday afternoon from Nelson, via Westport and Hokitika. She is expected; to leave on her return Northern trip early this morning. ;. The stupendous work of rebuilding the New York docks and piers has at last begun. A river wall of solid masonry is to be built, which, along the North River, will give a river street 250 feet wide, and along the East River one 200 feet wide, between the Battery and Thirty-five street, and 175 feet wide north of that street. At regular intervals piers are also to be constructed at right j angles to the river wall. No pier will be leas than GO^nd many will be 100 feet wide. There will be a wharf line of .37 miles, and a pier area of more thau 5,000,000 square feet. ( When this vast work is completed the docks I aud piers ot New York will compare favor- i ably with any dn the world, and will coneti- J tute one of the city's proudest claims to being considered a truly great mptropolis. The Bungaree, tug, has just returned (says a Newcastle correspondent) from.her mprn--■ing cruise in search of any towage, and brings a seaman, named Berthes Welop, who was picked up off Bird Island this'morning, floating on a booby hatch, after beiug on the same for eight hours. It appears the Tim Whiffler left Sydney on Thursday morning, in ballast, for Lake Macquarie. When off Bird Island a sudden squall caught the vessel, and she capsiised. 1 The master, W. Johnson, and a seaman named W. White, took to the- bbat,; and the survivor"caught the booby hatch. The cook, who went under the name of Tom, wa3 below, asleep, .and must have been drowned at oncel : The-boat swamped, but the master and seaman managed to keep up for half-an-hour.' -They then hailed the man on' the hatch, and asked him to take one of them, buVhe replied the hatch would not support more than one. As it wop, the hatch turned over three times in* the night. Welop cooeyed several times, but got no reply; andthe wen"in tho boat, he thinks, perished .within an hour of the. craft capsizing. Wheu daylight dawned, he made out a steamer, and hailed her. J^ proved to be the Bungaree tug. Captain Woodringham at once took hi <n onboard, and brought him safely to Newcastle.