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Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1071, 3 January 1872, Page 2

Wcathor was reported from tho various telegraph stations a3 blue sky .and overcast, with bars rough. Thermometer was highest at Tauranga and Bluff, 30.15 ; and lowest at the Bealey, 27.72. Barometer was highest at Nelson, 79 ; and lowest at the Clylde, 58. The Alhambra left Nelson at midnight on Monday, and therefore may be expected in the roadstead about two o'clock this morning. She will be tendered (weather permitting) at noon. The p.B. Charles Edward arrived at Hokitika on Monday, but could not leave, in consequence of the weather. She may be expected hero in the course of to-day, and will be despatched for the north on the earliest opportunity. According to a statement published in the 2few York Tribune, the scenes which occurred on board the German immigrant ship Europa, whilst on a recent voyage from Bremen to New York. - were of the most horrible description : The. ship left Bremen on the 17th of April last, with 170 passengers, and on arriving at New York; was kept three weeks in quarantine, on account of the prevalence of small-pox on board ; and, according to the statements of several of - the passengers, the misery during a tedious voyage of two months must have been terrible; indeed. Two of the passengers died from starvation, and the remainder barely ■ lived the passage out. The captain of the vessel has been arrested by order of the United States Emigration Commissioners, and will have to give an account of his conduct; but one of the cabui passengers, MrF. C. Hendorf, describes the voyage on board the Europa as sickening in the extreme. <He states in an affidavit that the passengers were suffering nearly all the timj for want of sufficient food, and. he swears positively that two of them died from actuial starvation— in fact, when they were thrown overboard they were perfect skeletons: ' The small-pox also broke out on board in the lower cabin, causing the greatest consternation amongst tho passengers. There' was no doctor, on poard, and during all the illness the captain paid-little, if ' any, attention^ to those id the steerage ; ' and- Mr Hemdorf, although entirely ignorant of medicine, was obliged to look after the sick as well as he could, whilst with regard to food he shared thasame as the rest, except that all the salt pork he got he was unable to eat. He says— "l one day took the little piece of meat given me for my dinner, stuck it on the end of jny fork, and went up and held it to the captain's face, asking him if he though^ that was v sufficient for, a man's * dinner. Beaules my meat, which I could almost put in my hollow tooth, I bad been soup. It was little better than clear water ; at least I could count the beans on the bottom of the basin. Each. one also had a cracker, which was so hard.tha.t it had to be soaked in water before it could be eaten. But the pangs of starvation were nothing compared with the loathsome horror of seeing the ipasserigers huddled together like swine— they where huddled together, men, women, and children, from the first, and were obliged to remain sq .during the entire^ voyage. 'When the ship had been out a week, the women were- all so reduced in health and strength that they -were barely able to move." Mr Hcrndorf states that even before leaving' Brehien they were treated badly, and that buFvery few of the passengers before they went on board knew the uaoie of the ship they were to sail in, so completely had they been deceive! by the agents. .